Revenge of the Giant Face

 

This is my attempt at the iconic Combine mask. I find it pretty difficult to get straight edges with my cross hatching, but i feel the block black i have placed seem to be in the right areas. I just try and pick the darkest spots that blend into one. The weakest parts of this image is the ventilators at the front

Dad's Army

Instead of going down the generic good guy route i have had an idea to use the bad guys in the scenario, the Combine. An elite transhuman army commanded by aliens. I wanted to show the more civil himan side of the group, an idea i had is what do they do when they arent hunting Gordon Freeman? They are just people after all.

I also like the combine because they remind me of the foot soldiers from comic books, with their very brutal style and covered faces. In general i just want to try and show a bad guys day off.

I am the Batman

Some research pictures.

I love how Neal Adam uses his line strokes, specifically i love how he can use block black and still make the drawing stand out and look like its shaded.

I think i prefer his line art more than his coloured pieces. The detail he is able to put in is extraordinary.

Neal Adam's most iconic character, I really want to try to use negative space for detail like Neal Adams does as seen above, less is more.

t½ = In(2) | λe

Half-Life 

A selection of Half Life characters

Gordon Freeman

A Roll of the Dice

After a pretty hard decision ive decided to mix the Half-Life quote with the Neal Adams style. I really like the ink line art style with colour and without and thats something i want to play with. Because i dont have to keep to the half-life 1 game i just need to imply the quote,i still want to do the halflife universe i just think im going to move to the more known half life 2. A first idea ive ahd is to take a few screenshots of memorable points in the game and then try and convert them into the style of Neal Adams.

Crime is Art

Banksy

 

 An anonomous political activist graffitti writer. Every one of his graffitti pieces has a message and most of them are also created 'illegally'. I really like the style though i feel it would be hard to duplicate via photoshop. If i am going to try to re-create banksy work i would have to get out and actually spray paint and stencil things

Where is She?!

Neal Adams