Vernon Gate - Final - Environment task

For my Vernon gate environment I started looking at castle motes and really wanted to implement these type of ideas onto my Vernon gate concept art. below are some of the castle motes that I fell in love with. from these I got a great feel of how to apply this to my environment. I could create the bridge leading to the castle and then reflect my building into the water giving it a really nice effect.

Building research techniques

Abstract art with buildings

Vernon Gate, Building base complete

I have now completed the main layer of my building and am now starting to add dents and scratches to the building, I have also been doing some research on what I could do around the surrounds of my environmental piece. I am currently very interested in putting it on the peak of a mountain and having clouds over the top of the gate making it look very mystical.

Environment Progression

Completed the right hand side to a basic base level. will now begin working my way to the inner centre and then try using symmetry and see how it looks on the opposite side, from there I will try and blend it into the middle together. Once I have done that I will create some scratch and dent brushes and go over the bricks to give them a more grungy look.

Environment Task update.

Still working up towards the top of the building and given the basic outline of the other half of the building using my scanned in drawing. am also look at whether I could duplicate the right half of the building and flip it horizontally to the left hand side as the building is quite similar on both sides. From there I could then add scratches and holes to make the two sides look different instead of being directly reflected, which would save me time instead of painting them all again. I think this should work as the building is in a one point perspective.

Update Final Environment Task

update of where I am currently out, I am still working on the right half of the building and it's taking quite some time to get the correct colours together to symbolise the bricks as well as breaking up the different sections of the building. I think it looks good so far and am quite proud how it's turning out although it is very time consuming the technique I am using. I have done some research on the theory of dabbing and am now starting to use darking colours and go into a softer colour scheme for the top half of the building too show the difference in the perspective.

Vernon Gate Update

After doing lots of digital painting in Photoshop on different styles of buildings and perspective I found it very difficult to get a very realistic look so I decided to do some research into different techniques and came across a type of dabbing technique.

I have used that technique for my final digital painting for this task and believe so far it is looks quite good and I am much happier and more comfortable doing this technique instead of getting a very realistic look, I much prefer the outcome of how this looks so far. Although this technique is quite time consuming as I have to constantly change from lighter and darker colours to get the technique working correctly.

Above is just a basic start I am currently working on the east side of the building and so far have just used different brushes.

Vernon Gate - End product for Enviroment Task

Begging of my digital painting of Vernon Gate. starting to struggle a little bit on making the brick work look realistic and adding shadow around the sides. So far I am happy with the basic detail but I am just currently trying to get a style that I like.

Pictures Taken In Derby Perspective Research