Eon (Illustration) Entry: sean counley

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ok here are the first sketchy lines for the fifth chamber

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some more sketchy lines, this time for alexandria

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some more sketchy lines, this time for the fourth chamber

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and the sketchy lines that may become the seventh :)

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I think there seems to be reasonable interest in the sixth chamber... here are my first lines

[abscnth]

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hmmm, this one may not be quite epic enough!

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and finally the sketchy looking thistledown

[abscnth]

well hi folks, this is my first challenge entry... i was reading the book first but after looking at RS speedpainting thread decided to spend ten minutes on each environment just throwing down some lines... not much to comment on I know but its a start!.

Potentials are the sixth and thistledown at the moment but I intend to finish the book first before progressing any further, unfortunately I aint the fastest reader so I may be another week or so yet before commiting some realtime to the challenge :(

Absolutely lovin the stuff in this challenge so far, its an honour and a pleasure to rub virtual shoulders with you guys n gals... good luck to you all, i only hope that i can compete and complete in anywhere near the same league.

Sean

[Nekomouse]

I really really like the spiralling blue one...I think it has a lot of potential.

Good Luck!

[brrrhmmm]

Side by Side comparisons So that you know who is doing

what in the illustration category of the eon challenge only.

Classifier followed by artists.Some artists appear in more than one category because of their art is

multiclassed.

: Strong/Beautiful Foreground Potraits with EON elements in the background.

Movie Posters theme.

Characters in dramatic poses.

Characters have detailed skin,muscle and skeletal structures.

Very Detailed Vehicle showed prominently together with characters.The Focus is Character.

Kari Salmi

Andrey Akulov

Lei Jin

Albert Feliu

Damir G. Martin

Niels-Ullé Walther

Mathias Verhasselt(Forum Leader)

Tan Guang Yu

Simon Bull

Michael See(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Justin Kellis

Da Feng

Giuliano Brocani

Roderic Rodriguez

Marek Okon

Edward Cicka

Tuan Nguyen

Linda Luksic(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Linda Smith

William Leafe

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Marco Alejandro Castelan Morales

John Streider

Radu Bogdan Boeru

Tiberius Viris

Sacha angel diener

Niklas Frostgard

Michael van den bosch

sandra bott

michael dashow

nabil hamadi

alwyn talbot

timur kiryashov

damir g martin

Nathan L Bachelder

Daniel lu visi

Maurizio Manzieri

dale thomas

ego lataire

rune rask

guo jian

hugo araujo

: massive architectures,detailed cityscapes,plasma tubes,huge eon elements viewed in the distance in the style of grand space opera with miniscule,faceless,diminutive men ,women and all terrain machines reacting and responding to the environment.Archictectural elements include buildings,pylons,aqueducts,railways station,arches and airports as well as roads.The Focus is Architecture.Huge Explosions may be present.

Kazimierz Fit



Mike Moir

Ernest Burden

Lamair Nash

Marty Jones

Raul Heib

Elena Fitts

Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe(Inspirational Art)

Claire O'Brien

Sean J

Tibor Beďatš

Michael Merrill

Michael Krenzin

Kerem

James Nelms

mihai liviu

nabil hamadi

Bjorn Norberg

Tian Yanbing

David Wolstenholme

Ales Marcik

Renee Bailey

Krystian Polak

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Tuan Nguyen

Jesse Speak

Timur Kiryashov

Mark Goldsworthy

Roman Bernhard Eppstein

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Tiberius Virius

remko troost

tolgahan gungor

torsten wolber

nathaniel west

ramy badie

bryce smith

martin nielsen

emrah elmasli

mauricio alvarado kladt

prabath wijayantha

maciej frolow

nilesh ambekar

constantinos krystallis

greg kaperski

adrian fekete

reinaldoromero

marcin j. nikiforuk

james nelms

maurizio manzieri

jarek sznytzer

Derek wilson

Nazirull Safry Paijo

Daniel justin bird

dale thomas

erik linden

rune rask

david freeman

ori arad

markus graf

ali jalali

raffy encarnacion

alex kelly

jennifer Kathleen Phillips

: air ,sea atmosperics featuring natural elements of islands,skies blend into a grand sense of scale.Includes Tree elements.Gaia oriented.Mountain views and Spectacular chamber vistas. Sky atmospherics.Rivers curve and bend and disappear in the distance.Organic and Crystalline Inorganic natural forms.Terrain

and Environment is the Focus and site of adventure.

