Secret Lairs Photoshop: Warm Up Session 0.3

'Secret Lair of the Steampunk Explorer'

The third part of the session allowed us to focus on the last of the three made up lair examples set by Jordan.

(Figure 1: Steampunk Mood Board)

When I think of steampunk, I instantly picture huge dials, cogs and machinery. However looking at concept art deriving from Steampunk, it is a lot more intricate. This mood board took 10 minutes to gather images.

(Figure 2: Steampunk Quick Sketches)

Working onward from the Gaelic Golem thumbnails, I wanted to look into lighting and actual 'lairs'. This style is new to me yet I feel I can get a lot more pretty accidents from my mark making. These 6 thumbnails took 6 minutes to paint.

Secret Lairs Photoshop: Warm Up Session 0.2

'Secret Lair of the Gaelic Golem'

The second part of the warm up was to choose a second option out of the three made up lairs that Jordan had given us.

(Figure 1: Gaelic Golem Mood Board)

This time we only had 10 minutes to create a mood board for this specific lair.

(Figure 2: Gaelic Golem Quick Sketches)

I tried to use another blocking technique when creating these thumbnail sketches rather than using the line art from the Candyland Huntsman Lair.

Inspiration: Living Lines

Secret Lairs Photoshop: Warm Up Session 0.1

'Secret Lair of the Candyland Huntsman'

As a warm up session during todays photoshop class, Jordan gave us three options to choose from as a warm up 'imaginary lair' before tomorrows briefing.

(Figure 1: Candyland Huntsman Mood Board)

First we had 15 minutes to create a mood board to gather ideas and to see the differences from our first google searches to our last.

(Figure 2: Quick Digital Sketches)

The next task was to create 10-15 minute thumbnail sketches using our mood boards to get a basic idea of our chosen secret lairs.