Week 5

Been very busy this week, I have kind of been struggling with the Epic City project. There is a very large body of work required for this project compared to the pirate project, which I feel is impacting on the quality of my work as I am using techniques to get results faster.

Anyway, I am drawing every day so everythings good.

I finished off the Undead city over the weekend and have been working on the next city design. I chose to go for an underground dwarven style city. This city has a much warmer colour palette than the Undead city.

I kind of like how this city ended up looking, I would like to spend more time developing some more shots of the streets and shops around the city.

As you can see the Dwarven city is very much based around statues and lava. I have been using 3D renders to paint over in photoshop to apply light and textures.

I thought about using photo textures to help speed things up, but I prefer concept art that still has a painterly feel. I think using photobashing methods would have made the environments seem slightly more realistic, which could have been good, but I think the mood I am capturing with the paintings is good for the cities I have done so far.

I have a LOT more work to do, not sure if I will finish all 4 cities within the 3 weeks and may have to use the extra week at the end of term to finish them up. We will see...