Let's try Sketchbook!

First of all this isn't my first time working with Sketchbook pro, but after a long time that I checked it again with the latest version, I need to say it has changed a lot. For my internship I checked the latest desktop (free) version, it is good but the constrains of the free version bothered me. 

The lineart and flat colors where done in Sketchbook while the rendering was done in Photoshop. While I normally color a good part of the whole process in Sketchbook, this time I was forced to do most of the work in Photoshop. Soon I'll buy the full package again, it then I can work again with this wonderful program on my Windows desktop again :D

ISA Retro to Modern

The final redesign of the Turrican main character

My ISA project for the second year was to redesign a game character from a classic game. At first I wasn't so sure which character I would choose, after some searching I stumbled upon the game Turrican. The game which was released for a number of consoles, looked great. After some research I decided to redesign the character to a modern design standard. I choose to make it a more military theme instead of a 80's design with all the metal.

Material studies

Sketches and random idea's for the design

Pirate head sculpture process

Sculpted and Rendered in Zbrush

 This sculpt was made as a part of a specialisation lesson at the end of the second year at the HKU. This one was done in a few hours, within the proces there needed be used a set of different techniques and tools within Zbrush. I deciced to make a simple head of a pirate to use these in. Beneath are a few screenshots from the proces itself.

Mortal Kombat paints

Ermac

Rain

Reptile

Scorpion

Sub-Zero

Last week I've made tree speedpaints of the well known ninja's from the game.

Two quickies from two weeks ago

These two were done some time ago, both of them where done under a time period of 30 minutes.

Birdman Comes to safe the day(!?)

The inspiration for this painting was loosely based on Gathaman and Ironman. The painting was done between the homework of last week. The time that spend on this painting would be around 4.5 hours.

Alien Chrachter Design sheet

Last school period I worked on a character design that needed to be made on a several design specification. In the sheet the progress of the beginning to the final illustration can be seen. The process of making and learning from it was very resourceful.

The assignment was made in Sketchbook Pro 6 for the line-art and Photoshop for the rendering.

Brawler Girl in Zbrush

Concept Illustration

Final Model in Zbrush

The last weeks I've made this model for the 3D lessons. The idea was to design a character and work it out to a 3D model which is identical to the concept illustration. The low poly base was made in Maya while the sculpting is done in Zbrush.

Balloon in the Sky

This environment was made after the concepts for a game pitch I did earlier last month. The castle and the sky where taken form a earlier concept, but rendered to a more detailed and fitting scene.

Level design sketches

These concept sketches where made for a project where I as part of a team, needed to make sketches of the mood and design for a 2D adventure game. The story was about a girl who searches for her identity. As the person who needed to design the mood for the game I focused of the different levels we had in mind. The visuals where used during the pitch that I gave last Friday.

Sideview concept in a more dark setting

Tryout for a Isometric viewpoint

A view of a road

It's quite icy in here...

Seminar Dynamic Sketching

The last three weeks I followed a seminar Dynamic Sketching. The seminar was given in the first weeks of the second semester of the second year @ HKU.  I really enjoyed these weeks by drawing a lot of thing which where based to improve the fundamentals of drawing. The above image is a overview of some of the pile of work that I've done.

Other than that, here's also the sketches I've done the last weeks:

The rest will be posted soon... ;)

I Feel the POWER!

Did this illustration somewhere very quick in the morning... Can you feel the power? :P