Polycount's Sketch Thread!

STRIKER · Feb 2012

We'll start by just drawing a piece everyday, and it can be digital or traditional. Then we'll start to work in some sweet themes to challenge ourselfs! ex. robots, chicks etc.

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Nina I. · Mar 2012

A couple of characters in different styles.

Razorb · Mar 2012

woooaah lovely work everyone! off to bed! quick RANDOMASPISS pic before i sleep.. too tired to pull off a face so i didnoface ;(

so much lovely in here tho! haven't really looked before!

Lazerus Reborn · Mar 2012

Some doodle while on a train

Did i mention i hate trains in liverpool?

Daven · Mar 2012

RazorB that is gorgeous work. Kickass forms and colors.

Erebus88 · Mar 2012

Daven · Mar 2012

Found this on deviantART's front page. Great interactive speedpaint tutorial.

http://www.deviantart.com/#/d4ud60c

tacit math · Mar 2012

suburbbum _ awesome. cheers for the linkage dude. i will be watching

Razorb _ ALWAYS loving your stuff dude. so much my cup of tea

Nina I. _ Lazerus Reborn _ Erebus88 _ ALL. winning !!

and waiting for Dado. to come hurt my feelings

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Nina I. · Mar 2012

Nice chunky forms on the mechagirl, Erebus88! Same goes for suburbbum's greyscale character concept on the previous page, the warrior looks sturdy and tough from pose to armor! Razorb, the female body has nice form and shading looks confidently stylized.

tacit math, thanks! Are your two guys for some project?

Another environmental rough with focus on mood

Makkon · Mar 2012

MAN I LOVE THIS THREAD!

Allan-p · Mar 2012

Textured brushes are weird..

leslievdb · Mar 2012

awesome stuff guys

just did this doodle

Donavonyoung · Mar 2012

AHH!! so much good work here that you got my tablet itching for some sculpting. Curse you Aqua scum!

Strkl · Mar 2012

amazing stuff here

I did this one to practice details and nurnies, I didn't care much about the design

PDC · Mar 2012

Place is blowin' up! Loving the new work, everybody

Random: decided to take a break from work and do some animation

EiGHT · Mar 2012

PDC / Makkon - I wish your talent came in a replenish-able beverage.I would drink that shit daily.

Ravenslayer - Hhahahahahaha fk yes.How long that take ya?

leslievdb · Apr 2012

^^ about an hour

tacit math · Apr 2012

Nina I. _ nah no project. just messing about

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dfacto · Apr 2012

Good thing you don't polish your doodles Tacit, I might have a heart attack with sweet designs like that!

Gun:

MagicSugar · Apr 2012

Sunday warmup

nutsy · Apr 2012

A couple of pirates from a while ago.

Makkon · Apr 2012

Rocks! So many rocks!

EiGHT · Apr 2012

Makkon man, you gotta record a paint sesh for all to see.

Your stuff is just too good not to.

Daven · Apr 2012

EiGHT wrote: »

Makkon man, you gotta record a paint sesh for all to see.

Your stuff is just too good not to.

Seconded

EDIT: stuff

tacit math · Apr 2012

and thirds

Erebus88 · Apr 2012

Her pose is kind of wonky but oh well. End of the day sketch

Daven · Apr 2012

Is there a little Sister of Battle in there?

Erebus88 · Apr 2012

suburbbum wrote: »

Is there a little Sister of Battle in there?

Yeah I think so, 40K stuff seems to come into my work a lot since I have been a fan of their art for a very long time.

Nina I. · Apr 2012

Today I speedpainted some texture concepts for a personal 3D model. Already showed this bunch to some people at a game developer gathering, and asked which ones people liked the most. People's favourites were actually very versatile, there wasn't one definite design that would have got the most "votes".

I might do another pack tomorrow if I have time. If there's some colour variation or an element you think would be cool to see, feel free to drop a suggestion below! My initial idea was that the character is inspired by the insect bee, and if this was to be a game character, her fighting style would be very bustling, aiming to confuse the opponent and then strike. Also due to the sound of the character's name (which has a pun in it), I think it fitting to include some Chinese oriented details in her design.

Chimp · Apr 2012

http://i.imgur.com/0eXy3.jpg
today's sketch

Dross · Apr 2012

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Please Critique

fabio brasilien · Apr 2012

Dross: Not sure what you tried to paint. But it looks like an very shinny and creased green surface. Maybe plastic with some bubbles on the surface.

If you wanted to make a reflective surface, I would suggest trying to get some reference and make those reflections less randon.

Nina I. · Apr 2012

I am not exactly sure what you are trying to convey with the aqua pieces, Dross - is it a cyborg with liquid kind of armor, or chrome metal? Nonetheless, it seems like you have a basic understanding of the male muscle structure, but I would consider toning down his sixpack a bit by making the shading on the abdomen more subtle. And in general I think it would be better not to use pure black or greyscale colours for shadowing skin hues because greyscale tones often make an object's surface look 'dead' if surrounded by colour.

Dado Almeida, thanks for the comment!

I did a second "pack" today, having a lot of fun doing these concepts.

PDC · Apr 2012

Ooh, Nina, I am a sucker for pink ladies. D1 had the most instant appeal to me in this set. Feel's the most instantly legible.

However, if that's not the direction you feel is appropriate, D3 looks like a cool armor set, if you had some nice (possibly faked) specularity in the golden areas

Dross · Apr 2012

I guess I should have explained what i was trying to achieve,... what I was trying to do was make some sort of Biotech armor along with sorts of tribe like tattoos that glow with the armor... Thanks guys