Girl companion design

I wanted to start on a fantasy theme and have  small girl with a large construct or monster companion

such as these works:

I started on the girl
going for a cute Manga style to focus on innocence and childish nature

pink hair is prominent with main characters

Tiger study

I wanted to try my hand at an animal study as a warm up, it turned into a week long venture into tigers.

starting off with the structure of tigers, vaguely tracing the shapes over google sourced images, finding out that theyre a mix of blocky faces and smooth flowing saggy bodies

Using google image search i looked up tigers and tiger faces, referencing them from there i proceeded to time myself in sketching out different faces and poses.

i found this super helpful as i havent doen this kind of study before, learning alot of things about tigers

another study page with focus on leg structure and markings around the eye and the eye itself

 final image
i used my knowledge on tigers to draw a stylised portrait of one, i can safely say i knew more about tigers then i did when i first started

Repainting an old piece 2012-2014

Wanted to revisit an old sketch i had.

First picture is october 2012 and my attempt to paint over the sketch.

next selection of pictures is january 2014

first is my rendition around 6 hours. literally im learning from scratch, as ive forgotten virtually how to paint.

second and third are working on the teeth and realising eyebrows dont work that way. getting the base coloured down, shading and detail before adjusting the colour to give it harmony.

last is starting on the horn. this is where ive paused work on this.

Outsourced help - creating visual work for a character select screen.

The Manchester University student asked me for help again but designing 8 character headshots in a particular design he had in mind, and simple backgrounds for each themed car he has.

the character headshots were briefed to be in the style of fallout, a black or grey with swamp green accents in a simplistic style

I came up with these following designs as each were a specific class.

eg.

pirate, pilot, greaser, trucker, space captain, everyman, officer, farmer

these were used in the following render:

the backgrounds he just wanted simple, like a large wallpaper

he offered me a template to work on photoshop with and wrote down the themes of each wallpaper

I then found a handful of complementary pallets to work with on making each wallpaper.

he was satisfied with the result and included it into his render project

My portion is between 28 and 35 

Outsourced help - design of a robot.

I had been asked to help in the design of a robot for a 3D project from another University student situated in manchester.

the designs he wanted were that of Object heads and more importantly, monitor heads, or TV heads

I provided him with some designs

first of which was a female ish one

gave him a couple of more designs, a scientist and a weird robot type one

He liked the scientist one and wanted some head shots or expressions, different faces

he was satisfied with the sketches, and formed a better idea of what he wanted to model

I gave him an eye design to use for the front screen display

which was this, though this version is a render what i painted over to test what colours he wanted.

sadly the progress shots weren't documented as i screen shared my PC with him  so he could point out himself what he wanted changing.

The result turned into a walk cycle he created and implemented into his 3D project.

Space trucker Idea

I decided on Sci-fi as my first theme, and started to design a Space trucker in lieu of Space Trucker Lobo from Lobo comics.

started with some sketches as i was watching some american TV program

I had a rough idea of what i wanted for him, blocky, rough and grumpy

 I liked the idea of his space mullet getting all stuck in his space helmet

plus dirty unkept clothes as hes hauling space trucks all millenia every millenia

 added a random space alien babe to counter act his brutey nature

also to add in some female charm, hopefully creating a back n forth comedic team

deigned two other space alien babe ideas based loosley off the starwars species Twi'lek

First ideas and brief

The first ideas I had to structure this Project were doing weekly projects per themed month,
for example,
fantasy themed month, i would do character design for week 1
weapon and vehicle design for week 2
landscape design for week 3
then bring it all together the last week into one large painting incorporating all of the sketches and ideas I've built up over the weeks.

My presentation for Final Boss: https://www.dropbox.com/s/isdu0weimp9nkhh/Presentation2%20finalboss.pptx

Final Boss workbook: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnhx6avlktp40lh/Final%20Boss%20Workbook.xls