Visual Development Personal Project process

Currently working on a vis dev. personal project while following Sylvian Marc's course: Visual Developpement step by step on Schoolism.

Original Idea:

A shop owner has a rundown store stocked with electronics from another world.

Thumbnails:

Character explorations:

Had a sleazy 80's car salesmen vibe I wanted for the main character. 

Once I tried to make a character similar looking but modify some features. Felt I had either made Brothers or at least Cousins. Then I felt, I had more of a story to work from. 

Main character inherits his brother's rundown store stocked with electronics from another world. Now has to figure out what to do with the shop and where it all comes from.

Style search:

Love both Nicola Saviori and Fabien Mense styles and wanted to see what I wanted, look-wise for a more finished piece. 

So here are some tests inspired by these artist's styles:

Going with the Mense rendition and adding on atmosphere lighting to have a golden hour-like feel.

 

Reference/examples of concept art of said lighting:

Updates to come soon! :)

Woodcarver's Shop personal project

June 15th 2021 (original draft for post)

What started out as a simple illustration at first turned into this story/ world I wanted to explore.

 Main story: a young famous woodcarver (early 30s) is forced to take on an apprentice, making him feel inspired to house/help other apprentices who love woodworking.

Had started designing the interior of the Workshop, but scraped it to see what shots would be storybeat. Here's the first one. I wanted the new apprentice to be amazed at this Carver's accomplishments. 

Btw: she's a big fan of his. 

Wanted it to be set in a time in the early 1900s but have a whimsical feel to it. So his workshop would be in an industrial building that he bought with his prize and contractual money that he modifies to suit his needs.

An idea for him since he loves nature and tries to stay close to it via woodcarving he would maybe keep other nature elements close to him and add to the whimsy as well. So by using snail goop as his glue instead of regular wood glue and having a moth/firefly hybrid insect as his main source of lighting. 

The more I thought about it the more it made sense to use an Art Nouveau style for his woodcarving and decor for the time period. Decided to use a moth design motif for the various props he'd have in his workshop. 

(Sept 2022) Story wise this project has taken a turn. Might update on it later 

One Cool Lady

Never posted the re-done result of this lovely lady.

Original sketch:

Revised sketch/line art:

Colour tests:

Finished piece:

Wanted to test other styles with her. Here's my test run based on Nicola Saviori's style:

 Line Art:

Base colours with rough shadow blocking:

More to come soon.

Art dump

 

Did a Victoria Ying exercise from Schoolism.

Did an exercise from Ethan Becker's videos

A personal project I'm still working on and off again

A Demon finds life in the little things

 

Started this bad boy last year, but only had the energy to continue working on him more during the holidays.

Gaia's Mourn

 

With everything going on in the world right now, I feel this would be her reaction and she would say:

 "I've only looked away for only a century or two. What's happened to you?"

Adventure Begins

 I wanted to create new projects and my boyfriend decided to use an 

Art Challenge as a new project for me.

So here's my illustration I did for the Art Challenge with Atomhawk.

Theme/Title: Adventure Begins

Here's some vis dev:

Progression :

Final Illustration