MetaSketchbook

[MetaShinryu]

Feedback of any kind is welcome and appreciated :)

[John]

The design language is diverse. I can see a little bit of Pokemon, Digimon, some anime inspired mech! Where do you get your inspiration from?

[MetaShinryu]

The design language is diverse. I can see a little bit of Pokemon, Digimon, some anime inspired mech! Where do you get your inspiration from?

I get most of my inspiration from old videogame art and music, obscure rpg's and power metal is my favorite combo ever :D

Sometimes i will just scribble something up using shapes i have seen throughout the day and tweak it until it looks like "something", and then i flesh it out referencing things it reminds me of, this last dude is an example: 

[MetaShinryu]

Studies:

Nonsense:

[MetaShinryu]

More random:

[MetaShinryu]

I think I've been doing way too much thowaway stuff, trying to remember how to finish an image :S

[DQ_Nick]

I'm digging your dragon/reptillian-inspired design language here man, and I know what you mean about trying to remember how to finish a piece ha ha

[MetaShinryu]

More inconsistent, random stuff -_-

[MetaShinryu]

Been trying to come up with a way to render things faster...

Color and me, we don't get along very well :/

[Adam Lina]

Your creature designs are very Guyver-esque.

[MetaShinryu]

Your creature designs are very Guyver-esque.

I haven't watched that specific anime yet, but i see what you mean, i am very much a fan of the 90's over-the-top anime biomech aesthetic, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Yugioh, Megaman, Power Rangers... so many things influence the look i go to for things like that.

More random stuff, i think i finally found a method that gets me through a complete image fast enough:



This one is a tiny pencil sketch i took a photo of and digipainted over, i kinda like the texture graphite gives to stuff:



And something i actually ended up finishing, the plan was to see how far i could push rendering from one of those detailed linearts using color from the start, but i ended up stopping when it looked ok from afar.



I want to continue working on it, but i feel it would never be enough and i could just keep zooming in forever -_-

[Danny]

You're headed in a really interesting, to me, direction with all the details and textures you paint into your images and I can't wait to see how you develop as an artist. By the way what are your main influences?

[dawckward]

yo man thanks for taking the time and strolling by my sb, everything here looks cool and very focused, i like that, some wonky perspective here and there that i think would help you push your awesome forms and mechs further, just food for thought, keep the awesome pace going!