photoshop | Slashleyluke

In this session of craft + media tech we were asked to produce a full concept art for our game (Finley Wilkins). The idea for the concept was to sum up the game in one picture or a least get people excited/sceptical about our game. we were asked to not use any text just imagery.

Since our nominated artist did not turn up (dam you Fraser) I took the reins. I started out by sketching a few ruff ideas in my sketchbook (can be seen below) the first of which is from a part in our level, the image shows a hand pointing to some sort of combination (this been a puzzle in our level) I felt the image would tell people that the games a puzzler, I liked the simple design but the image did not set the feel and story. The second image shows a man (Finley) standing in an alleyway with the busy street behind him, it would be about dusk with the street light shinning on his back casting a shadow but not his. I liked the idea of the shadow been Sherlock Holmes but I felt the alleyway scene gets used to much, which takes us to my last sketch. For this sketch I used the simple design of the first sketch along with the shadow idea from the second, the image I come up with shows a close up of Finley smoking a pipe and the shadow he gives off shows Sherlock holding his rather iconic magnifying glass. this was the idea I would run with.

Concept ideas

After I was happy with my idea I decided to get started making it into a fully rendered image using Photoshop and the skills I have learnt in the previous craft + media tech sessions (Final concept below).