E.O.W Round #176: Mecha Flea Market on the Beach

[Vulgar`]

E.O.W Round #176: Mecha Flea Market on the Beach
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/chaosrocks/EOW2.jpg

TOPIC = Mecha Flea Market on the Beach
inspired by agnidevi* from DA


Brief:

A place where merchants sell robots/warfare mechas in a coastal bazaar setting.. so your getting Caribbean or Middleastern sci fi. Maybe Mediterranean. Maybe
Mesopotamian. Whether it's tropical and sunny or post apocalyptic with a dark, moody atmosphere is completely up to you as the world creator.


- Please specify which image is final in this thread!


DEADLINE: Tuesday, 15 November

[Sean McClain]

LoL great topic Vulgar this sounds stimulating.

[OchreHand]

Ohh, challenging. Different mixture of materials/textures. Can't wait to see the results :)

[Ragnj]

Neat stuff!

[Lightpunk]

Awh crap, I'm delibrately trying not to do any more sci-fi stuff at the moment in an effort to widen my portfolio but this is too good to miss. Count me in!

[nofu]

Sounds veeery interesting, gots many a ideas going already. Sees how I have time, this is tempting.

[benjii]

awesome topic! I haven't taken part in a while but this one's too good to miss!

[Si_Swe]

Eclectic. I like it. I'll see what I can do.

[JieM]

oh,I like this one.

[Mila]

Vulgar you devil. I like the idea

[Incinerated]

soo wanna join ... Not sure I have time tho

[lancer_idenoure]

wow awesome topic :D

[android411]

great topic indeed. I´m going with a sci-fi kind of setting which came to me by accident actually. A beach in a mega city where you can buy all sorts of mecha, aircraft and so on from large to small...

[Sean McClain]

Hey Android nice start!

[android411]

thanks Sean, yours coming along very good too

here´s an update. I changed the composition a bit and put in some mechas as I thought my first comp was too empty, wasn´t it?. I never really painted mechas so this is a good practise. Still lots of stuff to do here though...

[MatejaPetkovic]

first stage

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[SMILEFACE]

XDXDXD FINaL XDXDXD

[yoitisi]

I liked the topic so I figured I'd give it a shot. Rough-ish WIP:

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[slence]

Mateja, that's frikkin sick
SMILEFACE, Cool piece
yoitisi, incredible

[Howie]

nice stuff so far guys, here's where im at

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[Penpoint]

ruff ruff!

[android411]

and another update, great stuff everyone!

[helionaut]

here's my first attempt i abandoned this image, not sure if i will be able to start something else. learned a lot anyway. decided my approach was wrong, tried kind of an alla prima method. i was glad that I was able to find color but maybe went overboard. too busy, but the biggest is maybe lack of a unified light. so maybe this is a breakthrough picture who knows.


maybe i will come back to it when i feel less discouraged

[DrZero]

great stuff so far everyone.

I'm going down the Post Apoc route..some from of wrecked tanker turned into a market/store

Rough.....

[Urötskidoji]

Cool subject! Really original!
Here is my try at it so far:

[Penpoint]

lil update for tonight

[Lightpunk]

Nice work everyone!

[ismo]

Great topic, Vulgar. Haven't really had time to cook up anything decent yet, so I'm only throwing some crits here. I'm trying to be pretty frank and honest here cause that's what we all need to get better. :)

android411 The basic composition works pretty nicely. You lead the eye well through the picture plane. Good use of athmospheric perspective too. I don't know about that big mech on the left though. It pretty much kills the rhytm. I'd get rid of it and instead add more smaller mechs on the beach with only some variation in size, color and shape. You might want to think of focal points more too cause right now that white building on the background competes way too much with the actual subject of the painting. I don't dig those big shadows(?) on the cliff face too much either which leads me to the big question for the end: Where's the main light (sun) coming from? Some things suggest it's coming from right, but then there's shadows and other planes that suggest it's coming from a totally different direction. Making the lighting inconsistent is a sure way to confuse the viewer, so maybe think about that some more.

Sean McClain Good start. I think your approach has nice originality in the color choises and also in the viewpoint. Right now I'd concentrate on the question of how to communicate the idea of a 'flea market' more. The mech has some interesting shapes but the overall design is still bit random. Since it is the main focal point I'd try to make sure it reads better. Time for some reference?

MatejaPetkovic I like it so far. Good use of perspective and nice color choises. How are you planning to add the coastal in the setting?

SMILEFACE Niice dude. Lovely composition. Hard to come up with any crits for this one. Strong piece.

yoitisi Nice start. Though I think your composition is slightly split in half at the moment. Unifying the color scheme might help a bit. You could for example repeat the greens of the other (broken?) mech on the main guy too. Check your perspective too before getting into rendering more. I think the problems lie in the right side mech that doesn't seem to allign with the horizon.

slence Good good. I don't really find anything major to nag about at this stage. Want to see how you take this further.

Howie Nice sketch. Composition looks good, though I wonder if it would work even better flipped? Interesting to see how you take this to final.

Penpoint Pretty much everything that I wrote for Android goes with you too. I think the bazaar in the middle is the most interesting part so far so I'd develop that further but would also crop left or right side of the piece to avoid the bulls eye effect you're getting now by putting the subject in the middle of the picture plane.

