This week complete remaining environment concept idea, annnnnd I finally done.

First off, I have to use 3D to form the basic shape to save me tremendous amount of time, so most of the drawing/painting used 3D.

1. Table of context + zoom in
   Planned from beginning to include a catalog to refer page, so I decided to draw a "Level Design" map. However it's just black and white with some color to indicate walkable path, boss area, and interest point.

The design I follow back my previous environment art layout, now it expand to more detailed.
Previous environment art

Used 8K to draw this so when I zoom in it still clear, but when publish will be 4k because Artstation prohibit more than 10mb for free user.

Zoom-in , you will notice sloppy linework when you keep zoom in.

3D

Was thinking to put arrow and 'treasure' for indication but it's too interruptive so removed.

2 . Castle of Abandoned
Main focus of this portfolio environment art is the castle soooooo I have to focus on the castle, just 1 floor.

Rearrange and rotate castle, better view.

3D

Finally a portrait, but its just prop and story telling. Portrait of deceased King Herius.

Final arrangement in portfolio

3 . High Hall of Devourer

The boss room and end of expedition

3D

Final arrangement

4 . Lady Herius adjustment
Added extra hand, dangling King Herius, swaying hair, and added 2 more gang.

Added demonstration of flower blooming

Added extra tired eye and deforming face, sorry for gory feature. Probably will adjust eye to more following King Herius tired eye.

5 . Mysterious plant added extra fruit
At one point I saw Last of Us zombie and was thinking, what if I added color orange and yellow. And the idea is form from some type of ant colony. And sorry again for gory stuff.

6 . WIP cover art, King Herius Boss room (WIP)
I'm planning to use photo bashing method for this to practice matte paint, so expect photo bashing quality (which I'm very poor skill in this huhu).

View of Boss room (WIP)

3D

Sharing some drawing story.

Wanted to talk about this piece

By now I think we both agree this is a really busy piece, and I have to keep push the middle white tentacle to one side because its really busy, you can share your input and I'm ok with it.

I have to added something for better distinguish between wall, and different floor. Difference of what do I added between this 2 before and after.

Before

After

I use texture brush as border effect to easier distinguish object. Well it's look distinguishable but it still busy in middle, hell everything look busy.

Annd that's it for this week, once I'm done the cover and I will start some graphic design for name and page 'UI' and page rearrangement annnd Voila it's done, the portfolio is complete.

Thanks for reading, andd Merry Christmas everyone and I hope everyone have a good holiday.

@mads.blinkilde Thanks Mads, yeaaa I'm really adore Souls series and one of my life goal is work in Fromsoftware even though I'm foreigner to them. So I often refer to their artbook and learn from them. Thanks btw.

Portfolio almost done and finally have a name for this portfolio, changed multiple time from
1. Paroxysm
2. Paroxysmal
3. Helicblight
4. Blessed Blight
to
5.Blessen Blight (Updated)

Title design: Blessen Blight

"I Design" First create in 3D and have to use multiple light to simulate the effect.

Wanted to change other name but time is running out so I left this task to my future self. (Nvm future self in toilet told just change Blessed to Blessen.)

Once I post front page, the portfolio is complete and expect to be post in Sunday and I will submit my portfolio and my 15 best work to Marc.

Ikr, the magnitude it produce when title/name actually fit well to your portfolio really satisfying.

Portfolio Completed, the following will include several link for ease of view.

Blessen Blight - Graveyard of Thousand Kingdom - Portfolio
View on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Xg8zQ3
View on PDF file: Google Drive File

Personal Best 15 work
View on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OG4d58

All the work that is not include in Portfolio but you still curious.
View on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/el69NY

What will I do now?
I will submit to Marc and do some readjustment if feedback received. Then I will submit for job employment hoping I can land any concept artist job. Year ago I bought this program hoping I can pursue gaming industry but I'm clueless in programming so I start with art. So I spend ton of time learn how to draw from post 1, and well it come a long way until post 160. Probably impossible to find work but I will continue draw to improve my artwork.

