Leaving You Behind

fat marine

I was busy today. Credit to Andrew Ley since I'm biting his colors and (hopefully) some of sketch techniques here, even if it is in a very different style.

Concept tagging 5

The Black Hole's Maximilian

More or less Disney's regrettable cash-in on Star Wars mania, The Black Hole did have a few strong points. Namely,
1.) Some interesting robots,
2.) a hellish, freak-out psychedelic ending completely inappropriate for a PG movie, and
3.) Ernest Borgnine.

Here's my take on the somewhat classic Maximilian design. I made it close enough to the original that it might be mistaken by some people, but a side by side comparison will reveal how different it is.

femech 01

Well I've been rather inspired by Andrew Ley's sketches, and so I've attacked Painter's fabulous tinting brush with renewed vigor and hopefully better results. This sketch took an hour or so, the tinting brush allows for very rapid modeling of form.

reboot brush test

Curiously, both Painter and Photoshop have picked these last few days to behave erratically or, in Painter's case, refuse to start properly at all. Photoshop mysteriously developed a deal breaker of an issue with the color picker hotkey. But both programs have been reinstalled and their preference files reset, so all is well again. Getting back into Photoshop after the reinstall, and especially after having spent so much time in Painter, felt a little strange. And so accordingly, here is the strange image I made while testing to make sure all the brushes were back in order.

Concept tagging 4

Just a few more concept tags in the past however many days.