FMP 3 - 8th July

Researching look and feel:

I had already done a lot of research, and had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted my game to feel and look like, but actually achieving that with my level of artistic skills is another matter entirely!

While I won't go too deeply into what I've already written about there, I'll say that main inspiration greatly is the LucasArts game Curse of Monkey island, in look and feel, and Paper Mario. Games like the upcoming Sea of Thieves also has gorgeous colours.

Since then I've scoured the web a bit for more inspiration and artists I like.

http://www.yijenliu.com/Pirate-Characters-Design
I love her lines and sense of personality. I don't know how she learned this, but I'm logging this one for further looking into!




My artistic skills are unpracticed enough for me to introduce simple things like differing proportions and designs - all within the same style, so looking at things like this helps.




Not sure who drew this, but again, unrealistic proportions and a nice sense of character and colour.

To round up this little look (I'll add more artists later when I come across them), there's Jonny Duddle


The art in 'Pirates!' was amazing I thought (better than the story), although I've been having a bit of a hard time finding a lot of sketches by him.

That's it for now, back to work!

Artists:

Yi-Jen Liu. 2016. Yi-Jen Liu. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.yijenliu.com/. [Accessed 28 August 2016].

The Art of Patrick Ballesteros. 2016. The Art of Patrick Ballesteros. [ONLINE] Available at: http://patrickballesteros.com/. [Accessed 28 August 2016].

MURPH. 2016. MURPH. [ONLINE] Available at: http://tysonmurphy.tumblr.com/. [Accessed 28 August 2016].

Jonny Duddle . 2016. Jonny Duddle . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.jonny-duddle.com/. [Accessed 28 August 2016].