Post Your Environments!

[zweiDee]

wow, some nice updates.
• sparth- nice atmosphere, your brushes are great!
• tensai - fantastic serie of pictures, very cool original style.
• velinov - very cool design and atmosphere, great light and cool deatail with the birds.
...

[nickmarshallvfx]

Well I have never posted in this thread before, but Im subscribed and constantly admiring all the work, so maybe its time i tried my own contribution.

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL762/3253510/9681213/254454426.jpg

Lovely work all, keep it up!

Nick

[Weeda]

Oh my God. I'm going to get teary-eyed looking through this thread. This stuff is freaking beautiful.

Anyway, I don't do many environments but here's some junk I did. It's not "finished," really. I'm just sick of looking at it.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i41/Ladnav/subwayflattened.jpg

[Jorge Gecov]

Wow! It's my first post in this section, hope to post many times now.

Very, very great stuff, congrats to all.

velinov: i like the idea and the painting, very nice.
sparth: are you human? hehe, no words, just masterful!!!
tensai: cool!!!
chupacabra: you rock!
wasker: i love the old house, it's beautiful.
atanderson: it's my kind of favorite stuff!
hideyoshi: i love the background, nice buildings mate.
junthi: i think you're very patient, its crazy stuff!
panda: Cool!
photeck121: great! you're doing killer experiments!


I did this gate last week, if you're interested to see the first version of it, check it in my sketchbook. ;)


The Gate

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o68/Jorge_Gecov/concept%20art%20site/thegatefinal.jpg



Sketchbook:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=80575

[photeck121]

Crappy little sketch
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1410/thingru7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bearfoot]

wow some cool additions - keep em coming guys..

here is my latest.. mainly 3d as ever .

cheers

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/fullres/colony.jpg

[kait]

nice render, and compo. (Y)

[Jabo]

photeck, velinov, tensai, sparth: LOVE!

http://www.drain5.com/pics/art/speed/untitled_landscape.jpg

[riddlebox]

damn this thread is amazing, been browsing it for the past few days, hope to put some work up here soon!

[Jabo]

http://www.drain5.com/pics/art/speed/untitled_landscape02.jpg

[dm3da]

An alien ruins concept.

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7268/bigextraterrestialruin200304xl.jpg

[silver surfer]

quick and dirty...

http://de.geocities.com/uweedgar/blog/base_exterior.jpg

[Hideyoshi]

thanks, guys! :)

everyone's on fire!!!

Bearfoot: great use of DOF!
tensai, ATAnderson, velinov, Sparth etc. : great stuff!
Jabo: I like the ship-wreck thing!

sorry, lil older:

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/iceland-base_small.JPG


Metalman Project:

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Metalman_small_MB.JPG

I have a liking for this alternative version:

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/images/Metalman_alternate-crop.JPG

[photeck121]

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9894/beachdaycw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Shot with unknown (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=unknown&make=unknown) at 1969-12-31

[kait]

great idea , photeck121.

[Trashy]

Total newbie here to this thread. Wow...everything here is amazing! Here is a smoke cloud study I did using some refs in a WW2 book

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c207/TrashCaretaker/billowing-clouds-final-clos.jpg

[BohemianChaos]

Another noob :^^;: I've never really been great at environments, but I figure I need to broaden my skills, right? Any feedback?

[Coleb]

These are incredibly inspiring. Anyone have a handy list of environment tutorials for beginners?

[Diphallia]

Gotta love this thread! Great enviroments, by everyone! :D
I recently found a buch of architecture stencils lying in my house somewhere (got to wash them, but that's another story :P) Hopefullt they will help me somehow. btw, there's one that's shaped like, uhh. Weird, it's bent (but flat) and then there's a big blob in the end, dunno what i should use that one for.
Well, as i said, Love your enviroments, gotta do some myself :).

Edit: The bent blob thing was a "curve"

[dm3da]

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7436/northcorridor980x7354hr.jpg

[simp]

Gotta love this thread! Great enviroments, by everyone! :D
I recently found a buch of architecture stencils lying in my house somewhere (got to wash them, but that's another story :P) Hopefullt they will help me somehow. btw, there's one that's shaped like, uhh. Weird, it's bent (but flat) and then there's a big blob in the end, dunno what i should use that one for.
Well, as i said, Love your enviroments, gotta do some myself :).

Edit: The bent blob thing was a "curve"

I think you may be referring to a 'french curve'
I use them as guidelines when doing technical drawing.
They create a desired non-freehand line.

[Chermilla]

Nice thread, only just seen it!! My third attempt at drawing an environment...

