ART TUTORIAL: digital Sci-Fi illustration (with video)

Today I want to show you a process of creation of game illustration in the Adobe Photoshop. This work was drawn specifically for the science fiction quests Far-Out: Selene, which will be released on February 7, 2018, on Steam. If you are interested in the subject of the game, you can learn more about it here.

Since this composition was almost entirely based on the screenshot from the original game, I practically didn't have to build a linear perspective of the interior of the spaceship. The original linear sketch was supplemented with local colors of the objects.


After that, I was working with foreground objects, the folds-map on the character's clothes and the portrait. The face of the character serves as the main point of interest for the whole work, so it was sufficiently detailed at this stage.


Various parts of the background were shaded with light and shadow. I used some different shades of color to make a drawing more interesting and complex.


Then, the details of the folds of the clothes were made, as well as further work on the interior of the spaceship. Scattered light (which was dictated by the original game) suggested a rather detailed interpretation of each small object in the space of the illustration.


Such a number of details naturally required a better structure of the plans for a more harmonious perception of the illustration as a whole. Additional semitransparent layers made it possible to show the spatial depth in the artwork. The main character's hands also were finished.


Final touches before completion. At the last moment, a small detail was added - an unhappy crushed cockroach :)



Full-size resolution here.

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