Robot Brief

Final Piece:

Some thumbnail sketches for the robot brief; going to go with the bottom leftmost sketch. a robot with a sword and shield seems less of a cliche than the others.

EDIT:

Some development sketches. Going with a tripod + sword wielding hybrid but struggling on the head/ chest-y bit.

Here's a WIP:

And here's the latest update:



I've a clear direction to go now, and I'm only half-unimpressed by the design after being stumped for a couple of hours about where to go.

This is the furthest I've got so far; I've been working on the floor without a desk which has made it finicky and awkward to even trawl for funny cat pictures let alone paint, so I've not come as far as I'd liked and I'll have to finish this over the weekend. The accumulated work is definitely over 8 hours.

Oh and as to my absence: I've a doctors appointment today, sorry for not being present to fill the room with joy and raucous laughter.

If you're still reading, then what are you doing you numpties; "polite applause" and move to the next person.

Surrealism

Final Painting:

Sketch sheet and references:

 

War Brief - Initial Stages

I want to look at protests rather than full out war scenes (partly due to a full blown war painting isn't realistically achievable by this week). Also spider war machines because they're machines with legs, and I like machines with legs.

Here's a sketchover initial idea.

Sure, the mechs could walk over the man, but that wouldn't make for as cool an image.

Suspend your disbelief. 

Self Portrait(s)

Wish I'd have started this earlier instead of trying out the other idea first, I'd have probably been happy with it then. I'll call it done for the sake of deadline, but I could work on it a lot more.

Another Attempt at a Self Portrait

Again, forgot to upload sketches/ ideas. Fortunately the sketch is a separate save.

Yeah, no.

Forgot about the sketches. Here's how far the shark idea went; yeah, wasn't happy or comfortable with it at all. Doing something else - it'll be fabulous.

Self Portrait Brief - Ref/ Inspiration

Now to tackle painting something so silly at least somewhat realistically.