Gustavo Grazziano's Art Journey

ggrazziano 2020-04-17 10:22:21 UTC #1

Hello everyone!

My name is Gustavo Grazziano and I'm a Brazilian artist.

I've been doing 2D art for a while now and since a year and a half ago I started learning some basic tools on Maya (having finally done a full 3D project exactly a year ago).

I will share here everything that I'm working on, WIPs that I normally just show to my friends.

Thanks for visiting my art blog. All critiques are welcome!

Here are my social media:

https://www.artstation.com/gustavograzziano
https://www.instagram.com/g.grazziano

ggrazziano 2020-04-17 10:32:09 UTC #2

And here a project that I've just finished!

It's a game read character with hand-painted textures. I based it on Humberto Ramos's drawings for X-Men issue #194.

Artstation Project: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VdeJoZ

iceman_viewer_v01.mview (6.9 MB)

ggrazziano 2020-04-20 09:36:21 UTC #3

WEEKLY REPORT # 1

I come back to this project last week (which I already had made a base of the head a month ago). In the beginning, the idea was to follow an Arwen's drawing (Lord of the Rings) as concept art, but in the end, I decided to do something on my own. I'm also pushing it to be more on Blizzard / Overwatch style.

What I'm doing now is refining the hair and making some tweaks to it be more on the Overwatch way.

And last, I'll finish just the bust, so I'm going to cut the bottom part when I have finalized the high poly.

Have a good quarantine!

ggrazziano 2020-04-27 00:21:59 UTC #4

One more week of work!

I'm planning to finalize the high poly until the end of this week, so then I can start doing the low poly and the bakes.

These small tweaks consume a lot of time. In the beginning, I thought that this project would be faster, but I'm liking so much to do it that I'm improving my original idea, redoing some parts to make it better, and adding new elements.

Have a good week everyone!

ggrazziano 2020-05-04 21:28:56 UTC #5

Hey everyone, I'm here again giving my weekly report!

I've almost finished the retopology and bakes of this elf. Now I'm just trying some tweaks to see if I can have even better normals (it's so hard to have a perfect normal map, but also save a few polys )

Thanks for visiting my topic!

ggrazziano 2020-05-11 15:03:55 UTC #6

WEEKLY REPORT #4

I've spent this week baking a better normal map and finding the best color palette for this character. For that, I'm using gradient maps on Photoshop like Marc Brunett shows in his courses.

I think now I've decided it, so in the last image, I've started to improve the albedo map on 3DCoat before sending it to Substance Painter.

I hope to have enough free time this week, so I can finalize this project!

ggrazziano 2020-05-18 14:32:44 UTC #7

And I was able to finalize it! Here are the final images rendered on Marmoset.

elf_marmosetViewer_v01.mview (4.0 MB)

ggrazziano 2020-05-20 23:42:40 UTC #8

I've started a new project. This time I'm doing a Blizzard fanart.

My two main references for this dwarf are Muradin (Heroes of the Storm) and Torbjorn (Overwatch).

The first hours of every project are always the most painful. It looks like I don't know how to do it anymore
Hopefully, I believe that now I'm getting in the correct direction.

Critiques are welcome!

MattD 2020-05-21 17:47:57 UTC #9

I wish I had something more useful to say than "That's great looking" but I really don't sooo

That's great looking!

ggrazziano 2020-05-25 14:01:15 UTC #10

Thanks @MattD, it means a lot!

One more update on my current personal project. A mainly worked on the fur during last week. This time I want to resolve most of the character on the sculpt stage.

Thanks everyone for visiting my topic

ggrazziano 2020-05-31 23:09:42 UTC #11

Third dwarf's post!

I've been sculpting tons of tiny things. I also decided to redo the beard in another way, this time with a lot more details (that is what I've been doing during the entire weekend).

cedricgo 2020-06-01 18:26:37 UTC #12

Damn this is looking really cool! Great progress with the details

tj-works 2020-06-03 10:42:41 UTC #13

Nice progress on the dwarf sculpt. The triangular fur around his ankles and hood could use more sharpness and edge disparity between each individual fur bit, but it's coming together. I love the braided beard pattern interlocking with each other. ^^

ggrazziano 2020-06-08 15:43:12 UTC #14

Thanks a lot cedricgo and tj-works!

Thanks for your comment, you are right, I need to work more on the fur.

This time I had a busy week, so I couldn't work very much on my dwarf. Besides that, I started a course with Igor Catto, so I'll need to divide my spare time between projects (that I'm also going to post here).

Have a good week!

ggrazziano 2020-06-16 14:02:30 UTC #15

Hey everyone, I'm here again!

This week probably I have finished the highpoly of my dwarf. Now I just need to do everything else
I've also started thinking about his hummer.

And here are some sketches for a collectible. They are Illaoi and Ezreal (League of Legends), but I'm going to do with a different skin theme and design.

Have a nice week!

ggrazziano 2020-06-24 11:50:26 UTC #16

I've almost forgotten to do my weekly post. Here is my progress on my two current projects.

DWARF
I finalized his hammer's low poly and now I'm working on his body's retopology.

ILLAOI/EZREAL SCULPTURE
I've decided which composition I'm going to do, so now I defining the character's overall proportions and design.

Every suggestion is welcome. Have a good week!

ggrazziano 2020-07-03 22:50:34 UTC #17

It is finally taking form! Except for the skin, I'm using the same five Substance Painter layers to do every material albedo. I still want to work more on it before finishing it on Photoshop/3D Coat. And after I've finished it I will do the metallic and roughness maps.

Thanks for visiting my topic!

ggrazziano 2020-07-13 13:57:02 UTC #18

I've finished it! Thanks everyone that has been following this topic. Now I'll focus all my efforts on the other project that I'm doing.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/R33RdW

dwarf_marmosetViewer.mview (5.2 MB)

cedricgo 2020-07-13 22:59:46 UTC #19

Looks great! Very nice work

ggrazziano 2020-07-16 19:15:43 UTC #20

It's been a while since the last time I've updated this topic about my League of Legends fan art.

I've defined the characters proportions and não I'm working on some hard surfaces inside zBrush.