Finished Personal Projects
These are my personal projects that I made when wanting to refine my craft and keep up with practice. Order goes from newest to oldest.
Creating A Personal Avatar
After finishing my Games Development Degree, I wanted to create a new profile icon that was in my artstyle and also showed off what I looked like and loved. Therefore, I recreated myself in a similar art style as the characters from my Time To Die project, with more added details and limbs, like hands and fingers for example. Then to shine some personality through, I wanted to incorporate my love of DND into the design, so I created a DND-style book, with a d20 on both covers, showing a 1 and a 20 (for critical failure and critical success).
From there, I wanted to strike up a nice pose rather than other profile pictures of 'staring into oblivion' poses, and with some trial and error, was able to strike up a nice smile, whilst showing off the book covers to showcase the DND design.
For final touches, I wanted to try out a new system I had seen, in which you would create an outline to make the model pop, and after a few YouTube tutorials (Thank you ArtDanPol 3D) was able to create a nice black outline, as comparing it to a white outline the black stood out better. Then from there it was updating some of my profile pictures with this avatar where appropriate.
Improving Pixel Art Poses
With this project I wanted to improve upon my posing for my pixel art characters to help breathe a bit more life into my stationary characters. So in this project after watching plenty of YouTube tutorials (Thank you, Brandon James Greer) I started with his similar format of blocking out a skeleton of the character using blocks, placing them into key positions to create the pose I was looking for.
From there it was drawing in the form of the body. After doing a few test runs, I decided to try this technique with some artwork I had commissioned for one of my dnd characters called Sophie. Using the same process, I blocked out the same pose in the artwork, then drew the flesh on top of the skeletal structure, forming a pose I'm quite happy with. The next step was to add all the details onto the character, making sure to keep the body language that her character art displayed.
Trialling Blockbench
This project was when I first started work in a software called Blockbench, a simplified modelling tool that allows for easy pixel art textures and this was made following along the recommended car tutorial on Youtube.