visual development

Cliff Town

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Feels like a long time since I’ve produced any kind of landscape, so I figured I’d go all out! Almost all the linework was done with traditional ink, while the colour is all digital. I’m going to watercolour the original inks, so when it’s done I’ll post it up on here.

I’ll be honest, I completed and scanned the inks in ages ago and started colouring it but didn’t like the look, so I abandoned it. It wasn’t until a couple days ago that I found it in my files and picked things up again. I deleted all the colours and leafed through some Asterix books for a bit of inspiration for a colour scheme and viola!

Anyway, hope you like it!

Cheers

Matt

Life’s a Beach

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UK lockdown feels a bit like this. There’s an awful lot of just waiting around while you’re stranded on a desert island. You have a means of getting off the island, but there’s nowhere to go when you do, so you just come back. You can meet up with another person which helps keep you sane, but all you talk about is how great it’ll be when you’re finally rescued. And so you wait. And wait. And wait some more. And just like that a year has passed since the first lockdown began. Hopefully there’s a ship going to appear any day now… hopefully.

Making a House a Home

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Some basic house designs here for my visual development portfolio. The images are in order (top to bottom) of how the work flow tends to happen in visdev, starting with multiple thumbnail sketches, refining an idea, and then fleshing it out. I’ll do a more refined colour version of this tomorrow.

Cheers

Matt

Interior Background Art

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The top image is the next background for the animation. This next scene will probably last a little longer than the previous one – perhaps five seconds or so. The colours are fairly muted/desaturated because I want to keep the focus on the character who will be running in from the left.

This background previously would have been pretty quick to draw, but I’m now trying to visually develop everything, insomuch as I’m drawing multiple designs of all the props until I settle on what I think looks appropriate. The pictures in the frames on the wall are of cheese FYI.

I’ll try and pump out the next part of the animation tomorrow or Thursday!

Cheers

Matt