Sketchbook: Twoflower

Twoflower

Yo!
Im a game art student at the university of Skövde in Sweden
and today felt like a good day to start a sketchbook

Crits are most welcome :thumbup:

Joseph Silverman

Too much custom brushes! There's a lot of texture with very little actual content on here. I like the two cityscapes aesthetically, though.

Jessica Dinh

Ooo, that star brush is a bit out of control, but other than that I enjoy this painting a lot! You set a great mood with the temperature contrast

8-Bit

Agreed. I love texture and there's a lot of good stuff in there, but maybe tighten it up a bit more. It's getting a little out of control in some areas that I feel should be smoother. Very nice city scape! It's sort of like a modern castle. Great stuff!

Twoflower

Thanks for the comments Tried to cut back some on the textures this time like you guys suggested.

The first image are 4 speedpaints were i spent around 15-20 min on each and on the second image i spent around 2 hours.

Became kinda caught up in small details in the one with the floating stone so forgot about adding in some background in it before my time was up :S





Now im gonna go and read the last 50 pages of A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin, his books are frikking awesome

allmighty_thunder

you should work on your foreground elements...looks better without all the custom brushes

Twoflower

allmighty_thunder: good, will try to add some more details in the foreground next time.

Anyway some more images from today.

allmighty_thunder

these have a really good visual style, but it is rather flat feeling to it, kind of cartoonish

Cheese_Shinobi

You have a great sense of speed and eagerness in your work! However, I would suggest you try and practice very basic stuff, and go at it from there. I am one such person myself, and I assure you that your work will improve if you take it easy and just focus on beginner-stuff again, however boring it may seem. Keep up the good work!

Twoflower

A treasure chest with 110 tris and an environment that i havn't finished yet

gillmeister74

your stuff has a very minimalist feel to it. It might just be the black and the white scheme but they got a limbo feel to em. In terms of the the setting you are drawing I can see you going anywhere from an oddworld type feel to something like ico, depends on what you want to do with it. Keep posting, stuff looks good

Twoflower

thanks gillmeister :thumbup:
Just now noticed that i draw alot of mountains/rock surfaces, i should probably start studying some basic stuff like Cheese_Shinobi suggested so there isn't mountains in every single image :S

the first one is just a speedpaint i did and in the second image i tried to get some nice values going on and too create some depth in it. it doesnt feel as flat as all my other images so i feel kinda happy about that

Twoflower

Just a stone tile texture i did today

Twoflower

Another handpainted texture

Twoflower

Eoq

Cheers m8, keep grinding them environment images! : ) I would suggest that you work abit more on the lighting inside the images to better define form/shapes. Perhaps try and study environment images made by other artists (just throwing ideas out there). Keep at it : )

ErikNilsson

Twoflower wrote: »

I like this one the most, it has a very nice feel to it. Good to se so much material keep it up! Oh and also, Black and white is fun, but dont be afraid to work with color, I know I was in at first but once you get the hang of it it´s super fun!

Here is some very nice enviroment art from another artist, dunu you might get some inspiration from it, I know I did ^^ - http://www.artbypavel.com/

Twoflower

ErikNilsson wrote: »

I like this one the most, it has a very nice feel to it. Good to se so much material keep it up! Oh and also, Black and white is fun, but dont be afraid to work with color, I know I was in at first but once you get the hang of it it´s super fun!

Here is some very nice enviroment art from another artist, dunu you might get some inspiration from it, I know I did ^^ - http://www.artbypavel.com/

Thanks Thats the one that imo turned out least crappy ^^ Kinda afraid of colors atm but hmm i should probably give it a go, will try and make my next sketch in color.

Dude that pavel guy is awesome :O

ErikNilsson

Twoflower wrote: »

Thanks Thats the one that imo turned out least crappy ^^ Kinda afraid of colors atm but hmm i should probably give it a go, will try and make my next sketch in color.

