June is for concepts and livestreaming

This month will be full of writ­ing, plan­ning and con­cept work!

Here’s a quick envi­ron­ment paint­ing from imag­i­na­tion. Restricted myself to four tones for use through­out the image. Don’t think I quite got it, so I’ve set up a palette for my next black and white envi­ron­ment sketch that allows for three tones within three sep­a­rate planes (nine tones total. Nine! I’ll be thor­oughly spoilt.)

Also, here’s what that con­cept work looks like. I’m leav­ing this character’s weapon muta­ble, and I’ve left out some of the stud­ies I did to get her to that broad sil­hou­ette. Read­ers of The Thing That Should Not Be might recog­nise this character…

And here’s a not ter­ri­bly quick speed­paint. I ref­er­enced a shot of BigBang’s Dae­sung from the Mon­ster music video.

I used to be a reluc­tant k-pop fan, and then I saw how awe­some YG music videos were :B

Tech­ni­cal paint­ing talk: Restricted myself to four tones for the ini­tial value paint­ing, then allowed to play a lit­tle bit more once I started lay­ing down the colours. Also the first time I’ve worked from a gamut, which was very excit­ing! Over­all paint­ing took maybe two hours. I need to get back into paint­ing more quickly and more often! I’ve livestreamed most of this paint­ing, which you can find at my livestream chan­nel here. Warn­ing for length, this one clocks in at an hour and a half. I hope to do another livestream soon!