Object Art

Artist - Aaron St.Goddard

This is the artist I've chosen to mimic his style, it's a very cartoon style using high saturated colours and hard pencil lines. The style reminds me of the game Borderlands which uses thick borderlines and block colours. Using this style I'll draw a object in this style. I want to use thin lines when drawing my concept as the outline because that's what i see here. The shading is split into 3-4 shades of the same colour which really defines the style. The work on the goggles and hammer are brilliant because they help the reader understand the theme and traits of the character and of what the objects could be used for such as the hammer could be used for either fighting or smashing rocks and the goggles could be for swimming or for more probably blocking dirt from eyes.

These are my six thumbnail sketches I did to decide which perspective of my object i wanted to choose, i did almost every angle and each drawing took one minute or less. I had to of my friends look at them and decide which they thought looked most promising. In the end I took there feedback and went with the bottom right drawing of the gas mask lying down on a table.

This is my initial sketch i wanted to draw shading away form the object and more onto the ground around it. My six credit card sketches helped a lot for me to understand what would actually be on the other side of my object which helps me to draw it with better perspective. This sketch took me around 20 minutes. I wanted to indicate the chosen artist style in my drawing by showing a lot of engravement and messy pencil marks around the edge. In my final image i want to show the shading and the blend of colours.

This is my grey scale drawing of the object this was done so i could understand the contrast of shades used for when i did the colour version, most of the object is quite light but the eye sockets and the air filters had considerable amount of darkness along with a progressive light source.

Here is the colour version i did i wanted to use a arctic colour palette for my object by using light blues and white along with some dark blues for shading. I was happy with the shading and was happy with the blending of colours as well,but I was a little disappointed with the perspective and also the quality of the air filters as they don't look like they have any depth but i know  for next time how i could give it depth by making bigger contrast, between the shades. I tried to imitate my chosen artist style by using thin pencil like brushes around the edges but i couldn't grasp the way he coloured his work.