"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"
Close Ups...
Character Designs - "Sci-Fi Adventurers: The Fog"
Close ups...
Character Design - "Female Character for Book Cover"
Dominance War 4 Entry - "The Shadow & The Technomage".
Close ups...
The Shadow
The Technomage
The Mace
Character Designs: "Flame Unit and Heavy Gunner".
"Concept Art for Proxy Army Games".
"Marines get ambushed".
"Environment: A prison complex for storing Aliens".
"Two guards are ambushed by an Alien from the air vent".
"Solar Federation Agent"
"Concept Art for THON: Weapon Designs".
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
Character Design - "Beauty and the Beast".
Close up...
Character & Creature Design - "The Unicorn vs. The Griffin".
Close ups...
Character Design - "Fantasy Adventurers".
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Illustration - "The Flying Vikings".
Close up...
Illustration - "The Chase"
It's quite sketchy and I didn't render the details so much. Done in Photoshop.
Vehicle Design - "P-10, The Wasp"
Vehicle Design - "Steampunk Hot Rod"
Weapon Design - "MP-50 Submachine Gun"
Fantasy Weapon Design - "Bastard Sword"
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.
A video of the initial concept art process for "Tail End Charlie 2074 A.D." (final pieces in the next post)...
"Tail End Charlie 2074 A.D."
A collection of concept art and illustrations from my first illustrated science fiction novel. The project took 9 months in 2019.
It is self published as an indie novel on Amazon and is currently available as black and white paperback and ebook.
Link to the official website is in my signature. You can get a free 3 chapter sample there.
The concept art and illustrations were done using pencils and inks, and then were coloured using digital painting.
The cover....
The original concept art...
Some of the finished illustrations....
"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
"Photobashing"
Concept Art made using the photobashing technique with a digital paint-over.
A dreadnought...
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...
Illustration - "The Dark Angels Arrive"
Warhammer 40K fan art.
"Feel free to leave a comment or critique, they are appreciated."
Concept Art - "Airlock Seven"
Done using a quick 3D blockout scene with a digital paintover.
Process Shots.
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...
Environment Concept - "Sci-Fi Cityscape"
Character Concept (Fantasy) - "Paladin Knight"
Character Concept - "Sci-Fi Helmet Designs"
8 designs for sci-fi helmets.Environment Concept Art
Environment Concept Art - "Barren Planet"
Colour thumbnails for barren planet landscapes. No photobashing or textures, just brush work.Environment Concept Art - "Sci-Fi Jungle Scene"
"Jungle Scene - Process"
Environment Concept Art - "Xenomorph Lab"