Draw Like a Dragon Spotlight - Strong Torso Art

Hello. C J here. I’ve got a sample piece of card art from my upcoming art-themed Quantum Expansion Draw Like a Dragon. This card depicts the shapes used to make a 3D model of a strong male chest for use in animation and art. I realized that Code Like a Dragon, my other computer themed Quantum Expansion, should probably assume you have free or paid assets to make a game and not be about asset design.

Here in Draw Like a Dragon I can discuss how to make a cool looking 3D model and colour it in. Code Like a Dragon will detail how to use them in an interactive environment. I don’t know how helpful this will be to people already practising art but I thought documenting my steps must do something useful. The spell poems on the cards will still be in the normal format. Things I’m planning to discuss in Draw Like a Dragon include the following.

How to make anatomically correct people and various anthro species using Android modelling software. This is done in pieces like today’s piece of art.

How to make textures for them using simple Photoshop style software, flat colours and the gradient tool.

How to make environment components and modular a background from tiles. These are reusable.

How to pose a character in a scene.

How to select colours for a scene that work well together.

I do have some classical art education behind me and I’m focusing on 3D art here because really it’s a lot easier and faster. The traditional pieces I do are mostly for personal use. I’m aiming to make one model per day until I have all the ones I need. Then I colour them in and save them with each colour. Then I add them to a humanoid or quadruped character model with animations built in, put them in a background and screenshot them. Final processing can be done in Photoshop style software for effects like oil brush. I think this will work.

C J Mcpherson

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Four New Recipes for January

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