Author: samsudeen2021

This is just a concept I came up with for a character’s backstory, they’re basically trapped in a room with their arm missing and they have to make sure they don’t go into shock. My main intention for this piece was to create a visual story with an element of mystery. I figured that having less items in the room meant that they didn’t remember much from the event but I tried to make the room look as isolated as possible.

Especially considering my lack of experience in perspective drawing, I drew the layout of the room before creating a digital piece.

I used guidelines from the vanishing point at the centre of the canvas to give me an idea on how the room would be laid out. The window with the blood marks was initially the room’s wall; however I wanted to bring the room closer as I was trying to make the room as claustrophobic as possible. Afterwards, I started working on the digital version, although looking back on the rough sketch, there were some issues with some of the angles of the objects.

I wanted to create an unsettling scene, like it’s been plucked out of a memory so I wanted to make the room as dark as possible. However, this caused some of the close objects (such as the sofa) to blend in with the flooring, making it harder to see.

The lighting in the room was created through the multiply and shading filters but also through painting with the shadows highlighting the lines in the room. However, in retrospective, I should’ve add more lighting coming from the windows so you could see more of the items in the room since the sofa is very hard to distinguish from the dark panelling.

The background of the image conveys the setting of the piece: A city, showing that despite being in a populated area, you can still feel isolated within the room, especially in dangerous situations.

To create the distorted effect for the room, I used the paint tool to blend the shadows and the lineart together so the room was essentially surrounded by darkness. The blood, however, was intentionally made brighter with a luminous effect in order to draw attention to the window and the pool of blood on the ground.

For the Space Invader’s clone project, I wanted to step away from the typical Sci-Fi tropes and create an anime magic girl game much like a 2D bullet hell game called Touhou, although the main character could only go in 2 directions. Using inspiration from other Magic Girl animes, I decided to go for a more cute appeal to the main character but also diverting typical expectations of magic girls by creating a cocky and overconfident look to her through her expression and her pose.

The colours for her clothing were chosen to make her stand out amongst her enemies as well as give a fantastical and flamboyant feel to her character, the cape also shows that she takes the hero role within the game. Her shape also represents that shes physically strong which goes towards her confident and loud personality.

Her wand mimics the typical magic girl weapon, simple by design but being held by an overconfident character means that she doesn’t care too much about flashy appearances but rather than the overpowered functionality of her weapon.

The enemies on the other hand, are quite simple by design but they follow the style I’m going for within the game. The slime enemy’s shapes (Green blob) are soft which shows they’re generally weak and cowardly despite showing up as a ‘threat’. This also shows that the main protagonist sees them as an obstacle rather than an actual enemy.

This is a photo composition that I created through Photoshop. I wanted to create a horror piece using different stock photos along with original assets (such as the character, the text and the eyes).

I wanted to create a dark and sinister approach to this piece so I decided my color scheme should reflect that as well as the use of typical horror conventions. Black and Red often convey danger and mystery and by creating a red contrast it creates harsh lighting which fits the overall unsettling mood to the composition.

I added eyes to the piece because, in the context of the image, the eyes are meant to be ‘haunting’ the central character, making it more apparent that she’s never safe. This is made more apparent by the text, which I distorted with the wave effect. I intentionally made the central character small so it symbolized that she had little to no control of what was happening around her, visually conveying to the viewer that she’s vulnerable and isolated.

The central focus to this piece is the moon, I wanted to present the image at night because viewers often associate fears with the dark and the unknown. The static inside the moon was to add an another distortion effect, giving off an unnatural and disturbing vibe to the entire composition almost like its a hallucination created from the character’s mind.

I created Honey as a part of a mystery / psychological horror game concept. Her real name is actually Rei but she only knows that near the end of the game, Honey’s existence is based off of Rei’s stuffed rabbit. These are the initial designs for Honey’s character which I transferred from different perspective sketches onto Photoshop.

I tried to go for a simplistic but cute aesthetic to replicate the feel of a stuffed toy and to also create a visually deceptive art style which will be transferred onto the other characters and the game’s environment.

Whilst I have used Photoshop for photo editing and occasional digital artwork, I haven’t fully explored it’s tools and so I fully utilized the quick selection tool / magic wand tool to fill in the flat colours. The shading was also created with the fill (paint bucket tool) to fit the simple design.