- Rahul
- Ka
- Ben
- Curtis
- myself
Unknown to Mark...I love all these people..mwahahha...actually i have never worked with any of them ever before...so maybe Mark has a case? ponder, ponder ;) but i am inspired by Ka's and Rahuls work. To be honest haven't seen much at all of Curtis' or Bens stuff...Curtis said he likes drawing sci fi transporter things...so im hoping i can learn a thing or two from him...as transporter flying thingys are not a strong point...in fact they have no point at all in my drawin body to date!
Well Ben wasn't here on this day...but the rest of us decided that from Rahuls extensive research that we would choose to do concept art for The Skillful Huntsman. Personally I wasn't too fudged on what story we did, they all have similar kind of characters, they're all difficult ot read and understand...but if I had known there was a published book on The Skillful Huntsman I might have persuaded the group to prehaps go with a different story.
I have been instructed by Leon not to look at the book. Apparently, I will want to quite uni forever and drawing too...so already I feel I have no hope. This concept art thing is a whole new kettle of fish for me. But im grabbing the giant by the balls and am ready for it...
We did decided, even to Rahuls disgust I think...hehe...that we might change the theme of the story where its set in a Steam Punk era. This originally funnily enough was brought up by Rahul as I lent him The Adventures of Jasper Marello which is also set in this era. But I think the more research we did and showed Rahul, the more he felt uncomfortable with it and then he thought we should set it in a fantasy theme.
A great part of me felt for Rahul as he had already done quite a number of brilliant concept landscaps and giant sketches which had obvioulsy taken quite a while, however...and as fantastic (and just quietly...as jealous as I was) they were too realistic and to me looked like stuff done before, and we couldn't really do much with that. But we'll have to wait until we can all get together again and discuss this in greater length I guess.
In the mean time here is a sample of some research I did at work last night on steam punk stuff...
Steam punk characteristics that stick out to me
- goggles
- dark colours almost silhouettes in some cases
- Victorian Era influene as far as costume goes
- lots of metal or brass
- exposed cogs for machines or used as decoration
- cold and dark sort of environments
These are really neat...I know initially they looked a bit cyborgish, but the more I looked at them the more medieval they looked, I think there very sophisticated and well thought through designs...I can see them in silhouettes too.
This was something pretty cute I found on Deviantart.com. Just stretching my drawing muscle to transporter thingys...are you proud mum?
This was just really cute. They actually call it steam crow! Its a resin mould painted to look like metal with copper wire legs. Its just beautiful...I want one and Ill call him steamy! But on a serious note...nice design...could do something similar for the dog prehaps?
I just thought this was nice. An example of tonal concept sketch. Nice composition not sure if this design would suit steam punk castly thing though.
Another transporter type thingy...or it could be the kings throne?! He sounds like he would be a little flamboyant like this...
I really like the idea of the floating island thing for the princess castle thing. It lends its self to a bit of fantasy too which I think Rahul would like...we could make it more steam punk, by the actual island floating due to some sort of steam generated floating machine?
Steam Gal - aint she sweet...maybe a bit too cyborgish...but the dude...just below by some artist I think comes pretty close to how we could approach our male characters...maybe not so much I have a stick up my butt cause after all, the mentor dude has been hunting for years so he's probably more feet in teh earth kind of dude...but his apprentice seems a bit more cocky.
hickity hickity ugh hu huh...Giants. cool. Are they man enough?
I absoloutly love the colour palette in this above one. Exactly what I would imagine the world would be like if it was full of steam generated objects. Nice silhouettes for the character and an example to show scale of location and the giant steam flying thing.
Another transporter thingy...just a different sort of design to draw some more inspiration from...ill need lots!
I know these are more sci fi looking things, but I could see that prehaps living objects/animals could have influence these vehicle designs which are quite different but believable...would be interesting to do that for the steam things.
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