Trying to get better (C&C very appreciated!)

Dedyone

Hi, Folk   

My name is Rudy (Dedyone) https://www.artstation.com/artist/dedyone
I'm living in France and it is my first thread! I'm currently working in a casual gaming company on a successful game (called: Criminal Case ). During my work in the industry, I had to face my lack of skills in many areas. Unfortunatly I think I still have a lot of work to do.
I spend time on the forum since a long time but never had the courage to participate (what a shame  ).
I'll try to post regulary routghly in that order to start in charted territory...:
-Values sketches of backgrounds
-Line sketches and interesting doodles (I mean you will judging if there are or not)
-Color sketches of backgrounds/scenes (I will be happy to share my tips)
-Characters and other stuff after. (>.<)

I'm not confortable with forum but today I want and need to share my personal work (even not finish) to confront it with the community  .

Also my purpose is to give me motivations to draw more. Abviously learn and become better is also a priority. Someone says:"Get better Feel better". Let's try this.

Hope you will enjoy my sh*t

princette

ooh, nice! I look forward to seeing more of your work!
and don't worry, I only just worked up the courage to start posting too;; so you're not alone XD

Dedyone

I'm still experimenting Eytan Zana Technique with value sketches

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again

Chris Krüger

F*cking juice could be misinterpreted you know. Just sayin
Nice greyscales

Dedyone

Oups, Now that you say it ... >.<  . My english isn't good enough to find a cool title in the same idea. I've to change it quickly ! 
Thanks !!

Dedyone

I'm living in France since I'm born. My dear country is officially in war now.  We work, we chill, we spend time there. In Paris and his neighbourhood. We never heard the sound of a riffle except in video games that's why every witnesses said they heard firecrakers and did'nt take it seriously until it was to late. The city is small, the targets are easy. The place is already a melting pot of every cultures. What's more the country could give? Innocent lives apparently...

Dedyone

This is the sky from my bedroom

drawntothenorth

nice studies man keep it up

DashXero

You use a very nice range of values! These are all very good studies.

Dedyone

Thanks guys, it is motivating  

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Research for a concept about the beginning of a dragon slayer journey https://www.artstation.com/artist/dedyone

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Research for a concept about a dragon slayer journey 

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I built a 3D base in Modo. this is the first time I use it alone (not from a tutorial). then I've redraw most of the objects with a little more accurancy, just enough to be able to fill the shapes.

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Blocking the shape and add rich painted look texture. Suggesting volume and  avoiding highlight

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The beginning of Dragon slayer journey. After long research in books and scripture the character finaly found the lair of the beast

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Twoflower

just wanted to drop by and say that your sketch book is really nice and keep working at it!

Dedyone

Thanks a lot it is encouraging : )

Dedyone

unicorn ?

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Having fun with depth map

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I still working on this artwork. I didn't have the time to finish before the deadline of the contest but I will finish it !

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Designing the horse and the soldiers. I have to find the right balance between the design of the horse and sthe soldier. 

_Hofsta_

This is looking so rad. I love the firelight coming out of the gate. Can't wait to see more progress!

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Chema_Mansilla

Great, GREAT work here! Love it!

Dedyone

So I stopped working on THU challenge because of the ILM challenge. I will share with you a few things I done for the contest. Please leave a comment. I would like to know what Polycount folk think about it. >>> https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QgYd3

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ILM Challenge - THE RIDE - The Swamp Spider
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YgQXK
The Swamp Spider: Troopers are hunting jedi on Dagobah Dagoba is a Swamp so dense that common ship of vehicules cannot land. A special transporter would be usefull to travel across the bayou where the path disappear hunder the vegetation in no time.

Gnashed

This looks really good! I don't know much about landscape painting, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but maybe you could separate the value ranges between middleground, foreground, and background a little bit more? For example, the image with the guy looking at a desert with rock formations, the large rock on the left side of the image seem to be some distance from the rocks in the very foreground, yet the darkest values are the same as the values of the foreground. Other than that they look very cool!

