Piston's Art Blog

Pistonhit 2020-07-13 19:41:10 UTC #21

Hey there! Been doing quite some sketches and practice lately mostly in my sketchbook. Just want to share some of them.

Quick drawings max 5-10min from reference. The ones on the left were from imagination.

Pistonhit 2020-07-18 23:06:41 UTC #22

Decided to color and paint over the sketch from earlier. Feedback is always welcome. As always, not sure if I will work a little more on this one later..

cedricgo 2020-07-27 23:31:42 UTC #23

That's really cute, haha! The colors really brings it to life

Pistonhit 2020-08-06 12:57:15 UTC #24

Thanks @cedricgo !

Been practicing stylized faces and decided to take this one a little further. The Skateboard is a photo of my deck just slightly changed and "cartoonified" so to say.. Pumped up the wheels and trucks a bit and changed the lettering.

Pistonhit 2020-08-09 16:58:57 UTC #25

Another practice.. Somehow I like the fourth step more than the more detailed one. I'm probably going to try something inbetween the next time.

Pistonhit 2020-08-12 16:29:40 UTC #26

Some more stuff:

These are designs based on Pokedex text descriptions. The left was based on Polossands description, the right one on haunters description, both from one of the german texts. Watched an art stream doing this last night and couldn't resist to try it too. Was quite fun, so probably I'm going to do some more of those in the future.

Pistonhit 2020-08-19 17:05:30 UTC #27

Made another quick Pokemon redesign based on the pokedex info.

This one is just a plant creature concept I came up with.

Feel free to tell me what you think!

Pistonhit 2020-08-20 11:58:06 UTC #28

Kinda enjoying those creatures currently.. ^^

I created this using a quite unusual approach were I start with random shapes and scribbles. If someones interestet, I made a process video:

Pistonhit 2020-09-09 14:52:28 UTC #29

Hey there! Been working on some pictures the past days:

After becoming an uncle for the third time a few weeks ago I wanted to try something more in a cute childrensbook direction.

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This one was quite fun. Tried out different brushes than usual to improve my workflow and get faster.. Created myself a soft/hard edge brush to paint shadows/gradients that end with a hard edge with one stroke.

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This is a WIP I'm currently working on. Not sure if I want to change the design too much tho. Could be a bit more interesting in some areas maybe.. I also tried to detail the materials a bit more than I would usually do.

Pistonhit 2020-10-30 19:37:09 UTC #30

Hey guys, finished the character from earlier:

Also been working on another Character:

Next one is already in the making. ^^ Feedback is welcome as always.

Pistonhit 2020-10-31 18:45:35 UTC #31

This years horror/halloween speedpainting. Not exactly halloweenish.. buut... Happy halloween..!

Pistonhit 2020-11-04 18:45:33 UTC #32

Hey! Been working on this ancient panther concept. The creature is able to capture wind within the marbles and summon it when needed. I imagined it to be some kind of god or oracle for the people.

It was quite challanging since I had almost no experience rendering fur before. It's not perfect, but I think next time will be much easier. Also I'm currently working on rendering different materials better. Probably going to do some studies before my next work.. Hope you like this one tho..

Early WIP:

Juanreina 2020-11-18 00:31:45 UTC #33

Pretty cool, now is just a matter of keep doing studies on those materials.

castonia 2020-11-18 13:30:46 UTC #34

I really love the design of the "blacksmith''? fairy, both of these are rly cool!

Pistonhit 2020-12-01 15:22:28 UTC #35

Hey, thanks you two!

@castonia The blacksmith actually has a machine inspired by a dragonfly on her back. Probably should have chosen another angle for that, in order to make the tail show better.

Been a little lazy due to some lack of motivation lately. However even tho I took many breaks from this one, heres my newest concept of a little pyromancer creature. The idea was to design a cute inconspicious creature that turns into a mean pyromancer when it gets angry. Feedback as always is very welcome!

Initial idea sketch

cedricgo 2020-12-02 15:52:08 UTC #36

Awesome! I really like that little guy and the idea of it going from a cute creature to a terrifying one. Nice work!

Pistonhit 2020-12-21 15:45:32 UTC #37

Hey, thanks cedric!

Just posting what I'm currently working on and some sketches today. Unfortunately didn't have time to do more.

This one is still a little undefined with not much detail. Not sure where to add more right now. I like the idea, but something feels a bit off. Probably going to continue with this in a few days with fresh eyes.. ^^ feedback is welcome.

These are sketches I did after I saw a method where you basically move your pen in random motions (from Alphonso Dunns Book on how to ink). I really liked this and needed to try it out myself.

Pistonhit 2020-12-28 19:12:32 UTC #38

Hey! Been working on the snowman painting over christmas. I'm not sure about the light effects and if the lenseflare maybe makes the painting "cheaper".. Maybe I'm changing that later. Anyways, merry (late) christmas everyone!

I also made a video if someone's interested in the process.

Pistonhit 2021-01-03 18:17:52 UTC #39

Hey there everyone, happy 2021!

I started learning how to sculpt in zBrush recently and want to share my progress here. So I'm probably gonna post WIPs after every major step. I have some exprerience in modeling low-poly assets and characters in maya and blender, so I'm not completely new to 3D. Never really sculpted before tho, so I'm following different tutorials online and mainly this tutorial I found on cubebrush: http://cbr.sh/1frldx My goal with this is to create a game-ready model, slightly stylized (not exactly sure yet about the style). I'm posting in this thread mainly to stay motivated and kinda document my process, but please don't hesitate to give feedback/critique on what I'm doing.

Anyways: Just finished sculpting the base mesh. Also already retopolized it via the zRemesher function and am now going to go on with clothing/armor/assets. As some may have noticed, I thought of making a new design of Link from the Zelda games.

For the base mesh I started with basic shapes and defined them while orientating at references. He got slightly more buffed than I intended as I wanted to practice sculpting muscles too. I'm covering most of it with clothes tho, so I think it doesn't really matter.

Next I'm probably sketching the outfit in photoshop.

Pistonhit 2021-01-05 01:37:13 UTC #40

Continued with roughly creating the different armor pieces and the hair (Some parts are still missing). I decided to create an original character rather than Link. So I worked from a sketch from my sketchbook that I found interesting and fitting for what I already had. Next is the rest of the outfit and then detailing.