Sijun Forums :: View topic - Breathing life into an old robot

conceptus · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:31 pm

Greetings..this is the first time I have posted my artwork. This sketch is a couple years old and I decided to breathe new life into it. It needs alot of TLC to reach it's full and powerful robot potential. I figured I would post my progress in stages for the best chance at criticism and the chance to help some with my techniques.
This first pic is the original sketch circa 1998:

next I cleaned up the sketch dropped the color and inverted his broked left forearm

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At this stage I am adding color and beefing up the robot's scrawny vacuum cleaner and coathanger body (you can see this in the arm so far):

His future involves beefing up the leg and neck, adding texture bounced light and details. And maybe a background and cast shadow.
Let me know what you think so far,
cheers

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SWANYDSPIN · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:07 pm

Gee I like the design, I dont know what your style is like so I'll have to wait and see the next post, looks fine so far, what resolution are you working in, just looks a bit to low?

conceptus · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:10 pm

im working at 300dpi, this was rez'd down for posting.

saladbowl · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:35 pm

I think it's really cool!
I'm just not sure about the green... .
Hmmm...keep going, looks good so far.

Sumaleth · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 10:03 pm

It's a nice design and looks like it'll color up well, but you'd be getting much nicer results if you colored a little more sharper. The coloring is very murky and blured at the moment so you need to zoom in closer and get some cleaness to it IMO.

Row.

Rogelio Olguin · member Member # Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 77

he is using black and white with one shade of green... that over laps it...

it is a way to make stuff in real painting first you do the B&W version than slowly put a small layer of paint thin traslucent paint shows the black and white at the end you have to just re highlight the darks and lights a bit than it is done... still nto sure if it is effective in computer painting I am thinking it will endup very mono crom (might be using the wrong word).

I like the robot design hope the color ends up well

conceptus · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:36 am

Thanks everyone for the advice. I managed to get another hour free to work on this piece and here is the result. The plates on the back still need work in fact i would say this robot is about 60% done. In this update ive worked on some details and overall bulk, trying to portray a feeling of strength, and starting the more realistic rendering of different parts. I hope to find more time to work on him again soon.

Basement bound · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 10:33 am

I seem to remember seeing this one. I really liked it, it looks so alive. A great dynamic postion it is in, kudos. It reminds me of the robot/scout from Red Planet, another robot that I liked. Keep up the work I will for sure to save the final in the Keepers Floder.

JA