Concept Sketch Practice

Tried another exercise in concept thumbnail sketches.  These are both rough scene explorations for two characters from Project Apricot, namely the two twin goddess whose powers can manipulate sound.  (I did a really rough sketch of these characters early, here.)

The bottom one is looking up from the inside of a tall tower, with a figure flying up.  This was a tricky perspective to do and I modeled it after this picture of the Inverted tower in Portugal: 

It still needs a lot of work.  The colors on both look flat, but the textures required are really challenging.  Ugh.  It sucks, but I'll keep trying.

Concept Sketch Practice

I attended another art dev class at work, this time taught by the amazing concept artist Jason Sheier (see his blog here http://d3capmode.blogspot.com/).  And it was really incredible to both see his process and get his thoughts on constructing a compelling scene.  I am continually inspired and blown away by the amazing talent in our company.

So with some of his lessons still fresh in mind, I forced myself to sit down and try it out.  It's not great, but it's a start.  I'm practicing the thumbnailing technique he demonstrated.

And I painted it using the very first photoshop brush that I made!  It looks like this:

The next step is to work on varying the value.  Right now, the values are too similar and most of the image blends together.  Another thing to do is to add more elements so that there are more entry points into the image and also creating more paths for you eye.

On the topic of blogs of artists from work (in case I haven't posted it before), here are blogs from two very cool artists from work:
Rad Sechrist (who taught the outstanding comic class) - http://radfordsechrist.blogspot.com/
Priscilla Wong - http://etelois.blogspot.com/

Pacific Mraow

So this pic is a bit belated because I was all about Pacific Rim and it's not in theaters anymore.  But still.  Loved it.  And here's Pacific Mraow.

And the dimensions?  Yeah, I basically made it specifically for my facebook cover pic.