Environment design project No.1

Hi,

I finally posted my environment painting! Theme wise not much thinking, I just used some references that I collected for my last project.

My focus here was to draw and paint the environment design with different emphasis, such as value, shape, composition.

This my first painting for this project was started from interesting shapes that I created.
The shape that I got from "happy accident" really reminds me of the flying castle, and I added dragon and fighters to the scene. I struggled a lot with unifying chaotic scene, using value focus, color. I hope you like it.

Shape driven exercise :

Many artist use so called "happy accident" for their work, some use 10% marker, some use Ink. I often used graphite and literally draw chaotic images on a paper, then I tried to find the interesting shape,then using those shapes, I start to put face, muscle,etc, till it starts to look like creatures or characters.

Before I did the painting, I practiced generating the interesting shapes with one theme, such as circle, triangle, curve. I found the result of these shape exercise itself interesting, and decided to post this too.

Value driven exercises :

Another approach that I`ve taken for this project was value driven approach. Compare to the approach above, I could control many element, like, where I should put horizon line, vanishing point, where I should put this and that, etc. If I have something in my head already, this way might be better, coz I have more control over the scene, but I had to spend more time on each small sketches.

Next post :

I will paint one or two environment stuff, then more project coming ! : ))

Mikio