Hey Hillartsympho!
I really like what you’ve got going on here. The sketches are excellent - I am really enjoying the character development.
by the way, go to corbis.com and do a search for “mixed race” - it will return some beautiful people - both male and female that are not of one specific ethnicity. I think that would be your best bet.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
~Shane
nice sketches…I like the worn feel to them…it would nice to see that carry over to the final product - the fact that this universe has been around a long time, and that time wears on it.
Looking good. Try taking it a little furthur. Include some more elements in your image. I like the first girl on sketch page 2. The 20’s hair style could work nicely in a futuristic setting.
Don’t be affraid to use reference if necissary. You can also select one face type and attach the different hair styes on each. This is a good approach since hairstyles often helps enhance or minimize certain facial features. Good luck.
I really like your sketches and as most of the peolpe have said post no7 is my favourate. You could try a victorian ballgown with a twist, kind of like the 18th century meets star wars, could be quite cool and might be a nice twist to the space opera theme. Just a thinking out loud.
HAve fun and good luck
Here’s a full composition sketch, just trying to figure out where to put things. as you see, the three protafonists have crashed on an alien planet and are wearily (sp? wary as an adverb, creative grammar) wandering through the swamps of this world.
Stuff thats not in it yet: The clouds on this planet are thin and in the dark areas between them there will be a galactic “naval” battle overhead. I’m thinking that the planet will appear as a tropical swamp to the stranded pilots at first glance, but in the shadows all around (both on the trees and underwater) there will be signs of bio-mechanical life. I want to make it seem like there’s something in the wilderness that may be preying on them. we’ll see what happens. crits are welcome!
These actually led up to my previous entry. Just some environment sketches to test color schemes/ get myself going…
Thanks for your comments so far everyone!
Ranath- Thanks alot for your suggestions; maybe I’ll try some of them when I get back to characters again soon. and something else to think of would also be how the charaters and the environment influence each other’s color schemes both conceptually and design- wise.
Oregano- Hey thanks for your help! I think I’ll be developing the charaters further now since I think I’ve decided to have 3 in the scene.
Blackarts- Thanks for your comment, so far I think I can pull off the “old” feel with the swampy overgrown environment; the actual “look” of the painting will come through towards the end when i’m doing the final i think.
CGTalk member- Thanks for checking out my stuff! I’m getting there…
Rares_Halmagean- Thanks for your advice. It will help alot along the way.
dloots- thanks for bringing up the themes- its interesting that several people agree on the altered victorian style. I’ll play around with that…
Velk- thanks for checking out my update, hope to see you back again
More coming soon everyone…
Nice sketches and nice to see all shadowing being done with pencil !
I never have the patience for that 
Its a bit different concept than most which i like and the last color test you did will be exciting to see converted to the pencils.
Looking forward to more
well alot of my initial entries will be in analog media because i’m at school in italy for half a year and the computer resources are different from what i’m used to. I’m away from my own comp and am using a 3 yr old laptop to digitally paint with, so i have to keep file sizes small. I get back home in mid december so by then i can really get painting! but the architecture room’s A3 scanner is sooooo nice…
Hey I’m still alive! Its finals time and I’m in Rome, so its been tough keeping updated.(I take artschool like 1 1/2 full time jobs!) anyway here are some costume designs based off of the victorian “look” i did for the female in the closest foreground in the pencil sketch i did above.
Here i’m exploring the possibilities of a landscape orientation for the sketch i submitted above. I think the landscape format can lend to a cinematic feel by referring to the format of a screen or projection. next i’ll be tilting the trees in the foreground and work with color. this is mainly intened to sort out the placement of things in the image and will be painted over.
I tilted the trunks for a better composition. Next I’ll be working on the figures, the smudge of a crashed ship in the background, more composition tweeks and maybe some color. Please let me know what you think.
I like the tilted trunks a lot more. Before they didn’t quite fit into the rest of the scene, perspective-wise, but now they do. Plus the diagonals add a nice sense of drama that perfect verticals don’t.
I like the costume designs so far. The anatomy needs some adjustment, but you said that that’s the next area you’re going to attack so I’m sure you have more that you wish to work on in that area. Good luck with it!
-mike
ok… today i added the costume and did a bunch of compositional tweeks. I shrunk her head and got rid of the ape-like arms. next i have to figure out what the crashed ship’s going to look like. right now its a blob… I added a little more of a value range so it doesnt hurt your eyes as much 
please let me know what you think
I really like the composition of the first image on this thread. Push it further. If there’s anything to work on, I’d have to say work a little more on the girl. Right now its a little confusing what sex she is. I see that you’ve posted some more sketches of the girl and the possible designs she’s going to take. push it further.
Keep up the good work !!!
I really like the style. Just work a little more on the girl.
You could put a more floaty skirt on the girl and long hair flowing at the back to better suggest the running action. How about trying to make her hold the gun in just one hand and do some arm movements to suggest again that running motion. Right now she looks a bit stiff.
