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Vehicle design

  • Testing a Microsoft Surface for digital art along with Krita. The latter is proving to be a very capable drawing/painting program. In some aspects equal to - if not better than - Photoshop! MS Surface is good but not as good as a wacom tablet.…

  • I quick illustration depicting a true story (or so I am told) of a tank crew rescuing an australia soldier in the Vietnam war. Rough sketchy styling but required some research and accuracy as vetaran's seeing it would be critical. Painted in…

  • A recent game interface job I completed for an Adelaide based iphone/mobile developer. Final graphics included animation on the handkerchief as the rope moves and animated icons on the menu screen. Graphics are all based on photos then heavily…

  • It's not really directly game related but I thought I'd post it anyway (Let's pretend it's a character study). This is where my recent illustration energies had been going rather than into concept art related topics. Created for a charity Auction…

  • Revisiting the first fleet of ships for Tsumea Team C project. One new design with the other 3 polished/modified small to moderate amounts. Whilst the details are still loose I'm satisfied with the overall designs. fingers crossed the rest of the…

  • More thumbnails for Team C game. These are my first round of ships for the opposing team. More angular and blocky in form with a relatively raw/industrial finish compaired to the other set.

  • More thumbnails. These ones are variations working a single design idea.

  • update of potential artillery/ planet attack ship.

  • A small update on concept art for Team C project.

  • Some initial sketches whilst I warm up for the task of producing some concepts for tsumea's team C project.

Submitted by Johnn on

My latest tinkering... or should I say procrastination for finishing the current quick activity :P

Just for a change I've followed the initial concept through to a technical style diagram, and yes, the figure that has been included to indicate scale is me!

(Concerningly, folk who know me would instantly identify me from that outline[:0])

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/258_Light_ArmourL.jpg[/img]

Submitted by bullet21 on Fri, 09/07/04 - 6:58 PM Permalink

Very nice indeed, is it some kind of tank or APC?

and yeah i could tell the figure was you as well, i've never met you :P

Submitted by MoonUnit on Fri, 09/07/04 - 9:06 PM Permalink

cool looking vehicle you have there :) what program did you use to make the top images (coloured ones).

Submitted by Doord on Fri, 09/07/04 - 11:16 PM Permalink

I like it, a little more detail would be cool. Not sure what.

Submitted by Johnn on Mon, 12/07/04 - 9:24 AM Permalink

Yeah, an APC/light armour sort of thing. Although I didn't get around to adding doors/hatches for troops to get in and out... I mean they are on the other side :P

I've added a little more detail since posting - rivets and more detail in the track area. I think I might fancy up the cannon barrels and add some stencil style markings. Hopefully it will look more finished off then.

the diagram style pics were done with Freehand (camo paint job was created in Photoshop). Makes for a very clean finish.

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 12/07/04 - 10:33 AM Permalink

Man that marker rendering is rockin.
You make it look to easy

Submitted by Johnn on Wed, 14/07/04 - 8:05 AM Permalink

Thanks Makk. If you look closely they are a bit patchy in spots, my markers are running out...again! Was going to do a tank track detail as pen and marker but ended up converting the pencil sketch into another vector illust (in Freehand again). Wish I could draw line work that neat by hand [:P]The extra little details on the front + side view have made the diagrams more finished I think...at any rate I've run out of ideas for more finishing details.

The images are setout nice and orderly because it is becoming a page for my current illustration portfolio.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/258_Light_Armour2L.jpg[/img]

Submitted by Stu on Wed, 14/07/04 - 11:42 PM Permalink

He John those concepts are awesome. Would you mind if I tried converting them to 3d? You'd get full credit for the design of course.

Stu

Posted by Johnn on

My latest tinkering... or should I say procrastination for finishing the current quick activity :P

Just for a change I've followed the initial concept through to a technical style diagram, and yes, the figure that has been included to indicate scale is me!

(Concerningly, folk who know me would instantly identify me from that outline[:0])

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/258_Light_ArmourL.jpg[/img]


Submitted by bullet21 on Fri, 09/07/04 - 6:58 PM Permalink

Very nice indeed, is it some kind of tank or APC?

and yeah i could tell the figure was you as well, i've never met you :P

Submitted by MoonUnit on Fri, 09/07/04 - 9:06 PM Permalink

cool looking vehicle you have there :) what program did you use to make the top images (coloured ones).

Submitted by Doord on Fri, 09/07/04 - 11:16 PM Permalink

I like it, a little more detail would be cool. Not sure what.

Submitted by Johnn on Mon, 12/07/04 - 9:24 AM Permalink

Yeah, an APC/light armour sort of thing. Although I didn't get around to adding doors/hatches for troops to get in and out... I mean they are on the other side :P

I've added a little more detail since posting - rivets and more detail in the track area. I think I might fancy up the cannon barrels and add some stencil style markings. Hopefully it will look more finished off then.

the diagram style pics were done with Freehand (camo paint job was created in Photoshop). Makes for a very clean finish.

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 12/07/04 - 10:33 AM Permalink

Man that marker rendering is rockin.
You make it look to easy

Submitted by Johnn on Wed, 14/07/04 - 8:05 AM Permalink

Thanks Makk. If you look closely they are a bit patchy in spots, my markers are running out...again! Was going to do a tank track detail as pen and marker but ended up converting the pencil sketch into another vector illust (in Freehand again). Wish I could draw line work that neat by hand [:P]The extra little details on the front + side view have made the diagrams more finished I think...at any rate I've run out of ideas for more finishing details.

The images are setout nice and orderly because it is becoming a page for my current illustration portfolio.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/258_Light_Armour2L.jpg[/img]

Submitted by Stu on Wed, 14/07/04 - 11:42 PM Permalink

He John those concepts are awesome. Would you mind if I tried converting them to 3d? You'd get full credit for the design of course.

Stu