My newest Blender project I completed a few days ago. Made entirely in Blender with a smidge of touching up in Photoshop! It didn’t end up how I envisioned it in my head but I’m still pleased with the result regardless.

More of my work here.

  • Thalestr@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thank you so much! There was no concept art at all. This, along with many things I make, are just made on the fly from ideas I have in my head. I rarely ever work from concept art.

    The blue is pretty strong and I did play around with decreasing it. The scene originally had a lot more green and I felt the blue fit better. Ah well, lessons for next time!

    • dawt@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Oh wow! Impressive that you did this on the fly!

      I feel you on wanting to make things straight from your head, it feels closer to art as a mode of creative self expression.

      I have found though, that visual planning and collecting references (even if it’s just like, the color of light from one painting, the texture of an ancient piece of pottery, etc. ) actually gives you more opportunities to be creative and helps build a visual library in your mind that you can draw from in the future. It is a lot of work, though, and feels like it slows you down at first.

      Maybe you can try it and see if you like it?

      • Thalestr@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’ve recently started to use references and keeping notes of things I want to do, so that’s been a relatively new addition to my workflow. It has certainly helped a lot.