Space Marine update 23/9/2011

Worked a bit more on the Space Wolf elements of the space marine today. Not sold on the face, want a kind of viking look but it turns out I'm not that great at painting blonde hair. Red could work though, and I feel like it'd fit in with the colour theme a bit more.

SPACE MARINE!

Three WIP pictures of a Space Marine piece I decided to start on after completing Space Marine. Started out with a Crimson Fists marine then decided to start shifting it to a Space Wolf at the last minute.

Quick thing I knocked up over about one hour, two beers, and a conversation with James. Mostly to play around with a brush I'd made after I got home from work, since I hadn't really done anything with new brushes for a while. It's always fun to see what chaos you can make with a new toy.

Knocked the top two out over about seven or eight hours total, after being asked to do them for a Skavenblight Gazette issue that was technically due out something like weeks ago. Had fun with them, although I'd like to have spent a few more hours on both of them to make them feel more like something I'd be truly proud of. As always, I had trouble nailing rat heads. They're easy to draw when they're on a rats body, somehow it looks wrong when I do it on a mans body.

The second picture is four images to accompany a short story in the same issue of the SBG, I rushed them out pretty fast a few weeks ago because I thought they were all the issue was waiting on before being published. Not so! I like the figure in the lower right one, and something about the brushwork on the barely visible rat god face in the top right appeals to me. Not really at all proud of the two on the left  though, particularly the first. It doesn't match up at all with what I had in my head.

Personal piece WIP - The Nest

Something I had sketches for and started today, it's a nest made of corpses with it's builder sitting atop it. Yay! Fussed around trying to choose a set of colours to go with, and I think I'll slowly be letting hints of other colours leak in, particularly around the focus.

UPDATE 30/7/11: A few days later, been working so I haven't had alot of time to work on this. Just been fiddling around with the main figure, adjusted him a bit to fit in more with a character concept of him I had around. Probably noodling a bit too much on the figure itself and ignoring the rest of the picture too much at the moment. Really want to find the time to work in more details on the nest itself.

S.Team Project - Steambot Thumbnail Refinements

Picked out my three favourite steambot thumbnails and worked on them a bit, adding a little bit of detail and colour to help me flesh out the ideas a little. Eventually I'll decide on one that hits the sweet spot for likeability and ease of modelling/rigging, which means that even though I like the feel of far right most so far that middle will probably win out.

The Forest

And so it's gotten to the point where I don't think it'd be wise to work on it any more. I'm just noodling whenever I touch it now, which I could do for hours and hours more but would ultimately just be wasted effort. I like what I've ended up with, and I've learned things during the painting process (especially since I completed quite a few other pieces and scribbles while working on this). I'm thinking of painting a few more environment pieces and having them printed to see if people would pay money for them.