Wednesday 14 September 2011

Wrench


While I had to repaint some fine detail, this concept was a colour up of the greyscale original, you can see for yourself. I wanted this female mechanic to have sex appeal without the kind of obvious overtones that would make her look cheap and dumb looking. The motorised wrench looks more like a weapon and gave me something to balance the pose.

Here are her initial thumbs and some WIP stages with annotations on the progress:


 I did the same thing with one of the pilot characters I created last month and he was a complete fail. I ended up pretty much repainting him over the top! I've included him below. My take away was that both the grey values used and the colour I tried to saturate them with are massive variables that change the process. Pretty obvious in hindsight and food for thought.

7 comments:

  1. very nice, I love seeing the process!

    I think you nailed the whole sex appeal without having to show off her butt checks (haha) or any, "kind of obvious overtones"like you stated. I think that artists often overuse those things.

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  2. Great work Tez, love her expression...

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  3. Hmm...seen these somewhere before :) Very cool Tez!!

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  4. Awesome stuff Tez! Love seeing the WIP and her expression is just right... and of course you had me sold at the kickarse parrot wrench.

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  5. Yeah, that annotated WIP is really great. Interesting to see your workflow.

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