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Explorer Isabella

Meet Isabella, my new adventurer and explorer character. I've spent a bit more time on this one, focusing on a more cartoon approach. Guess this is how a daughter of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft could look like :) 

What do you think?

3D App Experience

I still believe, that Blender is the best tool for designers to work on all kinds of 3D UI prototypes and 3d experience design. So along with illustration, I want to bring more examples of how it can be utilized in this kind of process. Would you want to see more?

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2020-10-22 11:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Behind The Scenes: Trick Or Treat

So October is in full throttle so I allowed myself to do one more Halloween theme. This time, I focused right out the bat (ha ha) on producing the illustration, that is suitable for use as a hero image on websites.

I was kind of lost in the beginning to be honest, I just knew I want some Halloween themed objects clustered in some nice composition. And for...

Behind The Scenes: Haunted House

Well, it's probably not hard to guess, why I wanted to do this kind of illustration right now :) But even with Halloween, the possibilities are endless! Last year, I went for a Jack Skellington's house from the Nightmare Before Christmas stop-motion animated movie.

It was a blast, but I had this itch in the back of my head to do a more classic horro...

Trick or Treat!

Pumpkins! Skulls! Spiders, bats, treats and spider nets. Can't get enough of this stuff :) I focused again on making something, that would work on a website as a hero image. 

What do you think?

Haunted House

Finally one of my favorite time of the year. At least theme and atmosphere-wise :) I was saving the haunted house for almost a year so I really enjoyed this one and tried to take care of details a little bit more. 

Would you like to see another spooky theme this month?

Forest Cabin

Is it just me, or did October get crazy busy? At times like this, I crave to spend some time off the grid in a forest cabin like this. 

How would you reset?

Behind The Scenes: Coffee Lab Illustrations

I want to create another website design with focus on 3D illustration so I've gave it a thought and came up with a theme. One of my favorite in fact, a coffee. 

Fun fact - the first process video I ever uploaded to YouTube was called Coffee Lab and was based on this idea of really complex and unnecessarily scientific way of making coffee. It in...

Coffee Lab

Soo the idea is to illustrate scientific approach to coffee making with a little bit of an unexpected ingredient twist. Nothing to ponder about, just to make some coffee website playful. 

Do you have any ideas for more website illustration themes? :)

Cyberpunk VR Room

I've had a VR themed room in my list for a while and last time I did a room design, I saw someone posting a request for a Ready Player One inspired artwork. And I'm still hyped with Cyberpunk 2077 coming very soon, so I just enjoy making stuff like this right now. 

Before I jumped into reference search, I needed to figure out some details. Am I going ...

VR Room

Another room design incoming :) I wanted to create a sci-fi VR environment with cyberpunk elements. I went for a more boxy anime style for all the tech elements. 

Would you add anything? :)

Patronus Charm

Another Harry Potter season begins! At least for me, I really enjoy mixing up a bad weather outside with cozy living room and binging all the HP movies. I really enjoyed going back to flat shaded low poly with Patronus charm. 

What do you think?

Behind The Scenes: Mandalorian Illustration

 I've realized, that it was some time since I did a pop culture reference illustration. I enjoy making these very much, because I always was a huge movies and books fan and it's amazing feeling to recreate some of your favorite scenes or characters from popular universes. 

It has another upside, that when you make something many pe...

Mandalorian

Looks like Mandalorian skipped gym since he got himself into child care business. Are you excited for the new upcoming season after recent trailer?

Behind The Scenes: Bakery Illustration

It was now clear, that I want to continue the series of these shops inspired by my other flat shaded rooms, but little bit more stylized and smooth. For a while, I really couldn't thought of anything. 

For some reason, the list of interesting shops dried up after coffee shop and pizzeria. So either there are no more interesting ideas, or my world beca...

Bakery

The next one in line for the little shops series is a cozy town bakery. I'm trying to cut on my carbs lately, so this one was really hard for me to do. 

Do you have any ideas for a next small shop design?

Bumblebee

For some reason I wanted to create a low poly version of VW Beetle and I really liked the Transformers reboot with the Bumblebee movie. So here he is, strolling on the empty road. What do you think?

Behind The Scenes: Gaming Room Illustration

There are lot of gaming setups all over the Instagram and I got hundreds of requests to do one, so the inspiration for this one is kind of a no brainer. It was bound to happen eventually, I just postponed it several times. 

I didn't just want to jump on the bandwagon without thinking it through and most of all, without feelin...

Gaming Room

I can't count how many times I got a request for gaming room, so I thought it's finally time to do one. I tried to keep it minimal and clean with some ambience, without going too wild on the lights and colors. 

Do you like it?

Behind the Scenes: Cyberpunk City

I was looking forward to get back to cyberpunk theme for soo long :) I did something similar more than a year ago and this time, I wanted more detailed environment with smooth shaded surfaces. 

If you're not familiar with the genre, it's a futuristic dystopian setting, in which large corporations control the world and people, there is a l...

Cyberpunk Archway

It's some time since I did a proper cyberpunk theme and with Cyberpunk 2077 behind the corner (can't wait!), I felt like putting on headphones with some synthwave and crunching on some neons. 

And don't forget, breakdown of the scene coming tomorrow ;)

Do you like this one?

Beatrix Kiddo

Time for another character and since you were asking about a female hero, I immediately remembered my favorite movie heroine. Here comes Beatrix Kiddo an you better not be Bill :) 

Any suggestions for more popular characters?

Behind The Scenes: Mars Colony

I've always been a huge sci-fi fan and aside from action science fiction, I always loved space operas like 2001: Space Odyssey, or recently Interstellar or Martian. And of course, I saw some of the space habitat dioramas out there already, so I wanted to take this for a spin.  

I didn't want to go realistic, since that would requir...

Martian Colony

I really loved the Martian movie, so I had some sort of space colony habitat in my list for a while. While sketching, I pushed the idea more into the sci-fi realm, so this is more of a tribute than actual scene from a movie. 

What do you think?

Behind The Scenes: Beach Illustration

 I'm spending some time on vacation this week, but I took my travel gear to be able to create something while away. Still, I didn't want to spend too much time on this, so I was looking for some simple style, that would look really good in terms of the result, but would be very simple to model. 

I've already made some st...

Beach

While still on vacation, I was looking to create something simple and vibrant, so I've revisited the boxy and playful style to create a cute beach illustration. 

What else would look nice in this style?

Behind the Scenes: Summer House

So, I wanted to create a modern house scene for such a long time. I think I even tried and failed at one point two years ago, when working on city themed dioramas. And now I know why. I didn't take enough time to research proper reference. But this time, I was determined. 

So the idea was clear and theme was a luxurious modern architecture with st...

Summer House

I will be taking some time off this week I hope, so I thought I will do some summer vibes theme with a modern summer house. 

Would you like to spend some time there? :)

Behind the Scenes: Coffee Shop Illustration

 I wanted to continue with the style, that I've set with the pizzeria illustration recently and coffee shop came as a natural sequel. I think the coffee and pizza are the things, that no creative can go without very long :) 

I didn't want to go the coffee supermarket style similar to what large brands offer. I had a really small and quite place i...

Coffee Shop

So after this next stylized isometric illustration, I have a coffee shop and a pizza place ready. Both absolutely essential for the existence of...well anybody I guess. 

What other places is needed for creative professionals to live a happy life? :)