Another He'stan update

Been working on this piece on and off over last couple days so quiet a few changes have been done. Just really want to get it done now so can move on to something else. Want to make some more 3D assets or maybe a character to texture and maybe rig and animate.

He feels too sharp now though as in sharp edge figure in soft feeling environment, not sure how go about fixing that. Also noticed his feet or boots need fixing now as well.

Starting work on indie games.

So as my programming friend and I have come up with couple game ideas to try and make have been looking for and trying out freeware alternative programs to photoshop, so we could possible sell our games with out having to buy expensive licenses. Tried to download artweave first but turned out it was PC only so then downloaded GIMPshop and spent today trying to use it... yeah I can't get to use to it it very slow and awkward process, hardly any shortcut and brush motion is awkward.

Best I could do before it bothered me so much to stop, layers seem like completely separate documents and can't colour pick from lower layers, Wacom tablet pen pressure... all kinds of things that bothered me.
So thing going try download Photoshop CS2 as thats freeware... may even try making assets in Machinarium/Botanicula style by just manipulating and collageing images to make assets.

He'stan start of basic colours on the figure.

So spent yesterday attempting to fix the background and lava slight and finishing off some basic grey scale I wanted to get in. Then today spent sometime put in some basic colours on an overlay layer along with mix in some other varieties of colour into the details.

Quiet happy with the cast glow effect of the eyes, along with the colour on the spear. Tried overlaying steel plate image to give the spear some texture, not sure if I like it though. Also it made em realize how wonky spear actually is.

Also the background feels like its bit distracting may need put in a cloud of ash or something, between the character and background.

Paint over attempt and getting back to He'stan.

So I forgot to update about my paint over attempt over the below renders, as I attempted to painted over them almost a week ago now. Didn't like how it felt don't know if it was because it felt cheap or that the renders were really low quality and pixels were doing my head in. Don't matter my Mac ended up crashing without saving the progress oh well. Not sure if I want to redo the renders and have another go or what, just felt unnatural doing it. I got the original idea from an old Overgrown development video, one of the art assets ones where he was painting in stalls into a render of their arena model.

Anyway today got back into painting trying to finish my he'stan painting. So spent today popping in a background and foreground. Coming back to it after time feel like kinder improved doing the background, felt a lot quicker. Also made me realized I had messed around with the magic wand tool at some point so hand got around the edge of the whole figure to get rid of jagged pixel edges.

 

I'm happy with the lava in very front foreground of the picture, running along the bottom edge of the image. but the lava by the spear and the distance lava near top left, feels kinder off has some really flat perspective to it. So that will need fixing other than that the figure it self just needs spear to be finished shading and then maybe some more chip detail on armor then I can go into colouring him.

**Edit: and now looking at it maybe need do more about the sky.

Paint over technique Pt. 1

My 2D tutor used go on about how in his day he didn't have 3D software packages to take advantage of to pose characters for reference or create rough scene to paint over. So decided today that's what I want to have a go at to see how effect the technique is and see if I like working this way.

So spent a little while in Max putting a scene together in 3DsMax so I could paint over.

Also decided to have a quick attempt at painting over my pot from the previous renders, just to get a feel for what I wanted to do.