For this I wanted to do something in the vein of technical drawing. First my intention was to do something very sketchy and in black and white. But things were morphing to this -cyberpunky-synthwave-something- feel:
I sometimes use 3D models or sculptures of man-made-heavy-in-perspective objects to help with angle shot and perspective. I had this 3D sculpture:
This was sculpted in an application called 3D Coat (which is voxel based) except the "feet" or supporters. Those where done in Blender. I imported the sculpture, added some things like the feet and the ground and moved the camera around looking for a nice perspective. Took 3 shots. The first one is the picture above this paragraph and the other two these:
Added the screenshots to photochops and began tracing lines over the model image to give form to details.
Then I adjusted the brightness/contrast and painted over it following the details' forms.
I did the same for the other two shots, side and rear.
Then added this image of the wireframe of the 3D model. Wireframe means you can see all the edges that form the model... Like if it was x-ray vision. x_x
I thought it would be cool to show the parts inside the ship that generate power. I changed the hue of some parts and added some lines to it. Like an electrical/electronic grid.
Because I added some colors, I thought "what if I put a couple of color gradients on top of the grey-scale drawing?" So I added the gradients on top of all the layers except the wireframe one, I liked those colors as they were.
I repeated the gradients pass but only over the ship. With a different setting on the layer's blending mode.
I wanted to show technical information, like specs or something about the ship. But it would be a pain to write something credible or appealing word-wise. Me not good with words. So I made the following:
1 - I copy-pasted a lorem ipsum paragraph.
2 - Erased the top and bottom parts of each line.
3 - Made smaller the space between each sliced line.
4 - Copy-pasted chunks of this blob of nonsense at will. Also painted this lines that pointed to a part of the ship.
5 - Repeated all but with bigger text to simulate like titles or important text.
The lines of the ship drawing were plain dark until this point where I colored them a bit to make them more integrated to the overall palette.
All vehicle concept needs some human figure standing next to it so you can imagine the size of it. That's why these little green guys appeared.
I added in the end -in a subtle manner- a couple of text lines: the name of the ship and the date I finished the drawing.
Added noise and lens correction filters to add grunge.
That's the story of vycer m-32 spaceship and how it came to be as it is.
Oh yes, I tried to de-saturate the colors to give it a grey-scale look I had in mind at first.
I wanted to upload this through ntopaz but got intimidated by the post interface. I'll try it another time with a less extent post.
Also I wanted to translate each paragraph to Spanish... but didn't think it would be such a long post.. And I'm sleeping.