Jowybean shenanigans 17/2/16

Some concept sketches for Japan and the UK if they were combined.  = D

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Jowy shenanigans 25/10/15

Outside my list of commissions and Humanisation.com comic. I have so many wonderful ideas for concept art/ illustration projects to push my existing art skills to new exciting new levels. 

The above speed painting is a part of one of these recently thought up ideas. What if there was a city that was a combination of Japan and England/ Europe?

I call the city Kappa Bridge as its named after the famous creature from Japanese folktales. And Bridge is a common ending name for a UK town.

     

Wip of the speed painting isa below.

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Jowy shenanigans 16/7/15

Back with more concept art for the jowyverse 

These are two speed paintings for the world of Cradle Earth and Sky Root City each represents a different time period and theme. 

Cradle Earth

A mysterious steampunk world that is unaffected by the influence of the modern era stuck in a more simpler time,. It is home to a massive population of punks who cause a lot of chaos for the rest of the nation.

It is spilt in too three massive land masses connected by the pillar that keeps the world together. Only way up to another level is by a special evaluator train that only few can afford to travel on.

The sky is blocked by giant paintings depicting the creation of the earth by the gods. Legend has it that at the top of the world is the gates to the worlds heart and the heavens.

Inspiration Steam Boy, pre raphaelite and renaissance art.

Sky Roots City is 

a modern high tech green city that is suspended above the sprawling urban metropolis below. Due to the multiple elevators and roads you have to take to get to the city centre It is a drivers worst nightmare.

Inspiration Japanese cities and culture, Mirrors edge.

below is the WIP and initial sketches I have on the two worlds. 

time taken for painting 6 hours

until next post LATERS :)

Jowy shenaggins 23/3/15

Apart from character sketching I enjoy sketching urban environments for my imaginary worlds and for future illustration ideas. 

these are aerial views of my fictional city hub Ramusuville. 

These sketches are inspired by the concept of creating illustrations combining the UK and japan together both in entertainment and culture. 

Until next post LATERS ;)

Jowybean shenaggins 11/12/15

I occasionally play GTA 5] and every time I go back i find myself intrigue by the aesthetics of the world. How Los Santos differs from the countryside. How L.A landmarks and buildings are recreated to fit in to the city layout. How far you an see from the beach towards the Rockford Hills. the scale and detail is just so impressive :wow:. I have sent more then 2 hours of my game time just wondering around exploring rather then causing any chaos.  :)

Recently I came across an article talking about GTA 6’s possible locations these included Paris, London (which is confirmed by Rockstar that it will not appear in the franchise again), Hong Kong, Cairo and of course Tokyo.

All these places that I mentioned got my imagination stirring. But no surprise Tokyo was the one that gave me the inspiration :meow: and challenge to design a rather sketchy open world map of the said city. I tried to in vision how the in-game world would look like and used this as a starting point for shirking Tokyo to fit in to a sizeable open world space. then I took in to account well known and less known landmarks, parks and the diverse environments you would get in a metropolitan area.

I will point out that I am by no means an expert or know much about Tokyo or Japan :doh: (I want to change that). but after sketching this map I can at least say I feel more educated on how Tokyo functions at the size it is.

My hope is in the future that we will get a game set in a modern day Japanese city not necessary like GTA (Rockstar see it as an American franchise) and not even to the scale my map is. I have faith in developers that there will be more open world games that will be set in places that hardly ever get explored or shown.

until next post LATERS

Now for Something Completely Different 4/2/15

For the last few days i have had the inspiration to create traditional illustrations that reflect the juxtaposing of two different countries to crate one massive metropolis.

In this case its  the UK and Japan.

I used some obvious tropes to represent both nations examples being the old pub for the UK and the narrow streets for Japan. 

Until next post Laters :)