Tomorrow will be a busy day ... Rockstar has its monthly creative session where people who have created digital paintings can have them printed out and then obtain advice and tips from others in attendance ... This will be my first time to attend (and I credit Tuesday Art Group and my own blogging with getting me to the point where I believe I can attend). I may have another quite different work done by tomorrow, but for now I'm putting an pre-session exclusive up for TAG to critique ... ;-)
I have in mind an intellectual property tentatively called "Privateer" that puts the reader/viewer/player in the person of a government official who is also a poacher and smuggler of alien creatures, biological products, technologies, and such (anything that will turn a profit). His goal is to get as much as he can out of the planet he's working on while walking a delicate tightrope between Eco-Rangers, other poachers, and the planet's lone sentient species. Only later does he uncover a terrible secret that could undermine everything he is doing, both good and bad.
This painting was inspired by Wayne Barlowe's Expedition paintings, and it will be the jumping off point for other digital art, as well as vehicle and creature designs. Oh, and I won't forget to also post updates to my Hero Worship scribbles ... It's all about becoming comfortable with the medium and the tools ...
Not sure if i should see this before the meeting but...lookin good so far! You should've been attending long ago ;)
ReplyDeleteVery handsome painting Tom. I especially like the colors and the texturing in the ground cover and sky. The plants on the left hand side suggest something the natives would make musical instruments from!
ReplyDeleteCool Tom. I like the creature and textures. I'd want more contrast between my critter and my background. I may suggest this show and tell get together for Heavy-Iron
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot! The creature is convincing and it like just a hint of the spining 'copter blades.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I would suggest is that the foreground ground be rendered with the same amount of detail as the creature and the plants that are standing on it.
Nice work!
Like they said! Nice work Tom. The creature looks soemewhat aquaticl. I wonder what it would look like if it was standing in some shallow water?
ReplyDeleteIt would look good in shallow water ... it has a mouth with baleen construction like a blue whale. It travels to streams and rivers, submerges, and then opens its mouth to strain out krill that the current carries downstream. The back crest serves to warm the creature while it is submerged and it also has air ducts that run up and out of the spines. My plan was to place some of them in the hazy stream in the distance ... just the back crests visible ... but I didn't do that (yet). That would also have helped to establish more of a scale to the picture ...
ReplyDeleteI knew you had some Wayne Douglas Barlowe connection! I just had a feeling when I saw the creature. It might be the bipedal aspect of it. Dunno.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the water note. It might help to add a few critters in the foreground. And more alien plants too. Good start!