Deformed Gun fun

Having fun with gun proportions, spawned from yet another game idea floating in my head.

Yeah, yeah, warlock

A study of a screen cap from a music video - Bodyrox - Yeah, yeah
I think I'll do more, I can enjoy the music as I look for interesting colors, compositions and subject matter :)

Also a character design that started from some random shapes and turned into some sort of spell slinger.

Riverbank studies 2

Playing with composition

Riverbank studies

From photo ref.

Explosion legs

Been watching Feng Zhu's tutorials these past few days, and how Jeff Simpson works on Muddy Colors so I thought I would give it a shot.
Dropping photo textures is something I'm going to need to practice if I go that route.

Stahl März final rough

Stahl März thumbs round 5

Round 5.
Moving on to thumbnails for the final composition.

Stahl März thumbs round 4

Took my favorite design, fixed the legs and some of the other details, and did some color studies.

Stahl März thumbs round 3

Picked out 5 favorite silhouettes and elaborated on them, making a few variations on each.
I'm not happy with any of the legs, I'll have to look at what other people have done.

This was by far the longest phase yet.

Stahl März thumbs round 2

Going through more thumbnails that reflect my decision to go with a hexapod (six legged) design, with a lot of armored car influence.

Arnesaurus

I followed Arne Niklas Jannson's process tutorial yesterday. How did I not think of this before?
Using greys for the line and the shadow layers made me wonder if there would be a difference whether I used warm or cool greys. Turns out the final rendering has a much bigger impact.