2D Concept Art [Finished Pieces, W.I.P., Sketches]

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"Chess"

I thought I would try and do my interpretation of chess, but with a fantasy twist.

Black Pieces.

I did the black pieces in Photoshop and used inks for the background.

The designs were supposed to have a chaos or hellish feel.

The hands glow as they use fire magic and I thought it looked a cool juxtaposition against the dark.

Orthographic.

White Pieces

I wanted a different feel so went and drew these in pencils.

I also did the background in inks and pencils to give it a similar style.

I left them uncoloured as I quite liked the illustrated feel of the piece.

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"Sci-Fi Cityscape"

I did a scene with a view from an apartment window high up in a skyscraper (the room is the near ground). This is done in Photoshop and it took a while to paint all the background detail, no photographs or textures were used. I also include some close ups, so you can see the detail.

Close Ups...

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Character Designs - "Sci-Fi Adventurers: The Fog"

I wanted to make a piece with several strong characters as if it was a snapshot of an I.P.  Here, the adventurers are surrounded by a deadly fog, with gaseous skulls and they take a defensive formation. Done in Photoshop with no textures or photographs, I played around with colours I thought looked cool and was able to keep to my favourite art style. The party's light radiates from the girl's special abilities and I spent a lot of time trying to get the lighting interesting, and also on the costume design and weapons.

Close ups...

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Character Design - "Female Character for Book Cover"

Done as a book cover for an aspiring writer, this is one of the characters from the story.

I had to make sure she looked and felt like the character in the book.

I quite like the composition, and I spent a while making the pistol designs.

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Dominance War 4 Entry - "The Shadow & The Technomage".

This was my entry for Dominance War 4 and I quite like the far out vibe of it. The background was made in Unreal Development Kit with 3D Elements (e.g. the trees, the rocks, and parts of the tower) and then I did a paint-over.

The shadow has 4 arms and a psychedelic chaos feel, being part machine.

The Technomage i did as a mutant humanoid snail in an exo-suit with a mace that holds a pixie, another small character.  

It's pretty far out. 

Close ups...

The Shadow


The Technomage


The Mace

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Character Designs: "Flame Unit and Heavy Gunner".

Two character designs for trooper classes that I did in Photoshop.

I made sure the weapons looked cool enough for my tastes.

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"Concept Art for Proxy Army Games".

I think they canned the project. I have permissions to show these. 

It was my second paid art gig, and they wanted black and white pieces done exactly to their brief.

"Marines get ambushed".

"Environment: A prison complex for storing Aliens".

"Two guards are ambushed by an Alien from the air vent".

"Solar Federation Agent"

There was more focus on getting some concept designs for the Agent in this piece. 

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"Concept Art for THON:  Weapon Designs".

More freelance work. I have permissions to show these. I was asked to design some weapons for a Table Top War Game with 3D printed miniatures called "THON". A computer game is now being developed.  https://www.thonthegame.com/

The designs needed to read well at small scale. I also designed modular attachments for the weapons. I began each piece as thumbnails, and then took the best ideas into a 3D programme, finally painting over the perspective renders to arrive at the finished concept art. Overall I did some 20+ weapons and post a smaller selection here.

NAIL GUN

NAIL GUN ATTACHMENTS A


NAIL GUN ATTACHMENTS B


NAIL GUN [PISTOL]


LANCE WEAPON THUMBNAILS


LANCE WEAPON 13


LANCE WEAPON 11


LANCE WEAPON 10


LANCE WEAPON 3

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Character Design - "Beauty and the Beast".

I did my spin on the fairy tale as an illustration. Done in Photoshop.

Close up...

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Character & Creature Design - "The Unicorn vs. The Griffin".

A lawful and a chaos Knight duel on beast back. One rides a unicorn, the other a Griffin.

Done in Photoshop.



Close ups...

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Character Design - "Fantasy Adventurers".

Three adventurers and their dog stand in front of a door to catacombs.

