Gladiators, ready!

A very quick post now as it's 11:30 at night and I have work tomorrow...

I have just finished one of many mini-projects, an image for a Gladiator game by Mik Hollands, here's the pencil image:

And here's the finished piece!

Now I'm off to have nightmares about shading lions!

Enjoy!

More posts coming soon on my other on-going conquests...

Fiora Update

Though it is not a radical change, it is an important one... since posting my last piece on my Fiora model I realised that the face was in dire need of change (even more than I thought at the time), so I set about making it as much like the real Fiora as possible...

Here is the result:

I am currently also working on a Gladiator illustration which I will post as soon as I get the pencil work done!

 

Heres some links to my Fiora model:

 

Original post: http://alexsnowling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fiora-cavazza.html

 

Firm Fiora...: http://alexsnowling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/firm-fiora.html

Fiora Cavazza.

If you have never played Assassin's Creed, or if you have played it but haven't ever bothered researching into it in ridiculous detail then the name Fiora Cavazza will mean very little to you...

 

Fiora is a character in Assassin's Creed who is playable during multiplayer, it has a small bio next to the character selection page, but a larger history is available in a set of short stories called Assassin's Creed Project Lineage...

When I first read Lineage I planned to illustrate some of the stories as a comic book, which I started and is now buried in a cupboard... I still wanted to do something related, and so I decided to whip out the Sculpey and try to make a scale model of Ms. Cavazza.

I started by making a mannequin from crumpled foil and then layering this with Sculpey...

Once I had the Sculpey covering the mannequin I made some of the clothing for the torso, making sure to keep one hand free to hold a fan (Fiora's choice of weapon is a blade-tipped fan) before realising my fatal flaw... she is right handed...

So... after making some monumental changes the arms were corrected... I started working on the frills of the sleeves, the fabric of the shirt and general posture, plus refining the legs a bit as at this current moment they resemble the Thing...

This is how she currently looks, there is still a lot of work to be done, but that's the beauty of Sculpey... you can leave it in a drawer and come back to it in three weeks and it's fine!

In the mean-time, I have a few other projects going on which I will post here soon!

Here's some links to the ongoing project:

Fiora Update: http://alexsnowling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fiora-update.html

Firm Fiora...: http://alexsnowling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/firm-fiora.html

Lazy Red's Blueberry Gin

My family has an old Sloe Gin recipe that has been passed down over the years, so for my Girlfriend's Dad's Birthday we decided to add a new twist to it, and so the Lazy Red Cat Brand Blueberry Gin was born!

We made it a few months ago and while it matured I made this label for it...

This is the finished bottle, ready for shipping...

 

Final Dinosaurs.

Here are my two final Dinosaurs vs. Zulus vs. British Infantry images!

To see the actual model sets, well, actually you'll have to wait as I don't have a link yet... but keep your eyes peeled as I should have one shortly!

If the model page brought you here, welcome to my Blog!

Dinosaurs vs. Zulu continued...

The Spino image was approved and is going on the site at some point... in the meantime Mik asked me to do another image, this time with a Triceratops and the other faction from the game; 1879 British soldiers...

So, here is my sketch...

And then the final image!

Again, from pencil to the finished piece took about 2 days or so on and off...

Dinosaurs vs. Zulus...

This started as a quick day project between work for someone who is making a Games-Workshop style game which involves Dinosaurs and Zulus, and they asked for a picture illustrating this...

First up is my sketch which I scanned and used Photoshop to edit the tones a little (below)...

Then I added a little bit of dramatic text and coloured and textured my background... at this point I had been working on it one evening and one morning...

Obviously the text was just for dramatic effect (and to be honest, largely for my own amusement) so wouldn't be in the final image... I did consider painting this, as I haven't painted for a while, but once I started playing in Photoshop I started to enjoy that look more and ended up just diving into it!

I added a little more depth by changing the layer colours as I wasn't happy with how green it was... and then finally...

I gave the Spinosaurus a nice striped pattern to fit his habitat, plus some little wounds around his eyes from the Zulu's pointy feathered stick!

This is my final image so far, as of yet it hasn't been viewed, so it's subject to change!

Oh, and time-check... two evenings and a morning so far!