PC-CSGO | M4A4 - Galaxy

Timothy_Keefs

I'm new to the skin design scene so be skin, thought I'd give it a try and put an hour or two into learning how to do it. I saw the 70s/80s theme and instantly thought of psychedelic starscapes and smooth sci-fi landscapes.

So I thought i'd quickly make an M4A4 in photoshop with some really basic tools as a proof of concept. So I pasted some unoriginal artwork in to see what it could kind of look like, and got this:



Of course this competition is for original artwork only so I began making something really simple just to see how I would fair with some brush tools and such, and got this:


From here I plan to:

• Add a headline feature such as a moon, prism or triangle in a contrasting colour such as white.
• Add gradients and smoothing to some of the colours.
• Fix some errors of parts of the weapon which are the incorrect scaling or colour entirely.
• Reassess the whole design and come up with more improvements.

Some of my inspiration:

Timothy_Keefs

I have drawn a moon which I might incorporate into the design

Timothy_Keefs

I have spent a little time learning about skin creation and have improved my design to the following 2 attempts:



Advice or criticisms would be very helpful at this point, I know it's nowhere near finished but advice now might help steer me along the way rather than changing things later.