Perspective Arena Painting

Just the start, I am trying to build on lighting and perspective, at the moment I am deciding on the light as I want a 360 light from the audience. However I want to show the characters as a main focus.

First concept Idea

This is my first concept of my alien character, I created this in photoshop to get the idea of a skinny character with large eyes and no mouth. I however felt it was a bit flat colour wise. I decided to talk to a fellow student who is very talented in this area and we did an experiment and swapped work to edit each others and design from a different eye. It was quite a nice experience and allows you to see how others would edit your work or change what you have done seeing your errors or where you lacked colour/shadow etc.

This is the painting after Jake had played with it, as you can see he has made it much more darker in areas and given it less reflection. There is a better range of coulour, high to low focusing the viewer to the eyes and ignoring the dull un-detailed feet.

Alien Inspiration, a collection of realistic alien designs.

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A wide range of different aliens (and alien lookalikes) from games and films I have seen or played recently, in Star wars there could be a whole category as there are that many! One thing I tried to do with these pictures is show creatures that could be considered Aliens such as the Left 4 dead infected. Many aliens are taken from bug hybrids and made into a human shape. However I can see my alien as a combination of Avatar and Paul. I want to give the aliens a sense of human survival instinct so give them weapons and armour or gear. I will do some sketches to illustrate my alien and perhaps gladiator alien more.

Alien Interior Drawings

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Here are two drawings on photoshop. I havent really touched the program in quite a while and it tells. While the perspectives are not too bad, the lighting is appalling giving it a flat and unexciting look. One shows the style I would like with squares and cubes but seems more like a corridor. I need to move on and try draw an good looking arena.

Spaceship Interior Inspiration

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All these pictures are largely different styles, from a outside looking arena to a narrow metal corridor. However each shows something I like. I have had the idea of my final scene being an arena that the main character gets teleported into. I would much like t combine a futuristic looking metal arena but with the same style look of the one above with the woman cowering under the beast.

This picture is where I believe my inspiration is coming from at the moment, it is art from Guild wars and the race is supposed to be made up of technological genius’. I like the idea of using shapes like squares and triangles to create the architecture. They also have lots of glowing and floating things which I have adapted onto my ship design.