For this assignment we studied the works of Sparth. We were tasked with selecting an element/shape from one of his works to 3D model and incorporate into an original piece. I created a PureRef board of Sparth pieces and other images I found on Google I felt inspired by.
I decided to go with bottom ship design by Sparth as the shape I wanted to use.
In Maya, I brought in the ship design as an image plane to use as my reference and started off with a cube as my base.
From there I began doing simple extrusions and pushed vertices around to get the general shape.
Once I got the shape done, I took a quick break from Maya to create a thumbnail of my piece to get a better idea of what it was going to look like.
With the values roughly figured out, I went back to Maya to get the lighting on the ship as close as to how I would like it to be in the illustration. I used a directional light and two area lights to get the results I needed.
Finally, I brought the ship into my sketch and began painting.
Once I started painting I completely lost all self-awareness so I wasn't able to get good progress shots of it. Sorry! Here it is.
Higher res here.
I was really inspired by the textural quality of Sparth's works so I mainly stuck to organic and painterly brushes to get a similar effect. I would switch to a standard basic brush to cut through the chaos and bring more solid shapes to the surface. Overall it was a pretty fun learning experience since I never draw environments and I also got to add a new artist to my inspiration repertoire.
Here's a romantic detail shot to close this post out. 😄
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