Game Art and Illustrations: DRAWING CHALLENGE : WEAPON

This drawing challenge was to produce a design for a futuristic weapon. I thought this would be interesting and could help me design a weapon for my game at the same time, I already had an outlined idea for my game so fitted the weapon to that description, the only difference was that this weapon had to be futuristic whereas my game is steam-punk, however I used the same weapon type and layout but details will be changed for the game to give it a more industrial feel.

I quickly made a research / mood-board on guns I remembered from games such as borderlands and that fitted the requirements.

MOOD - BOARD.

From this I used the silhouette technique I have been using in my character design to get some ideas down that showed eye-catching shapes and forms. for this I used Japanese brush pens in my sketchbook, something I will be using in my character design to quickly get ideas and forms down before moving into shaded silhouette drawing in Photoshop.

GUN SILHOUETTES 1.

GUN SILHOUETTES 2.

From this I took design 4 as my base as it fitted what I wanted to do and shows a unique eye-catching form. Using sketchbook pro I started drawing up slightly more detailed parts such as the handle etc.

SKETCHBOOK PRO DRAWINGS.

After this I moved back into my sketchbook to put these components together into a shape that represents what I want and could possibly work. I tried one in side view and one in perspective.

SKETCHBOOK DRAWINGS.

I liked this design but wanted to make it more futuristic and try and draw it completely in perspective. I decided to use a line method using a protractor to create perspective lines which helped greatly with this more complex shape.

PERSPECTIVE SKETCHBOOK DRAWING.

Now that I had a definite shape in my head I decided to produce another side view drawing. I wanted to add some more details to flesh it out and did this with grips and by adding details to the sight and barrel.