CGAN Feb 2015 - Letting off Steam - WIPS

OK, so here's an idea. Optimus Prime is my Hero, so I am going to try and paint him.

Since I have NO SKILLS in the area of mechanical drawing... at all!.... I will just have to give this one my best shot!

So, here's the concept.

I think we should all be having this conversation over in the WIP thread. This thread is just for final entries!!

EDIT by Charlotte: Moved now

OK my title topic says -WIPS and the link says WIPS so I am assuming I'm in the right forum .

Not really up on the Steampunk genre. Looking it up, as I understand it, it is an alternate history of 19th century Victorian or wild west civilization employing steam powered technology in almost a futuristic way ( ie robots, flying machines, spacecraft). So now I need to come up with a solid idea, maybe a space launch.
Anyway did some searching for images and came up with some character images and worked up a practice sketch of three of the images. They seem to like the use of goggles when operating machines so I added them to the women’s images as well as the one that was on the man.



Don’t think I can use this as part on my work as the images are not mine, but it was a fun practice .

Slightly confusing but I think we're in the right place.

Kodabble: Whether you use it or not that's a cool drawing and that's definitely the Steampunk feel that the subject asks for.

Dom: You seem to be doing fine with straight lines without any advice. But one way to do straight edges (edges rather than lines) is to mark a boundary with the polygon selection tool and then paint normally inside the selection.

Ok, so not sure just how well this will turn out, but here a sketch I did real quick. (Since I've never done a Steampunk image before, wanting to play along) ... First thing that popped in my head actually. Still a lot more thinking to do for machining him up, as well as thinking of the BG, but here's the start.

Charlotte wrote:

Love the idea of a steam powered bull, Dave!

Me too! Great start!!

This is very hard!!

Trying a new technique here with the graphic "comic book" style colouring. Is it working?