Now looks quite surrealistic rather than cyberpunkish...

Hmm... Still it's very hard to understand what's happening here. Looks like a bar scene, a bird's head and and a side view of ancient ship at the same time. Is it a scene inside of a building?

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 05 November 2009 at 9:40am

Wood would completely go against the "Cyberpunk" title though, but it is interesting looking.

I really think you need to show more of this ship, Club, cuz right now it's really hard to read. Even if you dont use the full ship in your image I think it would be a great help to both you and us to be able to see the ship in its entirety.

Thanks for the crits and tips. I surely take these in option. I really like the wood texture of God is Evil.

To clear a bit of vagueness up, I wanted to make a scene where a (in this case indeed steampunk) airship has to take a sharp right turn (so the lower part of the ship is a part of the bottom, I need to figure out how to do that). There will be added things later on, I just need to get the main object right. There will be a window there and loads of other detaily things. There will also be extra things in the sky. So don't worry I just want to take the things step by step and one at the time so not to drown in this project.

Made some changes, but it seems like the ship is knacked.. Perspective wise



Edited by Club Beuker - 06 November 2009 at 2:28am

Different approach maybe?



Edited by Club Beuker - 06 November 2009 at 2:53am

For the newer version I intend to keep it in it's full glory like this. With smaller vessels/objects around it.

@Dhr. Bosch: I'm planning to put a close-up of a huge ship behind it so there will be more "action" in the scene.

@Jalonso: Thanks. Wait.. wha?

@Lollige: I will, thanks.

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Edited by Club Beuker - 09 November 2009 at 5:44am

Oh you've been staring at it's butt the whole time

Seems like the front of the ship is in a different perspective than the back. May want to work that out before you get too far in.

This is getting annoying.. It made my head hurt that I didn't creat enough space to add the Steampunky items, like tubes, gauges, steam, etc.

Starting again in this awesome thing called Isometric (since this perspective thing starts to hurt my mind. I feel guilty for slurping up all your attention and such..

3rd time's a charm:

Maybe I should drop this project.. for now..

A little coloring and fiddling later:


Everything is up for deletion and alteration since I'm just trying stuff here..


Edited by Club Beuker - 10 November 2009 at 9:18am

:(, the old one was much more interesting..
But nevertheless, keep on going!

I like the body and all, but yeah, that triangle windshield-thing definitely needs to be round to match all the curves around it.


And this also reminds me that I still need to try my hand at ISO :< Wish I could offer some advice for it but I'd rather someone who actually knows something do it :P


Edited by Zeratanus - 12 November 2009 at 8:47am

I always have trouble with rounded surfaces in ISO.  The shading will follow your light source, the propeller should be light on both blades as they both face the direction your light seems to come from, maybe the left-most one being slightly less bright.  Check google images for things like soap bubbles for ideas on your cockpit shading.

When doing an isometric piece it's easy to let the structured lines and proportions cramp your rendering style. I think that the colours could benefit from hue shifting, being toned down and unified.

The two main properties of glass are translucence and reflectivity, right? So, why not just do that?

I just scribbled a glass edit, it may give you some ideas. The great thing is that any reflections don't need to be isometric, or even straight- lined (In fact, that'd often be plain wrong!). Play with distortion, put colours everywhere on a whim (refining later ;P) and you'll find a much less stodgy image as a result.


So yeah. I'm half asleep, please excuse me :D

EDIT: that's much better. but the glass comment still applies :D

Edited by Jeremy - 13 November 2009 at 5:45am