I've been continuing to dig through my old Blender projects lately, and like the Piranha Plant I did a month ago, this Blaster Master tank looked primed for a re-work.
So I spent some time yesterday adding new details, re-working materials, and fixing some things that looked very unfinished in the original work. This is the end result!
The scene uses a mix of images and procedural textures, and I had a great time roughing things up. You can see it from all angles over at Sketchfab.
6 years ago, I posted a render of a piranha plant I modeled and textured to practice Blender. It isn't a bad render, but the procedural materials look a little rough and I wanted to revisit it and see how I could improve it.
This is the result - an updated render with a blend of procedural and texture-based materials and employing all the stuff I've learned since creating the original.
There's probably a little more that I could do to clean it up, but overall, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out. I might have to revisit some of my other older projects soon to see what I can do!
If you're interested in inspecting this one from other angles, you can see it on Sketchfab.
For my thirty-first - and last! - illustration for Inktober 2022, I drew a sleepy moon!
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for lines/shading, and the Tarraleah and Hartz brushes for texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
Thanks to everyone out there who might've been enjoying my daily work this month. Hope to see you soon with another project!
This is my thirtieth illustration for Inktober 2022 - the "ideal" landscape!
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Mercury brush for lines/colors, and the Larapuna and D'Entrecasteaux brushes for shapes and shading.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse here:
My twenty-ninth illustration for Inktober 2022 is accidentally very apt - a slow, slow snail. I barely got this one done/uploaded in time!
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for lines/colors, and the D'Entrecasteaux, Noise, and Hartz brushes for added texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
This is my twenty-eighth illustration for Inktober 2022 - a witchy!
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for lines/colors, and the Hartz brush for background texture - with a small assist from the Liquify filter.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
For my twenty-seventh illustration for Inktober 2022, I drew a giant rift in the earth with colorful energy flowing out.
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Mercury brush for linework/fills, and a bunch of brushes (Hartz, Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks) for the shading and textures.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
For my twenty-sixth illustration for Inktober 2022, I drew a paper airplane!
Not sure why I felt like giving this an 80's Trapper Keeper color palette, but that's where I landed today.
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Mercury brush for linework/colors, and the Hartz and Decimals brushes for background texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:
My twenty-fifth illustration for Inktober 2022 is a cat burglar (please hold your applause for my incredible wit).
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, and the Syrup brush for lines/colors. I used the Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks spray paint brushes, with a little help from the Tarraleah brush, for background texture.
If you're interested in seeing how this one came together, here's the time-lapse:
This is my twenty-fourth illustration for Inktober 2022 - a TV dinner for kids.
This was made in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for lines/colors, and the Splatter spray paint and Hartz brushes for background texture.
I freaked out a little while I was working on this one, because I couldn't find my Tarraleah brush. Luckily, it was a small bug in Procreate and I was able to restore it. 😅
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below: