Halloween: Final - Ghost

Would of liked to spend more time on the shading and include a background but I ran out of time. The clothes and hair are meant to look like flames, I think this worked well with the hair but not so well with the skirt-thing.

Its been pointed out that the pose is similar to one of the images in my moodboard. I can see the similarities between the two but this wasn't intentional and I didn't even realise until it was pointed out. I actually originally had the lower body coming from the right of the page but the silhouette didn't read well so I changed it to come from the left instead thinking nothing of it.

Halloween: Sketches

Drew some different types of ghosts. Third one is meant to be like an upside down flame with a face, might of worked better if it was like a regular flame. Second one is a typical wispy looking ghost with chains, I think this one looks the best out of the three as its the most easily recognisable. First is based on the orb ghosts in photographs but with a skull like face.

Halloween: Moodboard

 

Moodboard of Halloween related or creepy things

Second moodboard

Tree: Final

Decided against the underwater theme half way through as it wasn't tree-like enough and didn't make much sense. The bendy looking branch was meant to be a dying branch but it doesn't look right. 

 

 Wanted to try and do a better version of this as my previous attempt was extremely rushed and I changed my idea halfway through. I used a mangrove tree I made for use in the group game project as a base and did a render of it. Looking back I probably should of removed the planes with the leaf textures on so I could of painted new leaves instead of painting over the ones I had

Final: Added the sky using a gradient and a cloud brush, then adjusted the levels, added a base brownish colour to the plane and then used a rock brush to paint over everything which I then used a perspective transform on to give a sense of depth. I added some more leaves and added shadows and lowlights to these I also painted the bottom of the tree to look more like roots and as if its in the ground. I added some extra foliage in the background using brushes and added extra shadows and highlights to the trunk. After this I added a shadow using a brush, the outline of the shadow looks too harsh though so I should of used the burn tool as this would of given a softer more realistic effect. Finally I used selective colour filter to adjust the colours then used dodge and burn on the ground to get a more varied appearance. I was intending on making a swamp scene but ended up with a scrub/savannah instead.

Trees: Sketches

Three sketches of different types of trees including reference images

Main idea. Unsure whether to use one type of seaweed as the leaves or multiple so I used three types on different parts of the tree so I can get an idea of what it'd look like for a mixture or just one type.  Sketched out different types of seaweed for ideas and to get more used to drawing it.

Trees: Moodboards

Tree moodboards, combination of existing trees and concept art of trees.

Moodboard of coral reefs, as I'm thinking about basing my tree off of coral structures.

Surreal: Final

Decided to go with the giraffe tower from my sketches but made it more building like, not happy with how this turned out, ended up rushing a lot of it. Lightning on the left looks strange, shoukld of kept the same as the lightning on the right and would of liked to make the girafe-tower stick out more visually, adding more landscape to this could of made it better

Surreal: Mindmap, Sketches, etc.

Made a mind map to get some ideas down, probably not very easy to read. Will sketch some out and see how they look.

Giraffe tower, from the collective noun for giraffes 'a tower of giraffes', however there's only one giraffe making it contradictory.

Literal interpretation of 'mountain out of a molehill' with a giant monster mole.

Surreal: Moodboard

Chef Robot

A robot chef, its head is shaped like a chefs hat and has a hob on the top of it (though this looks a little too much like a cleaver because of the shading) and it has an oven door on its front

Don't like how this came out, struggled with getting the basic shape down and I should of used objects which fit in better as a spoon and a pineapple don't go together and looks weird, should of used a bowl and spoon or pineapple and knife. The shading on the head doesn't match the rest of the body either and I should of added stronger shading to it.

Robots: Sketches

Sketch and colour study of Asimo

Sketch of an assembly line robot arm

 

I wanted to get some sketches of existing robots to give the final design a element of realism and believability to it, so it looks like something which could exist.

 

Robots: Moodboard

Tentacle Chicken

Took me a while to get the chicken shape right, happy with how this turned out. For some reason adjusting the lighting made Photoshop give it a weird grey outline though :s