Soldier Ideas

These are the survivors of a battle to the death of 10 concepts for soldiers in my story. The others didn't make it because they were either crap or boring. As you can see, these are very rough drawings that I'll probably work on developing a little more.

Mech

This is my first attempt at drawing a mech. Obviously, this sketch is a lot rougher than some of my other drawings and it only took me about an hour. As far as context, this is part of the story that I'm working on. All the bad guys are going to be technologically advanced and the good guys will have a sort of magical power or something along those lines. I still haven't worked out much of the story dynamics, but this is a start of some concept art for the machinery of the story.

Some inspiration for this is the Thor from Starcraft 2 and the Mantis from Halo 4.

Story Idea

It's been a while since I've put anything up here. I'm not sure I'm satisfied with how this one turned out, but I'm tired of working on it. Anyway, this picture is of an idea I have for a story. The setting is kind of before, during, and after an apocalypse type of war. This scene is right after the war and the girl is one of the main characters.

This was more of an exercise in character drawing, though. I learned a lot about facial structure, lighting, and how to use color. I'm probably going to try doing some more quicker drawings (speed paints) to improve on these points. I tend to polish things a lot, but doing some rough drawings might help solidify the basics.

Sprite Sheet

Here's my first sprite sheet. For those that don't know what this is, it's a compilation of all the sprites that go together so that there aren't multiple files. A game might use this by knowing what the coordinates of each frame are in order to render animations. This took quite a while to finish. It might be because there's too much detail or just that I haven't done this before. At any rate, I can relate to why making an entire game can take several years to complete.

If anyone wants to see these animated, I put them on my GIFs page.

More sprite creation

I decided to include a few images to kind of show my process when I can't figure out how to make a sprite right away. I started this process because I wasn't sure how to make a fore-shortened sword look good on a small scale, but it ended up being really helpful for the whole sprite. The first picture is a side view of this character. I couldn't figure out how to draw this as a sprite, so I drew it with the traditional style. I also couldn't figure out the hand, so I drew a close-up to get it right.

The second picture is a rough side view of the character that I was able to use as a reference when making the simple, pixel version. The sprites are based on a typical style, so this is helpful when the pixel version isn't obvious.

The last picture is the sprite, which is supposed to look similar to the second picture. Obviously, it's not identical. The colors also don't match the other sprites completely yet, so it's not ready to put into a sprite sheet for game use, but it's getting there.

Sprites

This is my first attempt at making sprites that can be used in a game. It's actually a lot harder and more time consuming than I originally thought. They're kind of small, but that's because it's drawn pixel by pixel. It also makes sense for something that might go into a mobile game. Also, this upcoming game provided some inspiration.

I also moved the animated GIF to the GIFs page since I'm not a fan of flashy stuff on the main page.

More concept art

Here's a few pieces of concept art for the game. You can tell that the background is the same for all these - thanks to layers. I also added color to the one with all of them so you can tell which is which. Although, putting everything in one picture kind of messed with the composition, so I don't know if I really like that one as much.