new here, thought i'd contribute...

[xen_q]

hi everyone,
i'm a concept artist from vancouver...been checkin' out this board for a while. alot of really good artists posting here, it's really cool to have a place to get inspired and share your ideas, so i thought i should start contributing.
here's a character i drew and photoshopped, nothing professional...just for fun.

http://www3.telus.net/quarless/sniper_small.jpg

[sin]

i like it a lot, show us more!

[Imp Head]

I'm really responding to your color choices. They're far enough away from one another in hue that they work on their own but they're not so different that they don't work together to tie the entire piece together.

The costuming is well thought out and seemingly functional. The weaponry as well.

The anatomy of the face, though very clean, is, in my opinion, a little too exagerated. If you were to reshape the eyes a little and move them farther apart, then deflate the top lip just a hair I think it'd work a little better.

You've also got an anotomical anomaly happening in the waist, hips, leg transition. All look correct on their own but a human body just can have the hips facing one way and the legs in another. move the pivot from the top of the legs to the waist and you'll be golden.

[Edit] Actually the more I look at the more I can see the problem is at her left knee. if you rotate the bottom of her leg so her foot is facing the other way it'll be correct.

All in all a pretty nice piece. Keep posting!


Brian

[killing.people]

her hips:
it took me a while to see the belt right, however it does makes sense - but it seems imphead wasnt the only person who got confused with it.

her face:
she has an ugly triangle on her face. she is pretty hot still .. uh ..

her foot:
the left boot is jacked up a little.

nice work, i like your style it is very different from anything we have here at concept art.

[Sketch]

Hey welcome aboard! I like the piece a lot. Like killingpeople said, it's different than most stuff on here. Are you working in the industry and if so where? I'm from Vancouver as well.

[Fipse]

I really like this comic-style approach. The rest of the bunch has told s far enough about the technical side :)

I just would like to know - as a foreigner - are there different types and directions of "concept-artism"? Here in this forum there seems to be the "painting-style" dominant but what´s appening in the rest of the business?

If I had known that there was some thing as concept-art going on in the I would have tried 18 years ago to study in the U.S. instead of going into the ads ;)

Fipse

[xen_q]

thanks for all your comments...i agree the pose isn't quite right, i kinda felt her shoulders were too bis as well. there are definately a few things i'd tweak onit, but it's just for fun, so i'll probably just move on to something else.

sketch: yeah, i'm working in the industry here in van, been doing concept art and front end design for a video game developer downtown for the last year and a half. PM me if you'd like to know details, I'm interested to hear where you're working and what's going on there as well.

Fipse: yeah, there are different styles of doing concept art, for me it depends on what the client wants to see as far as style. I work in video games, so the style depends on the project. I'm just coming off a big project where everything they wanted to see has to be fairly realistic, so I'm just having fun on my oen with a more cartoony style. i went to animation school and have always been really comic influenced, it shows in my style for sure...but sometimes i'll do much more realistic, painted stuff for work.