Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Hey man congrats on the latest design! That's a really unique take on a magic wand, and it honestly looks quite cool! The rendering is overall a huge step up, it feels like a real object, and the side view looks great. Is this a combo of 3D modeling with like a toon shader and painting? I think it's a good use of all your tools if so.

I agree the presentation maybe could use some workshopping. Like I get that the text is supposed to look like a fantasy language on purpose. But I genuinely struggle to read it at all. Though the text does look cool, I think that idea could be more legible like if it looked like it was an old schematic on paper like an ink-drawing vibe instead. But of course that doesn't work with the futuristic elements and the lightning like you said. But I'm not so much getting the futuristic, holographic version of that, so I kind of just want the font to be readable. I think it would work if it was presented more in this kind of manner:

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something like that. Obviously that image makes no sense at all if you actually look at it, but just that sort imagery looks like 'sci-fi holographic blueprint'. And then it's clear that the text is in an alien language and you're not really supposed to be reading it.


 But all that aside the work itself is good.

It a aetherpunk inspired wand the aesthetic is not really new. But atleast i am sharing something that new to you.

Yes it a 3d painter over the initial design was done digitally i am building a workflow that try be 100% blender friendly.

It not the futuristic element that throw the old schematic on paper idea into the bin but it rather that my object as value but on a schematic you only have contour of the object and flat value and i spend a considerable time getting the light to read in a interesting way so changing my mind was out of question the project was already loosing steam by the point i run into problem with my initial intent.

The addition of the lightning made it even worst because without the lightning the object function become occulted and since it already hardly read as a wand it had to make it to the final in my opinion.

When i say holographic i made a mistake i meant like fluorence ink.The setting in which the object live would not have such technology it meant to use magic as power source but the general look i had in mind was more fantasy/renaissance aesthetic .But obviously magic is anything i went.I dont want to go for a sci fi look actually i want something that look more like something that you could find in the room of a inventor that might have live in the renaissance.

But i dont want to make my image feel like an illustration since it would take extra time and is unnecessary for what i am about to explain.

I am making the project particially with the fictive goal that it be use as a concept to someone who would model it(not so necessary since i made a model after all by myself but the issue would be that i am not a modeller so it not a game ready model it doesn't use UV and the object is not optimized for game either)

The end goal isnt so much the idea presented but the workflow behind it.To see what get in the way for future project so i can optimize and avoid wasting time.


Here a secret for you.
The toon shading is to simplify the paint over so you have solid edge during selection(no need to adjust the setting to get the right selection you always select what need to be selected)

Oh and this was done without a tablet by the way yes even the initial sketch.