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!