[VertexBee]

Hello to all of the amazing talent found on this boards ! My name is Martin Punchev, I'm a self-taught artist working in the game industry and finally I've decided to open a sketchbook here so you are probably going to see characters, creatures and sketches from me as I journalize my studies in this thread.

Comments, critiques, suggestions, all is very much welcome !

[VertexBee]

Some introductory work to get this thread started:







The first image is a character armor made for a MMO game, the one in the middle is done for Bryan Wynia's amazing cg course and the last is a character design that I did for a personal game project.

I love to share useful things so here is a making off article I did for the deep one creature http://bit.ly/FRJGFt

Expect more soon !
Cheers!

[VertexBee]

This is done for Anthony Jones amazing course. I'll post more about it soon. I hope you like it.

Attention : Critiques are more than welcome ! I'm always searching for improvement so speak your mind



Cheers!
Martin

[kevin-]

nice 3d characters and love the last one, hope you keep posting!

[ScalC]

Crazy stuf !!
Post more !

[VertexBee]

kevin- , ScalC - Tons of big thanks ! For some reason I didn't receive a notification that someone post replies on this thread, hmmm, have to resolve this... Anyway more images will come soon !

[VertexBee]

Here are few quick sketches of weird looking creatures that are supposed to be non-typical dragon designs.


This guy came from thumbnail number 9. Except the wings it
doesn't feel very dragonish, but anyway, I had lots of fun sketching it out:



OMG, what is this poor creature below supposed to be ?!



What to say...if you didn't guess by now, this is a monkey dragon. Wow, that was a suprice He doesn't fly,
nor he briefs fire, but instead has an array of horns sticking out from his head .They are actually pipes, which
helps him to make really loud noises ( similarly to the parasaurolophus ). He has some remaining of feathers on
his sides, which are far from enough for flying, but they gives us a clue that his predecessors (the flying monkey
dragon) could actually fly. I started it from thumbnail number 15.

Here are another two weird fellows.The top one was intended to be a water creature, but except the fins at the
end of the tail it doesn't feel like it is supposed to live in water. The bottom one is a quick overpaint to test and
idea that came from a good buddy of mine, Soulsurvivor. Now it matches
better the water theme and it does look capable of swimming , but still I don't like it, especially with those
enormous arms. Maybe I'll give it another try , starting from scratch. Thumbnail number 8.



And lastly what I called the flying squirrel dragon. Looks more birdish, but it was inspired by looking some photos
of a flying squirrels, at least part of the pose came from there.Thumbnail number 7.



Cheers!

[VertexBee]

A quick creature doodle

[kevin-]

nice updates, cool creature designs!

[toramarusama]

Great sketchbook. You have some amazing looking creatures here O.O

[Wla91]

Amazing creature concepts! also the colors are just great.

[VertexBee]

Thanks a lot guys !

[Failstar]

good lord look at those creatures. It looks like you have a lot of fun with them and there seems to be a lot of freedom when making them. Good stuff man! Totally loving that last one!

[tschayssen]

WOW! Man i'm speachless! outstanding work. So inspiring. Give me more of that! Please

[VertexBee]

@Failstar , @tschayssen , thank you !

I decided to do several more weird dragon designs, because I was not satisfied with the first batch and wanted to explore more this theme.


This below is a butterfly dragon (but probably "bat" suits him better). It came out as an experiment. I wanted to explore a new technique involving 3d modeling for generating interesting shapes. You can see example of this process at the bottom of this post. About the dragon, the long transparent extrusions that looks like butterfly wings are just for peecocking, only the males have them at extreme size to increase their chance of attracting a female. This species has extremely well developed ears that helps them to track their pray using echolocation.



The guy below is some sort of insect looking dragon. I started it from a squashed version of the 3d model of the balloon dragon that you can see at the bottom of this post. I'll get to this technique later.



I'm not happy at all how the balloon dragon sketch turned out. I really like the thumbnail and the initial idea of how the dragon will fly by inhaling a lot of air and filling up his back sack with hot air and gas. Maybe I'll do another take on him. Here it is how it looks right now, not very cool.



Now, here are two images showing the process I told you about. In the first image you can see how the butterfly dragon started. I've take one abstract thumbnail that I did not so long ago and mapped it onto a flat 3d plane. Then I cut out some shapes and extruded them and finally deformed the whole plane using FFD box and soft selection. The interesting thing about this is that by moving the camera around the object you can get with new and interesting shapes and they will be in correct perspective which is a nice bonus.



To wrap up this post here is a turnround animation showing a similar experiment, this time using the balloon dragon thumbnail as a base, fleshing it out in 3d as quickly as possible and posing it. The insect dragon above came from this 3d model with a little bit of squashing and deforming.



I would love to hear your opinion and critiques

Cheers!