Tag Archives: Original Concept

Sketch – Spiderman Costume Concepts

Just passing 10 minutes or so while waiting for my dinner, and thought I would have a go at a Spidey costume revamp like all the cool kids over at Marvel are doing these days.  Done over a DCUAnimated Male Teen Hero template.

The one on the left is of course traditional Spidey coloring, just a different configuration. I wanted to use the spider motif to differentiate the red and blue sections and so the middle set of legs on each side stretch down over the boots (front and back). For the mask I wanted to incorporate the multiple spider eyes look. Think it works ok.

The centre costume is obviously without color – along the lines of Spidey’s recent FF costume. The rightmost is a negative of the centre one (obviously) and could be seen as a variant of the Black/Symbiote/Venom costume.

Just a bit of fun really.

 

Sketch – Sad Robot

Feeling a bit down this weekend, and this is the result. Was just messing about in PSP using the art media brushes trying to take my mind off things. Not sure what it says other than I am trying to keep my disappointment in check (as usual) and failing miserably (again as usual).  Also feelings of isolation or of lack of support and uncertainty over a decision at work I guess are creeping in re being lost in the woods. Dunno. Or could just be a sad robot. Probably just a sad robot.

Edit: I realised after talking to people that they were concerned by this pic or rather the text I had chosen to go along with it. By Isolation I was simply referring to being provided very poor support on a decision I have to make. Nothing more sinister than that. I have edited the above to hopefully clarify.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sketch – The Baldy Man

Well I was trying out a new (to me) piece of software tonight called Paint Tool Sai, a great little drawing tool from Japan for use with drawing tablets. Originally created for the manga anime market i believe, but the tools make it suitable for any digital drawing or painting. There is a nice selection of brush/pen types and you can even draw in vectors and then tweak your line widths if you feel you were a bit light or heavy on the tablet while drawing. Anyway I drew this head shot tonight just to see how easy to use and flexible it was – and I would certainly be happy to run this alongside my old favourite Paintshop Pro.

The Watcher In The Woods

Well I was playing about with my Bamboo tablet while watching/listening to movies on the TV and somehow came up with this. I was just trying to do something in shades of grey to  get a scary/disturbing looking face (not sure if i am quite there but I think the eyes at least seem to look right into you). Once the face and shoulders were there, I just drew in some random branches/trees and put in a gradient background.

RPG Concept: Firefly

This was a concept pic I did a back before my pooter problems for a friends character for the Valiant RPG over at marvel-boards.co.uk.

I chose the pic of Rachel Leigh Cook, mostly because her hair was already pink (the color of the character’s) Other than RLC everything else was added to the pic, and all the jewellry she was wearing was removed(was wearing some chunky necklaces and rings). The wings were created using a fill called Digital Headache, which is basically like oil on water mixed with video feedback. Added a light and dark edge to the wings to give them some volume. they were set slightly transparent.

The bars are just gradient filled rectangles. if you look closely you will see them reflected in her eyes to. The background was just a grotty passageway image I found on google.. thought it looked like a dank prison. (Valiant are based in an old prison complex on Muir Island)

An updated BIO for the character can be found here (we moved to a new game)

Oldies: Jemstone’s Artemis Colored

Ok.. i seem to recall Jemstone saying he wouldn’t mind if I colored one of his pics. He would probably be as surprised as I was to find that i did! Back when i was experimenting with my color/texture style I had downloaded a nice simple pic to do it with.. guess what.. it was Artemis here. Go figure. I never submitted it at the time, so here it is, a little tidied up and with an appropriate background. Hope you like it.

UncommonX: WWG’s Judgement

Ok, I think i’m getting an obsession for this character as I try to do it justice. Thanks to WonderWomanGoddess for letting me take a few more liberties with her baby for the purposes of a theme day. I didnt want to change the existing back story too much, but i thought she might fit into a Exiles storyline quite well.

 

WWG’s Original Concept: “She’s called Judgment. A near death experience gave her the power to see into a persons soul, to see their most extreme sins and virtues. She’s a vigilante, and uses her power to determine if those who cross her path live or die. Visually, she has red hair, pale skin, green eyes. Her eyes have a supernatural green glow. Her standard outfit is a black or dark green tank top, black mini or pants, and old school black cowboy boots. The only distinguishing feature about her outfit really is her belt buckle, which is a metal pentagram with a green eye in the center of it.”

My X-Men Concept: “Born in Texas just after the first Sentinel attacks, she’s called Judgement. Barely surviving a subsequent attack in which her parents were killed, the near death experience kicked her mutant power into gear. Her ability is to see into a persons soul, to see their most extreme sins and virtues. Once she has made eye contact with a person she can mentally cause them to experience any of the pleasure or pain that they have inflicted on another individual. Visually, she has dyed multihued hair, pale skin, green eyes. Her eyes have a supernatural internal green glow.