Dude that pavel guy is awesome :O

I know right? He has a really nice style ^^

Yeah I had a lot of trubble getting into colors, I started with grayscale paintings and used overlay layers to color my paintings. However I found that overlay layers did not give me the control I wanted over my colors (they got this metalic look to them) and so I eventually decided I had to try to learn to paint with colors properly. One of my biggest problems was that I didn´t know which colors to start with and all my paintings turned out kinda boring, flat, and way to monochrome. In my opinion a white canvas is really scary so you should just paint something, anything really. Oh And use lots of colors, add blue, green, red, purple and so on, and any/every shade of that. once you have some paint on the canvas you can pull colors from your canvas and use them, remember that chaos is good

Its a bit like jumping from a cliff, jump straight out dont think ^^

AlbinLundahl

Looks like good progress man. I should also get into drawing environments, it's hard but fun!

Twoflower

ErikNilsson: Yeah i always do greyscale images and when i feel really daring i use overlay layers with colors in them :S Im kinda stuck there right now, tried to do some speedpaints with colors today and they turned out reeeally ugly.Need to do some more practice sketches before ill even think about uploading them here :S


AlbinLundahl: Thanks. You totally should, it's really fun

Eoq: Great advice! will keep that in mind while i keep grinding environment images ^^

dumping some images then im of to bed.

here is one of the better speedpaints that i did today and 2 school assignments for our intro to 3d course.



the wall texture is tiling really bad, might fix that later if i have the time

Twoflower

Character for school assignment

Twoflower

So this is what i have been working on for the holidays.

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it was for a school animation assignment which should contain an element of surprise, thats why the ending is abit ...wierd. Couldn't figure out an nice surprise without it adding alot of extra work to be done.

Twoflower

Dumping some handpainted textures and a random image.

daemius

Really liked your stone texture from the last post, I´m curious to see how it would look in a model. Keep´em going, cheers. ;]

Twoflower

daemius: thanks man, will upload a model with the texture soon.

Been a while since i did any speedpaints so here are four

Twoflower

Well havent got any fancy model to throw the textures on yet, so this will do.

hmm the textures always become kinda blurry when i render them with mental ray in maya, do someone know a way to get better renders of my diffuse textures?

allmighty_thunder

i fell color-wise its all over the place, this material seem to reflect in rainbows, i would stick to a more focused color scheme

Twoflower

no rainbow reflection this time ; )

allmighty_thunder

nice, you can take screenshot with unreal though you dont need to print screen

Twoflower

So I and some friends entered the global game jam 2012 and this is the game we created during those 48 hours


Quick explanation: You get 2 points for hitting the viking with the crown while you get 1 point for hitting everybode else.
You get 1 point for every 10th button mash.

http://youtu.be/u6RWD6lOpc4

Twoflower

512x512 diffuse,normal,spec and emissive maps

Eoq

Cool 3D stuff man : )

-Joe-

Love the barrel's textures!
Mind posting the diffuse map for me to look at it in details?
Will appreciate it! (:

Twoflower

Eoq: thanks man!

Joe: Sure thing.

kinda messed up with the proportions of things when i uv mapped the items. The uv space for the cork is way bigger than it should be

Twoflower

another sci-fi prop

Twoflower

Trying to learn to paint with color instead of just greyscale, it's fun ^^

Twoflower

Been doing some scifi stuff while trying to figure out how normal maps work.


and also 2 random textures for handpainted texture practice

Twoflower

Twoflower

Been practicing some more 3d stuff with handpainted textures.




10k tris and 512 diffuse


1k tris and 512 diffuse


dont remember the tris count and texture size for this one.

Twoflower

Small 3d environment im working on atm. Need to make a new grass texture, and a texture for the transition between stone and grass.

amadarien

Hey man,

You have a really nice, colorful style for most of your images that I like a lot. The fact that you do a tonne of thumbnails is something I don't see many students do (at least in the school I was in, but it's the norm for artists), which is pretty sweet. Looking great.

Twoflower

Update on that 3d environment

played around with the light in the scene

ErikNilsson

Nice stuff!

Twoflower

ty^^

Twoflower

Twoflower

1 hour speedpaint from ref

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Noah Page

This looks beautiful. I enjoy the emotional quality of the piece.

Twoflower

Thanks man

Twoflower

Played around some with the color balance adjustment