Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

I've been working on this side project the last couple days which has been fun. I wanted to kind of do a style study of one of my favorite artists on artstation that goes by Gxy, and the many artists doing similar work. Their building and environment designs are so fun and the painting is beautiful. So I went through a process of referencing and sketching and came up with the idea for a medieval potion shop. I wanted to have like a copper distillery visible on the outside in some fun way, like as if it's the place where they make the hundreds of health potions players would go through. The painting is actually coming out okay I think though I need to work closer with reference to up my skills because I don't think It's quite there yet. But ultimately as I work on it I am starting to think maybe I don't like the idea that much, like it doesn't quite feel interesting enough and I need to workshop it some more or change directions. Idk


I used blender to roughly model the scene to help with the lighting, and the staircase so that was kinda fun.