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Dusted off a few skills today I haven't touched in ages with these characters from The Outer Worlds. Would have taken way too long to do in 3D so painting was a better fit. Very relaxing, easier to chat while painting. Should make the time to do this more often :)
Interesting project. Blender 2.81 sculpt, texture with Substance Painter, Cycles render with ACES color space, turn into a painting with a freeware app called FotoSketcher, and paint over. The app doesn't finish it for you but saves time and a painterly base shows in the result
More virtual plein air in Fallout 4 VR. So many more small shapes to paint in daylight. In the night everything turns into silhouettes. I love the sketchiness of scribbling everything in though. Colors don't really come out perfect when in VR but it's not too bad :P
Been making ammo boxes from DOOM lately to practice my 3D modeling skills. No textures or anything, just complicated shapes. Every time I think it's a piece of cake it takes me an hour to cut a single hole cleanly...
Made the death box from Apex Legends from scratch in 6 hours. Booleans with bevel shader worked great for modeling. Still fumbling a lot with low poly and cage, but learned about how to set up smoothing for a clean bake. Also no smart materials used either. Feels like learning :o
I somehow still enjoy painting frogs despite having probably painted hundreds of them at this point.
Been falling back on random 1 hour animal paint studies again while life's priorities shift. I seem to have been following a pattern with these last few.
More gun from Apex Legends. Looks really front heavy, I wonder if it was designed that way to look cool in first person... This one came together in half the time from simplifying the process from yesterday (also I started way too late again might have been kinda rushing it o.o)
Been playing Apex Legends lately just like everyone else, and of course I needed to paint something from it. I thought this G7 Scout skin looked awesome and I haven't ever really painted guns before so I gave it a shot. Sorta ended up looking like high res pixel art o.o
I was asked about favorite games yesterday, so I started painting from Half-Life 2. Got an idea for a fun repeatable exercise I've never done before: shape studies of recognizable characters from favorite games. Might be doing a lot more of these :o