Beard Clippings

[Patrick Gaumond]

@Rork, thanks :) I'm glad some are achieving that effect. I think theres a long way to go to get there still! And I looked through your sketchbook quickly and you've got some solid work in there man, just gotta keep working at it!

Been a while since my last update! I decided to take part in a contest (COTM Robomance, from jazza) at the last minute so basically spent a whole week just cranking it out. I learned a lot about process, but i should have planned it out better, thumbnails :((( . Theres a lot I'm not happy with but the important thing is to learn from mistakes instead of living with them!

Some samurai pants studies










A house in the woods. How do I foliage? Im so impatient when it comes to repetitive detail its not even funny!




Crimson revolver 1 thumbs and the final




Chicken warrior sketch after having done the chicken studies. Trying to break out og pushing for photorealism and try to develop a style a bit. Its so much more engaging to try and have fun rather than try to impress people with fancy rendering nonsense


The contest entry. The challenge was to depict a romantic scene between a human and a robot. So I chose the mechanist and the Jane the securitron from the fallout universe. In the picture the mechanist decides to reveal he was a human all along mcuh to janes chagrin!


and Some steps if anyone is interested.

First is to gather reference for the characters and environment. I also had some for the nuclear explosion that I didn't need all the way through so they're not in the file
Second is to plot out the scene. I was short on time, so I went straight into colour. To do that effectively , I used line to plan things out first. I made a rough ortho view to gauge the relative sizes of things and to figure out the placement of everything and then did a sketch to block it out.
Third is to establish a general colour palette and lighting scheme.
Fourth is to Begin seperating elements onto their own layers and to resolve some compositional issues. Start to work out the forms, colours and the lighting more
Fifth is to round out the composition and balance it a bit. I also really didn't like the head so I tweaked it quite a bit and continued to tweak it and change the lighting on it for a while
Sixth is to change the colours again and start adding in the other elements of the figures that were still missing.
Seventh is to continue adding details, tweak the face, tweak the lighting, tweak the composition here and there
Eight is to add the last layer of details to the characters
And last is to subtly add the post processing effects here and there and to smooth out anything if it needs it still