170955

Cx

[oscarp]

http://www.oscarpastarus.com/conc/mnt2.jpg

[Drawing Nightmare]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/gilgamesj.jpg

[photeck121]

Haven't posted for a while :)
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7320/refinery2xx7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kait]

http://subbeat.com/kait/asd/frog.jpg

[bin]

Cool!! everyone ~

My first Post in CA

http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2007/07/30/1185759907-userId-1189-bin0707302.jpg

[Juhani Jokinen]

Nice work everyone! And what a great thread :)

Here's a speedie from yesterday.

[bin]

Anthriel: nice!!! nice!!!

===========
tree design

http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2007/08/05/1186284884-userId-1189-bin080620074.jpg

[Juhani Jokinen]

Thanks Bin! Your enviroment isn't that bad either ;)

Good work!

JJ

[ActsOfBob]

Great posts guys... here's one I did one - no two months ago.

aob

[photeck121]

Speedpaint

[Lake]

some amazing stuff coming through here recently.

almost forgot to post this one.

[acapulco]

This one is awesome panda! Very moody and very nice shading. Some parts look like rendered.

[Scoobydoo_lt]

hey everybody nice work. Specialy those who been in this thread from the start, and also my favourite Photeck121 and Sparth. i propose new thing in this thread, since we are good people and like to help those who just starts to this. so if it;s not to hard for you, who post theyr works, just tell th basics how you did it. like what program do you use, how many layers, what brushes. i think this would be very helpful to all of us :) thanx ahead guys. im trying to pick up my skill in making eviroments, so hoepe to post soon, and to join this thread 100% :)

[Scoobydoo_lt]

hey, so i'm starting my contribution to this thread :) lol
this is my first ever (for real) work with pc tablet. i never done anything like it. so please give me all crits that you can :).
its not finished, but i gues i just move along to another one :)

i used wacom tablet, photoshop, a lot of brushes, it took me abour 1H :)

[Bones Weep Tedium]

which brush did you use/how did you use it to get the texture on the ground? you've managed to get a nice charcoal-y texture as well.

I like the way you isolate the silhouetted character with the tonal contrast. It would be nice to see slightly more detail in the envirnment, and some colour would be nice too.

[Scoobydoo_lt]

you will laught, i used a brush that i made from the old school picture frame. i mede it L shaped. also used photoshop adjusments. for more detail explanation i can write you later. because im at work right now, so can see my brushes :) many thanx fro the crits. try to corect some thing in this picture.

[Bones Weep Tedium]

you will laught, i used a brush that i made from the old school picture frame. i mede it L shaped. also used photoshop adjusments. for more detail explanation i can write you later. because im at work right now, so can see my brushes :) many thanx fro the crits. try to corect some thing in this picture.

if you wouldnt mind going into some more detail later on I would love to read it. I am very new to digital painting, and texture is one thing I need to find out a whole lot more about. I don't think I am going to be able to do anymore with the generic brushes that come with potatoshop, so if you could tell me how you made a brush out of an old school picture frame (!) I would love to read more about it!

Any urls to good tutorials that you have used would be appreciateed too? ;)

[grenogs]

bones you do realise that you can make your own brushes in photoshop, if you have a look in the help file that comes with photoshop, it'll explain exactly how to make them. Basicly pretty much anything you need to know concerning the program itslef will be there. But if you do need more tutorials, then look for the photoshop tutorial thread here in CA

[Scoobydoo_lt]

yeah Bones Grenogs is right, all of this is in there. basicly you just take a picture or whatever, and make a mask from it and you get the brush. or you can download the brushes from the internet. and after that you just play with brush settings like shape dynamics, scattering, other dinamic, and other. so basicly you get the result you want. i'm a starting concept artist also. so i just experiment for a while. besides that i draw with normal pencil for 7years, but its so different from a tablet.

[Scoobydoo_lt]

hey. so i changed some things in this picure. it's most;y the same, but i want to move on, so i just start another one :)

all crits exepted warmly :)

[Kan Muftić]

Wonderfull work, guys. But it would be great to see some of the UNcustomised brush work..
Cheers,

[Bones Weep Tedium]

yeah Bones Grenogs is right, all of this is in there. basicly you just take a picture or whatever, and make a mask from it and you get the brush. or you can download the brushes from the internet. and after that you just play with brush settings like shape dynamics, scattering, other dinamic, and other. so basicly you get the result you want. i'm a starting concept artist also. so i just experiment for a while. besides that i draw with normal pencil for 7years, but its so different from a tablet.

Can you do all these things with a mouse, or do you need to use a graphics tablet?

[grenogs]

it can all be done using a mouse, a tablet just makes it a lot easier, quicker and a lot more sensitive like a real pen would, if your thinking about doing a lot of digital art, then you should realy concider getting a tablet, you can buy a basic wacom, for less than 50 uk pounds. Or better still buy one from ebay for less than a tenner. and if you like, then you can always invest in something a lot better later on. If you have a choice between a cheap trust version or a wacom version, i would go for the wacom, its much better quality for your money.

