The Journey Begins Challenge (2D) Entry: Martin Nebelong Henningsen

[MartinNH]

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Just a quick little test of an idea.

[MartinNH]

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Trying out some ideas before I move on with the painting. I still don't think any of those are epic enough, so I'll try to do one with a grander scope.

[Glosep]

Very good ideas. I can't choose one, the 2 sketchs looks great....but maybe the number two.

[kidster]

Great colouring doode ! keep it this way !
Good luck ! i'll keep an eye on ya !

[MartinNH]

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Another sketch. Next one I'm doing will have more focus on the characters.

[MartinNH]

Thanks Snowman and Kid :)

[robertmekis]

It has interesting composition and mood. Is that fog downthere ?

[MartinNH]

Thanks, yes its supposed to be fog. There's mountains down there too, maybe I'll add cities and stuff as well or maybe an ocean if I decide to work more on this one.

[MartinNH]

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Another sketch, I need something more dramatic.

[MartinNH]

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Just trying out a few more ideas.

[MartinNH]

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Still trying to come up with some kind of interesting concept.

[elgrozni]

That's one amazing concept and sketch rocks just as well :bowdown:


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[ralphmanning]

I like the 'frozen ocean' and 'the big climb'. They're more interesting scenes I think. Although I don't know how well they convey a journey beginning. All are nice concepts though. :thumbsup:

[MartinNH]

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Thanks for the comments, glad you like the concepts so far. I've refined the desert concept a bit, more updates will follow.

[elgrozni]

Just an idea.. to add a little bit more variety in the painting, maybe you should use another light source in the cave, to put more colors there... nice work, all these sketches are awesome :eek: :thumbsup:

[MartinNH]

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Yeah, good point. I've added some blue light from inside the cave, hope it works better :)

[MartinNH]

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Working on a new idea here. A spaceship crashlands on a new world, strangely it seems to be uninhabitted although the surface is full of cities and signs of life. The ships captain sends out an expedition to investigate, and so the journey begins.

[hanzen]

these are some very cool sketches. lights/shadow compositing are beautiful. and i love these narrow landscape formats.
Although its not the best for the journey thing, i prefer the calmness and colors of the one with the ocean horizont. ;)

good luck

hanzen

[MartinNH]

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Worked some more on different things like the buildings, the road and the sketched in aliens. Lemme know what you think about it.

[MartinNH]

Thx Hanzen, glad you like'em :)

[MartinNH]

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Worked some on the aliens, the city and details here and there.

[MartinNH]

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Just about finished now, might work a bit more on the aliens and the leafs on the tree, but I'm not sure its necessary. What do you guys think?

[MartinNH]

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Some more haze + various details.

[Quills]

Looking great! The story doesn't read as obviously as it might, though the concept is an interesting one. Perhaps there could be more cues to the city being deserted - plague posters on the wall or a more harsh environment / weather pattern or something?..

Good stuff :)

Q

[MartinNH]

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Just about finished now.

[beelow]

Really nice painting so far, but again it is hard to read a journey beginning, but it works though!:thumbsup:

[MartinNH]

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Getting there.

[MartinNH]

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Changed the aliens face, better or worse?

[FIDUCIOSE]

I love recent face that look innocense, i can see many thing gonna happend if they get to new area and wanna play like a child hee hee....." yeeehahh what I'm gonna play next?"
But the fierce one can be only destruction and get all human!!

Goodluck to you!!

[MartinNH]

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There we go. Had a lot of fun with this, looking forward to the next challenge!

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