sean counley

Mark Cripps

Jeff Zugale

Thomas Ingham

Tan Guang Yu

Ric Brehm

lei huang

adrian baluta

gonzalo golpe

gunilla elam

jonathan colvin

guo jian

oscar jostedt

brian Slayton

yann tisseron

yaroslav kravchenko

dusten s. sonnon

: party scene with the character interacting and gossiping

Social Parties gathered at gate opening or onboard a ship or library viewing.

Radu Bogdan Boeru

nekomouse

Phillip Buchanan

christian paterson

Alex Kelly

: wonderful sense of humor even black humor and caricature

Torsten Wolber

per trystad

mark david

: action packed conflict with eon elements in the backdrop and lots of machines,ships,cities and soldiers.battlefield atmospherics

Andrzej Rudz

thierry schiel

paul hume

Karel Fourie





: entire cities,planetary bodies,asteroids,weather systems,gates,singularities,flawships and space vehicles in awe inspiring perspectives with large scale explosions.Ships have beautiful designs.Space/Aerospace Atmospherics.The Focus is on Flight.Very Detailed Flight Vehicle showed prominently with characters dressed for flight.

Bazzaro

John Cahoon

Kirt Stanke

Mona Eriksson

Emil Petrinic

Bjorn Norberg

Will Brown

Michael Burburan

Phillip Buchanan

Dmitri G Michniouk

Mark Alford

sacha angel

neville de souza

prabath wijayantha

greg kaperski

mona eriksson

attilla kurt

vladimir davidenko

paul b castillo

juha kamarainen

mauricio alvarado kladt

joel carlo

shawn andrews

matt benya

Derek Wilson

blaz porenta

oscar jostedt

pavel elagin

yann tisseron

blaz porenta

: detailed explanatory tutorials

sacha angel

matt benya

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OK, now having taken about 4 weeks longer than planned to read the book time has become my enemy as I have not yet finished it. I was however struck with inspiration on the whole approach of patricia and olmy to axis city.

So having sat down and played around with some layer blends and cubes this is the initial concept piece that I shall be pursuing. Any crits good bad or indifferent are all appreciated, your guidance and your suggestions are what will make me succeed in this elusive industry :)

Thank you all in advance, I only hope now that time does not deny me at the very least a completion on this.

Sean

[aurora]

I like the concept its alot like mine but I love the detail you have been able to quickly thrown in. Like you I'm stricken with an immense lack of time to work on my project. Hope you have more luck then me, I loce the direction your headed.

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Well have played around with a few pencil sketches but they weren't really going anywhere, however one of them looked rather similar to a cross section of a lemon... so I have spent the last couple of hours just playing around with this concept, trying to get a feel for texture and architecture. I quite like the idea of the central "dish" being organic in nature so will be giving some lemons close scrutiny tomorrow.

Any thoughts please feel free to pick apart or just pass comment.

Cheers all
Sean

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just a quick rudimentary perspective check for the cubes before proceeding with detailing.

[LightSovereign]

Cube detailing is beautiful!, kinda borg like, for the second to last piece. Though you can get a massive sense of scale with them, very easy to narrow down all of the visual ques for axis nader down to the two cubes (they actually reminded me of subwoofers to be honest).


nice going, sean.

Marley

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Hey everyone
First of all, thanks to everyone who has took the time to leave a comment, I appreciate immensly.

