Scifi Soldier

First time doing the photo/paint bash picture. It was difficult at first but then it got a little bit easier.I made the concept  around early October, but I put it on hiatus because it didn't get anywhere, I restarted working on it around last week, took about 2 weekends to finish it... 

Original concept. Feel like the text could add more emotion.

Soldier WIP

Trying out something new this time... first time photo/paint bashing.

Peace Maker mech concept

I have an original story that I want to make, it's called "Peace Maker". The story focus on a boy/man and a robot.

Here's the first pass of the mech, will do a few more passes before making it final. Weapons and accessories will be added in the end.

I don't want to make a super original/stylish mech, I just want to make something generic - a big heavy duty looking robot, because the story is not focused on mech, but the man/machine relationship.

Mechs

Finished pieces of my mech design. I am getting a bit annoyed at looking these two because I've been working on them for the past 4 weeks. Really like the results though.

These will be my baseline from now on, so any future pieces need to surpass these two.

Mehhh-ch

Original mech paint. Persoanlly I like the rough one better before I refined it.

I ran out of names.. so I decided to use the abbreviation of my undergrad aerospace class

90% there

Near the finishing stage of my 2 mech characters.

I'm pretty happy with my improvements so far. I've never done mech paintings like these before so I don't have a baseline to compare to, but now I do!

I named the characters because I've been working on them for the past month, I became quite attached to them. 

I really like Odysseus, I think I will do more paintings and design improvements on him in the future. 

Refinement

Refinement of the 2 selected thumbs. The one on the left has a little more organic feel, I named him SYCK... the name was from a text that I sent to my friend where I misspelled 'sick". The teacher wants the mech to be a little more bulky, I personally like the thinner legs considering how slender the mech looks. However I want to improve my design so I listened to the pro.  No questions asked!

I really like the bulk guy design and so does the teacher. I'm going to redo the drawing because I feel like a front view is boring, I also used symmetry so I feel like I cheated. 
I will be working on the colored version this weekend. I'm definitely going to make 3D versions of those once the class is done because I'd love to see them in 3D!

Kachalot

Next WAYLE design is Kachalot. Based on Chachalot - aka Sperm Whale.

Sperm whale's head shape was the main inspiration for Kachalot's design. Second picture is the line sketch, the egg shaped helmet type design is pretty common so I tried to make it different. Sperm whale's head is actually rectangular like from the front view so I made it some what edgy.

As for the color choice, I really like Orka's black/white/blue scheme, but I didn't want to use it again and get them confused. One day at work I saw a black/gray/orange tapeholder and I really liked it, so I decided to go with that scheme.The helmet portion was originally white, but I really like dark color so I made it black grayish. 

This picture also has a little more hardware details than Orka. Orka only had the head portion made, the rest was paintbashed using the helmet. For this one, the head, neck and chest plate were made, so some of the parts were photobashed and paint bashed. It was a first for me so it took awhile, but I like the result and I will do more so I can become proficient with it.

Mech thumbnails

20 Mech thumbs, with 10 "top" pic with a little more details.

Orka

After a month of failing to make my Orka design, my persistence was finally paid off!

My mecha drawing (at least for traditional) are mostly influenced by the style of Transformers Prime, when it comes to digital though, it just turns into a whole different style.

I'm planning on doing more research and gathering references for mechanical parts to increase my visual library. And make some models so I can start learning how to kitbash and make designs quickly.

For now, I want to enjoy the fruit of my first mecha design. 

Orka Concept

Quick drawing of an original mecha design.

The color of the mecha is suppose to be mainly black and white, but shading in black will make some of the details hard to see so I just left these areas white. 

I was inspired by the killer whales's white "eye spot", they look like eyes but they are not, the real eyes are very small and hard to see, so I want to create a mecha that gave the same "illusion".