Topic: Paul´s Art Corner
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Hello Paul!
I’m a huge fan of your work and most notably your art style, with it and the amazing writing this game has become my favorite of all time.
It has gone so far as to inspire me to try to emulate it for unofficial modding of the game. Although it started as a few helmets it has turned into quite the addiction as you can see
At first it was quite difficult to even approach the same appearence as your own art for Battle Brothers, and being that all I’ve worked on so far are weapons and armour I don’t even have a clue how difficult it would be to try to draw people, flesh and hair.
With time though I’ve learned alot about how to paint metal surfaces as well as wood, it’s been incredible to learn so much.However I’m not here to brag too much. In fact I’m noticing that my latest attempts have regressed in the domain of making plate helmets with large flat plates.
As you can see in this image, these helmets are my latest attempts and they just feel out of place (They’re way out of period for what the setting of Battle Brothers) with the grey metal, it almost seems too pale compared to your helmets in game.This is where I’d like to ask you if I could borrow an image from you.
If you’d rather not I understand completely, but could you post an image of a great-helm or a closed flat-top helm in it’s original size? I’ve stalked your page for all the great art assets you already post for us all, and they’ve helped tremendously. But at they’re size I just can’t make out the fine details that get compressed for the game later on.
Even with this image I’ll not reach the same skill as you of course, but I feel it would let me understand enough to really do justice to this game with my art assets if they actually look like they belong visually (where they would absolutely not lore-wise).Anyway, if you end up reading all of this thank you, hope you and the rest of the team at Overhype continue your success whether it be in Battle Brothers or any project you choose to pursue.
Hey Vendelhelm,
your art is pretty good already. I especially like the full plate armor on the first picture. I’ll post a picture of a random assortment of helmets without background in original size for you.
As you might notice the original size is pretty small already. The final assets for the game are resized and refined versions of these helmets.
When scaling the helmet down I always use a few filters to make them pop out a little more:
If you are working with Photoshop i suggest a small black “inner glow” to serve as an outline. On top of that try increasing the brightness, sharpness and contrast a little.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to enhance shiny metal with an “overlay” layer. Feel free to include a little color (blue or brown) in the overlay layer.I hope this helps, you’re painting some pretty cool stuff already!
Hello, Vendelhelm! You are just great fan artist and Your modifications are awesome!!! Excuse me for request: can I ask You to help? I do modifications for battle brothers (for example, barbarian mod on steam’s mods & modding subforum) and I have a idea. I try to make modification for helm’s upgrade. See, please, the picture and squares with labels “no art from Paul”! I need the images for variants of helm with leather (as padded dented helm)… Please, HELP!!! Sorry for my english, but I am russian… THANKS to You and, sure, Paul!
Привет, Vendelhelm! Вы просто замечательный художник, ваши модификации действительно великолепны!!! Извините меня за просьбу: Вы сможете помочь мне? Я делаю модификации для боевых братьев (как пример, варварский мод с подфорума модификаций steam) и у меня есть одна идея. Я давно пытаюсь сделать модификацию для улучшения шлемов. Посмотрите, пожалуйста, приложенную картинку, обратите внимание на квадраты с пометкой “нет графики от Пола”… ПОМОГИТЕ, пожалуйста! Извиняюсь за английский, но я русский… Спасибо Вам и конечно же Полю!
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Thank you Paul, I’ve been looking over the helmets you posted and it’s great to see the details more clearly.
I remember seeing back in the early stage of development, you had posted a really large image of the sword ghostbane you made.
For weapons do you still work at this scale? Or I wonder, in the start of development did you make your art assets at this size and decided later to make them smaller? Maybe for weapons you work at a larger scale and helmets have always been at the size that you posted in your reply to me. It really picks my curiosity as I have no clue of the work-style of professional artists, such as yourself.
Hi Vendelhelm,
to be honest, Ghost Bane is the only weapon I ever painted in that size. I just wanted to try something new and had a bit of spare time on my hands.
The rest of the weapons have been painted in this format:
Painting in this size is -in my oppionion- sufficient for the small final icons in the game. Scaling down large images can even result in a lower overall quality. All the downscaled details can make the final icon “noisy” and hard to read.
Cheers
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