I digitally painted the characters and drew the background in inks.



Close up...

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Illustration - "The Flying Vikings".

Something different, this was personal work. I thought up a party of children with their grandfather and large clockwork toy (a beast) riding on a flying viking ship. They are getting ambushed by dragon riders.  I drew the elements in pencils and then coloured it in Photoshop,  

Close up...

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Illustration - "The Chase"

A SWAT team gives chase to an android in a back alley in a sci-fi city while a ninja looks on, waiting for his moment. 
It's quite sketchy and I didn't render the details so much. Done in Photoshop.

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Vehicle Design - "P-10, The Wasp"

Orthographic views for a concept for a Jet Bike.

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 Vehicle Design - "Steampunk Hot Rod"

This concept was done for Clockwork Revolution, a game mod that never got completed.

Done in Photoshop.

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Weapon Design - "MP-50 Submachine Gun"

Based partly on the MP-5 Submachine Gun, this is a futuristic adaption with a barrel style magazine for the ammunition which holds 50 bullets. This concept was done to try out Google Sketchup for concept art paint-overs. The process was quite quick. 

Done using Google Sketchup and then Photoshop.

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Fantasy Weapon Design - "Bastard Sword"

A bastard sword is a broadsword that can be used one or two handed. I did the concept art in pencils.

I then made a 3D game model at 8K triangles (modelled, sculpted, lo-poly & textured). 
You can see how the concept art translated to the 3D realm.

2D CONCEPT ART

3D GAME MODEL
[8k triangles, Diffuse, Normal Map & Spec] - rendered in Marmoset.

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Air Lock Concept:  Sketch / 3D Blockout / 2D Paintover

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"Steampunk Barman" - Concept Sketch.

A quick 90 minute concept sketch of a steampunk barman for the bar in my steampunk restaurant that I am building in 3D for the Bi-monthly Environment Art challenge. 

The thread is here: https://polycount.com/discussion/217980/the-bi-monthly-environment-art-challenge-march-april-65/p1

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"Photobashing"

Concept Art made using the photobashing technique with a digital paint-over.




A dreadnought...

 

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Illustration - "The Chase" 

A redesign of my earlier piece with more detail in the environment and with added "Dutch Tilt".
Done as a paintover using a 3D blockout render.



Close ups...

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Illustration - "The Dark Angels Arrive"

Warhammer 40K fan art.

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"Feel free to leave a comment or critique, they are appreciated."

  

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Concept Art - "Airlock Seven"

Done using a quick 3D blockout scene with a digital paintover.



Process Shots.

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Environment Concept Art - "The Snow Patrol"

Concept art of a platoon patrolling a mountainside. I used photobashing here, with about 6 different photos blended together and a digital paintover.



Close Up...

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Environment Concept - "Sci-Fi Cityscape"

Done with 3D graphics. I might come back to this and add some paintover, but I like the feel of it.

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Character Concept (Fantasy) - "Paladin Knight"

Done with Dungeons & Dragons in mind.

From thumbnail sketches, to a more designed black and white, and then to a full colour render (using digital painting).

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Character Concept - "Sci-Fi Helmet Designs"

8 designs for sci-fi helmets.

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Environment Concept Art 

These are speed paint black and white thumbnails done as practice. I didn't use any photobashing or photo textures, just brush work.

"Forest Mountain Castles."

"Jungle" - a squad of soldiers patrols. 

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Environment Concept Art - "Barren Planet"

Colour thumbnails for barren planet landscapes.  No photobashing or textures, just brush work.

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Environment Concept Art - "Sci-Fi Jungle Scene"

Using the jungle speed painted thumbnails from earlier in the week, I decided to take one on to do a final concept. I chose the first thumbnail as I liked the lighting and composition. 

The soldier designs also came from earlier in the week (above), I chose number vii, took it further.

"Jungle Scene - Final Piece"

"Jungle Scene - Process"

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Environment Concept Art - "Xenomorph Lab"