OK here is a development piece for the surface detailing of the cubes, not the side that accepts the singularity... Marley I have to take my hat off to you for the stroke of genius that was reference to a subwoofer, it was an inspiration!. I have myself a reference sheet now of subwoofer images and shall play around with their architecture for the designs of the hemispherical dish.

My big concern is that the cubes can so easily look like Borg imagery and so I am trying to develop a different surface geometry with that associated with those nefarious constructs! Hopefully this is evident in this piece?.

Most of my work is character pieces with focal elements being close to the viewer, doing a vast environment like this is quite a change in how it is approached, the biggest quibble is trying to emulate detail over sucha distance... ha ha, I keep finding myself staring off to the block of flats way over there :)... now if I could only see them from above!

Ho hum... well enough of my ramble, any thoughts please feel free to speak.

Sean

[mdavid]

It's looking excellent Sean. I especially like the depiction of Olmy's ship spiralling towards the city. The surface detail looks really cool too.

I really like the idea of looking towards organic shapes for inspiration. That should also help ease the issue which Marley raised, about the cubes looking a little borg-like.

[LightSovereign]

LOL, well glad i was abe to assist :D..

Marley

(i would imagine deep base from these structures for sure ^^)

[Nekomouse]

That's looking awesome, a lot of detail since I popped by last.
Keep it up!

[NH]

Hi abscnth
Keep it up mate, waiting for your next ones.
I'll keep an eye on your thread
Good luck

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Hi folks, not anything more in the way of detailing yet but here is the linework for all of the primary perspective. I have come to really like the idea that the cubes are juxtaposed to the corridor, possibly even having some freeform movement suspended as they are above the architecture below.

[abscnth]

Hmmm... just looking at it now, twisting the cubes like that causes issues with how the singularity connects to it. Waddya think?

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Hi folks.. have had to put Eon work on hold for a while but am back now.

Well here is some ground work trying to find the basic look of the city that Patricia can see below her, the main structures are the 'girdling walls spaced at regular intervals' referenced in the book on the approach to the city. The cubes, singularity and plasma tube have all been removed for clarity.

I dont think I have the curvature of the tube nailed here so it needs a little more work, but I am happy with the general look of the structures. Any suggestions?

As always please crit.
Cheers

Sean

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Hiya, after giving some consideration to the curvature of the tunnel I have decided to investigate some views using Cinema4d. Here are my 3 potential city geometries that I have come down to. I think the last one has the greatest compositional promise... any thoughts folks? Onto the painting!!

Cheers
Sean

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Hi all, given the most desirable extension on the dead line yay!!.. I have finally nailed the curvature of The Way. As you may or may not know this is my first environment piece so any advice before I start detailing would be very much appreciated.

All the best to you all
Sean

[walrus]

Nice atmosphere in your pice so far. You definitely capture the feeling of being "underwater" that Bear describes in the book. The background definately feels large and curing, as you intended it. The only thing you might want to consider is the placement of Axis City against the background: It would be in the dead center of the Way, equidistant from all walls. This one feels somewhat off-center: If you were to draw in the entire circumferance of the circles we're seeing, you'd find the city much closer to this one wall we're looking at.
Anyhow, just a thought. Good luck with it and the extra time granted!

-mike

[LightSovereign]

Heya sean!. looking real good. has this feeling of a cross of Star Trek TMP (1979) and Independance Day. Really like the patterns of the cube!.

In terms of scale, that can be helped along by atmospheric effects such as clouds or mist (something hinted in this shot). And supporting vehicles flying about the place.

Look forward to your next step :D.

Marley

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Thanks Mike and Marley... I now realise why I was struggling so much to get the curvature right, its because my vision of the segments & navigation had them too close to the wall. Now with the right perspective and placement within the structure of the way it finally looks right... thanks for that Mike.

