Tank Assignment

This weeks assignment was to design a tank or mech using perspective and lighting techniques we learned in class. I started with a moodboard to gather some reference and get some ideas.

Afterwards, I did a few thumbnails to generate my ideas and work out what kind of tank I wanted I was focusing on shapes mostly.

My designs steered me towards a legged tank, so i started to use my designs and played around with the shapes some more to result in this crab tank, I had major trouble with the lighting methods but i tried my best.

Insectoid Design

For the past two weeks we were given an assignment to design an insectoid of any type, I didnt really know what type of thing I wanted at first so I decided to just research as much as possible and find some cool things that I could include in the design process. I gathered a moodboard to help this.

After this I did a series of studies on some of the characteristics of insects, I made some quick thumbnails with notes and did a paint study to try and get some colours and textures in my head.

After the studies I felt pretty comfortable with drawing insects and I learned quite a lot about how they work from it so it was extremely useful. I moved on to some designs and I still didnt really know what I wanted so I just wanted to make these designs as diverse as possible and have some fun with them.

At this point I knew what I wanted to create. His name is Vei'rha and he is a towering general of an army of alien bugs. He is ruthless and is intent on not only killing his enemies, but making sure they die screaming. His main trait is intimidation as he believes that it is necessary for not only scaring the shit out of those who cross him, but disciplining his soldiers.

Game Encounters - Storyboard

45 minute speedpaint

Monster Design

For our halloween brief, we were tasked with designing a monster of any kind; vampire, werewolves, mutant frogs, anything we could think of. I had a lot of choices so I decided to gather a clump of reference from online on monsters the I liked the look of:

After that disturbing experience I thought it would be best to do do some loose ideas so that i could focus on certain basic ideas.

Next I moved on to a few designs, starting off with a few silhouettes and then working into some of the ones I liked.

After that I was ready to move onto the final design. I wanted a few puss boils filled with gas and some grotesque swamp dwelling monster with acid and all of that good stuff, so I started playing around with shapes and combining some ideas from my designs to get Gooball here:

Woman Sketches

Just some doodling during breaks.

Practice Stuff

NEW BRUSH TESTS