There are many variations and interpretations of the ‘Green Man’ symbol, mostly characterised as a mans head or skull with plants and other vegetation sprouting in and out of the eye sockets, mouth, nostrils and ears. The Green Man is generally considered a representation of the cycle of life or rebirth of nature when spring time comes around. Continue reading “Initial concept work for a Green Man giant made of trees”
Here is another of our 16x sped up videos of a floating island being created. This pencil sketch is filmed from start to finish showing concept art for part of our platform game environment. Continue reading “Floating islands – Speed sketching indie game environment concept art”
Here’s our most recent environment and buildings concept artwork for a floating island as part of the design phase of the hand drawn platform game we are making. We streamed this from start to finish on our Twitch channel, (you can catch up here with past broadcasts), and have uploaded the 16x speeded up drawings to our YouTube channel. The creative juices are flowing fast 🙂 Continue reading “Rocky outcrops, boulders, and two thatched stone buildings”
Here are a selection of our concept sketches and drawings for platform game levels, environments, buildings, plants and other objects that are forming the art direction of an upcoming cross-platform adventure game featuring hand drawn graphics and animation with digital watercolour style paint. Continue reading “Early pencil drawn concept sketches gallery”
Game level ideas sketched out for varying layered mounds of blocks, (retro Super Mario style), and a tree which spears through a wedge of grassy platform. Also another concept for a foreground and also silhouetted background building. New style drawing test for the bottom of the floating island, with bobbly tentacle-like tendrils. Continue reading “Layered grassy mounds on a floating island with bobbly base tendrils”
Here are a few very rough concept sketches for organic platforms for inclusion in the artwork for a 2d platformer-style game. Quite often we do a bunch of these and pick out some good or new ideas to work them up into a slightly more finished sketch. Continue reading “Rapid concept sketches: Platforms, trees, buildings and organic environments”
Concept for a thatched house on top of lots of intertwining branches and trunks of gnarled trees. All growing out of a floating environment block made of rocks and dirt. Continue reading “Twisting, intertwining trees form gnarly platforms with a thatched house”
Conceptual design sketching for different kinds of buildings and cave-like mini tunnels on top of a floating island. Different kinds of smoke suggest that these places are inhabited by unseen creatures or people. Continue reading “Detail sketch floating island with various buildings”
A start with a basic five-colour palette to keep an overall natural, warm feel to these levels. The fifth colour is the Dark Blue which is indicating the water pool. Continue reading “Coloured Early Concepts for Floating Islands and Organic Hand Drawn Platforms”
The floating island platforms in this concept sketch are some initial ideas for various terrain blocks that sit underneath the main platforms that game characters run along in this hand drawn platform game environment. Continue reading “Floating Islands Pencil Sketch with a Rope Bridge and Thatched House”