Marley your mention of the old star trek poster got me to thinking that the other problem I seemed to be facing was composition, so now I have gone for a tall canvas and I think it works bang on and lets me use an element from an earlier concept I did with a city horizon closer to the viewer... cheers mate!

Well off to look, and comment on some other posts, in the meantime any crits on this latest sketch are gratefully appreciated.

My best to you all
Sean

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I have no idea wether or not i can get to the finish line on time... but here is some playing around with the concept now that I am happy with all the primary geometry and composition.. crits very welcome

All the best
Sean

[LightSovereign]

I am having issues trying to view your latest (not a new issue 4 me unfortunately). But it reaaly looks like it is coming along. What i got to see was the mesh of detail for 'the way' and part cube aswell.
Not sure if you know this trick but, for cleaning up detailing in photoshop, I like to use a normal hard round brush from any size between 4-10 point and at an oppacity of maybe 23% and flow of around 30 from memory i zoom in real close and just neatly start cross hatching, I find it a great way to create random textures which you can pick out...

With colour, I like to use midtones over lighter areas and switch round with lightertones over darker areas if you know what i mean. Gentle hatching is a great way to give you a tidy curve aswell..I use this for all my pieces now.

Anyways i hope you can cross the finish line, you'll feel better about devoting all this time and at least gaining a new addition to your portfolio.

Marley

[abscnth]

Hey Marley, thanks for commenting.. your advice is always appreciated. Yeah I get what you mean about the cross hatching and I will certainly have a go at the technique to see what interesting results it leads me to :). I am hoping to pull a few hours on this piece tommorrow, really I need to get it as close to finished as I can by then too (oh dear!!).

On another note I hope its not problems you are only having with my thread? and I also hope that you can get it resolved soon.

Good luck mate
Sean

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Hi, just playing around and letting the brushes do there thing, trying to capture the atmosphere, lighting and texture.

To all who read this congratulations on the work you have all done, there are some stunning pieces in the forum (and lots of finished ones too.. yikes!) I wish you all the very best.

Any crits if you have time in these last pressured days, would be most appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to look.
Sean

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more detailing of the background - I really like the architecture thats going on in there now, but it makes me think that the cube looks very architecturaly different.. problem is could I or should I rework the cube and still be able to finish?

[nwiz25]

wow man! this is really good! hope u finish this soon mate!

good luck to u! :thumbsup:

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very close now... just need to tidy up distance detail a little!!...

good luck one and all
Sean

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Well this is it, the final moment. Just like the awe and the wonder that Patricia could not draw her eyes from so too have I been captivated by both the depth of the book and the anxious steps I have taken in this, my first CG Challenge I have.

As the attempts Patricia made to grapple with the reality of Axis Nader, the Stone and the improbable physics, I grappled with a subject material unfamiliar and at times just as incomprehensible.

I have striven to take a viewpoint from directly overhead Olmi's ship as it approaches the cubes that form the segments and navigation of the city. This presented tremendous technical challenges with the perspective in the curvature of the walls, but I feel that I have come close to success.
For me an important element to capture was the impression that Patricia had of being underwater, I hope this can be seen. I chose not to attempt the city itself as already many competitors were doing such excellent work.

The lessons I have learned have been invaluable and will no doubt change my life and my approach in all future work, and for that I thank CGS and the extraordinary people that make up its community, to Greg I extend a very warm hand shake for allowing each and every one of us this opportunity to participate... now, onto the rest of the books in the story!

Sean

[LightSovereign]

This piece turned out totally awesome, Sean!. i love the rather alien like organic texture..Zooming in on the cube is a good idea aswell, it seems to support the cubes presence and reasoning of being there!.

It really only needs more tonal/colour variation between the cube and the environment, they seem fairly similar, and so the detailing tends to feel a little too much. Regardless, this is quite an entry..Love it

Best of luck to you, mate

Marley

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[mdavid]

Excellent to see you cross the finish line. It's a beautiful image with a lot of intriguing detail and strong design. Congratulations and good luck

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