Batman Blackgate Concepts

In 2014 I will be returning to the warm bossom of fulltime work. Freelance has been

a great experience and I've met and worked with some brilliant people.

As a thanks to all for your continued support during the year here are some concepts for Batman Blackgate.

This first material render of Bronze Tiger was painted in Sketchbook Pro,

with grading and photo-texture overlays applied in Photoshop. The face is probably pretty much a photo :/

 These were the original color roughs to decide on the above pose.

 Various character sketches for the handheld version, Joker gang, Penguin gang etc.

Best to all in 2014!

Autodesk Tutorial

Thanks to Chris Cheung over at Autodesk for arranging all this. 

Some of you will have seen most of the samples,

but the tutorial and downloadable brush set are new and

so is my voice (apologies...)

Process

Here's the before and after on the previous concept piece.

And here's some of the assets:

Ttattoos drawn in Sketchbook Pro,

the textures are my own photos, and the logo was

created in Adobe Illustrator.
The tattoos are of course a rip-off of Sailor Jerry's work.
Any similarities are intentional.

Concept Art

Here's an example of my current rendered work.

This is a personal piece to show off the technique 

as most other examples will be tied up in NDA for many a year.

So something to show you guys and a portfolio piece too.

Sketchbook Pro for the underpainting and tattoos,

Photoshop for the matte overlays.

I'll post up the sbpro vs ps comparisons next week.

Then I'd better do a front view.

Canned

These guys were for the same project.

The credit for the cat in the baby carrier goes to the AD.

And pretty much everything else.
Pitch work for a soft drinks ad.

Turns out it's the guy on our right who's the Democrat.
Who'd have thought?

S P A C E . . .