Concept Art - Hands

During my third year I have been working in a group to create a fully working game. At the beginning we were all tasked with creating concepts for our game. One of our ideas for  the main protagonist character in our game is to have a light orb that she can use as a torch. So to get an idea of how the hand will look holding a circular object, I made three hand concepts showing how the orb might be held. 

I used dark colours because the environment that our character is going to be in is going to be very dark and dingy.

In the summer holidays leading up to the third year I put a lot of effort in to practising my 2D drawings in Photoshop, so when I produced these I was very happy with the outcome, the other members in my group were also happy with these concepts.

Paintover

Another 2D task that we were assigned in the second year was to model an Alien Plant and then do a paint-over of it. Below is my alien plant.

I modelled the plant in Sculptris, and the did the paint-over in Adobe Photoshop. This was the first time I had ever done a paint-over. It was a big learning curve, and a very interesting assignment to work on. 

Concept Art - Tentacle Creature

Before University I had never used Adobe Photoshop. During my first and second year we were given weekly tasks to create concept art based on a theme or object etc. One week we were tasked with creating a creature which had to have tentacles. Below is what I came up with. As I was uncomfortable with my digital drawing skills, I kept my creature simple, and decided to focus on the lighting of it and the use of textures.

Above is my creature without a texture, and below is a screenshot of my creature with a texture. 2D drawing has never been my strong point, however I felt it was important to include some of the 2D work I have done whilst being at University, to show the basic skills that I have. 

In the not too distant future I would like to practise on my 2D drawings and improve the basic skills that I have so that I can be more competent and confident when drawing.