DrZero: Nice idea. Check your perspective before going too far.

Urötskidoji: Nice sketch. Remember athmospheric perspective though. Using really dark values in the distant background tends to kill the depth.

[AdrianNagorski]

Still early days.

[Si_Swe]

Really roughing stuff in right now. I figured I'd look at a more sketchy take on the flea market. Old pile of broken electronics? It's totally a store. Come on down to Skansha's used and broken robot emporium and get a great deal!

I will be extending the composition on the right side to incorporate more of the AT-ST-type robot and to balance/open it up.

[Syle]

Here's my first sketch. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

My own criticisms: I don't think it really captures the "trading post"/"bazaar" feel. Also, I am sort of cheating out the "Mech" part of this with those tall mechanical structures. The "trading" concepts in this sketch are also the "Mech" concepts. Meh. With all that aside, I think the perspective works well. With some color and atmospheric perspective effects put in, I think the depth of this piece could be pretty good.

[Howie]

@ismo: Thanks, it feels the most right when I have oriented the way it is now but I'm not sure if thats just because its the way I drew it. Either way I won't know which way i like it best until the end

cool stuff guys, should be an interesting round, here's where im at

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[Hideyoshi]

Here's what I have, think I am calling it done although I feel I could polish it more...
crits?

awesome work around!

[DrZero]

Hideyoshi, tight piece, looks awesome.

Gonna call it finished I think, so here's my Final..

[+oas+]

dr.z: nice work, but I think more work could be done on the ground and the surrounding structures. everything is very blurry, from the foreground and middleground, making the image have a lack of focus.

hide: nice as always, though not as epic as all your other stuff. glad to see your human.

[Panshi]

Hi everyone, awesome work!

Here is my take so far,

Good luck to you all, keep it up!

[Lightpunk]

Panshi - nice work so far, but there's not too much depth in this image at present. My eyes are drawn to the cave(?) in the near centre of the image where you have the point of highest contrast but I'm not sure this is supposed to be the focal point. I would suggest toning down the black values generally on everything that is in the background. Your clouds could also do with some variation they are a bit flat on the bottom at the moment.

Hope this helps

[Penpoint]

Trying a new composition out. Last one was just a bit to straight on.
Thoughts?

[daflom]

my first wip on this topic:

[Howie]

here's my final

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[monkeybread]

wippity-wip-wip-wip
Thinking I may go follow WIP1 a bit closer to be a bit truer to the sketch perspective....the foreground beach on left is giving me issues in wip 2. Hopefully will have time to finish this...Also just realised how flipping the image often affects text :P

Wip 1
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/315/b/d/mecha_flea_market_on_beach__wip1me_by_bigbwana-d4fwej9.png

Wip 2
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/315/a/8/mecha_flea_market_on_beach__wip2_by_bigbwana-d4fwet6.png

[android411]

here is again an update, thanks for the tips ismo, I changed the composition on the left hand side and changed also the lighting, will have to refine is if there is more time hopefully

[Mhugo]

Yay, nice topic and awesome works so far!!

My start on this.

[Max Challie]

Did this last night, finished as much as i feel it can be at the moment, though other people will probably have a different perspective. It's more a corporate distribution center than a flea market. I felt like adding a bit of a spin on things and this is how it turned out. Is it acceptible?
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[monkeybread]

Didn't have time to finish really...so this is my final unless I manage to sneak in another before time....

[artozi]

Hello guys!

Here is something from me. I hope I will have time to get back to this, or maybe try something else... Wonderful entries so far, many I wouldn't think of for sure. Thanks for inspiration. I feel a little cheating to join so late:P

Mateusz

[Max Challie]

DEADLINE: Tuesday, 15 November

What time zone is this based on?

[AdrianNagorski]

My final

A bit rushed in the end there but i got most of my basic ideas down.
still using dam photos. . . . . .

[Corrick]

Whip. Probably won't get this done but wanted to sketch something up.

http://williamwerk.com/art/beach3.jpg

[MatejaPetkovic]

Final

I am not pleased how this turn out, i didn't have enough time, but anyway

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[slence]

Final


What I get so far, not pleased with result. Better next time

[android411]

here is my final too. great stuff everyone!

[Vulgar`]

24 hour extension!

[artozi]

That one was tough! It was the first time I was drawing mechas and an almost naked guy under umbrella;) I went for showing more interior scenery, and trying to suggest nearby sea, rather than painting it directly. So the action takes place in post-industrial building which is the perfect place to get into the mood of selling second hand mechas. Intergallactical characters strolling around, merchants argueing - selling tension that reminds me of such bazaars I've been to myself. Great topic!

All the Best,
Mateusz Ozminski

[MatejaPetkovic]

@Artozi, although i like your work, i think you miss "coastal" from description.

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[artozi]

Mateja, Argh, that's a good point. It is not well visible in that scene. It is not visible at all to be honest;) I must hope the seagulls will sell the idea. I really should have put that beach ball somewhere, damn it.

[Vulgar`]

Poll's going up in a little bit, like the next 20 minutes, anyone have any last minute submissions?