Messin' round with speed.

[R Brown]

Each were about an hour or so. The last two are consolidated from the environment thread.

http://www.robertdbrown.com/images/speed_landscape_05.jpg

http://www.robertdbrown.com/images/speed_landscape_04.jpg

http://www.robertdbrown.com/images/speed_landscape_03.jpg

I miss doing tech.
-R

[Serpian]

An hour!?!?!? Hot DAMN! Wonderful! I like the last the best but the others are great too!

[Shoe]

Love the last one, great job. reminds me of the Sulaco.

[Spacetoy]

Hi

The last two are excellent and the paint technique and colouring is lovely.

But the first really bugs me, the plane has almost no 3d form and depth of surface and ends up looking very flat, infact wafer thin. Only the fusalge raises up slightly. Unfortunately it lets the group down.

It would be a huge shame not to go back a redesign the plane. Hope this helps..

[R Brown]

Thanks guys!

ST, On the jet-
It's the jet I imagine that has been causing people to have 'UFO' sightings. It has an ultra low profile to slip radar, no tail fin, and a slight blister for a canopy. If anything, I would say you can tell I rushed the perspective.

[andreasrocha]

awesome pieces...especially for one hour. The clean perspective lines work nicely!

[undergroundsean]

cool stuff you have here!!
I like the last one more

[Cique]

I agree, AN HOUR!, Kick ass stuff!

[Dragonspit]

I really like that last one. it has great depth and mood.

[dogfood]

I really like these.

And in the first, the lateral/ventral control scheme (the surfaces with all the air holes) is fascinating. They introduced that decades ago to reduce boundry layer seperation along the top of the wing at high angles of attack, but using it as a control method is so, so cool and has mind-blowing ramifications.

[endercoskun]

one hour? :jawdrop:...:bow:

the last one is AWESOME!!!

[rainart]

Very nice work and lighting !!
About the last one:
Just simple crit...maybe you could add a depth of field or (invert) a little blur in the foreground !

rainart
www.rainfx.com
www.steambotstudios.com

[R Brown]

This one should have been faster because it was the same compositon as the first jet. However, it went over about 45 min trying to create a sense of speed. The goal still remains elusive.
http://www.robertdbrown.com/images/speed_landscape_06.jpg

Maybe its a retro-stealth Bat jet.

[bostlund02]

I quite like the second picture. The background just seems a little flat though. maybe have a greater range of lights and darks to show depth in the water. also if you wanted to make the "bat jet" look like its going really fast you could try to blur the rear edges of it slightly. Unless you are trying to make it look crisp for better representation in a sitation where someone would be modeling it.

[R Brown]

This one was a few hours. Let me apologize in advance for the pretend Japanese.

http://www.robertdbrown.com/images/speed_landscape_07.jpg

-R

[pogonip]

Your are one talented MOFO ! I'd hire yah :tihi: ..anyways they are all stunning keep pumping out more there awesome !

What do you do for a living concept artist ? I'd love to see a break down of the last shot because I don't see how anyone could do that in just a few hours ! Not that I don't believe you it's just beyond me . There sheer amount of texture and surface detail and lighting ,even given the ability to make the picture to begin with would take me a full 8-10 hr day at least ..sheesh ..

[Spacetoy]

Excellent buildings - the lit area really adds focus, and I much prefer the new stealthy plane.


Pogonip - I can well believe he did some of these in an hour, I am not a concept artist, but the professionals in my indusrty use photoshop day in day out and can knock out sketch renders, finals in very short time scales - you get very fast if do that kind of thing all the time. Also you can build up back catalogues of bits to reuse and save time - Im not saying R brown did this but having an odd metal frame in a file ready for tiling in with the distort tool would save bags of time, rather than sketch out everyone.

[Simon Boxer]

Simply put: Wow.

I must learn your secrets... Do you mask each little part and build it up from the background or what?

I love all the cleancut edges, but haven't really attempted techy work in the past. Any tips for what PS features I should research/practise?

[Theo]

the pic with the buildings just blows the rest away. I love your textures.

[moogy]

The last one you've posted... with the buildings... it's... it gives me instant orgasms.

HOW the heck do you manage to do that?

o-o

[AngryScientist]

Very nice and crispy work! Good sense of size and LOVE the lighting!

[R Brown]

Do you mask each little part and build it up from the background or what?


With good layer organization, I keep my detail fairly easily. However, at times it feels like I spend more time preserving channels than painting.

[Clandestine_IX]

Just had to pop another painkiller to relieve the headache I got from trying to figure out how you did these so quickly... Really nice work, last piece especially. Any chance of a process show&Tell?

[R Brown]

If you don't know already, I'll give you guys the dirty secret of speed and concepting =).

After drawing a while, you learn what works and what does not. Perspective, lighting and especially readability eventually become second nature. The real time spent in the process is designing. Since there is no client and I only have to make myself happy. I can just roll out the empty calories of what my instincts know will work. There is a very big difference between, 'looks cool' and 'thats exactly what we wanted'.

As far as tutorials I'll keep it in mind for the future, but I don't have one thus far.
-R

[Dile_]

wow, nice texture work!
well, I though i alredy posted in this thread, but it seems that I havent, but
great work overall!
Thumbs up! ;)

[deliciouspeter]

Love these. Great environments...so efficient.

[greymattre]

Another beautiful enviro! I love how crisp your pieces come out. Any tips on how to avoid that mistly look a lot of us beginers get when we try to paint digitally?

[DavePalumbo]

pretty hot, that "few hours" one... whoa man. You must look like a big blur while you're working

[Snarfevs]

Totally LOVE the first plane. I have no problem with the razor thin profile. The blackbird-like 2nd plane looks good but the fuselage looks rather plain.

pictures 2 and 3 look great - 2 has an awesome angle, 3 is very reminiscent of the kind of design in Battlefleet Gothic, coupled with a Sulaco aesthetic that someone else has already mentioned.

And the buildings are plain insane.

[typhoon]

Very nice! I really like the texture work on that last one.

[nonie]

Wow, your textures! Lovely. And the pretend Japanese cracked me up :) I take forever because I have this compulsion to exhaustively research everything - so those signs would have said something, but that picture also would have taken me days :P I'm going to pretend like it's just because I procrastinate, hehe

Great work!

[R Brown]

Thanks for the kind words guys, I never know what to think when I am working on a piece. Its good to hear the feedback.

I love how crisp your pieces come out. Any tips on how to avoid that mistly look a lot of us beginers get when we try to paint digitally?

Grey, I personally like crisp definition for working. It helps when trying to communicate to production staff. A lot of my painting, boils down to preserving edges. I make sure to mask a lot and to rarely use soft edged brushes.
-r

[Snarfevs]

just something i noticed... did you use a... layer style... to pull off those faux japanese signs? :teeth:

[Denart]

a few hours?! You crazy!

[R Brown]

Snarfevs,
:teeth: -r