Castle of Greed

Probably spent around 6 hours or so for this painting.

This is the photo that I started with.

Unfortunately I forgot to save the process and this was the only step I took a screenshot of.

Crash Site

For this piece, I wanted to do something big, bigger than what I usually do. Then I had this idea of a giant space ship crashing on a planet. I started to gather references and then made thumbnails of several different choices of compositions. In the end, I chose this composition because it shows how big the space ship is.

These are some step-by-step process of creating this concept:

I added a river because the composition felt too empty and boring. But I had to be careful with the flow of the river so it didn't just lead the viewers' eyes immediately off the page.

Later, I had to add a lake to balance the right-heavy composition.

After some consideration, I decided to cut the lake and added birds instead. The lake stole too much focus from the main subject of the painting: the ship.

Several thumbnails and ship concepts I made before starting.

Some references I had when coming up with the concept. I took a lot of inspirations from John Berkey and Bungie's Destiny.

Update

Sargent master study

and a self portrait.

Portraits from imagination

Inspector Concept

Fixed her face proportions.. It was quite off and not like what I imagined previously.

Sketches

I took around 1.5-2 for each, I think.

More Quick Imagination Sketches

Quick Imagination Sketches

Some are less successful than the others, but nevertheless they're all good practice.

Skull Tribe

Some concepts for fun.

Color Studies of Master Paintings

Inspector Concept WIP

 

Another Master Study

After Sargent

Full-color Master Studies

After N.C. Wyeth

After Joaquin Sorolla

After Sargent