Meanwhile I need to pursue 3D realm to start sculpt, modelling and learn some 3D animation. And try create CG animation related to this world I create.

But before that, I like to take some rest for few week. I'm tired.

Annnd I will occasionally come here give advice and post some artwork over here.

I wish you all have a Happy New Year, love you all, peace.

@patrycja.lerch Tq tq, thanks for kind word
@Norma Tq tq same to you.
@mitsuki-youko Ayyy thanks for kind word, I started since March from scratch so 9 month. But final rush is 2 month which 90% of content I include in portfolio. Will sure do post something occasionally. Tq tq.
@daceronine Ayyy sureeeee will try post the feedback when receive. I curious too since I overdo little bit. Thanks for the kind word.

'Overwork withdrawal syndrome' still lingering, so I draw and paint 2 thing to smoothing down a little bit. At the same time wanted to create this 2 piece so I have reference to relearn sculpting.

Its my first armor design, now rework abit and test using watercolor to color.

The Very First Armor (Post 1) No more flat feet and flat arm.

2024 is year of dragon for Chinese so I decide to paint a dragon. I have not draw anime face in a long time so this does refreshing.
Title: Little Princess and her Little Pet

Sketches before paint

Gotta whining about dragon hind leg (back leg) problem. I search some reference and boi, they all look weird to me. No idea how come it slip through my brain the whole time. So I just half bake it hoping no one will notice.

What I learn is most of them just follow other mammal like dog and cat sitting down, so I half bake it.

@mitsuki-youko eyyyyy thanks
@daceronine ahhhh no wonder I feel something not right, thanks for the small detail guide and picture include dude. And yeahhh it does look much better with little adjustment. Thanks for compliment as well, tq tq.

Before

After (included linework and change to overlay, and added shadow on neck).

Added Photoshop camera raw filter because instagram filter convinced me.

Thanks for the kind word !

I got the piece of Certificate! took 8 day ish because of holiday and stuff from Marc but the feedback give me some hindsight what I lack. So it definitely help push to much better art.

Marc included 2 paint over + extreme feedback, and I certainly acknowledge this (mention in his feedback) is my weakness throughout the art school so this really help me understanding well. I will post what he include with before and after.

Msg from Marc:
Hi Bob! Oh snap you did it!! You completely crushed the requirements and most definitely deserve the certificate! I'm very happy to send that over, you should be very proud of your final project what a treat it's been to go through 🤩

It took me a little bit to get back to you, with the rush of the holidays and new years + I just wanted to make sure I look over everything properly Your stuff is awesome, very impressive. Your presentation is top notch too, really elevates the art.

I'm including 2 paintovers for pieces that can easily pop more with just a bit of light warmth - a lot of them don't really use contrast between warm and cool colors which can leave the result looking gray/muddy. It's just a matter of whipping out the soft brush with hard light blend mode to add a bit of color back in

On the other extreme, some pieces have too much contrast to the point it's hard to understand what's going on. The one called "Rotten Stone- Enemies" is a good example of that. Everything fights for attention, so everything becomes hard to see (you use too much black and white, but not enough gray). When you have pieces like that where it's full of different elements, you have to lower the importance of some to let others shine. Generally speaking, you can often avoid these problems by using a slightly reduced range of values, and only keep the pure white/black for areas where you want the attention to go to. Busy paintings also benefit from working on them in black and white throughout the process to keep the values in check. You can add a black layer on top of your layer stack and set its blend mode to saturation - this way you can easily toggle between the color version and the b&w version to check values. For that particular painting, I think the easiest improvement would be to lower the amount of lightning, and maybe give it a light blue color instead of white to make it less intense.

With that said, I'm attaching your certificate!

It's been a treat to look at your project pieces and I wish you great things for the future. Keep crushing it man!

marc

paint over 1

paint over 2

the extreme feedback mentioned art

my attempt to clean up

So yeah incase you wonder what does the feedback look like then here it is. I strongly believe everyone received different feedback and possible other people will have longer text feedback than me so goodluck everyone to continue your journey.

peace