[Dallas]

http://no-go.dk/moonscape2.jpg
A mooscape quickie.

I actually forgot about this thread.....Damned be my bones!

-Dallas

[Dragonspit]

almost a daily stop for me to see what is new. so much eye candy in this thread. Just thought I would try to contribute.

[kait]

asdads

[Kan Muftić]

I posted those somewhere already but I think it belongs here too.
Cheers,
Khan

[Kan Muftić]

and another one for the same project:

[kait]

nice clean, chupa.

http://subbeat.com/kait/asd/env.jpg

[Lord Dubu]

Wow Chupacabra those city-scape shots are the collective cool of Masune and Ottomo rolled into one seriously win-flavored sandwhich of more awesome.

[Kian]

Kait: I think you would be doing yourself a major service if you were to refine the shapes you've made. Youve got mood, pallette, and atmosphere established with these pics, but they are at a very early stage from what their potential is. There're many loose edges that could be tightened up as well as adding windows and all the other little things that make a city a city or a building a building. I really think another few hours more spent on these would be worth it :)
Esp that last one. I wish i'd have thumbnailed that.

[bearfoot]

wow so many great pictures, cool to see lots of different styles also..

here are my two recent ones :

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/dry_dock.jpg

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/mechina.jpg

[kait]

thanks and yes...u are right. i keep that in mind. :)

[AlbinoFox]

So yeah. I must say the environments in this thread are beautiful. Excellent work everybody. Here's one I did for fun. About 6-7 hours in Photoshop. I think I might do a couple more that tie into it somehow, but that all depends on when I can find the time. Hope you guys enjoy. Oh yeah, any and all thoughts and critiques are welcome (and encouraged!).

[alti]

ok heres afew new ones to stretch the sci fi joints inbetween work for the new game.

hope you dig these.

-alti


http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/drummonds/guardian1.jpg

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/drummonds/primeattack.jpg

[nickmarshallvfx]

Bearfoot - Those are gorgeous! Love your style, and the lighting in the first one really looks great! Please post more!!

Alti - Nice concepts, I envy you guys who can do such abstract designs and keep it in the realms of reality.

Nick

[junthi]

Bearfoot, those are super nice :)
Here's my new piece.

[grenogs]

heres something simple i done for NOW,

God took a picture of his illness on this ground...
... And he named this illness GENOCIDE
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x279/grenogs/now5.jpg

[alti]

from afew weeks ago

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/drummonds/paintingsketch13.jpg

[t i m]

Contribution:

quickie painter fun:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/gr4phic4rt/beachhorsecopy.jpg

[tensai]

Here's my new piece.

wow - very nice! would love to see some more, do you have a sketchbook?

[junthi]

Thanks! No I don't really have a sketchbook. I don't draw or paint so much these days. Well, I do but it's architectural stuff in school. Maybe I'll start one or maybe I won't :D

[foxboy]

gave myself a day and didnt realy know what i was trying to achieve! i know it prob needs a focal point but hey! ps PRINGLE im loving ur stuff bookmarked!!!! show me some love!

[Weeda]

I could use some help with the water and clouds and... pretty much anything you see.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2415/oceanwipco3.jpg

Also, if anyone has and pointers for how to start painting buildings, that would be great because I'm at a loss.

[grenogs]

ok, it has depth, you understand distance and how colours change, which is a good start. Now for the crits :) your clouds are to reguler, it almost looks like you have copy and pasted the top clouds, go look at some good sky referance, that will help a lot, or even better go outside and take a few photos of the sky tohave a better understanding. your water is way to calm, even on the most carmest of day, there should be some sort of ripple or wave action going on. Also put in some realy strong highligts on the water surface, afterall water is very shiny. Also concider reflextions from the distant mountains and clouds. One last thing, at the moment you have no focal point and a lot of empty space. maybe put a boat on the water or a bouye, basicly anything to put some life into your image. Try something red or orange, it will atract your eye but it will also compliment all that blue you have at the moment. Its also good thing to do if your ever concidereing to have an image printed, that way the printer has a better idea how the original colours and tones are supose to look. hope that helps.

[Weeda]

Yeah, thanks a lot. I was actually looking for more stuff like palms and stuff to mix it up but I wanted to improve the basics a little first.

Also, these ripples. I'm having a bit of trouble. They end up looking like flat, randomly-placed blotches. Something that just comes with practice, perhaps?

[Zippo973]

wow there are great and amazing things here in this tread.
But how do you people start with something like that? is there like a tutorial or is it by just practicing?

[chaosrocks]

Form is mentoring
in the mentor thread
last I saw he ahd a couple openings left

c

[Farvus]

Zippo973 - Just practice.

