Concept Art

A bit more concept art, using the colour palette, for the front lobby area. Its in my usual rough speed paint style, so isn't the neatest thing in the word.

If anyone else is trying to do a picture using the palette, remember:

1) That the palette is a guideline, not a rule, if you try to do it just using palette colours it will be very hard and probably not be as good as it should be. Sample colours from a whatever reference photo you are using if doing it digitally. The shortcut for culour sample is Alt+mouse click if you don't know already.

2) The colours we sampled were largely in direct light, this means that if you need shadowed areas you are going to have to darken and / or desaturate the colours. If you don't know how to do this or are unsure of how much you should do it you can ask me or Nikki (or anyone else you can get hold of, but I can't guarantee they'll know either, though they probably will)

3) Detail is not the most important thing for broad concepts like this, it would be better to have

a couple of very rough pictures which give the idea rather than one polished piece - it may look nice but it'll only help us with one thing out of many different bits of the building we have to do.

Also:

Download a copy of the palette and have it open while you work, as you'll be belding colours of even pickign similar/complementary colours to go, scribble them down on your copy of the palette and save it. Obviously don't do it over the exisitng colours.

Anyway, when you are done you have the colorus saved as reference, or in theory, you could show it to Nikki, and if theres any particularly good/useful colours there it could be put into the overall palette.




Very rough concept for the stairs, it probably looks a lot like a mass of squiggles, but I can always produce a far more polished version if necessary.