Dedyone

Aaan I see what you are talking about. Now I see it ! you'r right. It's funny that if I did not have this feedback I would alway think that the depth look right !

THANKS @Gnashed

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Another concept in progress.

The Trap

Imagine Vador touching the cheek of his petrified son. Feeling the Good side deep inside him ! 





another camera angle could be interesting too

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I imagine this vehicle for starwars univers

The Snow Rover: Finding the right place for defense

I was looking for simple shapes! I like the idea of a giant and very slow vehicule especially design for snowy planets. Giant sphere as wheels which are also long range radar. X6 the radars are amplifying themself to cover a perimeter of several thousands killometers. Is powerfull signal can detect middle size aircraft and bunker deeply burried. His presence is a guaranty of defeat for enemies.

Anti aircraft feature to the rover. the wheels can open and fire long range shoots. the wheel opening show fixing parts to avoid recoil. the opening is barely visible on the seconde vehicules.

Dedyone

I used modo to help with the scale and have the basic shapes of the vehicules right and their drop shadows.. I knew that if I do it without 3D base I will be too tempted to cheat especialy with the position of the spheres.  
It was also to prevent the lines work on the spheres which seemed to look good on the sketch but isn't. I only tried to have it right on the first wheels. 

I've exported an image from Modo only with vertices to help me draw the design on the sphere as I wanted


I finally cheat with the wheel position a little bit .....

Aaron Barnett

Amazing values, color and props! Each of these have a unique feel of atmosphere as well. Keep up the great work!

that_guy_nik

Love it-just one minor crit from the concept art/industrial design point of view-the wheels looks way too smooth to have even a little bit of grip on the snow. That's why snowmobiles have tracks. Maybe adding some rugged elements to the shell would help it looks right. This is my only criticism however, overall this piece looks amazing

rollin

also the weight would make the snow melt and the big wheels would just swim on a tiny water layer making it impossible to drive anywhere.

beside that it looks quite nice though!

Dedyone

that_guy_nik said:

Love it-just one minor crit from the concept art/industrial design point of view-the wheels looks way too smooth to have even a little bit of grip on the snow. That's why snowmobiles have tracks. Maybe adding some rugged elements to the shell would help it looks right. This is my only criticism however, overall this piece looks amazing

I thought about it a lot. but didn't draw any visible grip system on the wheel. But yes you'r right. 

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rollin said:

also the weight would make the snow melt and the big wheels would just swim on a tiny water layer making it impossible to drive anywhere.

beside that it looks quite nice though!

Oooh I would never thought about that! "The snow melt under the wheels"

Dedyone

The ILM Art Director sketch of a new droid named DD-3 


DD-3 The younger brother. He is smaller than R2D2 cute and portable.
Rather than having legs, I imagine it moving on a ball with a gravity center.

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Modo


Keyshot

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The Lion's City
Inspired by Mesopotamien Tayianat statues and Ouarzazate city in Morocco.

At the step 3 I felt like I would not reach the accurancy expected for the statues. So it was better to not spend more time trying to get the right perspective and lighting. Let's try 3D coat for the first time.
It was looking much better with the first sculpt but it was so fun to sculpt the lion's than I decided to spend more time on it. It finally pay off.

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Details of the lion's

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the final version

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trying do do more concept with the same look of my previous painting

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quick sketch of an art deco scifi mayor's office

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What could be the next MadMax movie? My friends and I are big fans of the Mad Max series and ever since Mad Max Fury Road, we wanted to make an adaptation of its universe. We thought that it might be cooler, no pun intended, to create a frozen world instead of a red arid desert just like in the movie.

Bringing snow into the Mad Max world also meant that we had to change the gears and equipments of the vehicles.

This is a fanmade project and has nothing to do with the official movie nor the game. Check out other concepts here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dDJ9K