Her X-Uniform consists of blue bodysuit with black X and green pentagram on her chest and matching cowboy hat. She wears special emerald quartz sunglasses designed by Professor X which enable her to focus her power more easily as well as supplying additional information from a computer built into her suit. The only other distinguishing feature about her outfit really is her belt buckle, which shows metal pentagram with a green snake eye in the center of it.

Judgement has studied various mystical arts and uses the belt as a channel for these powers. Judgement keeps roots, herbs and potions handy in her strap on leg pouch. Grabbed from her own timeline by the Timebroker, Judgement must help the other Exiles put right the fractures in time and someday return home.”

How I got here: The base for this pic was a nude of model Kim Foreman standing in a room wearing a white couwboy hat and a belt. The first thing i did was smooth out the skin, removing any blemishs. Next I removed her nipples(ouch!) and smudged and blended the area between her breasts where her suit would be stretched. I smudged and smoothed the original belt logo and added my own pentagram using softened lines on layers set to overlay or multiply. The eye is an actual snake eye made to look glassy. Green glow added to buckle and hands.

Now it was time to start the suit. I had a couple of attempts before I decided on what you see here. I used the fauxsuede texture (that I used in my Angel – Back in the High Life manip) to fill a new layer. I colorized this layer blue, then cut away the extra to leave only the areas that would be the suit or the hat. With the initial cutting complete, I duplicated this layer twice. the original layer’s mode was set to color. the second layer’s mode was set to burn at 25% opacity. the third layer’s was set to multiply at 75% opacity (obviously i had a bit of experimenting) but these produced the best results.

Next thing was to start drawing the zips, seams patterns on the costume. In order to get some neatness to the whole thing, I first used the vector shapes tool to draw a five pointed star, which i deformed to the look as though it was sitting on the stretched uniform at her chest. I then did a very large X in Arial Black ( @ 244pnt) which i deformed to match the placement of the star. I then used the freehand vector tool to draw the initial lines in white(set to overlay) and black. the black layers were duplicated set to multiply and gaussian blurred at about 3. I think this gave a nice stitched effect.

A similar routine for the wrinkles. The central zip line was done in the same fashion but with an additional blurred black layer to give more depth. In order to get a bit of realism, I added the little horizontal stitching at the bottom of the zip, and the actual zipper at the top was cut from another photo and pasted in. A bit of judicious cutting and coloring and it blended in nicely. Next was the collar and cuffs with the additional stiching in the same fashion as on the chest. It looked a bit bland with just the stitching so i used the lassoo tool to select the large chest X and then used that selection to desaturate the textured multiply layer, giving a two tone uniform. I decided to color the pentagram on the chest too, and I think i managed to achieve a raised plasticy feel to it.

Some small X insignias were added to the collar by the zipper to increase the uniform rather than costume feel. The leg pouch was created from scratch following the same pattern as the rest of the uniform. Drew some lime green semi circles free hand over her irises set to dodge at 50% opacity. This gave some nice green lowing eyes. The green glasses were made from scratch, in a similar way to my earlier Transgender piece, and i think i got the shadow and glass looking a lot nicer this time.

The hair was the models own(blond). Because of the new layers fro the costume I had to add some new strands to make up for the sloppy cutting out i did. This was then given a gradient color. The background is a woodland one I had on my hard disk for ages. I put it on a lyer over the top and then cut out the model shape using the texture layer as a guide. This seemed simpler than cutting away the original background. Well.. i think thats about it.. Once again, thanks to WWG (hope i didn’t stray too far from your concept). Hope you all like it and enjoy the film too.

Redo > CoConcepts: Judgement’s Day

Okay, my first attempt at WWG’s Judgement character needed a little more work so I adjusted the lighting to give it a more eerie moonlit feel. This unfortunately meant some of the other detail was lost, specifically the belt buckle. I compensated for this by adding some green highlighting to make it stand out a bit more. I also made the eyes glow a bit more. I hadnt saved a version without the overdone paint effect so i couldnt do anything about that.

CoConcepts: Judgement’s Day

DCG Theme Day – Your own interpretation of other members character. Something about WonderWomanGoddess’s character description appealed to me and so here is my attempt at bringing it to life. I hope you don’t mind I took a couple of liberties 🙂 Original Description: “She’s called Judgment. A near death experience gave her the power to see into a persons soul, to see their most extreme sins and virtues. She’s a vigilante, and uses her power to determine if those who cross her path live or die. Visually, she has red hair, pale skin, green eyes. Her eyes have a supernatural green glow. Her standard outfit is a black or dark green tank top, black mini or pants, and old school black cowboy boots. The only distinguishing feature about her outfit really is her belt buckle, which is a metal pentagram with a green eye in the center of it.