Here's my enviro doodle. Experimenting more with technique.
220044

[sup_ben]

Hey, I missed so many pages!
That's very nice enviros Kait, Chupacabra, Alti, foxboy...

http://digitalben.com/forum/turm_2007.jpg

[Nsae Comp]

Alway simply mindblowing, this thread! <3 :xpld: <3

I admire your skills!!!

Keep on the great work!

yours
Nsae

[Diphallia]

I could use some help with the water and clouds and... pretty much anything you see.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2415/oceanwipco3.jpg

Also, if anyone has and pointers for how to start painting buildings, that would be great because I'm at a loss.

Boooooring.
Enviroments need some "action" too.
Add something in the foreground, like a boat.
Or some rocks, just anything will do better than an empty space.

Try more textures on the mountains.

[Nightblue]

I'm completely awed every time I wander into this thread, and I can only hope that one day I'll get somewhere nearly as good. I'm posting a few quick concepts I did for a couple of unreal levels for school. C&C appreciated.

[Timo C.]

A lot of nice stuff here, really inspirational. I just posted this in my sketchbook thread but I figured it could work here too.

[sup_ben]

http://digitalben.com/forum/rocks_bridges.jpg

[AlbinoFox]

Been a while. Tried experimenting with a white-out sort of feel.

[Mr.Blonde]

yoyoyo, some cool stuff here!! awesome!

[AlbinoFox]

Holy GOD Mr. Blonde. Those are amazing. Excellent. Makes me a bit timid to post this one up. :P

[sup_ben]

yeah, great Mr. Blonde.-

http://digitalben.com/forum/cityscape_12.jpg

[JustinBeckett]

Wow, good to see this thread still kickin!

~JB

[Retroboy]

Hey guys! Huge amounts of reference and coolness altogether, here is my very first try at enviroment. Done in 30 min in PS.

Its a umm, a canyon?

[alti]

big structures and mega tecknologies.

[PieXags]

You know I gotta say, I've been following this thread since it first started. It has been my primary source of learning since that time. No classes, no tutorials, but the work you guys put out here is a HUGE inspiration. I'm happy now that I've started posting to be able to submit my first piece.

...actually it's the first painting I ever tried to do of any size, quality, or magnitude. For my girlfriend, hence the corner label.

Cheers to you all, fantastic work!

[alti]

Piexags > cool first image,i like what you were going for,
theres issues with your mountains and their bace, look at under the bridge under the moundains, the mountains just end somewhere under the bridge,
i think it might be more interesting to carry on the mountain landscape further into the distance. i'l post up an image to show you what i'm on about at lunchtime.
-alti

[AlbinoFox]

Just a quick little sketch. Playing with a little photo collage in parts.

[peetsbeets]

http://www.projectixce.net/images/portfolio/River.jpg

[jread]

:xpld: OMG mr.blonde you just blew my socks off! :xpld:

would you mind giving some tips on how you achieve that amazing style of yours (namely the snowy mountains, and giant-fortress style pic)? i.e. do you use a solid brush with no oppacity, etc? and how long might a piece like that take you?

...even better, could you place your style (along with left side of brain) in a mail and post it to me pls?

you can seriously paint mate! ;)

[Ead]

coo, stuff crew

Mr.Blonde> outstanding stuff, the snow one is too good!

[Lake]

EAD crazy cool.

[Green-fire]

Dude,
this thread makes me want to cry
it's Beautiful.

And if you see this Sparth
I did a speech on you last year
It was "Who Inspires me"

[Hideyoshi]

Mr. Blonde: 2nd is killertastic!
EAD: sweet as well!

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Island_city_small.JPG

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/HideyoshiR/Coverfinal_new_small.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/HideyoshiR/2rdchamber_small2-1.jpg

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Saber-Medic-poster2_small.JPG

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Saber-Medic-poster1_small.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/HideyoshiR/train-station1_small.jpg

no ref. for all
sorry for the flooding... :P

[alti]

hideyoshi your a machine, i like it

[grenogs]

hideyoshi, like your images, especialy the underwater scene

[AlbinoFox]

Very cool stuff Hideyoshi.

[reaxion]

beautiful stuff here as usual, EAD those concepts are delightfully original i really like the second one, very minimal and the scale is insane... nice work!

[AlbinoFox]

Volcanoes.....mmmmmm. The idea was some sort of magma harvesting colony. Acts as sort of a way station for refueling ships.

[bLux]

Quick 30 minute sketch to start the day...
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/362/1/b/1b1935781850b63c.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/362/8/9/8995a975eeea4d7f.jpg

[Howie]

amazing work everyone
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/Internalcow/orangeman-2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/Internalcow/white_rose.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/Internalcow/scape2.png

[Migsta]

This one took 1 hour. I wanted to see if I could just sit and come up with an idea and take it to paint all in an hour. Here's what I came up with...
http://www.miguellleras.com/images/Crawler2.jpg

[robmorfin]

1st post here.

