Sweet Relief

A few landscape studies from the past week. With a production extension at work I can fit it some personal work which is great.
So still finding my way a bit with trying to utilise the shapes tool and painting into it. I'll get there but in the mean time here they are:

Jamapocalypse

This months art jam theme was post-apocalyptic. I wanted to play on the romantic idea of travelling across a barren landscape on an adventure to find the source/answer (the BW layout was a quick comp that was abandoned early on). I also did a quick head study of some mutated colonel :)

 

Cryptic Chasm

Just a quick enviro concept, trying to utilize reference imagery to work up detail in a fast fashion. I have posted a wip to illustrate.

It's a Trap......Door

Another art jam for work, with the topic being 80's TV. I chose to do an ode to the british claymation favourite, TrapDoor. I have fond memories of Bert's plight when watching as a kid and looking back I'm really impressed with the amount of storytelling that came from a limited set. So that was my focus in this background matte.

** An interesting fact is that one of the co-creators of this show went on to be a key animator  for Aardman Animation, developers of Wallace & Gromit and many awesome others.

Just Shaping

Just can't get enough. If I get a chance I'll try and introduce some more hard surfaces, flowing shapes & figures. Then it will be time to take some to the next level and introduce some colour and paint into.
And just for reference sake, each thumb is taking no longer than 20min.

Shaping Down?

Too much fun. So I managed to get another few thumbs out on Sunday in-between going on a solid bike ride n going to see the smokin' flick 'Hanna'.
Anyway here is a second set of shape based comps.

Shaping Up

Thanks to stumbling on a great workflow technique by the master concept artist Sparth I spent the last few days this week creating a custom shapes library to use for creating quick compositions.
The immediate benefits are simply finding shapes that by simply painting traditionally you may not find and the versatility of the tool in being vector based comes to the fore very quickly.
Anyhow here is my 1/2 hr lazy Saturday trial. I will be doing five comps each day this week to try and build a heap of thumbs to work up at a later point. Really enjoying this fresh approach and only having to concentrate on positive/negative.