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Posted by Finger on Tue Jun 22nd at 11:32pm 2004

It's been a while since I posted anything here, so I thought I would share my latest WIP. This is a concept sketch, i've been working on a little bit every night, for the past few nights. I've been hammering out the lighting structure, and form, ... getting pretty close to a point where I see how the finer details are going to work. This guy has gone through many iterations. I think I changed his feet and legs about 50 times. I haven't been sketching as much lately, so getting back into has been slow and creaky, but very fun. I've been absorbing all of the influences I can from the great artists I find on the web. There are so many styles I like, that I flip flop alot between wanting to do rough, impressionistic type work, and finer detailed stuff.

My canvas is so messy

Still messy.. I will eventually clean it up, when I'm finished. I'll post a followup when this guy is done.

- Now, next order of busniess is the halflife2.net MSPAINT drawing competition. I urge other Snarkpit sketchers to join. This contest ends Saturday. You have to draw a scene from HL2, using ONLY MSPAINT. Which, is akin to using crayons and wax paper. It was fun, though. Here's my entry.

Here's a liink to the competition. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25632

And a link to the comments section, of the competition. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25633

Enjoy!





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Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Jun 22nd at 11:54pm 2004

I really like the first image...but what are those blocks in the picture? [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Tue Jun 22nd at 11:58pm 2004

Finger: i would have loved to enter the ms paint competition! i trust you can use Wacom devices and the like? im going on holiday tomorrow though, so will have to give it a miss never mind

"There are so many styles I like, that I flip flop alot between wanting to do rough, impressionistic type work, and finer detailed stuff." - heh, i know that one

as for the concept sketches.. i like them - almost like a licker off Resident Evil 2 meets toxic waste the skin needs more texture though, even if it is a concept - scales? or even the slime/amphibious approach would be good
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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jun 23rd at 12:40am 2004

I love the first and second pictures, such perfect examples of concept art. The first is particularly cool for the fact it gives such a clear example of the creatures form. In the second picture the creature is given a little more attitude and depth, but for some reason doesn't seem as impressive as the first. In this one it reminds me a lot of the walking fish creatures from Final Fantasy X, which is perhaps the reason I don't like it as much as it doesn't seem so original.

Regardless, great work, and the HL2 sketch is amazing considering the limitations though I personally don't rate it too highly if those limitations are ignored.





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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Jun 23rd at 1:06am 2004

I like the first one more than the second one. First one has a more consistent feel to it, kind of frog-like. Second one is good, but the feet and hands don't particularly look to be matching the rest of the concept. And geeze, you can do that in MSpaint?! I want a Wacom! [addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Wed Jun 23rd at 1:20am 2004

You're all right, the picture is definately evolving into something different than the original concept. I decided that I wanted to move away from the froglike, webbed feet, so I'm exploring some clawish stuff. Almost like a sloth mixed with a frog. He's not finished though, so we will see If I can pull the design together a little more. I find that rendering a drawing can easily kill the energy of the initial sketch, which has kind of happened here...hopefully I can regain some of that in the final rendering.

As for the mspaint drawig... lol, that was so aggrivating. There is no way to blend colors, or lower the brush opacity, so I just tried to do a crosshatchish blend of various solid colors. It was fun, but thank god we have advanced beyond mspaint.





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Posted by Forceflow on Wed Jun 23rd at 5:55am 2004

Looking very, very good.

But yeh, what's the block on the sketch ?

[addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Wed Jun 23rd at 7:31am 2004

That block was just a photoshop brush I made, that I haven't erased yet. Cool thing about digital, is you can clean up any mess.



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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Jun 23rd at 9:58am 2004

Really like the first one, everything looks just right. Easily as good as a lot of proffesional concept art I have seen.

I think your cross hatching works very well, but his eyes seem a tad big. Looking at the other entries, yours must have been in the top 3.



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Posted by Cassius on Wed Jun 23rd at 3:32pm 2004

Awesome stuff.



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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jun 23rd at 4:04pm 2004

2nd one is fantastic The shadow and lighting is all done perfectly well. Got a good grasp on ye olde lighting techniques young padawan ;-) [addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Thu Jun 24th at 12:30am 2004

Here's the latest version of this guy. It's a little more polished, but still not finished.





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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Thu Jun 24th at 2:12am 2004

Ooh, I like the tail, kind of reminds me of a scorpion with a stinger at the end. I would make the spear shaft a little longer though to make it, more, um, spear-like. Nice work anyways. [addsig]



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Posted by GrimlocK on Sun Jul 4th at 1:19am 2004

Awesome work Finger, your ability to work with light and shadows always impresses me! It's an area I need to work at and improve myself.



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Jul 4th at 1:32am 2004

The creature doesn't realy look intelligent enough to wield a spear. Let's not get into how impossible it would be to effectively operate one with two fingers and a thumb of sorts.

The creature itself is well drawn, like all your other work. I'd like to see how you imagine he'd move.





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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jul 4th at 11:27am 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
The creature doesn't realy look intelligent enough to wield a spear.

intelligent enuff? have you taken a close look at our modern armies?

/runs

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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jul 4th at 12:09pm 2004

Oooh I like the highlighting on that new one, really looks powerful and bright and is possibly some of the most convincing recreations of highlights I can recall seeing!

Considering the level of polish it has overall, I feel it looks a bit rough around some edges. If you cleaned them up a little and made them smoother, this could be of the sort of quality you'd expect on a book cover or something.
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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Jul 4th at 12:24pm 2004

Wow... just... wow!



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Posted by Finger on Mon Jul 5th at 7:58pm 2004

Didn't touch him for a week or so. Decided to put him in an environment before I pushed on with the rendering. Still a ton of rough edges, as Reno pointed out.... getting there, though.





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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jul 5th at 8:05pm 2004

just an observation:

the environment of the area, looks detrimental to a reptile/amphibian master finger..

did you intend for it to look frigid?

/continues droolage.

[addsig]




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