City Finished

Well here it is, I'm done. Clock count on this painting was a massive 13 hours and 57 mins. Im happy with how it turned out though. Hope I have got across the feeling of emptiness within the destroyed city.More on my influences to follow

Painting the Sky

Out of fear of getting bored of bricks i turned my attention to the sky. this will be useful in knowing exactly where the light will hit as opposed to guessing.

Painting the city

So i had to reformat the computer as it just wouldnt run painter correctly. So Ive stripped it down, took out all the programs except the essential screen recorder, office and of course painter X. It took time to do but hopefully it saves me a lot of time in the long run. Now that thats done ive started painting the city finaly

contd.

more images

Sketch work

some ideas for soliders etc

Developing the Concept further

Its been a while since i have added anything here but heres a few pics to show how the concept has been developing.

Ideas
-Game based in WWII

-Opposite to most Western Games depicting the allies but rather told from the Axis side of things
-You play as a young captain who is the prodigy of a successful but ruthless tank commander referered to only as the General (see early sketches)

-At first the captain believes in the Nazi ideals but when the invasion of europe begins he slowly becomes disillusioned(general being ruthless towards the captain could be a possible catalyst to this)

-Begins to secretly work for the allies (possible tie in with Stauffenberg and the attempt on hitlers life at wolfs lair- ads historical element)

-main antagonist is of course the general

General's Tank Concept (unfinished)

Another weapon in the General's arsenal to add more weight to the character

The General Water colour Concept

As they do in the concept art business i did a water colour of how the general should look lik with colours and shadow etc

Continued

Just the Gnerals design continued

Update

Yea this is really taking so much more time than i had planned, but it has to be this way or it wont look good i suppose =/

Finished for the nite

Ill be honest played some Bioshock 2 in the middle of this...but i have the flu and needed a break! but heres what i got done this evening along with my new proposal and schedule. Amsterdam will be better now ive done some work :)

Painting Concept #1

Right so thought i would start painting some of this concept before i go to Amsterdam. Here are a few screen snaps of the process in Corel so far :)

Started shading the front claw

Filled in the black horns

Filled in the skin with the paint bucket...base colour only of course

Fill in the outlines with the base colours

Concept #1 Finished Sketch

Here we are first concept in sketch form...still unsure if i want to finish it or not but ill try it in corel and see how it looks :)

Update

Slowly but surely...shows i havnt drawn in ages lol

Doodle

Couldn't wait to get started so heres a quick sketch i got to work on straight after the last post :)