Jurgen Botha's art blog

[jurgenbotha888]

Hi

Here is a character of mine called "Boa" that I've had in mind, drawn and worked on, on and off for some years

I recently started working on him again.

Boa is a kick-boxer of sorts

My name is Jurgen Botha, I am an artist living in South Africa. I hope you enjoy my posts and feel free to comment, always welcome.

[cedricgo]

Hi Jurgen! Welcome to Cubebrush. That drawing you posted looks good! That's a pretty well drawn back. It seems like Boa is not someone you want to mess with Anyway, I look forward to see more of your work!

[jurgenbotha888]

Hi cedricgo.
Thank you for the welcome
Awesome, thank you very much , I appreciate it.

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Here is a front view of Boa's head so far
I might want to make him look a bit older, not sure yet.

The idea for him is that he is a type of experienced kick-boxer, so I want to bring that over in his design.

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I've started making a type of study of Boa's anatomy through drawing topology over the image I made earlier.
I would very much like to make a 3D NPR model of Boa in the near future.
The topology drawing gives me an idea for work in Blender later.

Here I colour coded different parts of the back and shoulders

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I started modeling Boa

[malcom]

Looking forward to the model. Keep up the good work.

[jurgenbotha888]

Thank you very much malcolm

I'm quite happy with the topology so far. I want to finish the model for use in the Godot engine.
Either through rendered 2D sprites or a 3D model. My dream is to make a fighting game

I'm working in Blender and as a test I added an emission shader with a solidify modifier for the black outline.
At a later stage I want to texture the model in Subtance Painter, adding 'inked' details and such

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As a test so far, I started painting black line details on the torso mesh in Substance Painter

Colour-wise I am thinking of going for a darker tone.

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Here is another work in progress of mine.
He is a type of angelic assassin character.

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[cedricgo]

Cool character and solid rendering so far

[jurgenbotha888]

Thank you cedricgo

This character is a type of Tomb Guardian.

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Here some Boa sprite work

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Here is an animation test

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Here is an idle animation work-flow test WIP

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Some sprite practice

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I've been playing with the idea of pixel art holograms

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I'm playing around with a game idea

In the year 3035, mankind encountered a mysterious and dangerous alien race whilst conducting an exploration mission in the far reaches of space.
The encounter eventually lead to a full out war that left human forces at a minimum.
Back on Earth, a corporation known as "Red" activated their "Sentinel" inititative.

The "Red Sentinel" is an interface that the user may utilize to operate black ops android technology or also known as "B.O.A".
B.O.A unit 1 is sent to the alien's homeworld with "Red Sentinel" protocols initiated.

The player controls B.O.A unit 1 through a projected interface of the unit and it's surroundings.
The objective is to locate the alien hive and destroy it.

I've got some very basic gameplay already, the assets in the screenshots are placeholders for now

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