Then he Said

Without effects

 

 I finally tried to add a few effects to make it look like the image had aged, its a mixture of noise, a filter effect and i changed the image levels to try and darken the blacks and make them stand out more.

Its all just Black and White

 

Here is my attempt at a Combine staff room in Neal Adams style. I wanted to capture a lighter side of the evil enemy. I also encorporated two little easter eggs, hats from team fortress 2 and the companion cube from portal which are other Valve top games. I really like this image in just black and white, im a bit tentative to add colour but i want to go for the original batman style using block colours and an old grain style.

A Hail of Fire

 

 I wanted to try my hand first on something easier than a full person. I felt trying a fairly straight edged object would be easiest, so i went with the classic HL2 weapon the AR2 rifle. I felt i managed to get this working pretty well, the pure black wide lines are where they should be, the only thing im not so keen on is the shadows, i find it hard to get the cross hatching down right especially over the entire object. I feel the wide lines show the basic position but they need more cross-hatching. The only time the lack of cross hatching works is when the object is under direct light.

Break Time

 

 Ive added these pictures because i wanted a quick look at lunch break rooms for an idea of Combine chatting about their day during break. I also looked at how the army are jsut regular people who all chat take breaks and have a laugh.