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just a helmet concept i started up today, took me about an hour to do the sketch, i didn't use a reference picture, just my memory, so rate and comment. ill be painting it up sometime this summer...


UPDATE!!!!!!!
I've been painting with Photoshop and Painter Essentials 2 for about 3 hours now, and this is what i have so far:

to do list:
1. Make visor less firey, and more glossy/shiney (dont know how ot do this, so someone give me some tutorial links preese!)
2. do some more shading/ lighting touchups.
3. color in any white areas left over.
4. maybe throw in a bg?

Really good if its just from memory.

i've been practicing alot at school, so i finally got the chance to do it, since its summer time and all, so ill be painting it up when i work on my coloring skillz... this'll just be a fun little "project" to do over the summer.

looks great but I would fix the indentation of his visor, it should be completely spherical.

That's really impressive from just memory. Even with a reference, that would still be some nice work.

That glossy enough? AIM me for the PSD. You signed off literally right as I dragged the file into the window.

its not all that gold, its too orange... not really liking the effect that you used on it either, i was thinking more on the lines of an image reflection..

the best course of action to do is try to mimic actual Sheen. Pick a light angle and find something you like. A car for example, will give you good ideas on how to set up and plan your lighting and glossy look.

ill mess around with terragen to find shadows, and ill use cinema 4d to produce my angles, and lighting effects.

So resourceful ... I only barely know PS...

Only thing I really dislike is the glare, other than that it's maaad gooood.

It looks like you painted with a sponge.

GametagAeonFlux wrote:It looks like you painted with a sponge.

i actually used a sponge like brush, but it could just be the details i had added in that you are talking about?

Woah dude, You should have shown me how to use those brushes before I handed in my end of year exam art project (nooo!!) Nice.

Looks pretty cool so far

I don't know about you but I like this color for the visor (halo 3's visor is more yellowy)

WAY TO YELLOW!

yes but that is the color of halo 3's visor, if that is what this is. If not then it doesn't realy matter

xbox wrote:yes but that is the color of halo 3's visor, if that is what this is. If not then it doesn't realy matter

the visor in your sig looks a bit like a goldish orange yellow... more on the inbetween of yellow and orange... so ill stick to a mixture. but be weary that is NOT the final version. i will be doing some 3d editing as soon as i can figure out why my pen tablet isnt working in cinema 4d >.>

yeah well thats a cgi render with the reflection of the sunset.
but I went to bungie.net and lloked at some screen shots and It is more gold
I guess the brightness was just set to high on my T.V. for the BETA