Minos' digital sketchbook

[Minos]

Here's an study of something I want to work on more. The building shape and the dude are boring and uninspired but I finally got myself an efficient workflow to paint this kind of stuff. Perhaps it will become my first full digital painting ever??

Crits are welcome :wink:

[2d-chris]

hey mino, just want to say fecking awesome stuff :D

[Minos]

New one. Spent way too much time on this one (was supposed to be a thumbnail only)

I'll probably rework the sky later!

[Buddy]

New one. Spent way too much time on this one (was supposed to be a thumbnail only)

I'll probably rework the sky later!

Looks kinda like Bionic: Salvation

[Pericolos0]

very cool simon!! I think the clouds could have use some more work, but very cool otherwise =)

[2d-chris]

sim city???? looks so cool

[-HP-]

Good, good.

But tell us, why do your illustrations look so much like brams?

[Minos]

Thanks guys!

very cool simon!! I think the clouds could have use some more work, but very cool otherwise =)

Yup they look horrible. There's a guy at work who's great at painting clouds, I'll get him to teach me a few tricks

Good, good.

But tell us, why do your illustrations look so much like brams?

We went to the same school and use teh same doenerking filter

[-HP-]

Kay... don't get me wrong, my question wasn't an insult or anything, completely on the contrary! I was just curious, cos you guys art are so alike in the brushes and colors, etc.

[Corwin]

":3nbcrafa]Kay... don't get me wrong, my question wasn't an insult or anything, completely on the contrary! I was just curious, cos you guys art are so alike in the brushes and colors, etc.

I think they're the same person

[Minos]

":1ql9yafc]Kay... don't get me wrong, my question wasn't an insult or anything, completely on the contrary! I was just curious, cos you guys art are so alike in the brushes and colors, etc.

I think they're the same person

Mapcorians suspected to be peris so far:

- Nexus

- RD

- Minotaur0

- Spellbinder

[Minos]

New one. Now I need to figure out a way to color this naturally. I want to keep it quite desaturated but I still wanna have some color variation. Any suggestions??

[Corwin]

New one. Now I need to figure out a way to color this naturally. I want to keep it quite desaturated but I still wanna have some color variation. Any suggestions??

That scene reminds me of Tekkon Kinkreet, the anime, when The Rat gets shot. It has a orange/brownish tint to the lights that I think would suit your illustration well. I'll try to find a picture to show you.

EDIT:

[Minos]

Wow thanks a lot Corwin, that's exactly what I had in mind color wise! I'll detail it more tonight and then color it.

I actually found it a lot easier to build/details shapes painting in black & white only, since you can focus on the composition/details etc... but it gets a lot harder to get the right colors in the end.

[Pericolos0]

you can try a gradient map, quick and easy way to get some color in. Use several gradient maps with mask for more variation! It's a cheap trick but works well enough =)