Post Your Environments!

[tensai]

well, i posted these before, but this is turning into quite the environments collection so...

couple of months old now, hope you like. ive got some more but theyre not uploaded yet.

original is around 50 x 70 cm so i post some crops too

some really really nice work in here by the way, keep it coming!

tensai

[kidcrucial]

Tensai- that is amazing! Not to take anything away from this drawing, or your efforts, but this reminds me of the types of puzzles you would see in the mid-eighties. I love this and could look at it for hours. Great work. Must have been fairly painstaking, but I bet your pretty pleased with it. Now, how about some color?!? C'mon, don't get lazy on us!

[JustinBeckett]

Everyone, really great stuff! LOVE IT ALL Im so glad i started this thread.

Jeez i dont check this thread for 1 day, and its going crazy with all kinds of good stuff

Keep postin everyone! Im gonna try to get some stuff up soon.


Justin.

[LeejeN218]

This was my class assignment with Feng Zhu.





www.jenleeart.com

[Art B.]

[Patrick]

Here are a couple of interior pieces I did for Malhavoc Press' book Arcana Evolved.





There's some damn nice work from a lot of folks here! Very cool thread!

[MeArOne]

wow tensai. thats....unspeakable..lol..

Patrick i luv that second one..for some odd reason...maybe its the monkey looking thing that attracts me..
nice work ya'll

[balistic]

awful composition, I know:

[pringle]

Thanks Jason, I've send you an email.

Yoonjin, thanks for the crit. About textures, I start out with a big brush and then define more and more going down in brush scale as i render the texture. You can try custom brushes, sometime its easier and it saves time.

tensai, very cool. I loved explore those type of drawings when I was a kid.
Patrick, looks good.
Balistic your colours and light is always spot on.

my crap

[tensai]

kidcrucial - yeah took quite a while to just do the line work. thats also why i basically colored it with three values. otherwise it would have taken me months..

MeArOne - glad you like it..

LeejeN218 - love that first one.

Pringle - very impressive. love your atmosphere and compositions man. and the way you keep m a bit rough.

here are a couple from a quick design i did a couple of years ago when i was graduating in tokyo. its a city hanging upside down, over another city. the space between 'uptown' and 'downtown' was to be mad crowded and metropolic, with buildings amd neons hanging down.

on top of everything you would have a big empty space - sort of like a giant roofterrace / parc in the city. the drawings are abit basic, more to show design than convey mood...

try to upload some more recent work later.


if its too much ill remove some of them..
or i could upload some of the construction priciples i did...


tensai

[Pencilator]

Crazy, I had to look trough this thread about 3 times... just couldn't stop
Great work everybody. Environment are the shit.

[deryk]

LeejeN218: you study under feng zhu!? awww man, you're really lucky.

i'm self studying with his dvds. at the risk of it looking like utter crap with all the work on this thread... here it is:



sketched and painted in painter ix, around 1hr. tried to apply feng's principles of scale and stuff in close up to put the viewer right into the shot.

gotta start from the somewhere. it's usually from the bottom!

[Hideyoshi]

this thread is so damn cool...
another 2 concepts, the first one is really old already, some of you might have seen this before somewhere :-P
It's a marker render btw.



this one is a panel taken from my manga short that will be published in Germany soon:



no ref. used on both.

Hey Dragonspit! Cool, you're here, too.
Yes, I'd like to post some of the Starsiege stuff as well... :-P

[kidcrucial]

Damn guys- this is turning into one hell of a thread.

Hideyoshi- Old or not, I love that first one!

Prinlge- The thing I love about your work is the amount of strength and power in your compositions. Like in the last one you posted- I would have never have been bold enough to force the perspective to lean in like you did, but it works so damn well. How do you know when you can get away with that and when you cannot?

[staceydiana]

Damn...just damn.....can't wait to hop on the band wagon!! Justin B thanks for starting this thread it was excellent decision

[Dallas]

Hi fellas.
I once thought I could avoid crossposting, but I'm not producing enough stuff.
Sorry for crossposting and shouts to all the Sijun regulars and Hi to all the wonderful CA'ers

Goooood stuff guys!!!!

Speedies and pseudo speedies:











-Dallas

[kidcrucial]

Very inspiring Dallas. I love the perspective on the first two.

[deryk]

ok everybody remind me to NOT post here again to avoid embarrassment! wow all the work posted after mine is just too good.

my time on this thread is now over. i'm just gonna sit back and observe while i practice to reach the extreme level of talent present in this thread.

[Hideyoshi]

WTF??!
Dallas, that's mind-blowing!
You're a master of lighting, no doubt!
The third one is killing me!

[Gilles]

[pringle]

This is a great thread.
Dallas, love your images and avatar

More stuff for school
Not quite done. But I gotta crash right about now.

[Jeff Nentrup]

Alright, I wasn't going to post this because it's in progress but the coolness of this thread keeps going way up... Here is a pretty generic castle. I'll put a city on that far hillside when I have time.
Deadlines come first...

Deryk- hang in there man. Drawing all the time, is the fastest way to the next level.

[stewart one]

Cool thread! Awesome work dallas. i really enjoy those cityscapes. Pringle, very nice aswell! Infact, cool stuff from everyone!
heres my contriburion:

[deryk]

nice work stewart one! love the last one...that's straight out of a fantasy movie man. really great.


Jeff Nentrup - i take my hat off to that castle. the way it's placed and lighted in the shot is just perfect. and yeah i keep drawing everyday. my eyes are actually red from doing too many environment practice sketches on my tablet. hehe they're gonna have to pry me away from my laptop to get me to do anything else. all this is causing my programming skills to lag way behind. :p

[MAD WILL]

The pics of Alexius is great and colors are amazing, but the pics of Pringles made me , it's fantastic man....
PRINGLE IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


BALISTIC - VERY NICE PIC i like very much the effect of water

[Space Marine]

Hi everybody awsome work
i just want to participate in this great thread
it's a mix 3d and Photoshop post production about old cairo

[Hideyoshi]

another recent speedy. 1.5 hours, PS 7
Extremely cool stuff coming in here...

[Alexius]

superb and marvelous work everybody!
Dallas' and Pringle's stuff makes me want to try out some crazy perspectives.
and stewart one's towers have some damn impressive brush strokes and colors.

Here's my latest piece, inspired by this thread-
(Some of the mountain textures provided by my good artist friend Jeff Rose)

[JustinBeckett]

Really great stuff guys! Love it all, a question to everyone, where do you all get the ideas for creating such highly detailed environments. Look through magazines, or what..just wondering.

Pringle nice work again

Stewart one, you have some very good work!

Jeff Nentrup, you just inspire me tooo much man! I wish i could learn from you. Do you have any tuts....

[Jeff Nentrup]

Thanks a lot Justin. There is a lot of inspiring stuff in this thread for me too. I'm trying to figure out how these guys get the Craig Mullens look myself...

I don't have any tutorials put together although that is something I'd like to add to my site down the road. I primarily use Painter 9 but always have Photoshop running for transforms, filters and the amazing file browser. As far as technique most of my method comes from oil painting from models, outdoors and some from photos.
Digitally I tend to design on the fly because it's so easy to make changes. I studied with Ryan Church for 14 weeks or so while at Art Center and picked up a lot of his habits, check out the DVD's on his site if you haven't already. He breaks it down really well.

I'll see if i can put up some work in diffrent stages soon. I'll let you know when that happens. Hopefully my clients will let me show some of my more recent work as well.

Cheers.