[Riot 2017 Art Contest] Astronaut Teemo Splash Art

Kaerru

Hi guys! This is the first time I am going to be entering a Polycount contest so wish me luck! Good luck to all of you guys too~

I will be doing a splash illustration of Astronaut Teemo, one of my favourite skins in the game. I will be posting my work in progress along the way. Here are some thumbnails to start~

ThomasSykutera

I've already told you but just to get the ball rollin' - B and D are the best compositions I think Looking forward to the progress!  You can do this! 

Trygubova

I really like E, he's happily and innocently planting a satellite of doom Composition wise I like B as well. But I would say try to make it more dynamic, he is a yordle so that may be a little hard. I'd look at the new Tristana splash arts, they are nice and exaggerated while still keeping true to her yordle nature! 

MadameDaFunk

D is the more pleasing for me , you should try more ways from D and see what can happen . Keep going man 

Kaerru

Thanks so much for the feedback guys! I'm going to do a couple more refined compostions soon from the feedback!

UchiLT

In my opinion A leads the eye perfectly to Teemo and I can see like a diagonal composition.I like C aswell because of the dynamism of Teemo move.

HY0

These thumbs look outstanding already! They all look great, but if I had to choose... A,C, and D come out on top in my opinion. Can't wait to see more.

ZombieCeli

I think D is working best - the peaceful shapes really compliment Teemos friendly face. Great concepts by the way!

RogersMandee

E, all the way

Kaerru

Here's a quick thumbnail update. (very slow process atm because other projects have priority atm) I loved all of the feedback you guys gave and tried my best to get something else I was happy with. I'm probably going to do a couple more thumbnails until I'm 100% sure.

To help me with the mood and the feeling, I took a lot of reference from the movie Gravity~ 

FaceGrater

I really like this. Super fun. Great work so far.

Kaerru

some rough colour comps to help me get a grasp of the mood and atmosphere. this process was quite stressful because i couldnt make up my mind. ive reached a point im satisfied with for now.

Kaerru

thank you all so much for the critique and kind comments. i feel im going to be saying this a lot through this process but yeah~

Marie_Miau

I really like the fourth one because of the contrast between warm and cold colors! It kinda communicates the feeling of cold space 

GonzaVega

the top right one has a nice harmony

Kaerru

MY TABLET BROKE ON ME THIS WEEKEND NOOOOOOO! 

I picked up a new one today and did some quick line art to try better find cool shapes and work on the composition. (also further working into the cameo appearance!) still lots of work to do~

Kroute

Hey man! Great work so far! I really like the idea, and the composition you went with works well.
However I was wondering if it would be better if Teemo took more space in the picture by putting him closer to us, and exaggerating a bit more the perspective on him as well. I took a shot at it just to show what I mean, I don't know if that's actually helpful for you or even if that's what you were going for though.

Anyways, good luck for the next steps! Looking forward to seeing it done

Kaerru

@Kroute this is so awesome thank you so much for the feedback! ive been struggling with the exaggeration and dynamic pose so much so the help really is appreciated

Kaerru

Here's the beginning of blocking stuff in, starting to have a better idea of how I want this to go~

Marie_Miau

Awesome!

Kaerru

the lone explosion in the background looked a bit goofy to me, so i made it detonation strike the side of a meteor. added some base colours and more value work.

Kaerru

did some more block ins and created some quick 3D assets for the helmet and the 'mushroom' to help with rendering down the line~

osvaldo_pasillas

This one is coming out great!! Good job!!

Heath_Alex

good use of 3d , so handy to use. This is actually making me like Teemo hahahaha great stuff!

Kaerru

sorry for the hiatus guys! its deadline season for uni please forgive me... here is an update for you. LOTS of tweeks here, I did a lot of experimenting with different colours and it looks messier than ever before, haha. trying to find a good balance but im getting there. need to rest now lol.

Kaerru

osvaldo_pasillas said:

This one is coming out great!! Good job!!

Heath_Alex said:

good use of 3d , so handy to use. This is actually making me like Teemo hahahaha great stuff!

thanks a lot guys, im grinding through

p.s: teemo is life! o v o

MenoOG

You know what you're doing and I'm lovin it! :P

osvaldo_pasillas

very nice!!! Tho I think that the exploding meteorite is grabbing a bit too much attention for the viewers eye. I´m also guessing you´ll blur a bit the coming asteroids since they create quite some noise. Great work anyway! Keep at it