[bearfoot]

few more from me

dont think i posted these already..

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/boiler.jpg

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/mechina.jpg

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/terraform.jpg

[silentbrain]

Been too long since I ganked inspiration from this thread. Nice to know that you all're still kicking ass!

Haven't posted here in a while so here goes:
http://venimarolka.com/dump/2007/112507-empirecapitalsketch.jpg

http://venimarolka.com/dump/2007/121407-empirecapitalsketch-canopy(fix).jpg

http://venimarolka.com/dump/011408-a_house-ameliaroom.jpg

http://venimarolka.com/dump/011408-a_house-entryroom.jpg

[Phoren]

Not very good compared to everyone else's work, I know, but we've all got to start somewhere. Hopefully one day I'll be as good as some of the rest of you.

It's still a WIP, of course, so I need to do some more work on it (Like the hills, skyline, etc, and then some photoshop work atop the GIMP stuff.)

[Lucky Munky]

Hi there,
you all rock. I am a new member and thought I'd add a little something of my own to the this thread, which is wicked-cool!

[sup_ben]

http://digitalben.com/forum/agriculture_01.jpg

http://digitalben.com/forum/midcastles_01.jpg

http://digitalben.com/forum/rocks_village_red.jpg

http://digitalben.com/forum/horns_castle.jpg

[frixon]

there's so much talent in this thread. good work all u ppl. esp Pringle and Scarth. You are insane. :) in a good way.

[Shard]

here's some of my stuff

[foxboy]

some of mine!

[Mr.Blonde]

...............................

[tokidokizenzen]

http://www.poppon.com/stevec/assets/sketchbook/market01.jpg

http://www.poppon.com/stevec/assets/sketchbook/08_0127_alley01.jpg

[Mac Imagery]

Here's one of my earliest pieces. In fact, I think I joined CA shortly after doing it to learn more about Conceptual Design. So far I am on information overload, but I should be able to retain much of what I've been able to learn.

[ian081271]

Here is a quick enviro sketch I did while at work...

Let me know what you think...

Horns Up
Ian:mittenbop:

[bearfoot]

more stuff from me :

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/outpost.jpg

[reaxion]

bearfoot that is stunning/// beautiful work man!

[Jorge Gecov]

Hi there!

Tons of awesome enviros, congrats to all!
Here's my update. More stuff in my sketchbook.
I hope you like it.

Cheers,


http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o68/Jorge_Gecov/concept%20art%20site/dwarf_domain_ff.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o68/Jorge_Gecov/concept%20art%20site/enviro1.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o68/Jorge_Gecov/concept%20art%20site/forest_view.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o68/Jorge_Gecov/concept%20art%20site/temple_of_chaos.jpg

[SoufMeng]

Awesome thread and nice job everyone!!

Mister blonde: wooooahHHWW!!!!! Why do this to me?

Bearfoot: Please tell me u did use some photos or i dont know what for this last one, will u?
So sharp almost a mattepaintng!
Nice job anyway.

My little contribution (perspective's abit off on the first one but there was like absolutely no planning so...).

[Ead]

here's a few, keep em coming crew

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4269/ae0508temptitgd3.jpg

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4993/ae0508domo2aa9.jpg

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[anjin]

here's a few, keep em coming crew

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4269/ae0508temptitgd3.jpg



This one is.. is... HUGE! Really incredible, evocative, inspiring... :D Great work!

[bearfoot]

top work everyone !!

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/bulkheads.jpg

[Hideyoshi]

everyone's on fire! :xpld:

some recent work:

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/slaughterhouse3_small.JPG

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Abandoned_Spacestation_small.JPG

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Blade-Runner_tribute_s.JPG

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Megastructure_small.JPG

[Kian]

Looking great Hideyoshi.

[Mark Tarrisse]

Ead f***ing awesommee !!

[schlichte]

awesome work here

[Lake]

ead - dude... just WOAH.

[bin]

OMG ~this is crazy house!!!!! v cool everyone


http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/05/13/1210684027-userId-1189-011.jpg
http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/05/13/1210684027-userId-1189-332.jpg
http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/05/13/1210689884-userId-1189-9442.jpg
http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/05/13/1210689031-userId-1189-4511.jpg
http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/05/13/1210689949-userId-1189-4844.jpg

[SoufMeng]

Hot thread, nice job everyone!!

Ead, Bearfoot, Hideyoshi, bin: O_o

[nickmarshallvfx]

Bin - That second enviro is absolutely phenomenal! So loose yet it reads beautifully! Right Click - Save!

