Youtube Thumbnail Green Man Drawing in PhotoShop

Initial concept work for a Green Man giant made of trees

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”

Cropped selection of environment concept art for 2D game platforms

Early pencil drawn concept sketches gallery

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”

Floating Island Pencil Drawing with Rope Bridge and Wooden House

Floating Islands Pencil Sketch with a Rope Bridge and Thatched House

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”

Rough pencil sketch platform game level scanned from moleskin notepad.

Demo 2D platform game level video and sketches

Here is a scan from a rough sketched drawing in a moleskin notebook. We have a few that are dotted about in the studio to capture ideas for parts of environments, platforms, objects and characters that we are pulling together for interactive apps and games.

Digitally painted watercolour over sketched platform game level drawing.

Being a simple sketch, we spruced it up a bit with some digital paint. We use a custom pencil and custom brushes in PhotoShop to retain the hand-made traditional art look.

We have already created several prototype pencil-drawn games using a game engine we wrote a few years ago. We will get round to doing some basic screen capture compilation videos of these, as a special treat for you guys, maybe!

Rough pencil sketch platform game level scanned from moleskin notepad.

Here is a super-early demo screen capture video of the hand-drawn demo game level drawing from above. It’s very basic compared to what we are now working on, but sowed the seed for us to create a more epic project. The rusty acoustic guitar riff we played over the top was just to add a bit of atmosphere to the demo footage.