Rapid concept sketches: Platforms, trees, buildings and organic environments

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.

Biro and colour pencil small floating islands ideas

Biro tree semi colour platforms grass

Buildings with smokey chimneys

Floating island long roots grassy tops sketch

Multi layered platforms with smoke pots and long roots grass underneath

Small gnarly platform with tree trunk

Thin horizontal floating platforms with small bushy wood

Castle house stones island-hovering with underwater plants
Experimenting with water ponds with some ideas for underwater plants. Think we’ll explore this again very soon!