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Comic Book Study
Posted by Otto Robba in Concept Art on 09. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
I will be straightforward: I love comic books. That said, I have had this story laying around for a while and it is bugging me to get out. In order to practice and see what style would work for it, I started trying. This is one of the results.
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Medium: Inked pencil work.
I have no idea yet if this is the style I’m gonna go with for the comic book I intend to write but nevertheless, sketching, thinking, researching are all important parts in the process of creating.
Character Study
Posted by Otto Robba in Concept Art, Sketches & Studies on 08. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Creating a character involves a series of steps. You need to research and sketch a lot, from poses to small details. It is just as important to have the character appearing in a pose that tells the public about her as it is important to have her wearing/using gear and apparel that makes sense. I included two pictures which take a look into a tiny part of the process I went through.
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Medium: Pen on paper.
This one, the gorgon, was a simply sketch for an idea I had at the time, never went ahead of it and so it stayed like a mere sketch. I went through a lot of snake photographs and ‘deviant’ women before I sketched anything.
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Medium: A mix of pencil and pen on paper.
The savage is a piece I had actually put up in the site a while ago, as you can see. I went through the Tarzan movies, through photographs of extreme sports, checked Assassin’s Creed and went ahead to do the poses myself, taking photographs to use as a basis. Honestly, quite a bit of research before the final piece was actually done.
Goddess
Posted by Otto Robba in Concept Art on 01. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
A goddess of creation, a harmonic symbol of the world, with nature’s ‘machines’ exposed, as the secrets of the universe unravel at her fingertips. Ancient societies would believe that this matriarchal figure is the one responsible for all existence and maintaining the balance in all planes. Where there is no life, she brings life. Where there is life, she must bring death. An infinite cycle, hers to command.
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Medium: B, 2B and 4B pencil on A5 paper.
Colored and edited in Photoshop.
Death’s Avatar
Posted by Otto Robba in Concept Art on 30. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
As the last task in our drawing course, we had to create a character from scratch. Essentially, what character concept artists do for a living. My character is, in essence, an immortal soul bound into an immortal body, acting as a hunter and avatar of the goddess of death, Kali, by exterminating all those who disturb the natural flow of life and death. In essence, he attempts to restore balance in a world torn apart by corruption. Bones extrude from his wrists at his will, sharp enough to end most foes without armor and, should there be ‘resistance’, he can tap into the netherworld, traversing through the different places and effectively striking an enemies soul. I really wish I had used a better paper, this one is really not made for anything else but sketches. Oh well, lesson learned, no crappy paper next time.
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Medium: 2B and HB pencil on A3 100g/m3 Sketch paper.
Blooming Rose
Posted by Otto Robba in Concept Art on 30. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
A model I made for a short-movie I never got to finish. I quite like the end result, although I must say, this is extremely old.
