Posts Tagged ‘Leke’s Return’

There’s something fishy going on with this painting of level 2. And it’s either me who is losing my mind entirely along with any skills to paint, or I’ve got a ghost painter, with the emphasis on “ghost” :p After all, we’re living on the grounds to this ruin, and there’s suppose to be a lot of strange things happening up at the Hall itself at night…so maybe Earl Leke doesn’t approve to my little project. You never know :p Would be interesting to see a ghost of an Earl from the 1700′s handle my pen and tablet however…haha…can’t deny that :p

In any case, this looked like poop when I opened it today. I’ve had to redo the sketch layer and some of the painting itself too. I was kinda hoping that any appearance of ghosts around here would be limited to people complaining about footsteps outside in the night when there’s no one there and that sorta thing, but obviously we got a tech savvy ghost too….LOL

This happened yesterday morning as well btw…so it’s not the first time. If things are out of order tomorrow as well, I’ll post it and show you. Will grab a screen dump of the original file before I close it down today…heh

For a brief moment earlier I got stuck downloading Photoshop brushes…which is about as addictive as downloading fonts. And they take a lot of space too, so it’s really not a good thing. But…some of them will be useful for the sake of painting these scenes.

Today I’m working on the second level of this game. Still painting concrete, stone and bricks, but it’s slowly coming together. I’ve even done some graffiti today :p On this particular place inside the ruin, the walls are actually clean from that sort of thing, but it exists in other locations. So the graffiti I’ve added is pure fiction.

There’s still a lot to do on this level, but at least I’ve found the light and the tone that it will have in the end. Lotsa stone and bricks to paint still though.

Other than that it’s been a boring day today. I’ve spent a few hours on my own (painting) while Robin been out with his mom so she could do some grocery shopping. He’s back home now though so it’s time to get something to eat. Late lunch or early dinner…or both :p
Hope your day is a good one :D

If you don’t see much difference between this version of the staircase above and the one I posted yesterday…don’t worry. You haven’t gone crazy and I’m not posting the same image twice :p What happened is not much…or might not seem to be much…but it still taken a few hours to do. Weird how these things work out at times…or not :pp

I don’t dare to mirror this right now in fear that my screen might explode…or that my head will go the same way…haha (When I want to see what a drawing or a sketch looks like with “fresh” eyes…I mirror the whole thing in Photoshop. That way my brain is correcting the way I see the image I’ve been staring on for way too long and I can see what it “really” looks like…)

So what I’ve done tonight is the following:

The pillar under the staircase has been redone…or ready…depends on how you see it I guess. I’m seriously thinking about replacing that completely with a column or something more sturdy. Would be a bummer if the stairs came down in the middle of the game ;) Besides, it looks like a overgrown table leg right now, and that’s not good :p
So it might change a bit later.
Colors changed slightly again…shadows have been added…and removed…and to be honest I just can’t make up my darn mind about the walls and what I want to do with them. In original they are cream or off white…but that’s the 1919 version of the place…not the 1700′s version. And I haven’t got a slightest clue (as usual) where I got the idea that this room had oak or mahogany paneled walls back when Leke was the owner. Maybe it is the pictures I’ve seen from the old reception room…I don’t know.

No matter my silly ideas, this WILL be done sooner or later. I might put it aside for a bit and give it (and me) some time before I continue to finish it. But it’s getting there. Slowly.

And now it’s 12.37 and it’s almost bedtime :) Outside it’s windy and rainy, and during the evening this place’s been shaking from it. Feels like the wind is grabbing the roof and threaten to rip it off.

Anyway…with a bit of luck I should be back tomorrow…with or without the roof :p

Be good, behave if you have to and have a great evening/night :D

Painting old stone and old bricks, paint and plaster that is falling off seems to be such an casual thing to do, but it’s not. It’s time consuming and boring…LOL

It really is :p Although I know that the more detail I put into this, the better it’ll be in the end, there’s always a temptation hanging around to simplify it even more than I already do. However, that would kill the “soul” of this old place, so I’ve decided to go halfway and make sure I do it some justice.

The basic coloring is done on the left wall, and right now I’m working on the stone and bricks around the entrance and those two big windows. As soon as that’s done I will clean up the sketch a bit and close those gaping windows up with those boards I used in the first level. And I will do the same with the door opening in the left wall.
The ground needs to be painted since there’s no floors left in any of the rooms in this ruin. And of course it will need a front door. The front door I will do in two versions – closed and opened. All depending on where in the game you are.

That door will be a part of the game not just in the beginning, but all the way throughout, so there will be other views of that entrance too later on.

Then of course there’s the second version of this room (and all the others). I’ve started that bit too, but those layers are invisible in the picture above. In about the same hight as where the pink paint ends above the door in the left wall is the level where the ceiling would be. The holes are still visible in the actual ruin. And I might close the room up in the second version, both with a ceiling, proper windows and all…or I might just paint parts of it.

The second version will have very little to do with what this ruin once used to look like however. Since the house itself goes back to Medieval times it also gone through many fashions of furniture and other interior details, and I won’t even try to drag anyone through the history of that bit :p But it is originally baroque.

But…this is the state of the second level at this very moment :)

The first level is still not done, but I’m alternating between the two. That way it won’t get too boring either ;)
One can only paint a certain amount of stone and bricks in one day, ya know :pp