Epic cannot even begin to describe your awesome works. This sketchbook is full of amazing concepts and sculpts, but what amazes me most is your composition skills. You are amazing.
That's the best arenanet monster i've seen on polycount so far. Impressive.
And the environment on this page is stunning -- the perspective is maybe a bit too obviously fudged, but the colors and sense of scale are amazing. I'd love to see the steps on this one, and maybe hear a bit about how you chose colors.
@SupRore the perspective is completely eyeballed, not even going to pretend it's right :x
This is only the second picture I've painted that I actually started in color instead of B&W so I don't exactly have a strategy for picking colors, I basically just picked random earth tones... normally I would paint in greyscale first then color afterward but there's so many problems doing it that way that I am trying to break out of the habit.
If you pay attention to the colors throughout the picture they gradually change, the colors in the scene go from mostly blue (especially the greens, they're very minty in the first shot) to eventually being more golden.
In the final shot the image is cropped a little differently for composition reasons. You'll notice the bridge also changes directions toward the middle of the process, also to improve composition.
That is the thumbnail I started with at the top, didn't know what I was painting at first which is why theres just this big ass brown spike thing in the middle, but well... when in doubt, build castles.
I think the atmosphere could have benefitted from having some birds/people but the scale was just too small.
man, alchemy is so good. What tools did you stick to for these?
Those are 100% the regular shape tool with the style set to fill, the bottom two images obviously use symmetry though. For some of the images on page 1 I used pull shapes, most of them I did not.
I actually made a tutorial video that I've been hesitant to post because it's 15 minutes of me saying inane bullshit but if anyone actually wants to watch it...
Those videos, whether you think so or not, are helpful. Even if to have someone talking about a process while you're working is very zen for me. Keep it up man.
Thank you guys! Glad some of you found the videos useful
@vofff: I pick colors that seem like the work well then I mess with the hue/sat sliders to see if I can get something different/better. Wish I could say I had a little more foresight but it's mostly just experimentation, I mess with it and hope it looks good I probably should do more color studies, just been hammering composition studies lately.
You are so good, dude. That second painting is sick! I'd love to see you push the different materials and surfaces a lot more though, you seem to be staying in your comfort zone a bit on most of these. Too many colored drawings, not enough full paintings!
@Joseph: The main reason I don't do a lot of finished pieces is because I feel like my main weakness (in scenes anyways) is still composition and image layout so I tend to stop once the picture is laid out.
I do have a lot of rendering studies planned though as well as some tighter more finalized pieces I'm working on which I'll post soon hopefully.
Another painting, more refined than the last few and some random head doodles:
I've been lurking for a while and whenever I need inspiration I check out your sketchbook. Your work is really sweet, I especially like how bold your brush strokes are and how surreal and interesting all your designs are and your use of color is really starting to stand out. Sweet work all around!
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Thank you zeld/kot, you guys are too kind
And the environment on this page is stunning -- the perspective is maybe a bit too obviously fudged, but the colors and sense of scale are amazing. I'd love to see the steps on this one, and maybe hear a bit about how you chose colors.
@SupRore the perspective is completely eyeballed, not even going to pretend it's right :x
This is only the second picture I've painted that I actually started in color instead of B&W so I don't exactly have a strategy for picking colors, I basically just picked random earth tones... normally I would paint in greyscale first then color afterward but there's so many problems doing it that way that I am trying to break out of the habit.
If you pay attention to the colors throughout the picture they gradually change, the colors in the scene go from mostly blue (especially the greens, they're very minty in the first shot) to eventually being more golden.
In the final shot the image is cropped a little differently for composition reasons. You'll notice the bridge also changes directions toward the middle of the process, also to improve composition.
That is the thumbnail I started with at the top, didn't know what I was painting at first which is why theres just this big ass brown spike thing in the middle, but well... when in doubt, build castles.
I think the atmosphere could have benefitted from having some birds/people but the scale was just too small.
Couple of paintings, trying different things.
Did some more:
Those are 100% the regular shape tool with the style set to fill, the bottom two images obviously use symmetry though. For some of the images on page 1 I used pull shapes, most of them I did not.
I actually made a tutorial video that I've been hesitant to post because it's 15 minutes of me saying inane bullshit but if anyone actually wants to watch it...
Skip to 5 mins unless you want to see a really shitty explanation of pull shapes...
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While I'm at it here's a less interesting video of me sculpting the bird thing on page 1
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@vofff: I pick colors that seem like the work well then I mess with the hue/sat sliders to see if I can get something different/better. Wish I could say I had a little more foresight but it's mostly just experimentation, I mess with it and hope it looks good
Some of you may remember this from Page 1:
Couple batches of thumbnails, been really unproductive lately... I mostly blame Skyrim
Couple of speed paints I did, still trying to feel out new painting styles..
@Joseph: The main reason I don't do a lot of finished pieces is because I feel like my main weakness (in scenes anyways) is still composition and image layout so I tend to stop once the picture is laid out.
I do have a lot of rendering studies planned though as well as some tighter more finalized pieces I'm working on which I'll post soon hopefully.
Another painting, more refined than the last few and some random head doodles:
Also - beautiful work dude. I find it interesting how your pencil sketches seem to have some sort of alchemy feel to them as well.
Been working on some models that I'll hopefully have at a presentable point soon.
In the meantime here's some stuff:
Did this initially for the Darksiders comp but it didn't really fit the darksiders style at all. I like it anyway :x
Drilling fundamentals, these came out a bit unexpectedly stylized
Some alchemy time fillers, these were largely inspired by Johann Bodin's amazing alchemy work