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Intermission,

quick concept for Yodhrin (at Warseer) for his Skitarii.

Enjoy:

For a 'quick concept' that is mighty fine. Thanks for sharing your work, and I look forward to seeing lots more!

Captain Jack wrote:For a 'quick concept' that is mighty fine. Thanks for sharing your work, and I look forward to seeing lots more!

"quick concept"= less then one days actual work, normally I will spend several days worth of work concepting things, before I start doing full illustrations, which can take a lot of time. Even though quite alot of that time is also collecting references, research, shooting models etc etc.

For this image I used a basic poser model to get the rough estimate of the body, looked up some photos for general reference I have to beef up the guy and get better muscles, then I researhed Skitarii and checked some links and images provided by the client to get the stuff right.
I have a vast library of old types of armour on my PC, as well as a couple of books on armour and weapons of ancient nations. It helps alot to speed the process.

If I would make this a full painting, I would at this point transfer the stuff to get lines, then start painting from skratch, just using this to get the general idea of planes. Angron is a good example of where I am doing that...sort of... some things are altered along the progress but for the most part I have a solid idea that I stick with.


cheers!

Cheers guys,

I would like to take a moment to explain some of my choices around this image.

_-Character-_

Bloodspiller
I wanted the character to have the characteristics of a true follower of Khorne. What does this mean? Well, in my opinion that means a person who will spill blood for glory, spill blood for honour, spill blood for sustenance, spill blood for healing, spill blood for survival...and all of the above in the name of Khorne.
That might sound very bloody and gory, but Im aproaching this from a psychological point of view, and I dont mean that there wont be blood (obviously there is, you've seen the WiPs) but rather I am trying to show a man who spends all of his waking hours spilling blood. Not all times it will be in a frenzy, some times it will be in joy, in sadness in straining situations and when tired.

TechnoGladiator
Angron has the agressive-augmenting chips stuck to his head. These are meant to augment his agressiveness whilst fighting as a Gladiator. They also make him get uncontrollable fits of rage, which will, after years, decades, centuries be tiresome, even for a Primarch.

Skulltaker
This is more visual, there will be skulls, lets keep it at that.

_-Style-_

Gladiator
I am trying my best to make the armour of Angron look very much greco-roman gladiator-styled. But I cannot do that completely since this is set in the distant future, far out in space.
Images by Wayne England and the cover of Tales of Heresy have stood as influence for some of the details, such as the Bevor stretching behin his head, partially shielding the cabling from behind. The two romanesque chest-shields are also based upon Roman and Greek armour adornments.

Mola Ram
I wanted the character to have certain traits that just looked... characterful an ambigous.
I used several faces as reference for this character, one of the ones that you lot probably had no clue about is that of Mola Ram (played by Amrish Puri) from Temple of doom.



The character is just perfect as inspiration for Angron- shrinking heads, taking out hearts and running a bloodcult, plus he has some features that just made me think Angron- The broad chin with high cheekbones, the dark around the eyes and the red paint on the head - aching to the same thing on all known illustrations of Angron (before Demonprince).

I am still altering the face somewhat though for the most part I am done with it, I am not going to give him more colour like Mola Ram, I dont want it to be a copy, rather just inspired by him. And thats how I use ref nowadays, as inspiration and to get light correct.

Other references
I took a lot of inspiration from painters Kevin Llewellyn and Michael Hussar, aswell as Rubens and Rembrandt (mostly their way of using Chiaroscuro, a way of painting very dark darks and very bright brights- to simplify it alot).
This explains my colours alot.

White Armour?
Yes, I am painting Angrons armour White and Brass/Copper, with small patches of other colours such as red and green.
The reason for this is actually a personal preference based upon something fellow artist an friend Nicholás Giancola (Aerion-the-Faithful) said after having painted Angron:
"There's an official representation of Angron, which I didn't hold too close to my chest when coming up with my own vision. To me, his gladiatorial past was paramount to the character as well as the whole anger stance he should have. On top of that, I also envisioned this Primarch to be like Alpharius: closer to the rank and file soldier than high up above them. Getting dirty is a must for a leader who's watched in horror how all of his battle brothers were slaughtered in his homeworld.

There are a few details I'd like to point out and which hold particular interest to me: the gory axe versus the white of his armour are something I love. I thought about the grim fact that white armour would likely be moist with blood all the time, making it more noticeable and terrible to behold; I chose it over the gold of the official."


This stuck with me, and even though I'm not going towards a blueish tangentcolour to the white, the idea stays the same- Blood just stands out more on white.

I just hope there will be enough white armour to show it when I'm done...


There, some reasoning behind how I paint this personal painting.


and here is the update;

those are all incrediably awesome, nothing else can describe them

cheers.

Whilst I am still working on Angron, thought you guys wanted to see what I toy with otherwise...

I made an article right here at DakkaDakka, about a graphical novel Im making. Got some images in it, aswell as thoughts.
Since nobody seem to be interested in discussing it I thought Id share a quick preview of a character portrait Im doing right here.

