Co-RM - Art Blog

[amorsea19022]

Hello everyone, I’m co-RM.

I am actively preparing my portfolio, and any tips, suggestions and tutorials are always welcome everyone to give feedback.
Also, English is not my native language, I may be slower to update and reply, please don't mind.

[amorsea19022]

This picture is the interior environment design I am working on. I plan to set the color and appearance of each object first, and then complete the whole scene.

[amorsea19022]

Hello everyone, I’m co-RM. I want to share with you the process of making a portfolio.

I used Blender to model first, and then imported the image which rendered form Blender to Clip Studio Paint. Then used the perspective ruler tool to assist in drawing the line art.

In the process of making the sketch, modeling and painting are alternated. After I built the house structure, I didn’t know what objects could be added, so I switched to painted way to quickly draw the detailed. I simply paint the color and light for some objects to accumulate creative feeling, and then return to Blender for detailed modeling.

After completing the modeling, I rendered the image into CLIP, used the perspective ruler tool to help me draw the line art. Finally, I filled all the background color today.

[amorsea19022]

Work in process...
Another viewport as same scene.

Model.

Line art and background color.

Detail.

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Practice on February 1.
I drew the flower basket in my university library. It is a WIP.

This is a Tetra Pak left by a customer in a convenience store.

Practice on February 3.

[amorsea19022]

It is another piece of work in my portfolio.

I'm behind schedule. I really want to make more one or two works, and then apply for a job. But I only have two works that can be publicly displayed, the others are works from my last job and cannot be made public.

Drawing more works can fully demonstrate my ability, but it will take more than a month. However, I hope to start looking for a job as soon as possible.

This have been bothering me and making me in over my head.

[amorsea19022]

Jia-Jun's House

This is a painting for my personal project "The Mysterious Journey of Jia-Jun" in 7-Peccata (a creative project at Plurk) which is co-creation by an artist and a writer - you can watch the full novel content (zh-tw) here www.plurk.com/p/ock03c .

[brohawx]

Drawing more works can fully demonstrate my ability, but it will take more than a month. However, I hope to start looking for a job as soon as possible.

This have been bothering me and making me in over my head.

It's okay. Jobs are hard to get. You've got a great process there for making backgrounds and scenes.

Do more of this with the same assets. Imagine that you are a director with a camera that has to film people. Where do you put the camera stand? How do you frame the person or persons?

What does it look like at night time? What about when a fire is lit? This is Very hard to do. But you did it. It is very advanced.
Keep changing the lighting and camera angle. This will make you a better artist with compositions. Imagine being a fly on a jar and looking at the table where two people are sitting. Their characters can be framed by the shelf behind them or by the fire place. This is a very powerful process to have. I don't know if you understand what you have here. This is great.

You should make more of these using the same room asset, not just the one scene that you show here. So cool! Add some more life and look like people live there.

This is also really good.

You have taken the theories presented in studio ghibli and applied them. This is where you need composition practice. This is nice but we need something that tells a story. Something to look at. Like a witch walking, or a scarecrow jumping, A tree, a pink flower, or a castle walking in the background.

Jobs will come. You might find that you will have better ideas than what they will ask for. I can see it in your work.

[amorsea19022]

Hello @brohawx .
Thank you for your suggestion and feedback. This is very helpful to me. When I was painting these two works, there was a kind of obstacle that I couldn't make them better, which bothered me.

Your suggestion provided me with inspiration for modifying them. Thank you so much!

[cedricgo]

I will say, storytelling is definitely a big plus to have and can elevate a piece from simply be nice to look at to being interesting and meaningful. It doesn't have to be anything complicated or complex, but a character (or multiple ones) doing something, a few objects that tell us something about the scene or an unusual element can all contribute to make a piece that look fine look more interesting.

Seeing what you posted you definitely have what it takes to make really cool pieces, so keep going

[amorsea19022]

Theft case in casino

New painting ! The work describes about the protagonist Jia-Jun had fun in the casino. But something bed happened to her and she was beckoning to the waiter for help.

This is a painting for my personal project "The Mysterious Journey of Jia-Jun" in 7-Peccata (a creative project at Plurk) which is co-creation by an artist and a writer - you can watch the full novel content here https://www.plurk.com/p/oef476 .

[amorsea19022]

Hello @cedricgo, thank for your feedback.

Honestly, when I drawing these two artwork, I thought that there should be no characters in the scene, because applying for the job of drawing the scene setting was my goal at that time.

Although the job titles are written "concept art", the work content is about drawing scenes, texture, props, etc. If there is a need to draw characters, then the job title will be written "character design". So at the time, I thought it was enough to focus on the scene in my profolio, and there was no need to draw characters.

Is my thinking wrong?

I'm not sure if I want to apply for "concept art", whether it should focus on setting the scene, or focus on the storytelling?

[cedricgo]

Okay, I see. If these are meant to be environment designs or concepts then it might not be as important than if they were meant to be illustrations. And I believe you're right. If you're going to be an environment or prop artist, you'll probably not work on characters, although it might depend on the studios.

With that said, I think there can still be room to add a bit of storytelling without adding characters. As brohawx said in his comment, there could be a flower, tree or castle with a little something special on the outdoor scene. As for the room one, you could have things on the table that tell us a little bit about the people who live there.

In the end it depends if you want to go more into concept art or illustration. For illustration, the storytelling is going to be a more important thing to focus on. But if it's for concept art, then what you have might be fine. Although I guess adding a little extra spice to your work to impress art director is never a bad thing

But I think you're doing good so far. You're showing good skills,so I think whichever path you'll pick you'll manage to succeed 👍

[amorsea19022]

The following is my workflow. I hope to get feedback on the workflow. I have been working on this artwork for over 14 days, and I hope to get some quicker ways to complete it.

Step1.
Looking for reference, and composition by Blender.

Step2.
Finding more reference to draw the lineart. Item first.

Step3.
Making a color scheme. Although I have never been to a casino, through the photos, most of the decorations are mainly yellow and red.

I think the reason for color scheme is the same as McDonald's - the use of red and yellow makes people feel excited and anxious, promoting consumption.

Protagonist Jia-Jun's seat moved one to the right to avoid her being obscured by the arm waiter raised.

Step4.
Setting slot machine.

Step5.
Detailing every object. When necessary, I will customize the textures, such as ceilings, carpets, railings, etc.

Step6.
Add more detailed people, props and lights.
Wrinkle of clothes is the most difficult, I spent a lot of time on it.

Theft case in casino

[2356655]

哈哈，没想到能碰到中国人，你已经做的很不错了，支持一下你的作品，你还是学生吗。

[amorsea19022]

I see. Thank you very much for your suggestion. I also agree with brohawx said. I think adding more storytelling will make the scene look better! So I have already planned to do it. I hope these two work are better, and process will continue to be posted here.

[amorsea19022]

Work update!
I add some props to make the scene look more focused.

[amorsea19022]

New artwork, new plan. This is a bakery on the bottom of the sea

Before doing the design of this bakery, I first draw 35 min of Art school assignment (1-pen control) and 40 min of perspective practice.

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New artwork, new plan. This is a bakery on the bottom of the sea

I want to draw a new perspective so that the interior of the bakery can show more.
At this step, I want to color directly. I have drawn a lot of bread in rough stage, and this process makes me a little bother.

我想繪製新的視角，讓麵包店的內部得以展現全貌。
到這一步，我想直接上色，草稿階段畫了好多麵包，讓我有點煩。