Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 April 2010

War, Huh!


Here are some drawings of a half developed character I did at great speed to try and lively up a pitch i'm working on at the last minute. Feel free to crit them into oblivion. One thing I would mention, however, is that in the closest image there's supposed to be rubble and a trench that I didn't draw, which is why his pose is like that. Invisible defensive line!

Also for the benefit of readers (as I'm pretty sure the contributors already know this) drawings that lack a "purpose" are almost always worse than drawings that have one. For example, these aren't "character drawings", nor are they designed to show an animated sequence or...well, anything, really. I just drew them and tried to make them look vaguely purposeful after the fact. This is very rarely the best way to draw! (there are exceptions, but that's another post for another day)

Try and find the purpose in all the work you do. Every panel is "for" something, or "doing" something. If you think first about what the hell it is you're trying to show, your drawing will be vastly improved. Even if the "purpose" is to show off your bukkake drawing abilities, you're going to compose, light, ink etc that image to best show off the shine on the...yeah, I'll stop that there. You get the idea.
~John~

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Pedipulator!

Pedipulator! :D

Everyone loves a bit of steampunk. This is an concept for Steve's ongoing novel "The King's thief". I kinda like all the steampunk gnarlyness but it somehow looks too flat to me. Any ideas on how I could make this composition more dynamic without losing too much of the detail of the thing? It's wading through water, and is supposed to be about 100m long. It would be great to get some characters in there as well perhaps. Any thoughts?

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Development sketches

These are some thumbnails and discarded ideas for a commission that I'm working on. I wanted to incorporate the Yin Yang symbol into the design but in the end it wasn't clear enough and didn't serve the purpose of the artwork.