Nick

[revenebo]

Sorry for the drop in quality but I don't know where else to post.
Here's an attempt at rendering an architectural object starting from a simple SketchUp model (obviously influenced by Whit Brachna's and Rainart's tutorials). I try to use what I'm learning about digital painting to improve the look of my architectural renderings, made with CAD programs with poor rendering capabilities.
I feel there is something deeply wrong in the final image but I can't focus the problems.


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q150/revenebo/eserciccio41.jpg


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q150/revenebo/eserciccio41stepbystep.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I feel there is something deeply wrong in the final image but I can't focus the problems.


The concept to me, doesn't make a lot of sense. It's rendered out well but i can't tell if it's a spaceship, or a building or what. When i first saw it i thought it was a bookcase. If it were a spaceship it would make more sense because maybe it landed in that barren plain that it's sitting on. But as a building which i more strongly think it is, why would it be there? an office building in a barren wasteland? i hope i'm not being harsh, i really dont mean to be but i am having trouble figuring out what the concept is meant to be and why whatever is there, is there. Hope that helps.

[revenebo]

ArtZealot thank you for your comment. Being an exercise it wasn't conceived to have some meaning in particular, but if you perceived it as a bookcase it means I must work a little more to give the sense of scale...

[Farvus]

Lol. ArtZealot. I assure you it's not hard to find much more spaceship-like building concepts. Life can be stranger than fiction. Check this out

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=3478064

As for the pic. To me the pic looks like it makes sense. Feels a bit like some research campus in the middle of the desert. Something like for example ESO hotel building (http://www.schoerghuber.de/mediadb/761/2282/bild_grossNEU.jpg) in Chile which is astronomic observatory.

I would work more on the clouds. They look too heavy.

[nickmarshallvfx]

bin - Those works are incredible. Particularly that second painting, just beautiful!

Some incredible work in here recently.

Nick

[peetsbeets]

http://www.projectixce.net/images/portfolio/Sleeper%27s%20Cove%20(small).jpg

[Sir Bret]

Revenebo, I love the building, don't change it - I think it's just the sky behind it, it feels as if it's pushing itself over the top of the building, which is probably why you're not happy with it. Maybe it's just me, but I see a different colour/light source between the foreground and the background and it looks a little strange... but the building looks fine.

I have a couple, but they're not really finished.

I'm also not sure what to do with this space-scene... there's something off that I cannot rectify myself. :( Can someone help?

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff171/sirlitebulb/SpaceMatte-1.jpg

[grenogs]

wow, theres some nice stuff here.

ravenebo try softening your clouds, their a little too heavy, alsdo soften the edges of the mountain in the background to give it more depth. I think your main problem here though is it lacks a focal point, some kind of vehicle or creature in the foreground will help, or even try adding another colour into the image, at the moment its just blue and brown, a third colour will complement the other two giving your scene a little life. Other than that, its rendered nicely, but it needs that little something to finish it. Have a look at the starwars universe books, they can be quite helpfull with these kind of images.

[RoboBobo]

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h312/thehemroid/Sewegeplantfinal.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h312/thehemroid/carthas-1.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h312/thehemroid/Highpass.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h312/thehemroid/stationZ.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h312/thehemroid/parkinggarage.jpg

[UCT]

Guys, THESE ARE SO INSPIRING! Fantastic thread and great contributions by everyone.
Feeling the force!

[Alayna]

:D
Kind of a speed painting, I wanted to try to make texture through painting without actually applying any textures...

http://www.alayna.net/sketchbook/gorge.jpg

[JCH]

just a small contribution to this awesome thread.

[manpondering]

"As I climbed into the chamber, I took notice of the flora on the high-shelf... the ancient tree possessed metallic branches."

http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/180/9/b/The_Hidden_Place_by_manpondering.jpg (http://manpondering.deviantart.com/art/The-Hidden-Place-90011948)

[ArtbyWard]

Great work all :yayca:

Trojan horse :android:

[bearfoot]

keep going dudes .. top work here

http://www.bearfootfilms.com/choppers/frame2.jpg

[SoufMeng]

:)
...

[bLux]

^^^Really nice S.M. I love the clouds. :)

[bin]

space-sprayer ,s.m :thanks :lounge:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/326/3/7/Go_to_the_East_by_artbybin.jpg

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/326/8/a/all_inspiration_DJ_tiesto_by_artbybin.jpg

[nickmarshallvfx]

Doodle. Im not worthy!

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL762/3253510/19178467/332907220.jpg

Nick

[nickmarshallvfx]

2 Hours, PS, from refs:

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL762/3253510/19178467/333014406.jpg

Nick

[bearfoot]

saaahhh weeet !
http://www.bearfootfilms.com/big/city.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Something done recently:

[ArtZealot]

And another, inspired by a link to some awesome pictures someone posted in the lounge:

[ArtZealot]

Heres another i actually finished up last weekend. Starting another tonight possibly.

