Visual Development (N' stuff like that)

YoshiSan

YoshiSan

Dripping with sarcasm
I want to be a visual developer/character designer "when I grow up" (17 is that awkward stage lol) and so I try to do a lot of art that has to do with that career.
Because of that, I don't normally decide "today I'm going to sit down and draw Mario." Most of these drawings are accidents or ideas that I wouldn't let go of- and had to get out of my head so I could continue designing something original.
For example, this piece that I drew just a few minutes ago. I was exploring options for a character totally unrelated, and I had my shapes laid out and suddenly said "Sheesh, that looks like Luigi!"
Thus why he has glasses.
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So here's a couple other things I did, most of you probably saw them previously:
Shape language experiment:
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This would not leave my head for weeks:
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Saw Dave Rapoza's Wolverine drawing and knew I had to try it with Captain Falcon. Not super original, but fun:
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Are you interested in storyboarding?
 
Russian Baby Luigi said:
Are you interested in storyboarding?
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That is a skill I'm interested in learning, yes. As a career option- probably not, but then again, I haven't tried it. There's a class by Kris Pearn I can take and I really should do that as soon as I can.

Lord Bowser said:
hot dang that is some skill

really like the fox/mario mashup in particular
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Aww, thanks! Hopefully I will find another idea for a painting in the future.
 
Moldomré said:
Was Fox/Mario done by hand?
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Um... yes? Like you mean by not tracing or anything? Yeah! I did it on digital, I'm not like, this amazing oil artist or something. Digital is way easier for painting stuff. Here's some screenshots I took while I was working on it:

It started out like this: (A veritable Mona Lisa, I know.)
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And then like this:
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And this:

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And then at some point I decided that I wanted to work in a warmer color.
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Last one before I started coloring it:
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Rough color. I separated all the different value layers so that I could blop color in. I work on just one layer in the beginning but stuff like that really comes in handy at this stage.
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And then boom
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Boom
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And boom. A pass in Lightroom because I can't paint right, and I'm done.
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Heh, I love it when artists lay out their workflow step by step, it's really fascinating to see how it started out and evolved into the final picture.
 
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That's me being amazed by the way.
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Thanks, I appreciate that.
I moved to the modern century and have an Instagram and Twitter now. Can check out those links in my sig. I have one thing on Instagram and it's not that great, but if you stay tuned, I will hopefully get some solid designs done. I want to post once a week, at least.
All of my old stuff is on my Wordpress.
 
I've noticed that you have a colour version of the Captain Falcon image as your avatar, do you have a full version of that, or is just the part in your avatar that you have a colour version of?
 
Jack Black said:
I've noticed that you have a colour version of the Captain Falcon image as your avatar, do you have a full version of that, or is just the part in your avatar that you have a colour version of?
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Yeah that was just for the avatar. I uploaded the black and white version when I signed up, and then decided that it was too bland, so I brought it into Photoshop and slapped a couple of color layers on it and some lens flares in his eyes.
Edit: there was always this piece of fan art that I really liked that did blue and pink on Captain Falcon so I decided to do that.