Still a WiP

Lookin pretty great, can't wait to see it finished

update



Im also making a serf that is carrying his helmet.
This being a posing type image of the character...

The white armour isnt really completed, need to make it liik more realistic, also began on the cloak. The serf is going to have cords and wires come out of the hood and head.

I use refs for everything. Its the only way to paint things proper.
I dont do paintovers though, I use the refs to get the right feel for shape and form, as well as textures and colourshifts.
For the serf I used a ref from a guy called mjranum on deviantart. He has an oirdinairy account and a stock-account. Very useful for someone like me, whom doesnt really have the models in abundance to take photos f.

Anyhow, will be working more on this as time passes, but frst got some dealines...

These are awesome.

I wish I could draw like that, rather than like a 3 year old, which is my current style.

You sir are a brilliant artist. Angron looks scary as ever and is tha Garviel Loken you are working on ?

moonshine wrote:You sir are a brilliant artist. Angron looks scary as ever and is tha Garviel Loken you are working on ?

No, it's a character called Sar Haroth, he's the chaptermaster of the Angels Cruentis. More info to be found in the article I made here on dakka...
Link is in Sig, if it shows...

Cheers guys

Just so you know... the reason most of us don't say anything, is that we're just looking at these in awe, not sure what to say

This SM and the Fallen SoB.... well they're incredible, professional work

Just do a Guilliman in the stasis field, and you'll be the greatest artist ever

Here is a little update:
I have been busy with deadlines but finally managed to paint some more on the last personal piece I have.





Adding Sosol, the chapters Master Librarian. As you can see he isnt completely done, and neither are the other figures. but it shows some progress

Heres another update of Sosoll...


Alot unfinished on him, but there is some progress...

Lookin great as usual Colro!

I'm a little confused. You say you're an illustrator, other folks are saying you draw great, and you claim these were made using Photoshop? Can you draw with Photoshop? I thought it was for modifying existing images...

Forgive me my ignorance, I'm a technical savage. I don't understand the first thing about computers (well, okay, I can turn one on).

Yes, photoshop is capable of many things, including drawing and painting.

Seems like you wouldn't get nearly the fine control you would get doing it by hand. I guess I just don't get it.

Usually people who draw/paint on the computer use something like this.

Huh. I learned something today.

With a tablet and a stylus I can get up to 2500 pressure levels. Mayhap not exactly as sensitive as my hand but close enough to be able to "handpaint" every illustration I make.

Cheers

Next update. Worked up Sar Haroth some. This is still not done people.

Looking awesome Colro, really like the cloth.

Although, that sword position looks like it should be 2 handed to me. Maybe its just because the rest of the hilt isn't there so it looks funny or something.

Cheers,



Since some people voiced concerns about anatomy.

I use a standard GW "10-head(Heroic)" anatomy. That is, normal humans are roughly eight heads tall, to make it more heroic, painters usually make the humans nine heads tall, GW (and me) make the spacemarines ten heads tall.

As you can see, this image shows the anatomy of the Sar in red, and next to it you can see nine head-circles on top of eachother (one is below the image, cropped out if you will). The only thing that looks odd about the image, anatomy-wise is the leg-armour, because it is bent differently then how the leg would go, and then only by a minute difference. These are things that I fix as I go.

With Sosol, the terminator, there is a similar thing going on, though the terminator armour was never anatomically correct. The arms just wont fit. Therefore I favour a point of view where the ams of a terminator armour is part mechanical (like in the teaser-trailer fro Starcraft2) and that the legs have the actual feet of the SM before the foot of the armour begins.


Hopefully this helps a little.

Just absolutely beautiful work! this is an amazing thread with content that will inspire me and others around the world! sometimes all it takes is an image or concept that will trigger the creative process and inspire the imagery that we perceive to be accurate in the 'universe' of 40k, you have nailed the ideas and the right balance between dark and light! not so bloodthirsty it makes it controversial yet by no means is it too fluffy or weak in influence, the faces are exceptional and convey the rugged nature of the men in the armor plate, it's nice to see they all aren't shaven headed G.I Joe replica's, I will be subscribing to this thread as even reading as much as I have to date I am now confounded with a mind filled to the brim with ideas for painting my own miniatures and techniques to replicate! thank you for sharing this with us all, all I can say is i hope you are a fastidious and quick worker as you now have a digital addict!

thank you!

Nerdfest09

You draw beautifully. That's all I can say.

cheers,

Two submissions for Games Workshop as in-house illustrator.

StudioColrouphobia wrote:cheers,

Two submissions for Games Workshop as in-house illustrator.

Spoiler:

That's quite the dainty way to hold a boltgun. Then again, it IS a Blood Angel. Good work!

Next update Sosol.

Still alot to do...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/User:StudioColrouphobia

Some talk on anatomy has been added to the blog on the Graphic Novel.

Feel free to comment, either here or(even better) in the comment thread for the blog.