February 2015 - Jon Brawn

#1

Hope I’m doing this right - I’m a bit new to all this!

Late in the day I know but I’m giving this one a bash after a lot of 'umming and 'ahhing over whether or not to try. Sketch concept below (I hope!) based on plaza scene as per brief with some explanatory annotation followed by light direction / shadow view and then preliminary texture / lighting render for import into painting. Will post painting progress shot later today all being well.

Sketch concept

Basic lighting study

Lowres materials / lighting render

More later…

#2

Rock textures going on - very flat yet, needs light and shade emphasising and then some atmosphere / backdrop before blending it all together and tweaking some colours.

Made the mistake or starting this off in anamorphic format, which I prefer, thinking I could just crop it down but that just doesn’t work in practice (grrr) so I’ve had to rejig it to HD format whilst keeping the other one for another day.

#3

Clock is ticking… Main elements in now, I hope, with some depth and shadow, time to start tidying, blending and unifying. Really wanted planets / moons in sky but struggling to make them work with the space available and the clouds - might not resolve that in time.

#4

Adding a bit of mid-ground interest to plaza - tunnel vent or something along those lines!

#5

Running out of time now so I think this will be the final version (1000px)

1920px version is here http://i.imgur.com/aL2V8Ep.jpg
3000px version if you wish is here http://i.imgur.com/LJXTXXY.jpg

Great contest theme - many thanks for allowing me to enter.