[bin]

space-sprayer , ArtZealot : cool work :sungod:

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs43/f/2009/091/f/9/Monkey_King___sketch_1_by_artbybin.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs38/i/2009/157/4/c/East_3_by_artbybin.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/326/c/2/East_2_by_artbybin.jpg

http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2008/09/27/1222505993-userId-1189-JY2.jpg

[SoufMeng]

Bin, u should open a sketchbook and share more stuff, these are goood!
However is it just me or are they actually frigging long to load?

[Eytan]

this thread is the definition of awe inspiring

[Dragonspit]

this thread is the definition of awe inspiring

yes it is, and thanx for adding some more awesumness to it. I watch it always, but didnt have anything to add. I am glad not only did someone bump it up, but the images are great. nice stuuuph.

[Eytan]

yes it is, and thanx for adding some more awesumness to it. I watch it always, but didnt have anything to add. I am glad not only did someone bump it up, but the images are great. nice stuuuph.

Thanks dude! heres a nother one. bout 2 or 3 hours.

[Tyranx]

wow! nice stuff guys

here's some of mine...

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614107

[Alpha Moth]

Phew, great works in here. Just spent a good part of my day looking through every page . I want to get into digital painting, but I have to wait 6 months till I'm back in my home country with a real computer and better funds. Until then, does anyone have any good tutorials/dvd's that cover basic things like perspective, lighting, etc? I can copy anything with a pencil, but I have a hard time creating my own ideas. So while I wait till I can get on a good computer to start painting, I'd like to have a good grasp on the basics :)

Thanks for any help.

Oh the equipment i have at home is ermm
19" inch flat screen
7600 gt nvidia 512 mb graphics card
2.9ghz X2 (dual core i think) amd processor or something
some motherboard, no idea :)
i think that was what it was like, i haven't seen it in 6 months, so it's about 1 year old or so.
is this good enough to start decent digital art? or do i need to invest in a mac? I have also some basic wacom tablet too that i got for my bday a few years ago when I was 15 or something, the pen has a broken button on the side i had no idea what the button even did, just a little plastic thing fell out, i can still stick something in their and it will click. (anyone have an idea it what that button is for?) other then that it still works.

[ArtZealot]

Heres some random stuff from my sketchbook that i dont think i've posted up here. In order of newest to oldest sort of.

[James Wolf]

:D! i love looking through everyone's enviros :)

[Dragonspit]

:D! i love looking through everyone's enviros :)

I like the way you use your palettes. n thanx for kicking this thread back into existence. I thought it faded to away for good. s/b a sticky.

[Mindbendermind]

Simply an amazing thread - will subscribe at once.

My latest finished digital piece was a fantasy environment (inspired by Escher's "impossible stairs"):

[lkjhgfdsa]

just some experiments n I didn't know where to put them soooo...

[alive]

this thread would take me a loong time to go through but it is sure worth it, ill try to post something one day when my enviros are decent enough.....

[Mindbendermind]

Post them anyway. Doesn't say "Post your environments - but only if they have reached a certain artistic level", you know. Show us what you've got! :-)

[Dragonspit]

Post them anyway. Doesn't say "Post your environments - but only if they have reached a certain artistic level", you know. Show us what you've got! :-)



^^^agreed^^^^

[Biomecha_wolf]

hehehe another page to bookmark! a hidden treuasure of inspiration.! Nice guys and girls, keep posting keep posting..!!!!

[bin]

S.M : thank u . i think open in next year. I need more practice.

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/291/6/0/concept__May_21_2009_by_artbybin.jpg

[Mindbendermind]

Another fantasy landscape piece of mine:

http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/storage/7/251675/Moonrise.jpg

[Sickbrush]

hey guys, first post here:
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc9/rawgraphx/epicxpost.jpg

[Biomecha_wolf]

@bin , very nice texturing and atmosphere on your enviroment.! I can almost "hear" traditional Asian music, nice work. Keep practicing!

@Mindbendermind
Your fantasy landscape looks slick . Although i think you must do something with the color values and lights/darks. That yellow hits too much on the eye. Keep up!

@Slayer
If this is your first post here cant wait for the next one!!Your mountains look so real with their mass and light/shadows, not mentioning the wonderful color of the cloud above them which gives a nice feeling to the whole painting. What i dont like very much though is that your enviroment is kinda empty.I suggest try adding more elements on your next painting if you want.

.
.

Hmm, i have quite some time to post something new, i was practising with rendering and texturing.This just came out the furnace.

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/holerenderedit2222.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/holerenderedit2222.html)

[Biomecha_wolf]

2~3 hours
i sketched it on greyscale first, and then i added color on overlay layer

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/treee-beta6-small.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/treee-beta6-small.html)

[wilkerson]

I've been looking through this thread. I fucking love environments!
Great work sparth and quicksketch and everyone else.

