Sketchbook: Andrew Bishop

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! Critique away feel free to rip it to pieces :P compliment cookies preffered :poly142:

Digimon Style drawing practice




Google sketchup practice


Started working on my first matte painting in awhile

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Doodled up some quick unreal prop ideas in sketchup whilst looking at some warhammer scenery


Started working on a male basemesh from digmon style/proportioned characters


Quick A3 observation of rapide http://images.xboxfrance.com/7/5024/artwork/zoom/5404.jpg
done in pencil copic caio markers and ballpoint pen

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Quickly Blocked out a map idea in google sketchup

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Done more work on my matte paint slowly getting there

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currently working on

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Installed ut3 to get back into played some duels and 3-4 player matches and realised how much i really liked the ut3 maps without vehicles so made a page of notes about and drew up a map layout



Then started work on it in sketchup

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UT3 editor progress just started blocking out the walls and floor with a single cliff mesh

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Added some necris meshes in, going to add a few more and the bridge then start placing down pickups and weapons. Then i'll add bot paths and do some playtesting.

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Happy with pickup and and weapon placement and am about to start adding player starts and bot paths so i can begin testing.

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Thoroughly tested bot paths and added more meshes had a few problems with bots getting stuck in the cave of the flak cannon spawn but i've resolved the issue.

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Thinking of adding some support pillars under the bridge, should probably work on making the brushes for the floor and other gaps left with the googlesketch up undersketch

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Finally finished this guy


I've done alot more work on lighting and adding heightfog to the map. Shall post up some screen shots when i'm next working on it. For now i'm currently painting this...

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Added more shadows, neatened up the clothe folds and hands and have been experimenting with background ideas

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Been writing down notes and listening to game reviews mostly today so far but i've worked on the costume and hands of this piece more too

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To do list:

DARKER BELT WAIST TYE

hIGH LIGHTS ABOVE THE SHADOW
ON TOP OF EYE GAPS

HIGH LIGHT ONTOP OF MASK

NEATEN AND WORK ON TROUSERS

SWORD SCABBARD PATTERN?
TROUSER PATTERN?
BRACER PATTERNS?

HAIR SILLOUETTE!

BLADE HILT

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Experimented alot with the background been looking at alot of stormy weather clouds and colour schemes/time day etc come up painted some clouds and basic water, created a seemless wood textures from my own photos and warpend it in perspective on a softlight layer under the painted plank lines/highlights

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Added a shadow reworking the lighting on the character trying to hold back into rushing into things. Took a break and am approaching the second half of this piece with new eyes. Shadow of the front perhaps way to crisp and dark for Diffused background lighting to cast!

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achillesian

nice composition, but some of the perspective seems wonky, head and her left foot a little too big maybe?

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Erm i don't think there is too much of an issue with the left foot and head size i'll post up the reference i used when sketching the figure


Doodled some weapon thumbnails earlier this morning

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Doodled this jet ski vehicle


and the final piece for my dragonrider is finally finished

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after some feedback i've decided to make a few more minor alterations to the skypirate piece but for now i've started painting this

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Started speedpainting this, the planet in which these mobile fortresses is on is an artificial h hollow sphere in white the land is on the inside

The wooly frost spider painting currently looks like

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Drastic increase in the contrast of the foreground spider needed and more detail two the mid and background spider to be added. Shadow needs to also be cast from spiders.

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Currently working on some medieval themed buildings for the starcraft 2 engine ^_^

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Been working on a texture for all the buildings above and this raptor model. Have been researching practicing and testing importing my buildings into the starcraft 2 engine.

DrunkShaman

Wow! Really nice flow you got there.

wake

Andy-- keep up the volume, but you need to spend time with reference-- for people, guns, dinosaurs etc. For example, you have a good start on your SM15, I can tell it's a gun, but there's a bunch of things that don't make sense about it. The 'anatomy' of the weapon is all wrong. Spend some time looking at bullpups, like the FAMAS or Steyr AUG, and if you really want to get it right then you need to start learning about the actual mechanisms that drive a weapon's operation. Right now your weapon is too oblong, the sights don't match up, there's no ejection port, safety, magazine release, or seams along the body. How was this weapon put together? Right now it's just one giant slab of metal.

This may seem nit-picky, but it's things like this that will help carry you from being an amateur into a professional. Same goes for human anatomy-- i want to see studies done directly from reference. You have to build up your understanding of the material world before you can properly invent form.

Good luck, and keep posting.

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Thanks for the comments er there's definatley a saftey switch there it's prettey much identical to the p90 safety/automatic switch. Nice spot with the sights i noticed that shortly after posting this wip shot ^_^.

Not nit-picky at all friend i'll look more into gun anatomy before continuing i am prettey new to designing rifles. As for dinosaurs i've been looking at them non stop hehe i even had dream about em last night so hopefully i'm getting the grasp there anatomy hehe.

Raahl

Haha,

nice to see people from Uni posting on Polycount.

Damian from MMO Game Design.

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hey damian it's been awhile huh, checked out your site great work on the buildings keep it up ^_^

Currently continuing this painting at the moment


here's what the smg looks like at the moment

VianReps

Hi,

Regarding you paintings/drawing - you seem to have quite a common problem. that a lot of begging artist have ( me too!:) ). You go into detail to soon, try working with larger brush to work out the shape and mass first. Work with the object as whole and in stages - don't polish one part of it whilst other is two steps behind.
Another tip of anatomy and general proportional/perspective mistakes - flip the image in the process - you will see them instantly.

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Been working on these textures over the last week and a half, a few of the grass textures and 1 on the brick textures where made earlier that though. All made from my own photos of course running out of photos to use though, need to go on a texture hunt with my camera soon. Also made 13 decals so far as well.

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Practicing sprite art for a group rpg project i'm organising in may

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Working on the hair atm

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Working on the Dark Age texture, unwrapping it to the low poly Archery range. My main limitations are file size of the textures due to them being stored in the map file, so all buildings share the one texture. There will be 1 texture for each age. However the models small in file size so i will have a seperate model for each age with slightly different details/sillouettes.

The Low Poly Archery range currently looks like this with the dark age texture

now to add the team color banner and sclupt a slightly high poly version with more detail to the model unique to the dark
age texture.

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Unwrapped this building ignore the crap wooden door for now haven't finished painting the texture


and am currently unwrapping the Guildhall

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Almost finished unwrapping the town centre, need to add a door and tweak the walls beside the windows