An unfriendly creature

one new painting

Long time no post :)
So after a while here is one concept design in stages.
Everything is done with pencils HB and B2, thumbnail is done with Staedtler pigment liner,
final color is done digitally. Hope you like it ;)

Work in progres

Some of the concepts and compositions I am planing to execute in near future :).
Enjoy in presented sketches.

sketchbook pages

Some of the drawings and designs from my sketchbook pages.
These are just ideas that come to my mind from time to time and in different places.

I find that for concept artist and character designer thumbnail drawings are essential. This is something that I have heard so many times and from many designers out there. I am self thought character designer and it took me some time to see the value of thumbnail drawings but now I do it every day and I mean it every day.

It helps to understand the things around us, it helps to materialize  ideas (very important!), it helps with  clearing the visual communication and it builds up your visual library which is very important for every designer.

I hope you like it :).
These pages here contain some of pretty defined designs but some of them can be rely scribbles that are understandable just to the man who drawn them and that is OK too. Its all about explaining ideas to yourself .

ORC WARRIOR making of

Long time has pass and I did not post anything. Well I was extremaly busy with working on my digital painting technices so I spent many hours working, working, working.... and yes working some more :)
Had some great time and learned many things :)

Here is one character design, exercise, I did with values. I thought it would be cool to present it in phases. It took me about 2 days.

Hope you like it, and I hope it could be helpful to someone out there :)

First here we have one drawing derived from numerous thumbnails I usually do when ever there is possibility. I draw thumbnails at coffee places, at my job, in front of TV, in park etc.

Here is a value that I decided to make as basic value. This is good to have cos in production it is helpful for masking, selection and other little bit technical stuff. O yes here I establish the value range that I will work with. It is extremely helpful cos you don't need to open the color dialogue box in Photoshop, you just pick the value from the canvas and when concentrated on working that is like huge thing. It makes digital painting more natural for me :).

Here I put basic values understanding what is the form like and from where does light come. I try to think about the rhythm of the shapes too cos that thing makes the drawing interesting and it makes your composition flow. Was I successful I don't know but its all about trying and playing around I guess :)

And here is the final drawing with shadow to make it grounded and heavy and with lots of small details defining the fact that he is not some nice guy :)

I hope you like it. I usually don't post things like this but  internet helped me a lot in my learning so I decided to give something back :)

Next week I will post some of my thumbnails. I love to watch other artists thumbnails cos I believe everything about character design happens there.

OK see you around :)

Some classical pencil drawings.

Peinting did for online challenge

Final work

And some details