Easter holiday

Easter has come early at teeside uni but got a few projects on the go. Currently working on sketches for the 9 spheres of  Dantes Paridiso and 20 imaginery female nude drawings. Be posting the work next week when i get back :-)

Life drawing

Some drawings from life drawing from the evening and day classes.

Chester zoo drawings

I went to Chester zoo yesterday and took my sketchpad. Note -the only animals that stay still and pose are lions and flamingos! I tryed to get the main movement and character of the animals in each pose. Done in marker and biro.

Shattered Dreams

These are the first iteration of sketches done for a project i have been set. The first set of sketches show 3 different styles for the game concept. The second page shows the chosen one in coloured pencils. The main aspect is that the driver would be able to see all the cars through reflections as the windscreen shatters to allow him to shift to the car of his choice.

Excelsior movie poster

This week in the visual development module i have been tasked with creating promotional material for the movie. When composing the poster i looked at the legend Drew Struzan as he has painted almost all of the blockbuster movie posters specifically all of the star wars posters! I experimented with various formats from portrait to landscape. In the end i went with the portrait as it complimented the composition i wanted. The antagonist looms large over the protagonist and his love interest who looks back at a key scene in the movie- the destruction of the upper city. I added text just to make it look more like a poster. The whole process from concept to finished sheet took just over 2 days.

                 I prefer the colours in the poster above as they seem more harmonious

 The above colours were the original colours i chose, purple for the villan, oranges for the protagonists

                                       Above are a few of the colour choices that i looked at.

       I started this painting in grey scale first to lay down the tonal values then I painted on the colour

Above are the initial concept sketches, these are very rough and done quickly to experiment with
composition, mood, colour and lighting

Concept generation and development

The images below show the process i go through to create rapid iterations. I start with black marker silhouette drawings to experiment with shapes and form, then go into grey scale sketches to show details and finally a quick colour wash. These ideas are open to change and further development before final polished rendering begins.

Sketchbook - face and figure drawings

I am currently reading Andrew Loomis and Burne Hogarth books on anatomy to improve my skills in this area of concept art. They are produced with pencil, and sketchbook pro, adobe illustrator and photoshop.

(done in illustrator/photoshop)

(done with pencil and sketchbook pro)

(red pencil/ pencil)

(pencil)

(biro/ pencil)

(pencil)

(pencil)

Visual development - storyboards for film

This past week had to draw storyboards to a script for a film " Excelsior". i had already designed the characters in the last module "character design". The storyboards show the protagonists entrance and his fight with a street gang who wants the mysterious cube the hero has in his possession....

Concept art Practice module - videogame concept art

In this module i am doing concept art for a videogame . I have come up with "Loua" which is a videogame concept that is based on voodoo culture. In western society we have come to associate voodoo with zombies and black magic. However when researching voodoo i found that it is a religon based on the idea of a family of spirits called "Loua" Depending on the persons origins , african or Haitian the spirits differ. They are anthropomorphic which is why i have drawn them with human clothing and based them on african animals. When designing the enviroment i was thinking of an african jungle with lots of trees, ancient buildings and death traps. I want to design more enviroments for this game and explore the design of traps and interiors.

Concept art Practice module - sketchbook ideas

a few pages from my sketchbook for the concept art practice module, got to learn about the process
of character development with workshop with Ken Wong (Art Director at Spicy Horse games). Creating characters from silohuettes and combining words to create character profiles.

20 imaginary faces

had to draw imaginary faces, heres the ones i did, drawn in pencil/ coloured in painter.

Development Concept art

Sketchbook work for characters

drawing for concept artists

anatomy studies

Key moment concept art

Painted in photoshop, here the hero is waking up find himself greeted by a street gang

Key moment concept art

In the module "visual storytelling" i have to visualise key moments in a film/ videogame/ animation. These scenes are used to sell the concept. I have painted these in greyscale first then added colour, all done digitally in Corel Painter.

 Bottled -this shows the hero take out the barman.

MA Concept art for games and animation students

a doodle of my classmates, we had to draw each other in a pose, each one was a few minutes.

drawing for concept artists

this week i have been set the task of producing 20 male nudes and drawing skulls and faces. here are the sketches done in pencil then scanned and painted in corel painter.