Scriptorii

Scriptorii

Scriptorii sketch

Had to finish this one up before I left for Industry Workshops.  Another character requested by smrvl.  It stayed pretty close to the sketch but I think the sketch is a bit more moody.  The maps are based on some 17th and 18th century real maps -  beautiful to look at.  
That is it for full on characters for now.  I will keep working on them but I want to shift focus to environments and work on a process for them.  
  I was at Industry workshops at the weekend which definitely gave me some food for thought.  I will share some of what was on show in a later post.  

Standby ...

At Industry Workshops this week. I will post an update on Monday.

Goliath Paladin

Goliath Paladin

Goliath paladin sketch 

Late posting cos this one was a battle.  The request was  for a Goliath paladin by grandbaby-buffalo.  The sketch was but the first step.  Spent a long time messing with the goat.  Could still be more menacing. 

Swashbuckler

Swashbuckler

Barbarian Fairy 

Barbarian Fairy sketch

Swashbuckler sketch

 Still working on the characters. Barbarian fairy was done for vicar1492.  The sketches are done roughly in half an hour.  After that it lines flat colour and shading.  If I need to render further I would do a value pass - greyscale then colour and soft light layers. I may bring the swashbuckler character further but I still have a backlog of sketches.  For now I will keep working on this process. 

More D&D characters

Hedgehog Paladin

 Jakoby Stauss - Fighter

I worked on more D&D characters this week.  I am developing a bit of a backlog though.  I thought I would get through more work.  The hedgehog I worked on detailing and moving from flat colouring to rendering without lines takes quite a while but I think I can change the process to move things along.  This was done for vicar1492 . The fighter I stopped just before more  rendering. This was done for Tusklord. 
I will keep working on a few more of these. 

Borg the Orc

Borg the Orc

Took some of the sketches from last week and have being working them up.  I am working off prompts from Reddit . Sam Peterson used in in an earlier Art Posse challenge.  I didnt take part but the character prompts are great and there are lots to choose from.  I had hoped to have a second one finished by now but still needs some work.  
So this moved from traditional sketch to coloured lineart  then to a render in greyscale.  This character was from ChuddStudly. 

Borg sketch 

Borg lines 

Borg greyscale

A lot of WIP

Aerial Attack - WIP

Aerial Attack-colour  WIP

This week I am in the middle of a few projects.  The plan for the aerial attack is to complete it in oils on a 30 cm x 40 cm panel.  I did the roughs in Photoshop but this will be transferred to the panel.  When doing this I came across a really good visual development series CG World entry.JP by Ishiko Ito.  Its in Japanese but is readable with google translate if you have no Japanese.  It is the most comprehensive and well explained resource I have seen on building an image.  

The other challenge I have set my self is to design more characters - I will try to finish as many as I can and try a few different approaches.  These are 30 minute sketches.  So lots to complete.

small orc - sketch

brawler - sketch

druid -sketch