Grand Space Opera 2D Entry: Luis Nuñez de Castro

#81

Luis -

To be specific, on page one of this thread, the post labelled #10. It’s the main ship in the second of the threee sketches ganged together there. Hope that helps!

And i like your space elevator concept!

-mike

#82

Its interesting that you did the ships in the foreground in 3d and the planet in paint, but maybe the hard edges of the ships and the sketchy, “painterly” treatment of the earth are too different. maybe thighten up teh painted earth and if the ships are flattened/ rasterized yu can paint on them a bit, using the model as an underpainting.

good job sof far!

#83

Thanx guys for your opinions. I already have in mind the final composition… I follow kaparo’s advice of showing more cable, and the composition will have more empty space. I still have to design the two factions ships, but I think I’ll post the final concepts and the line artwork all at the same time, I hope will be tomorow.

#84

Here goes my final concept. I have to define the ships design and the colors of the lighttails. Probably will be some changes for the linework, but the idea is that.
The spectator will see ship battle and the spacestation being attacked in the background. Maybe will be some explosions in the planet surface. I think the color palette will be the same in the final piece but maybe I’ll do some changes(I’m thinking to doa snow covered planet surface)

#85

Here is my line artwork, I have to paint it very quickly!!

#86

All of your sketches look really good, although this recent one is lacking at dynamic edge of the others. I think the ships and the space station are too close in size, although this is very preliminary, so I’m sure you have something in mind. Also, I’d love to see this in a hazy light. Sort of if we are at the edge of a hazy atmosphere, and can make out both the planet below and stars above just vaguely. Just a thought. Keep going with it. It’s turning into a great thread. :thumbsup:

#87

I post that cause I think I have to explain a little about that ship:
The ship is from the planet faction, the defenders of the space-elevator. Cause of that it’s more advanced than the rebels’ ships. It’s cab and the rest of the ship rotate to give the pilot the better vision of the enemy in all moment, and in the back it have a semicircunference arch of engines which can impulse the ship in whatever direction (it can flight laterally for example)

#88

Three ways of coloring the same drawing… I think that the third will be the chosen one.
painter and photoshop.

#89

Thanx for your advices Nathaniel!

#90

I would have chosen the 3rd one too !

#91

First I’m doing the planet surface, the background. I’ll add more detail to it when I begin to work in the rest of the image.

#92

I made some little changes in the background, which I think I don’t work more cause it isn’t the point of attention. I’m working now in the ships of the close-up, but still have a lot of work.

#93

Great artwork - your use of artist oils brushes and distort have worked really well. I like the way you’ve let the brush just flow and form the coastlines of the land masses - really nice.

I reckon that if you begin playing around with colour and contrasts, you will be able to make those foreground elements stand out much more. Maybe by desaturating the background colours of the land would work (or adding more atmospherics behind them).

Also, pulling the elements a touch closer together might hold them in the viewers attention that bit longer.

Overall it’s looking really nice - keep going :thumbsup:

#94

Here I go! I expect to finish it before the ending of the challenge…
Now I have all the elements of the composition in place, and I go to finish them in painter and maybe a little of photoshop

#95

Next step, still are a lot of work to do.

#96

The close-up ship in detail. I have to do the cockpit and some other detail.

#97

One more step, I have detailed a little more the ships and the explosions. Still left the pilot cabs.

#98

My final coloring! Still have to add some noise filter or texture for the final image…

#99

Some details of the final coloring. In the final stage I mostly used photoshop.

#100

My final image! I put in it some texture to give more noise to the image (cleany images aren’t epic!) and I did some little color change (more saturation). I put a bit of movement blur in some parts of the image, and lightened the upper third of the image to focus the attention on the ship of the close-up. I hope you like it.