Month: January 2024
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Rugged Coastal Bluffs Crystal Island
Watercolour in my etchr coldpress sketchbook. And some process shots, which I always find so enticing in their own way:
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Astronomics Game Art : Designing Mining Equipment! Pt 3
Oversized Equipment With a base set of equipment solved for Astronomics – demo on steam right now! – there were two things next on the checklist: thinking about colour design, and thinking about some of the equipment that didn’t fit into the neat little categories of drilling/pumping/vaccuuming etc. Firstup, we tackled some big ones: one…
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Astronomics Game Art : Designing Mining Equipment! Pt 2
Brainstorming and feedback loops One of the first steps of designing is always brainstorming — sometimes this starts before research, sometimes I research first, and often I go back and forth, letting brainstorming push me to the limits of my current knowledge and then taking to the internet to open up new territory. For the…
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Astronomics Game Art : Designing Mining Equipment! Pt 1
Pt 1: Research Gonna talk this week about designing mining equipment for the sci-fi game Astronomics – demo on steam right now! – And I thought I’d start with a little conversation about research and process (…that doesn’t really have on a much art in it but just stay with me) and maybe get to…
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A few art technique book recommendations:
For just getting the painting-studies-from-life fire lit under you, I recommend Hawthorne on Painting : https://store.doverpublications.com/0486318745.html — it’s a collection of lecture notes from the cape cod school of art, and there’s no pictures, and that seems so counterintuitive, but the sheer passion for light and colour that shines through honestly is really inspiring. The…