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studio0892.ibas - september.2004 - |layer-attitude| issue #03 - contact - all rights reserved - |
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DRDOOM - lionel vidal |
| graphist 24 years old - france |
| A work that we would like to see more often in the internet galleries. It took 70 hours of work to held this monster and this gives us a fascinating step by step... (translation made by eowen) |
| “ drdoom Medieval Castle ” |
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<< 1st STEP For a pixel art composition, I’m always starting from an object that will become a reference for the scale for all the other elements of the creation. For "Medieval Castle", I started from a tower (at the start it was a simple cylinder) that I repeated many times. After I did the link between the towers with a wall to delimit the enclosure of the castle. Different types of wall and towers are created, then the battlements are added. |
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2nd STEP >> Once the enclosure is done, I can attack the construction of the castle. It is made of a large and high enclosure, over-hanged by a keep and circled by four towers. A castle would be nothing without a drawbridge so I add this and some more details, the roof of the towers, a stair, doors, flags above the towers and little houses on different angles. |
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<< 3rd STEP Then I close the enclosure, I add a door to the castle and a well. Then we can start to place some textures, they’re adding depth and detailed to the image. Different patterns are created then added on the walls, roofs and on the ground. |
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4th STEP >> To finalize the castle, we have to add some details. First of all a keep and a chapel. The four towers circling the keep are little straight and monotonous. I refine them and add balconies. To finish, I draw loop-holes on the remparts. We now have to create the scenery around the castle. I’m adding grass, ditch and some animals in the courtyard. |
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<< 5th STEP I continue to anime the interior of the courtyard creating some objets : carts, heavy wood cases, opened and closed barrels on different angles... To add some more details and more color, I draw food, fruits and clothes displays. Then I add field around the castle leaving some space to make a farm. |
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6th STEP >> To end the base of the scenery, I add wheat fields and draw a soil path around the castle going out of the image. A wood sign I guiding adventurers were the path are crossing each other. I start to construct the farm with little buildings of different sizes and with little woods shelters. |
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<< 7th STEP I finish the farm adding wood panels on the walls and chimneys. An essential ingredient is still missing in this farm universe : animals. So I add pigs and the horses already created, and, to complete, I draw ducks and hens that I duplicate at some places on the image even on non-acessible places (like the top of the towers, on boxes). I duplicate some barrels, boxes and carts that I put at random places in the image. |
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8th STEP >> To finish the area of the castle, I draw many models of trees and flowers that I repeat a little bit everywhere in the image. We now have to give life to this image adding characters : farmers, gardians, a knight and a princess. Each character is drawn from the same model, then dress up and put in a situation. |
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<< 9th STEP I add some gangsters ready to attack the castle. The drawing is now finished, I add the shades and adapt the colors to add some athmosphere to the image. |
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10th STEP >> The dawing done, I had the idea to do a pixel art work with it. I first drew the coat of arms, inspired by a medieval drawing found on the web on which I wrote the title of the drawing with a similar font and the address of my website. Then I drew the frame and I added some engravings created using again the «natural» pattern of the coat of arms. |
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