What are you working on? 2D! 2016

skankerzero

This is a thread to share your latest 2D work. Past threads: 2015

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Jeltz

Painting a few female warrior characters

Makkon

Time to kick off the new year! I hope to get tons better at painting this year, and maybe even get decent at full scene environment paintings. Wish me luck!

kaktuzlime

Great start Jeltz and Makkon!! Also sure you'll kick ass Makkon, just do it Here's my last painting of 2015! 

Makkon

Thanks Johannes! Your stuff is getting so wild that it's getting really hard to keep up. Really love this one, man!

Still giving that black/white to color method a whack, and I'm liking it more and more. I don't have as much flexibility with local color, but what I'm able to do with the values while painting makes it worth it to me.

wetojo

I'm new to posting on Polycount but here an environment piece I did this week.  Crits appreciated! Happy to see some sweet pieces on this thread already.

My 2d Progress thread: LINK

Portfolio Website

Makkon

Forgot to post this here, I might color it later

EricElwell

2016! woot! You're killing it, Makkon!

Pew pew! More RoE portraits in the works:

Defunct

yay 2016

robert.nally

EricElwell

Guys, it's Pizza Knight.   Pizza.  Knight.    ...*sigh* 

korpehn

Experimenting! This one was for the character design challange group on facebook.

ralphosn

For this concept, I analysed the beautiful style of Adolf Lachman on his work on the Mechobots and Machinarium. After a couple of studies I felt that photoshop on top of watercolor and pencil gave me the best results. It was a great journey!

Iyo

GUNZ!

EricElwell

revisiting duck knight briefly

ag-3d

what to add or to fix ?
i need critique, where is the right place on the forum for critique of wip?
that s a pano with bird-samurai

Gnashed

Hi guys, some of my latest work. Shaolin monk for the character design challange, and some redesigns/fan art of a few warcraft characters I decided to do for some reason, Alleria Windrunner and Kurdran Wildhammer!

robert.nally

infinite runner style, mobile and/or vr game concept.

I posted some possible effects and ui on artstation.

Byrd

Starting to paint again, a 2016 resolution I guess.  I'd been doing gestures and studies mostly but I did a doodle of one of my RP characters that turned into a painting.  Thought I'd share.  The next one will be better, promise.

US Claire Force

Spicy ramen illustration I completed for an upcoming card game. Originally a pen and ink sketch.

Lokii

slowly working on my bf's birthday present

he really likes Quinn from League of Legends, so he's gettin' some Quinn arts 

KeshanLam

Happy 2016  
Shapes exploration. 

Stinkhorse

Started up on my old dungeon crawler again. Background is placeholder.

Garuda_1

 So good stuff around here 

Lephenix

It is only the first page and everyone is already killing it. Good job !

Here's my page of creatures from imagination, it has been a while since I have drawn any creatures: 
Keep rocking !

Stinkhorse

Completed that dungeon hall. Onto the room below it.

Tul_

Futuristic hunter character concept 

MoutMahanin

I just made an acount on polycount because I want to start getting into Zbrush and I'm looking for a community. I want to be an active member of polycounts and post WIP and start discussions. This is a space girl concept that I have been working on. 

EricElwell

Cool stuff! Welcome aboard 

revisiting pizza knight


i preferred the original blue version, but got outvoted...  that whole friggin 'context' thing spoiling my groove!  

Aerial_Knight

Looking for feedback on what I can do to make this picture better and give it more style. Any ideas? 

Iyo

Hey all!  Sick stuff everyone!  Here is one I finished last night.  Obviously inspired by Sparth, one of my favorite contemporaries. I watched his recent tutorials, and I was super inspired.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/k2YxK

Stinkhorse

Some awesome stuff in here. Loving that Pizza Knight  Ericelwell!

Keep on rolling:

aaronaton

Iyo said:

GUNZ!

4 inch barrel?!

AetherTechnician

Drawin' up some robots! (I'm new to the forums, Hello!)
robots-with-arms.jpg

EricElwell

stinkhorse, thanks! I like your drawings for the sidescroller. I'm interested to see where that goes

got a little more done on egghead knight today:
 

praetus

I've been working in 3d for a few years but I need to get better at 2d work in general.  Here's something I am working on.  This was started for the Throne Room challenge as a concept last year but I never got far into it.  Figured it'd make a good painting exercise.  I've got a  ways to go.

Iyo

Update on the gun

Stinkhorse

Kitchen is finished, on to the flooded basement.

Garuda_1

For fun

Daven

Cedirvin

Finishing research and exploration on my latest illustration

robert.nally

Screenshot from Unity with some paintover in Photoshop.



This is the character I would like to replace the guy in the image above.

claydough

Daven said:

nice! reminds me of Geoff Darrow a lot...

lutzbot

This thread is going hot already.. nice work all
here's a mood piece i've been poking at for a bit

Eric Chadwick

@lutzbot ;Oooh nice work. Have you been looking at Winslow Homer?
Also the sky colors are striking, almost like image compression artifacts (for example). Intentional?

This thread delivers. Great work people!

Gillespionage

Wow!
As Lutzbot already said, this thread is already looking amazing  

Here's a Femshep Portrait I did last week. It's my first digital portrait ever I think


Really diggin' that Mech Daven, the skull looks really cool in there.

EricElwell

Lutzbot, love'n that moodiness and handling. Daven, sweet design! Great stuff, everyone!

Take 2 on this character:

Gillespionage

Hey Eric, great work!

Though this one is more detailed, I feel like it has lost a bit of the majesty that your last piece had. 
I just had a snoop through your other work and I noticed that you are excellent at rendering reflective armor! (Armour we spell it in the UK)
Having said that it looks like you might have spent less time on this one that you did the last so maybe you intend to put that polish on later?

Either way, at this stage the pose is great and the lighting is lovely  

Stinkhorse

Lutzbot: That is fantastic!

Ericelwell: Keep em coming man! Like Gillespionage said you do some pretty solid rendering work, good forms/values/color. Any chance of seeing one of these in stages with commentary?

EricElwell

@Stinkhorse ;, I could probably do that with more images and text in a new thread. I'll try to make that happen in the near future. I may need a reminder

@gillespionage , it may be surprising but just the opposite is true for the train knight. It is simply overworked. It just was not working for me, and I went through several iterations. Essentially, I was back to drafting and design, constantly reworking the forms and helmet. The knight was a child, then a woman, now a train. (WHAT?!) That process happened in a meeting, someone said, "hey, that helmet looks kind of like a cow-catcher on a train." Since nothing else was working, I just went into... train .. mode? That said, some of the other considerations were thrown out the window while in search of better forms. Most of the other characters were worked out a little (but honestly, not much) more in thumbnails. There's a bit of a range in rendering styles in the characters and that essentially comes down to the different processes used. Some were drawn in pencil, then brought into photoshop. Others started with graphic shapes with the lasso tool. Finally, the train knight, having been so overworked, was painted/drawn over and over in photoshop mostly with hard brushes. That said, there's a bit of a variation in style. I spent a decent part of today comparing them and planning the appropriate changes as time permits. 

here's a shot of the line up as it stands currently:

lutzbot

Here's another from today/yesterday.. going to keep working on it, it's nearly there..


 @Eric Chadwick  i loooooove homer. he's too often overlooked.. i just wish he made more oils. his watercolors are gorgeous but his oils are poetry. the sky colors were set up to bounce off of one another but I think the compressiony looking business is partly jpeg compression and partly too much layering.

@EricElwell nice lineup, i like the variety. duckknight is my favorite.