Legend Redesign

So school started again, and in one of my classes we are being asked to redesign a story of our choosing.  I am doing an "updated" redesign of Ridley Scott's Legend -- paying homage to the original designs while embellishing on them (or in some cases changing them).

I kinda feel like these aren't done yet, but they are as done as they are going to be for the time being:







Still polishing the final illustration, so stay tuned.

As a bonus, here's a couple digital landscape paintings I did for a class I am taking with Robh Ruppel.  Robh is a truly amazing teacher that I cannot speak highly enough of.  He has somehow broken down a subject matter that I have had unending difficulty with into bite-size chunks.

Trying to get as much as I can out of three values / no fancy brushes:

A color study of the same subject matter at different times of the day.  I was trying to get as accurate-to-life color as possible, while keeping the paintings relatively simple:

Thanks for looking!

20 comments:

aintshakespeare said...

Very cool so far. I have to confess, I like Jack of the Green with dark hair, but this is a good version. Your Meg is appropriately gross. I like the idea of making her/it a serpent. My favorite of your reimaginings is Honeythorn Gump. I always thought the movie version was creepy.

Arthur Fong said...

deng bro! These are solid! Keep it up!

Arron said...

Love those three grayscale environments!

Mauricio Abril said...

Glad to see these characters up here, bro. I'm looking forward to seeing them in action!!

Justin said...

Those landscapes, especially the 3 value- only ones, are purely lustful. The cast shadow that shows the form of the tree is a work of genius, I need to try that exercise. The characters are looking good, though to be honest I'm not a fan of the rimlights :P but they are WIP, so I'm definitely going to check back once they are done! Please keep posting the stuff from Robh's class!!!

Luke said...

Solid stuff man, those 3 value sketches are ill

Humza Khan said...

the cool blue rim lighting on the characters is a nice touch

Simon Scales said...

Love the characters up the top man. nice stuff!!

zen wang said...

wow, I hope you say those characters are done already~~~ very beautiful rim light!

Devon Whitehead said...

nice stuff man! keep it up

Luke Berliner said...

Wow man amazing stuff, and thanks for the comment!

Eytan Zana said...

awesome stuff man! thanks for the comment. Your characters are SAWEEEEEEEt. How's Robh's class treatin ya?

Dilanka Samaratunga said...

woo Great work my man.

The bw env Very nice!

-D

Roy Santua said...

... master creature designer!

Alex said...

this is awesome man, Meg is extra gross

Juan Cruz Riveros said...

wow your works are very impresive, i'll add you in my links.

Bye

Brandon said...

Your project redesign for legend is solid man. Great body of work for your portfolio.

Tom Zhao said...

Man, this is awesome, you've come soooo far since the last term. I'm proud of you dude!!

Albert Ng said...

Hey Zach, these are looking amazing. keep it up!

Albert

Chao Hui Lin said...

very cool set of work.