Here are some of my humble attempts.

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834297

834300

[Saleem]

Amazing stuff
inspired by all. keep up the good work :yayca:

[dm3da]

A few of my latest:

http://www.art.eonworks.com/gallery/sci-fi/desert_outpost_sunset-200703-SM.jpg

http://www.art.eonworks.com/gallery/surreal/3d_surreal_art-200901-SM.jpg

http://www.art.eonworks.com/gallery/sci-fi/alien_3d_scifi_landscape-200810-SM.jpg

[prince8585]

Hi,
Great topic.
Here's my enviroment painting inspired by old amiga game - Perihelion: the Prophecy.

Cheers.

[wilkerson]

speeds

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[wilkerson]

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[co13]

that last one was AMAZING!
i never did any invorments, i should start out.

[Dragonspit]

must....keep....thread....alive.

[xzacto]

wow 0_o these environments are amazing! I gotta get in on this thread

[bin]

new 3
Thanks Biomecha_wolf .:sungod:

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/037/0/e/2009_by_artbybin.jpg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/040/0/7/tiesto___Bright_Morningstar_by_artbybin.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/040/8/d/Deadmau5___Faxing_Berlin_by_artbybin.jpg

[wilkerson]

those are awesome bin. the first one looks like the land is floating or something, is that accurate?

[Dragonspit]

Bin, really nice.

[Dragonspit]

Thought Id toss this in the mix. its just a p n i, but an eviroment none the less.

[ReefFrog]

I´m liking this thread a lot! More people should post here (or people should post here more, either way)...

[mrwho25]

fantastic thread, i looked through some of the first and last few pages, and there are some incredible works in here! I really love looking at environment paintings, and hope to do that myself someday (I do Terragen 2 stuff, but I kinda suck at painting now).

[Biomecha_wolf]

http://xs.to/thumb-DB3F_4BD8AD5D.jpg

http://xs.to/image-DB3F_4BD8AD5D.jpg

[Asettimi]

A lot of good work going on here, very inspirational.

I've decided to focus more on enviros, so here is a speed paint I did a couple days ago.

[Nsae Comp]

This thread exists now for 5 years! Happy Birthday!
I love this thread, I returned frequently all those five years to get inspiration from your posts here.
Thank you everyone!

Yours Nsae

:mod:

[Alien Ape Star]

:mod:
I started learning environements.
Photo ref.

[mary-cherry-me]

Oh man you guys are sick, the good kind of sick D: Awesome envios.

[Kambei Shimada]

Nice idea for a thread, some great stuff!!

Here's one of mine...

[Golden michel]

I'm sure you would find your paws just as dirty if you dug on the other side of the fence. Maybe you'd even find that bone you're looking for.

[jmkoontz]

There is some really amazing artwork here.

Here are a couple recent pieces of my own work. Comment/Critiques are certainly welcome.

[CrookedHorn]

awesome stuff :rocker:
here is my take on a downed space ship turned living quarters

[grenogs]

couple of new images i've recently done, the oil piece was a gift for my parents, the hansel and gretel image is an illustration piece for my portfolio, still a few details to finish here.

[acasali]

wip
http://a.imageshack.us/img815/7350/selva.jpg

[Mussy]

wow some very beatiful works here, especially bin love ur sense of atmosphere! once i learn how to paint i'll be posting :P

[Biomecha_wolf]

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3479/museumresized.jpg

[FootstepsBeckon]

A truly remarkably beautiful thread,thankyou all for the inspiration.

[Deadlyhazard]

What an inspiring thread, much like the speed painting ones....wish I understood value and all that so I could do these someday. Guess I'll just have to keep practicing :D

[Jaunay]

So many great pieces I'm glad browers cache things so i can look at them over and over again. One of the last few makes me want candies. <3

Here's on I did the other day, it's a place called Necrum (Well my interpretation of it at least) from Abe's Exodus. Ahhh love those games.

[Skart28]

:carnifex: This is one of my great problem to put a picture to site asking to post your animation, environment and some post inside the box. But I could not do that.

How to that, I like all the picture posted on here. So iconic and amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

[bin]

Dragonspit， wilkerson: thanks :)

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/347/0/d/port_by_artbybin-d34siix.jpg

[bin]

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/080/f/4/synaesthesia__fly_away_by_artbybin-d3c4xul.jpg

[Lord Dubu]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1260776&stc=1&d=1308742419

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

Great works everyone!

[daflom]

here is my latest env: (actually its an old one which i decided to repaint), hope you like it!

[bin]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/182/7/6/speed_2___deserted_by_artbybin-d3knhpj.jpg

[SkooterNB]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/182/7/6/speed_2___deserted_by_artbybin-d3knhpj.jpg

Gorgeous.