Mass Effect - Thane Krios

Personal art of Mass Effect.
The fourth picture featuring Thane Krios

The whole image is deprived of rich colors, and is kept in a blue tint. I also included some glow and volumentric light. All this was made to emphasize Thane's personality as an assassin.

You can sense some jagged/uneven edges and little "ghosting" elements. This was done deliberately in order to give the artwork the sense of motion. An effect as if the viewer snapped a frame or paused the video and caught Thane in a position in which he is about to use his powers (just imagine him raising hand with biotics powering up).

Mass Effect - Garrus

Personal art of Mass Effect.
The third picture featuring Garrus

I slighty played around with the design and changed shoulder gauntlet. Also the whole armor and sniper rifle were given more worn out (and believable) look. I enjoyed painting his armor and gun ... every single scratch of them. :) Originally the piece was supposed to be more action oriented but the concept changed and ultimately Garrus is presented in a marksman position.

Mass Effect - Shepard

Personal art of Mass Effect.
The second picture featuring Shepard

The very goal behind this was to depict Shepard as a leader. To capture him in a moment of decision (so important for ME games) or inside struggle with the consequences of his actions. The empty gaze and dark gloomy room are to emphasize the emotional aspect of it. The blood and wounds are to show that he has been through battles and skirmishes (2nd important thing in ME games). All in all, the whole piece is less effective in terms of action, but leaves the viewer with something to ponder on.

Mass Effect - Miranda

The reason wihich led me to do more Mass Effect work was simple - I wanted to make one of the best fan art (which would also work as promo or poster art) to be had. Inspiration came from an outstanding Sunshine OST created by John Murphy, and Underworld, which I recommend listening to in order to feel the right vibe/atmoshphere.
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Beauty and the Beast

Fan art is fun - Volume 5 - Avatar + New Stuff

I am almost done with the fan arts. This is one of the last. The rest uploaded stuff is geenrally practice pieces some color and face study. The two last was supposed to have a comic book style. The frist one is a mix of Hellblazer and Deckard characters. I played around with the colors and textures. The other one was a also a great fun.

Fan art is fun - Volume 4 - Uncharted 2

Fan art nr. 4 . This time I focused on Uncharted 2 main character - Nathan Drake. As previously I made this for fun and practise. Lot of photo texutres have been used to increase the level of realism in order to make it look like a promo art. I also used some references for the pose and for the Drake's characteristic look.