Assignment 2: Concept art

Honestly speaking, this was my first ever take on creating a concept environment. It was quite tough in the beginning to kind of find a theme for what I wanted to create.

My concept image was formulated by introducing several pictures (Thailand and Taiwan trip:P) in Photoshop, and played around with overlapping some pictures, rotated a couple of pictures and started to stretch the boundaries of these pictures until I kind of saw or feel a type of environment was pieced up.

Once I was happy with the composition or the collage, I sketched a rough outline of the subject I wanted to show.

At this point I was still uncertain on what I wanted to show, Since I kind of developed a mech. like object that essentiates a feeling of the audience looking upwards at it.

It was after a couple of other additions of reference pictures from the web, of skyscrapers and bridge structures that I was able to fill large negative spaces around the subject matter.

A problem that I created for myself during these collage puzzles, was my perspective planning. The picture became chaotic and complicated with the newly drawn skyscrapers. There was no floor at first and later I thought the theme of this concept was moving towards a futuristic look. I added some green neon platforms, kind of cheating the floor.

Before color was added, I used different grey tones to establish shadows and light.

The difficulties again was not knowing where my light source was coming from, instead I made up the direction of the light source and tried to establish something that may fit to this piece. Later in the piece, I imported some textures of scratched metal for the side of the mech. head, and some rust texture applied to the lower part of the background which was set in"multiply" layer mode. And lastly I brought in a layer of stars that looked like shooting stars, to produce a kind of sketchy effect that sort of worked with the  perspective of my skyscrapers.

I was quite surprised to see how grandiose the object sort of looked when I pushed the skyscrapers even further to the top of my frame.