HANDRO - Art Journey

[LesleyCarol]

Love the way this is turning out! The colors look really vibrant.

The values look really good too, but It seems like the barrel is a little flat due to the shading. Based on the rest of the scene it seems like the light is coming from the right but the lighting on the barrel makes it look like it's coming from the back. If the character is this bright I think the barrel would have a little more light coming in from the right. It also looks like the the shadows are missing from the barrel and character.

Hope this helps!

[HANDRO]

thanks for the feedback, I actually noticed that I placed the character a bit too high so it looks like she is sharing the same space as the barrel (depth wise). As for the shadows around the barrel, That was tunnel vision - I focused to much on ensuring it was grainy and textured so I did forget about shadows after that.

[mau.wamp]

As Lesley already said, try to make the foreground character sorta connect more to the environment around them! Apart from that, I think you are doing really well, Handro! Good job!

[HANDRO]

Alright, I've been gone for far too long form this place. been focusing on color in general - with a bit of a focus on skin and lighting. here's what I got so far. been looking at Samdoesart on Insta and Sinix as well. as always C&C is welcome.

okay now back to work!

[HANDRO]

alright this started out as quick sketches for skin color, but I started doing lighting, clothing, expressions and poses.

[alrooke64]

Handro you little willy bob, the landscapes are looking great! wish I was making landscape progress like this!

[HANDRO]

Dang! 20 Days since my last post, I wanted to update this with something meaningful and its taken me some time to make some progress.

To start of, I Jumped Back into Mech Design - My last attempt at jumping into this felt unmotivated and as such I didn't do my due diligence with the Design. I did however get a few helpful comment that pointed me towards some great videos. So I did some homework and really tried to understand Mech Design this time around.

I started with the Videos and then I moved onto a simple exercise - "Break A Box" most beginner design look really blocky because they don't have a visual library to reference to help them break down a box into something a bit more intricate. For me this was hard because of my architectural background, in my experience this means of looking at space in the form of a square to get as much SF out of a space as you can. Anyways this is the result of the exercise. I didn't spend to much time on this because I figured the next exercise would better help me with this problem.

After the "Break a Box" exercise I decided to built a Gundam to help me understand how Mechs work. Pictures below (sorry for the sloppy placement of stickers, it was my first time building one). It definitely helped me understand how pieces of a mech would come together. which prepared me for the last exercise.

Actually "Designing" a robot - overall this took me about 2 weeks of slow progress, because I was thinking and referencing how joints would connect to make the mech work. I came of with the general outline of the Mech first then I proceeded to figure out how it would work. this was the result.

Overall I reference a bunch of Mechs but i was mainly inspired by the Titanfall Universe for the design.

Anyways All that being said. I am looking for feedback, this is my first actual attempt at designing a MECH so I know some things are wrong. I want as much feedback as I can get so I can improve the design and carry it over into the next design.

Thanks for reading all that if you did.

[HANDRO]

here's the first mech I attempted to draw at the end of last year for reference to what i mean when I say blocky.

[LesleyCarol]

Both of these are pretty cool! I can definitely see the improvement in design and presentation in the latest one though.

[mau.wamp]

Wow, you've made really good progress in the last 3 weeks! I especially like your first design!

[dangras-almeida]

This robot looks so good! Love the intricate details on the hand and the gun. The joints on the leg and groin are also really well thought out. Congrats!

[HANDRO]

Okay I'm back once again. I asked for feedback from @Vonschlippe on my mech design and he provided me with the following notes on the design.

after looking over my initial design with his notes I saw there was room for improvement - at the very least there were things that I would have liked to improve. This led me to rework some of the details. While I liked the reworked ideas Von had for my design, I didn't want to take his ideas and call it a day. I wanted to try to improve myself. So I looked at his feedback and decided to try look at different designs I could implement. Below is the final result. I'm not 100% happy with the design but it did help me understand how to design Mechas better so i consider it a success. anyways I'm stopping here for today. If I feel motivated tomorrow ill try to add color to the design otherwise ill move on.

Let me know what you think about the changes. Till next time

P.S. thanks @Vonschlippe for the feedback.

[Vonschlippe]

Ahhh dude this is a wonderful iteration, keep at it! Glad you liked my notes

[HANDRO]

Alright I'm back, Its been a while. I took a break to draw something a little closer to home. Just wanted a break from the Mech Stuff. Below is the original Idea I had.

[HANDRO]

I started working on the Pose first making sure it was anatomically possible (look at the extra long right arm in the concept). So I made adjustments to the pose. and below is the overall result.

Next was the Background. At one point i thought the overall tone of the Background wasn't working anymore so i changed it to the first image. but then I wanted to try going back to the original background and realized it look good (aside from the sword). So i played with 2 different ideas. anyways let me know what you think - which one you like the best.

I was planning on going back to the Mech stuff but if i can think on a cool concept I might do the Vivi Art challenge on the discord.

[Kosmonaut]

I like either the 2nd or 3rd one the Market makes the illustration feel more lively rather than having an empty town in the background, and for the hand on the 3rd one, you could have them hold a fruit from the fruit stand in the background to have the hand look less awkward holding nothing.

[yaigrie]

What are you planning to do with the people in the background? Are those staying silhouettes? Maybe they are to dark like this, as the rest of the image is very bright. Also the arm is getting a bit lost.
The rest looks awesome, love the armor and the character itself!

[HANDRO]

thanks, I was thinking of having a fruit but I wanted to show the hand in a more menacing manner - the claws. in hindsight I don't think it did the job so the fruit might have been the better choice.

[HANDRO]

I think they will stay silhouettes, the original idea was to have them be actual people but I switched them to silhouettes for 2 reasons - (1) I wanted the focus to stay on the foreground and I thought the characters (skin color, clothing , etc. would push detract from the focus. (2) it would be more time consuming for little reward at the end of the day. I could be wrong but that's how I saw it as I was looking at the background.

[mau.wamp]

Really cool concept, Handro!
I especially like the second and third one! The first is cool too, but I feel like the perspective of the character and the environment around it don't quite macht Really looking forward to seeing you complete this piece!