Concept Art

I've created 4 concept paintings to practice painting and add some flavour to the characters. Lars' piece was posted below.

Hammett

Loved working on this painting, Hammett using his magic as an attack and looking more heroic doing it. Learning about the importance of lighting in concept pieces. The drawing started off with just a character painting, but after going back and looking over environment tutorials such as Hannsaki's tutorial (found here http://hannsaki.deviantart.com/art/digital-painting-tutorial-pt-1-90347578 ) I decided to try my hand at adding an environment.

I've never been good at environments and have always stuck to character sketches, so this was a big success for me personally, I'm trying to reach that darker DOTA style, it's trying, but I'm getting there slowly. I feel like this is a huge leap in quality for me.

The original character drawing

Cliff

This was created using the previously posted picture of Cliff. I'm trying to work faster. Again the overall quality is so much higher than I usually produce for environments, and the fact that I can keep this consistency is exciting.

Hammett and Cliff

Going for something a bit different from what I usually do. Artists often incorporate a main colour for a piece and I wanted to try something similar. Hammett plans his path, while reluctant Cliff holds on to him with a wary hand, almost trying to pull him back from the task.