fireangels production art dumb

It is mostly for the start or or on the 31st, and well… we’re like 11 days in.. but never late than ever ig lmao.

I use these sites right here to get some good references/concept art not only for Orion, but for other characters too:

i'll add more later on if more people are interested and when i have some time,, but i hope these are somewhat informative ?? of at least my own thought processes when it comes to drawing the robot guys

What a month!! And i somehow cuncocted 14 attacks with 2 of them being mass attacks. I still don’t know how i got the audacity on sketching out a 12 tf oc mass attack, but i did it! lol

Underneath is the big chunk on the attack I’ve done

have to post another for the traditional sketches lol

Yuh pride month is still going on!! Thank you @unvale-io (not sponsored lol) for the event! Should’ve done more but shit happened lol.

Close up pictures under this.

First of all, thank you! Ahh I'm not as descriptive with words, so let me give you a quick rundown.

Once you have your base and all is good to go, you create the gradient in the direction of where your light source is (up -> down in the image). The direction will always depend on angle or 'curve' of the metal/material you're trying to work with. Up top, I did a downwards reflection since my shape is more diagonal, rather than uniform and straight. There are times you'll have a round shape, in where this time you'll go ahead and create the highlight at the apex of it. Next, you have to decide what KIND of highlight you'll be using. I usually work with multiple lighting layers, but for this example I'll only show 3. The DULL lighting is just regular low lights that show the texture as reflective, but is most likely AWAY from a light source and/or is reflecting off something that doesn't have much shine. The NORMAL is your regular highlights that is usually just a lighter shade than your base. Since most if the time it just follows your low light(think of it as the intensity of the reflective light source), you can just place it on top of the DULL lighting. The HARSH lights are only portion that are directly in front of the light source OR are the most intense parts of it. Think of it as extreme sunlight etc, and it goes apart from your regular highlights. Lastly, you can add more color to you material by taking in other reflective surfaces, specially those with different color. I added the blue as an example and just color the panel that directly faces it.

He's a dork and I love him already