HALO ART WK#10 & #11 MC ready for his close up!

BATMANKM

Shared on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:20
As I mentioned in yesterdays post I fell behind 2 weeks on my Halo art posts. If you read my blog post yesterday you know whats been going on and why the delay. so I wont bore you again. Lets just get to the work. :-) This post is covering weeks 10 and 11 that I missed and then Friday I will post more work for this week, which is week 12. Some how I screwed up, ( not a surprise to my ATeam Clan brethren :lol: :lol: ) because I original claimed when I started this that it would be 12 weeks. But I still have one more week after this 12th week??? Obviously my math skills are about as good as my Halo skills, that is to say, shitty! :lol: :lol: So it looks like the final count will be 13 new Halo pieces. In actuality I am hoping to end up having produced more then that because on a few weeks I posted multiple roughs or pencil sketches that I plan to bring to full color.

Let me know your comments and crits. See ya back here Friday for week #12, with a new piece. :-)

BAT

Week #10 I wanted to create an in your face kind of composition. I have seen a number of great images created of MC with cool reflections in his visor. So that was my inspiration for this piece. Larger image here.


Lots of people have told me they like seeing the progression and development of a piece. so, here are the inks of the above piece , prior to coloring.

Here are the pencils the inks where done over, for the above piece.

And this was the initial concept quick thumbnail I did to get the idea down. As you can see i actually ended up cropping in much tighter on the final piece. I wanted to make it real personal and in your face. As well I wanted you to be able to really see the Banshee reflections in his visor.

This is the pencils for the Banshees in the visor.


Week #11. My favorite and lucky number I might add :lol: I call this concept "Flags" Here MC is jumping into the fray , leaping over a bunch of charging troops carrying flags into battle. This piece is going to be used in the upcoming project I mentioned yesterday that I am collaborating with Darth Cestual on. The flags play an important role in this image, but what that role is you will have to wait and see. :-)

Larger image here.


Peace everybody! See ya day after tomorrow :-)

Comments

madwoman's picture
Submitted by madwoman on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:24
As always Batman, you're work is awesome! Love your talent!
biorod's picture
Submitted by biorod on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:34
Wow! Dang, that's nice.
Gatsu's picture
Submitted by Gatsu on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:40
great stuff man. I really need to quit stalling and finish the pieces I said I was working on. lol. That game controller keeps calling me away from my tablet. Won't ever get anything done that way.
Lbsutke's picture
Submitted by Lbsutke on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:47
Awesome works Bats. The only other way I would have approached it, was to have a Brute chiefton (sp) in the visor appearing to be running right at MC... But your stuff is the bomb digity!!
Onesimos's picture
Submitted by Onesimos on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 17:07
That is frickin' sweet. Keep it coming.
Mrs_Doublefire's picture
Submitted by Mrs_Doublefire on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 17:50
Nice work man!
YEM's picture
Submitted by YEM on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 18:26
teh awesome
Irion's picture
Submitted by Irion on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 18:28
Very nice work! I love the coloring, especially the grimy look on MC's helmet. I was going to say that it would have been good to put Cortana's booty as a reflection in MC's visor, but that would have made him look like a predator. So the banshees are a nice touch. Also, is the green light on the BR the fabled "Go Button"? Peace!
BATMANKM's picture
Submitted by BATMANKM on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 20:24
Hey thanks everyone, I appreciate your taking the time to leave me some feedback :-) Madwoman, you make me blush :-) Gatsu, dont sweat it dude. I just look forward to seeing your colors on that Jackel when ever you get some time :-) LB THAT IS A FREAKING GREAT SUGGESTION!!! Im a putz for not thinking of that. The Banshee's where working out ok, but I agree that they lack any real emotional contribution to the piece. They dont seem very threatening. I love your idea so I was going to set about drawing and placing a charging Brute chieftain in place of the Banshees tonight, when it occurred to me that week #4's illustration of the Brute Chief might work. :-) So I have swapped them and will post the new version in the morning. It looks SWEET!!!! so thank you LB and I will be sure to give you the props for the awesome idea, in my blog post tomorrow :-) Irion, You bet thats the go button dude!! The Master Chief is just like the Bat, he has no patience with long winded lobby whores, who like to hear themselves ramble on and on and on! Unless of course I'm the rambeling lobby whore, which does happen all the time, then its ok. Otherwise....HIT THE GREEN BUTTON DR. PHLIZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: ;lol: :lol: - BAT
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Submitted by RatBastard on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 08:12
Love the new picture!

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