Temple Entrance Concept Art Finish

Temple Entrance Concept Art Journey

I was on a roll from my previous concept art so…

Temple Path Concept Art Finish

Temple Path Concept Art Journey

My first quick glass exercise!

Using maya software...

Maya crashed after this =(

Unwind with sketching

During the trip I managed to take a few pictures of fantastically twisted tree that inspired me to draw during the return bus journey with my sketch book, pencil (no rubber), camera and my legs tucked up to support my book I began to draw. This was drawn in 30 minutes on the bus, so it was a little shaky.

Whilst the knowledge was still fresh in my head I continued on to imagine up a creature that had the influence of the tree. I released during the drawing that the tree did look like muscles and so I formed the way the bark was detailed into looking like the muscle of a human (the humanoid tree took me 35 min on the bus). The other sketches I did at home. 

After the humanoid tree sketches I told myself off and returned to drawing environments. I applied the skills I learnt and tried out bits and pieces of scenery.

Sculpture Park

The Sculpture Park bared unexpected fruit, as it helped me see past my original expectations.

These two pictures were taken, with a flash and without. This taught me a valuable lesson, when in Maya, take note that during the texturing process I shouldn’t add too much shading to the texture because the rendering object will add shape and shadows to it.

While I was walking around I stumbled on fantastic research and inspirational image material. For an example these stone beams are covered in ivy that provides information on colour and the perspective of how the ivy plant is curling around the beams.  

As I continued taking photos I started to realise that there is hidden instance in my imagery. In this image I can see a parrot (dinosaur) head that is near the top left of the tree. The head is slightly browner than the tree, the specific shadows gives the shape and distinguishing facial features.

This photo shows the inside of a rotten log but from another perspective it’s a valley that’s sloped up into some caves. Also I can see a face on the right but more man lizard like.

These types of sculptures were scattered around the park. I can see a giant chicken head, a Cyclops head and my favourite, a ditto (Pokemon).

Colour Phobia! D=

I have gone off my path of research into to architecture for the moment just to practice using colour. I was afraid to add colour to my creations because I really loved shade and toning with black and white. So this is a colour practice I started to do and these will eventually lead to colourful environment concept art. 

 My first colour practice of an imaginary character I did to try get over my colour phobia.

 

 UNFINISHED!

 I got advice from a talented artist (Stu) to do myself portrait and gave me an example of how to apply colour.  

 With the helpful portrait practice I set my sights on an imaginary character and apply the same technique to this character. This looks promising and I might come back to it at a later date.