Armored Concepts

Getting back into the swing of things, hooked up the Wacom and started gathering the reference for continuing my projects. Went and found some Roman stuff, but might go through art books and scan more inspiration into a library of reference.

This sketch was just a little bit of what I drew, this was just for fun but may still be used. I posted this because its not really part of my "secret" designs. Once I choose a final look for this character I will post the thumbs and initial sketches, they might help someone else out.

I always found it a waste to see such good thumbs from major companies when they create games or movies that never make it to final. A great example is Gears of War, the first art book had such awesome concepts, although they would've changed the tone of the game, hence why they got scrapped but still inspirational.

I'm still getting accustomed to the tablet again, I honestly have not used it in a while and feel pretty ashamed of that but I have been inspired by new goals and new challenges online. I plan on following the Dominance War coming up, I may not officially join up but will try to keep up depending on my upcoming future schedule.

I will also be posting up life drawings that I have started going to every Thursday, so please look forward to that =)

Artbook Painting

I have recently been very inspired by contests, more specifically Dominance Wars. An incredible fight between online art forums to see which one has the best artists, this does not just mean North America, Korea and Russia seem to be making a great impression. The theme was Generals in a portrait style, I loved the idea and took a general from one of my stories and tried it out. I thought it would be great to try and put this into the Seneca Artbook for 2009 (which I have been painstakingly helped in), it's been a pleasure but there has been time that I will never get back. But, I digress, back to the piece, I really like the concept and it has been changing constantly. At first he was going to be yelling forward but then I wanted him more calm and collected, he is a prestigious commander of his army and I even most recently thought of him floating... (If you are wondering if he is too small, I just like having huge armor and I am not in love with the chest plate) We will see, I will get back to it tomorrow, maybe show some people and get feed back on where I should go.

Here is the sketch from where I started:
Here is where I am now:


There we go...