Training 41 : Preparation for a big battle (8) !

This time, even bigger ship with more guns and weapons (For my friend Emilien !).

Training 40 : Preparation for a big battle (7) !

Like training 39, this one is focusing a slightly bigger ship, sort of heavily armed and carrying a funny boat profile.

Training 39 : Preparation for a big battle (6) !

This time, I tried to work out the style for bigger ships, and this one is actually a small carier, with 2 fighter attached on it. In a way it look like a flying truck, which I think look nice.

Training 38 : Preparation for a big battle (5) !

Same as training 37, I'm now exploring styles on smaller ships and units, to get a better understanding of details and overall styling key points.

Training 37 : Preparation for a big battle (4) !

After working on the main ship, now it's time to explore a bit the style on smaller and more nimble ships.

Training 36 : Preparation for a big battle (3) !

This one, it's more like the enemy ship, as for a battle you need at least two facing opponents. One will be the advanced military looking one, and this one will be more of a steam-punk "ish" ships, with houses and woods on it.

More research on this one will obviously come later.

Training 35 : Preparation for a big battle (2) !

Today, same ship as yesterday, but I worked a bit more on the balance, and I think there is something more interesting going on compare to the first iteration.

I guess I will mess around a bit more with it before fixing the design.

Training 34 : Preparation for a big battle !

I have a new idea for a drawing, but it's going to require a bit of time and precision, so I'm starting by first fixing the design of the ships that I will use, or at least the main ships.

Here is the first one, a big type battle cruiser, primarily use as an HQ and launching tracks.

Training 33 : Flying thingy !

Today's is just about experimentation and combination of different elements and textures.

Training 26 : Fish

After the boat-ish looking drawing from yesterday, I chose to draw a fish-ish ship for today.

Training 25 : Nomad ?

Second experimentation today, with a style I use a lot, but combine with elements that are still fairly new to me.

Training 22 : Space dancer !

Tonight, focus on wing shapes and angles. I've put together simple solutions, but I think it give an interesting stance to the ship, almost like it's about to dance.

Training 20 : Colors !!!

As explain yesterday for my training 19, today's focus was on finishing the colored version of my "bike".

Still a lot to learn, but for a first try I'm quite satisfy with it.

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Lot more training like this one will come in the futur.

Training 19 : Colors !

Long story short : I received a pen tablet for valentine's day, so why not start training right away !
Blue part is "done", grey need some more value.

I tried my best to create an interesting flying bike, this time avoiding to add any light/shadow value.

The final coloring will be part of training 20, but so far color blocking look like this.

Training 18 : City Spaceship

3 times in a raw, today's inspiration is coming from one friend (Emilien !). The idea of training my drawing is not only drawing subject that I don't usually do, but also the way that I do it.

I usually don't draw in perspective because I'm lazy, and in small sizes. This one, is a A3 3D"ish" floating city.

(Click the image to get the full screen version).

Down below you can see the preparation drawing that I did before jumping onto the A3, in order to get a better understanding of how several things would look like.

Although it was fun, it took me roughly 4 hour from first research sketches to final drawing...

Training 17 : Spaceships !!!

Once again, thanks to a friend (again Emilien), tonight is Spaceship night.

Those could be of a small and medium type ship, if attached to a fleet of numerous ships. Probably not well suited for fighting, but surely agile and quick in tricky situation.

Starfox's Arwing : 3D Structure

Long after the last drawing, now some actual 3D works are happening !

This is just a "simple" layout so far, ans it's a good visual clue on how some shapes need to be redesigned.

Something Star Wars-ish

Even if it's not an exact reproduction, looking at existing design always give some good hints at what work and doesn't work.

Star Wars ships are hiconic, mostly because of their peculiar geometry. Of course, as many, I love the X wing. But the Y and B wing have also great stence and proportions.

For now I just focused on the X and Y wing.

Starfox basic enemy

After briefly working on the Arwing, now it's time for some basic enemy ships. In the Super Nintendo game, as for the Arwing, each 3D model are very simple (20 polygons max probably). So for those enemy, I just tried something on my own, so they look aggressive, but still with simple volumes.

For now it look too far away from the original, so more research has to be done on my side before further sketches. Also, I never really understood if the enemy were robots or actual people flying ships for Andross.

Starfox's Arwing

After listening to the last IGN Nintendo podcast, I went into a really short Starfox study of the Arwing design + a "re-design" of the main body.

I'm still confuse about what are the vertical elements for, beside for looks. I'll have to figure it out in further sketchs, but for now I'm thinking either for extra fuel tank or booster+intake+antena contraption.

You can find below the last IGN podcast about Starfox.

http://tinyurl.com/oyplxwb