Time can suck!

Wish I had more time on this but you know it's finished now and done and out the way and potrays what I wanted it to. So enjoy guys :D

Constructing Final Digital Piece

It's not the best thing in the universe but it does get the point across. Still requires a bit more time and effort so bare with me. Thought I'd get a progress image up for you guys. The planet I did myself I will hand that in aswell along with my work.

Design Document Template.

So like, well, I missed last year on a lesson explaining this whole template thing so I'm a little confused but Chris helped me out a little over msn. Anyway I designed a quick background. I could do better but I'm limited in what I can use. I don't want to go over the top either. So It's ok. Not my best or anything but I can live with it I guess.

The reason it's nothing spectacular is because the images I tried to use where basically to small and pixels. I did my best to fit in a nice template anyway I'm up to my eyeballs trying to complete work for once. So forgive me if it's not the best thing ever. I'll take some advice though if anybody has any to offer to me.

Finished 'bad guy'

Like I said I have a week to finish all this stuff so I am just blocking out the characters best I can. they are not perfect but hey it gets the whole point across and that's, well, the point right? So you know i hope you guys like and as I usually say things can be changed overtime ect.

Hmmm....Evil....YAY

So i've been working on the evil guy today. I've worked a little less stressed out today on him now my other is out the way so I am actually adding a lot more detail into this peice to show of my skills a little. Anyway here is a sneak peak. The white rope bit is actually a spine i just habn't worked into it yet.

It'll have to do!

Well, I like it. I actually wasn't going to do these characters done up so I'm proud I am doing them. Even if they are blocky it's something else to show the effort I'm trying to put into creating my characters. So I hope you guys like it. The weapon is blocky because well, I aint even designed her a weapon yet. The blocky idea I sketched in I like but you know there is room for change at this stage.

The golden colour on her armour is interesting, it's the same colour as the character in the original game joust. It might not be a perfect piece but I know I will go back if I get slightly tired of modelling and build it up more and more and make it into a great piece hopefully.

Back to basics?

So i have my hero almost completed, the base that is before any patterns are to be added ect. I'm going to take the drawing back down into grayscale and clean it up, give some defined edges to the piece and fix anything that looks off. Then final work up the colour again and try to keep my pallet generic. I have some colours I do actually like at the moment on her so I will be making a small pallet of colours to use for her tonight. I will post up a few images later of what I have achieved so far. The lack of definition seemed to make me not like the drawing I was doing but now I know the problem it can be fixed by putting some effort into it.

Thanks everyone who gave me the flu too -cry-.

Lineart or not?

I'm not sure whether to use line art or what. This peice is tiring me out a little, I'm finding it hard to like for some reason and I can't put my finger on it. I don't think it's the colours or anything I think it lacks maybe some definition?

Anyway I desperately need your guys opinions! -cry-

And snap went the bloody pen!

>.> yes my graphics pen decided to break however it's been sort of celotaped a little now for a quick fix and luckily a bloody good fix. Anyway i have done quite a bit of work however I keep seeming to restart things. It's like I keep thinking what I do isn't good enough so I am just going with these pieces I have done so far. they will be completed by the end of this week hopefully.

The first one is the female hero. I went for the auburn sort of hair like back in medieval Britain, It is a nice touch I reckon. Ignore the sleezy cross on the shield bit, it's just plonked there for now lol.

The second piece is the dark mount he is almost done and I have started the bird but he is half done at the moment. I'm worrying over colours a lot so you know shout at me if it seems a bit shit.

I am having a ramble now too because my bloody computer is too slow when drawing it's making my life hell I swear but you know I decided to make the files big....-cry-

Pull It together!

So i have my mounts finally sorted. I really like them. I kept the bird close to the original game and added in my own ideas for a futuristic machine bird. As I am doing all this I am planning on the shapes I will be using to model both creatures & characters. So here is a basic lookout to what I have been doing this week.

I hope you guys like what I have so far. Most of it is a block out though. It's better to show what I am doing though and show the process and get opinions. I also am a week behind on this so I'm having a little freak out on getting this concept done and dusted, you know, I wanted it to be a great piece and not shobby.

The colours i used from a sunset picture to get a pallete, may pale them down eventually, clouds should be in the distance anyways.

Mount Designs

So I have designed several mounts. I wanted to keep things similar to joust but try to maybe take a different approach on things. So I just drew several animals that came to my mind. I am no animal artist but I did thoroughly enjoy it when i got into it eventually. I find doing stuff like this expands my knowledge and can even help within my character design for inhuman beings and such and such. I have really tried hard even though I know I was going to struggle on this aspect. So you know if you try your best stuff comes out eventually.

Here are a small bunch of concepts I did for mounts!

Dino Fail ?

Anyway i thought i'd put this up so far. She might change, i havn't put much effort into her due to i might get told she isn't good for a main char ect ect.

Also the dino looks a bit turkey like at the moment so thats due for change too. I like the face so far ect. Hopefully update my comp next week I have been lagging crazy lol!

Continuing with the drawing!

According to the timetable I set myself I am actually behind by a week, however, I have managed to try and figure out a way to step around this problem. I'm going to try and just get both character done digitally next week I will set myself 2 days for each piece and maybe more if need be I shouldn't panic myself to much though it will just cause more problems during the future and i have set myself 2 weeks to create blueprints for all 4 things I will be modelling. I personally don't think I need as much time doing this.

So I have been drawing female characters. Dean liked the idea i show both my skills modelling male and female. I like this idea too although I still am making my mind up a little on the aspect. This is what is troubling me a little. I drew up a idea for a female character. In my mind it lacks something. I'm not sure what I just look at her and find her a little plain and boring. I used aspects from my thumbnails but she just isn't something I think is worth trying on but this is when i finally pull out that eraser of mine and change things on her before I scan her in...

Something else also, with the mounts I only feel strong with the dinosaur so far. I'm not sure why but it fits well with my whole ideas and can give me a good chance to do some really organic modelling. I wanted to add character as well...i was thinking maybe having the dino muzzled some how so it can't bite the rider ect but shouldn't a jouster feel with their mount? Maybe they are bonded or something along the lines that way.

So it's been a eventful week I guess. I'm still struggling on creating my characters though. I'm just like will this be good, will that be better and then tangling myself up on what to come up with and any ideas i do some up with I am like...well maybe that isn't good enough.

Free for change!

Well I like the below image to a extent however it is just too mad in a way. The background seems very harsh compared to the rest of the image. It's just almost to bright. So I'm going to start some quick research into how character artists/concept artists present their work. For one, doing this will help me achieve something more acceptable to hand in. I don't want to be handing something that looks a mess in.

So expect a few more character sheets soon presented a little better.