Tacterrian Recon

McGibs

Finito!


First in a series of commision pieces for a client's RPG universe. I must say that I do enjoy getting paid for things I'd draw normally.



durrbah durhh


Started the next character, a scout/recon/skirmisher sorta dude. Hes got funky googles and a ghillie cape...thing...

Edcrab

Fuck yes. This is the coloured final version of the sketch/ink you posted before, yeah? I really don't know what to say beyond that you've got a fantastic piece of work right there.

There's even light reflecting off his face from the binoculars... man. Elsewhere the lighting seems... muted, somehow, but the vibe I get from this is that it's like one of those slightly faded wartime photographs you get in historical textbooks. Except as you alluded to the grunt in question is part Imperial Guardsmen, part Russian Infantry :P

Brolo

I love it.

Especially that you left it slightly desaturated... I can never stop myself from super-saturating everything, but the faded colours work wonderfully here.

My only nitpick is the perspective on the gun - I'm not sure what's the matter with it but it looks... slightly bent?... on first impression. I wish I could express it more clearly but I'm not sure how to put it into words.

Still, wonderful work!

Tam

I can see this in a game manual and I can see myself goggling at it wondering why it isn't in a modern illustration gallery or book.

Iruka

the quality is fantastic. how long did it take you to ink him?

Lly

It's awesome. If I saw this in a game manual I would definitely thumbs up at the game developers.

The boots look a little flat compared to the rest of the piece, I guess because they have so little detail on them and the rest is really busy. Also they are hella clean. Make em muddy!

Heliosphan

echoing the same feels as the above post here but man! that is superb! the texture of his clothes is spot on, and the has a nice effect. what on earth did you use to colour this beast?

only downside now is that i want to see more of them.

Novus

As everyone has said this looks fantastic. Can you tell us the name of the franchise this is being developed for and whether it's tabletop or electronic?

NakedZergling

seeing that gives me a romance explosion in my pants.

hey...how do i get your comic? i wants i wants.

Lly

http://www.mcgibs.iseenothing.com/index/locust.html

NakedZergling

i mean a physical copy

Prospicience

Lly wrote: »

http://www.mcgibs.iseenothing.com/index/locust.html

I think he means hardcopy

Also, Super inspiring as usual McGibbs. Can't wait till I gradumate and start drawing again, all this inspiration's going to make me explosion like zergling if I don't do something artsy soon.

Edit: Beat'd

Aumni

You should've gotten enough experience by now to level up man. Level 2? This piece and the baby dragon and all your other work should at least make you a level 5 by now.

Edcrab

Yeah, I think he must have based his title off one of those old school cosmic-scale RPGs with only a few levels.

Level 2 means the pinnacle of human achievement- level 5 would be, like, the Galactus of art (he's still a few gallery crawls away from that).

StealthNachos

Okay, I really like this, but I would have loved to see more contrast between the darks and lights.

Nonetheless, really, really cool. I've been checking this out in the doodle thread. Can't wait to see the rest (oh, you'd better'd post them).

Chop Logic

This is really fantastic. You colored it digitally?

Post some more stuff, I really love your style.

McGibs

Thanks for the comments all. I'm making a few little changes to the cap'n, and ill bugger around with the shadow contrasts.

This is 100% photoshop

Can you tell us the name of the franchise this is being developed for and whether it's tabletop or electronic?

It's just for a guy's personal rpg universe that he plays with his friends, not a comercial game.

hey...how do i get your comic? i wants i wants.

If you email me real nice and send me some paypal lovin, I might mail some just for you. I really need to get my website store set up...

Level 2?

Its actually my year in art school. So I guess I'm level 3 now.

Started the next character, a scout/recon/skirmisher sorta dude. Hes got funky googles and a ghillie cape...thing...

Awk

so cool.

jpeg

Very nice. The textures in your stuff lately totally inspires me. Only nitpicky thing in the sketch for the second one is his torso seems very wide, but that may just be his jacket and side bags like in the first one.

Big Luke Nasty

The gun on the scout seems bent just a teeny bit. Where the barrel and all is, the whole section shifts just a smidgeon to our left.

McGibs

it has a crapload of flashlights and lasers stuck on the side if thats what you mean...
Or that the gun is tilted ever so slightly to the right, so you can see a little bit of the side of the front grip.

Doctor Pain

so is that first guy like a futuristic nazi? like what the nazis would look like today if they had won the war?

McGibs

From what I've read on the guy's universe (he sent me a little short story thing), theyre very german-esque in the fact that theyre highly trained and diciplined. Like I stated earlier, theyre essentially a combination of ww2 germany, and imperial guard from warhammer40k (which is pretty much ww1/2 russia/germany).

So, not an entirely original concept, but theyre fun to draw.

Creambun 007

I pretended he was saying the line from Elmer Fudd, and just started laughing. "I'm huntin' wabbits" Nice work Gibbs. Too talented for your own good. I'll be lucky if I'm half as good at twice your age.

McGibs

durrbah durhh

Ravenshadow

sweet. can't wait to see the finished product. I really like your military designs.

Vargas Prime

It's coming along well, McGibbs, but the perspective on the gun is throwing me off.

The lenses/muzzle holes look too circular when you look at how far down the gun seems to be pointing. They look like they should be flatter, vertically, so that they sync with how he's holding it. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but it looks like we're seeing too much of the front of the weapon.

Other than that, it looks super. Looking forward to the final colored piece.

Doctor Pain

hope you dont mind me asking but, how much are you getting paid? and how many or these cahracters you still have to draw?

Creambun 007

Nice inks, biatch.

Tonkka

No kidding. I wish I could stop being so noodly with my drawing and leave nice clean lines like that... I lack control sometimes.

Nice job, can't wait to see the colors!

Mushiwulf

The gun is pointed somewhat downward but several of the attachments seem to be pointed straight ahead.

flyingmonkey

I'm going to second or third people by saying the lenses on the flashlights etc (esp. the one in the rear on the gun) seem out of perspective with the angle the gun is being pointed down.

McGibs

autumny.

Big Luke Nasty

Love it.

</jealousy>

wakkawa

Yeah its lookin good so far. Though you should totally make that digital camo.

McGibs

digicamo is ugly as sin. Tiger pattern ftw.

wakkawa

Yeah well I think digicamo looks awesome.

So, uh, woo?

McGibs

Adrien

Say what you like, that does make it harder to make out his shape.

Tonkka

Forum camo FTW!!!

Adrien

Must have been a shadow.