sketches,studies,roughs,and rejects

**rolandb** · February 7th, 2010, 07:49 PM

Retro-look hover-car for a sci-fi-noir styled game

**rolandb** · February 8th, 2010, 06:36 PM

structural/compositional layout for a cityscape. Still needs work to make it look like it's inhabited.

Photoshop and 3DsMax

**rolandb** · February 11th, 2010, 08:08 PM

Two rough layouts of the flyer for a dance and acrobatic show that I am performing in. (For those of you living in the New York City area, it's called "Out Through Her", and it's playing on March 5,6,and 7 at Galapagos art space)

**rolandb** · February 14th, 2010, 04:54 PM

design exploration of a steam powered monorail stabilized by mystical gyroscopes. For a fantasy/steampunk game project

**rolandb** · February 17th, 2010, 10:32 PM

Final version of the flyer that I sketched out in one of the previous posts

**rolandb** · February 20th, 2010, 04:18 PM

studies for submarines, for a fantasy/steampunk project

**rolandb** · February 22nd, 2010, 11:09 PM

Battle of mythical creatures, layout sketch

**rolandb** · February 27th, 2010, 01:00 PM

composition study of a spaceport on a desert planet. Finished picture is in my thread called "environment concepts", in the entertainment design forum.

**rolandb** · February 28th, 2010, 09:12 PM

Rough sketch of a race of genetically engineered soldiers. In civilian garb

**Porg** · April 8th, 2010, 03:10 PM

The vehicle works are amazing, I love the perspective you get on them.
So you just draw them free hand and then fill in the colour on PS then.

Saw another thread with your stuff and you said you did it with 3DMax and PS, so I assume you create the space with the three dimensional program and then fill in the texture and text with Photoshop.

Just wondering as it confuses the hell out of me how people go about creating these landscapes / scenes.

**rolandb** · April 11th, 2010, 04:38 PM

Actually, I very rarely model an entire scene or object in 3D. My typical process is to start with a rough layout, done either in pencil or in photo shop. I will set that as a background image in my perspective viewport in 3Ds max. I then set props and cameras so that my 3D viewpoint matches the perspective in the sketch. I will create 3D models of the parts of the scene that are too complicated or time consuming to render by hand. Fro example, mapping a texture on a curved surface can be a real pain in Photoshop. Also, if I am drawing a restaurant, rendering each chair can be very tedious. I will render these parts, without much sophisticated lighting, as Targa files. The targa format creates an alpha channel, isolating the geometry. I can then assemble all the rendered pieces like a puzzle, and render all the remaining parts in Photoshop. For the vehicles you are referring to, those were just drawn by hand, and shaded in Photoshop. Since they are just studies, creating a 3D model of those vehicles would be much more time consuming than necessary. Sometimes I will make 3D models of the wheels if I want a really complicated tire tread pattern.

**jskotte** · April 12th, 2010, 05:01 AM

really cool concepts and thanks for explanation of your work flow

**rolandb** · April 21st, 2010, 10:31 PM

some spaceship designs. pen and ink and Photoshop

**rolandb** · April 26th, 2010, 09:59 AM

another spaceship design for a space-opera genre sci-fi project

**rolandb** · May 2nd, 2010, 09:14 AM

Character for a childrens' video game. This guy is a hornworm, the larval state of the hawkeye moth.

**rolandb** · May 12th, 2010, 05:25 PM

humanoid species evolved on a planet with low gravity. they require a levitation harness (whatever that means) to walk around on planets with a higher gravitational well.
Pencil and photoshop

**rolandb** · May 18th, 2010, 09:23 AM

pelican character for a childrens' video game that got canceled. Its magic bill could store huge objects

**rolandb** · May 20th, 2010, 08:32 AM

Some sort of purple-skinned humanoid with mechanical Medusa tentacles.
Pencil, Painter, and Photoshop

**rolandb** · May 21st, 2010, 10:09 AM

boa constrictor snake character for a children's video game that got canceled

**rolandb** · May 23rd, 2010, 10:52 AM

Sea turtle character for a children's video game about wildlife education. This character is the highly endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, found in the Caribbean.

**rolandb** · May 25th, 2010, 05:48 PM

iguana character for a childrens' video game project

**Puffynose** · May 25th, 2010, 06:02 PM

WOW!! *drools* I LOVE THE WATERCOLORS THE BEST MOAR MOAR!!! cool designs! can u show us ur landscapes!!?

**rolandb** · May 28th, 2010, 06:02 PM

vampire bat character for a childrens' video game about jungle wildlife. his personality was going to be sort of like the Fonz from Happy Days

**rolandb** · May 29th, 2010, 01:20 PM

My GF standing by a window. Watercolor

**rolandb** · June 10th, 2010, 04:35 PM

prairie dog characters, for a children's video game

**rolandb** · June 17th, 2010, 07:48 PM

One of the pencil sketches above, with color applied in Photoshop

**rolandb** · July 26th, 2010, 06:07 PM

Watercolor and marker. 15 minute pose

**rolandb** · August 3rd, 2010, 02:56 PM

studies for a surfing supply store. The final version can be seen on my other thread, "environment concepts".

**ModestMouse** · August 3rd, 2010, 03:24 PM

the surfing store desings are incredible

**rolandb** · August 9th, 2010, 10:19 AM

Four-faced demon.
I like some of the design elements in this aborted concept study, but I never felt happy about the execution of the illustration. Rather than starting over from the beginning, I'll just chalk this one up to a lesson in learning from one's mistakes