concept experiments

MY OWN CONCEPT EXPERIMENTS.

I felt the need to have a quick experiment with my self by making a concept of something.
after going in to a game workshop with tom ( my good man ) for a nosey. becuase this was all new to me and never even heard of this war hammer world ( thats why we was there ) i was inspired to draw some kind of war machine thing. i know i could have drawn somthing out of my head and it wouldnt have been that god but it would have been a concept none the less.

my inspiration. 

in my head i knew i wanted to create something humanoid. somthing humanoid and metal. so i had the frame of a transformer in mind.


i also thought about the movement of the figure, how would a huge steal arms move in real life. so i researched how they do, and the hydraulics of a jcb digger is just what i needed to make my concept believable


i decided i wanted this machine to be man driven, like an armored suit. when i think of man driven i think of cars and planes. i put car and driven together...i  think beetles have a real nice form to them and wanted my machine to have an out of date look even though its going to be a futuristic piece.


again i was thinking how would a huge machine move around, after all its going to weigh tones right? so i used jet enjines to move it. and by the looks of the picture jet engines look very complex and i imagine if there was a huge machine suit that would also look complex inside so im using jet engines to create my piece.

here it is. its no robocop but its mine.. im real pleased with the out come of this idea experiment, i feel i used the referance well. you can see the engines on the shoulders/breast plate, the hydraulics in the arms and legs. the beetle for through out, that ages look. and the humanoid figure from the iron hide photos.

 

experimenting with colours



this is a digital painting using the airbrush tool i think its a good tool but not effective on this comic book style i was looking. i am happy with the resukts in the colour pallet. has a real weathered look o the machine. this is a method i would use for a rendored image. maybe painting this machine in battle with an airbrush would really make the scene pop. it would set the tone well because to me it has a real likeness to real life tones.

 much happier with this one. i kept the colours bold and true on this one. i could have gone more with detail and individual colouring but its wasnt needed in the experiments. 

i used refernace for this colour experiment. a while back ben had said my work reminds him a lot of moebius. i used that to giude my colouring in style this time. leaving the clours simple and bold. no cross grading or anything. 

mobius work. 

markers, not really good with coloured markers i'm okay with black and grey but with colours my judgment is rubbish. i get experimental and daring with something i dont know about and to be honest i dont like working in markers...i dont like the feel of it on the paper, almost feels it ruines the paper as your drawing. its very draggy and very unforgiving. 

this was a very quick experiment. i used water colour back wash and then built up very simple acrylic and gouache layers with use of wax. i use this methods in all my paintings but i did this on cartridge paper and dosnt work well at all, but i just wanted to see how style would hold up with the large areas of black casted shadow.