Dominance War V ideas

So Dominance War V has finally started, I'm really liking the Gods theme. I've decided to make a Goddess of Time (this one seems very popular, I've seen three other people make a God/Goddess of Time (and Space) thread on the Gameartisans Forum right after I made mine).

Initial concepts and ideas, I want to make her half dark and half light to symbolize night and day. And of course she has to hold an hourglass :D. Wasn't actually too sure about giving her proper clothing as I thought a Goddess of Time wouldn't really need that, but I may change my mind later. Her surface isn't going to be skin or any flesh, I want to give it a metal-like surface as shown in the mask picture.

Would love to hear thoughts on this.

Recent paintings

Unfortunately I have not been able to update my blog as much as last term, though this is because I have been deeply focused on the Group Project this semester (all my blog posts went onto the Team blog) which has been going very smoothly. I will be writing a more detailed post about the Group Project later. For now, here are some recent paintings.

I enjoyed this one very much, the brief was to choose a place that I'd like to relax in then add some changes to suit my own personal taste. I turned the local library into a more antique styled one:

Painting mugs is actually a lot more fun than I had imagined!


EDIT: Made a new version of the library painting here.

Character project - creative writing (and image)

So for our 2D character project, we are to do a bit of creative writing based on a character. I went out, drew several people in the streets and eventually found one person who I thought was rather interesting. Like what I was told, I let my writing take control, so here it is:

"His constant swaying of his body, his inhaling of his cigarette one after one and his continuous coughing were what directed my eyes onto this solitary old man. I did not particularly want to look at him at first, but his movements that repeated in a cycle almost forced me to stand there and study him. He was a bespectacled middle-aged man of small statue, with dark hair and a bushy moustache. While he sat alone on the bench, he looked as though he was very uncomfortable, yet he kept on smoking, coughing and swaying his body back and forth. It made me wonder.

Was he trying to quit smoking, but failed yet again this time? The agonizing expression on his face and his unusual fast inhaling seemed as though the smokey hands of the cigarette had gripped him firmly, refusing him to give it up. I wondered how it all began.

Or maybe he had just heard some bad news and had to take a cigarette to keep calm, and the constant swaying was a relaxing motion for him. I do wonder.

Whatever it was, I soon came to realize that he looked a bit like Randy Marsh from South Park!"

But with glasses:

Blitz lecture, uni and personal work so far

Yesterday we had a visitor from Blitz Games Studios to give us a lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed it, his words were very inspirational to me and have motivated me even more into becoming a better artist. I feel like I'm now filled up with energy and a strong urge to make 20 head models just to get that one good model. I made a head model after returning home from the labs yesterday - which turned out looking terrible as expected, but hey, I'm going to model another and another and another and another.

Here's an update on some of the university work I've been doing so far. I've chosen to create a Balloon Taxi in the city of Batmunk Gompa, from Philip Reeves' Mortal Engines novel. Though overall simple in design (being just a hot air balloon), it has some interesting details which I enjoyed modelling:

8,178 triangles.

2D final pieces:



And some personal work in its current work-in-progress stage. My little obsession with Hanfu kicked in a couple of weeks ago and I've been painting this on and off in between uni projects (critiques are highly welcome).

First post of Second Year, and some final pieces

So here is my first post for Second Year at my Game Art course! Here are the finals that I’ve done so far, two from Abbey Park:


We’ve also been told by the tutors to study the masters and reproduce their works… for this, I chose Rembrandt and Turner. I really like Rembrandt’s portraits and enjoyed imitating Rembrandt’s portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert. I find that a lot of his paintings have very rich colours against a darker background, which are a pleasure to look at especially the light and shadows. Since I like drawing people very much, I find his art highly intriguing.

My reproduction of Rembrandt's portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert, 1633.


And reproduction of Turner's Chichester Canal, 1815.

Silk Puppet

The lights dimmed as the audience finished their round of applause. The velvet curtains parted, revealing a colossal stage with a single spotlight shining down on one solitary figure. The performer stood deathly still with a long cloak down to her barefeet, not a single muscle moving. Then, with one sweeping motion, she elegantly lifted away the cloak, revealing a body of silk.

Probably the weirdest thing I've drawn in awhile. This is just an idea for my Interesting Character project. Most of her body is made of silk cloth. Usually she walks around with a long cloak on to cover up herself. Yes, this really was inspired by a real person I saw on a street...

Speedpaint

Roughly 1 hour speedpaint. I was talking to people on msn at the same time so I think I could've done a better job >_<. Clothes folds are hard when speedpainting.




















Reference photo from here.

Female portrait speedpaint

Nooooo time's up! I wanted to see how much I can paint in one hour:

3D handbag and some speedpaints

I modelled my new handbag. Yes, it really is that flowery.

























30 mins - 1 hour speedpaints:



































This took the longest but I really enjoyed it: