Hello everybody! My name is Nikita Veprikov. I live in Ukraine, in town Kremenchug. I’m engaged in 3d Graphic arts for more than three years already and it takes greater part of my life. My latest work is « Artist ». So, I want to tell you about the process of its creation in this making of.
First of all I want to mention that here I will not describe how to model everything, how to put texture on the object or how to use ZBrush. Online there is a lot of lessons on these themes, therefore I will stop only for those moments which personally seem to me more interesting. Also I will expound some of my considerations. I don’t pretend on an innovation and I’m not saying that I’m right. It is just my ideas on one or another regard.
Idea -
Everything, certainly, begins with an idea. In case of beginning to draw without an idea, you may spend a lot of time for nothing, simply not knowing on what to set your mind. The less time you will spend on reasoning of idea, the more time you will spend in future in the process of its realization. Skill (gift?) of drawing gives you enormous bonus as a qualitative sketch. I, unfortunately, don’t possess of such, that’s why I have to extricate myself in different ways.
When I drew « Killing of prayer », during premeditation of demon pose, I much posed before a camera. To have time for getting ready I took pictures myself with delay in 10 seconds. Later, looking through the footage, I noticed in one of the pictures in the corner of shot my cat is sitting and devotedly looking in a camera, attracted, apparently, by a blinking green indicator. Practically immediately roused roughly next:
Fixing an idea in such manner near the picture I placed a text file with description of concept. I use all facilities of expression for fixing idea because I see it in concrete moment, and I need to have an opportunity to recall what I have seen in “that moment” even after a large interval of time. Now on the hard drive there are about 50 ideas saved in such way. I look over them, when think of a new picture.
This time it wasn’t quite so. After finishing the previous picture I already knew, what I will undertake next. I opened a file with the sketch of cat and it launched! =) As you could pay attention an initial sketch does not look like a final picture. Therefore I will endeavour to tell about evolution of idea.
I personally see nothing shameful in that, idea can change during the work creation. A picture is not created in one day, a mood changes, more interesting fresh ideas come and it’s great!
Modeling - I began modeling from a character, because at that moment I didn’t have an exact picture of environment. During this entertaining process I stumbled upon the picture of sitting cat. And at once I squinted slyly, deciding to make an attempt to give sitting pose to my cat. Rummaging a bit in a network, I succeeded in collecting of such selection:
When I adjusted the pose of my cat, it seemed to me that it doesn’t be fit to give sitting pose to cat on the floor and constructed the pig of the padded stool. Immediately I made a decision concerning to the colors spectrum (red-green-gold). Here is a small extract from a book « The Complete Color Harmony» of authors Tina Sutton, Bride M. Whelan (it may don’t coincide with the original, because I translate it from Russian book)
« Wealth of match achieves by combination of « imperious » gamut with black or by more dark on tone color. For example, color deep burgundy arose up because of addition black to red; like French wine of centenary ripening, it is associated with welfare.
Color of burgundy and deep green, applied with a gold color, generate feeling of opulence. These dark, pompous colors, used in such different materials as leather and taffeta, create a dramatic effect. They are related with the riches and high status ».
I urgently recommend (who knows Russian) to have this book on your shelf. Never ignore the laws of composition and color combinations. They were developed by ages, perfected and presented to you on a saucer. Desire to taste it -) Moreover now already it’s impossible to surprise somebody by realistically rendered mobile phone in a center of a shot. If you want your work to please and be memorable it must have all. If we convert it on algebra, we can say that the different aspects of work are not adding, but multiplying. Entering the fifth-grade system on such disciplines as color, composition, technical execution, it’s possible to make such examples:
Example 1
Ideal technical execution, bad composition, bad color
(A realistic cigarette-lighter badly cropped with insufficiently considered combination of colors)
Total we get 5*2*2 = 20
Example 2
All of three aspects on fine
(Unbelievable masterpiece with well thought - out composition, charming color gamut and excellent technical execution)
5*5*5=125
A bit higher grade, than in the first example, does not it? -)
I agree that it is a primitive chart. There is a heap of factors such as an idea for example, mood of work. But however think about it...
A bit distracted from the theme -) Let’s return to my work
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