06-20-2009, 09:31 AM
when you don't know an object, such as this one, use multiple references so you can catch all the details from multiple angles. that bottom thing its a muzzle, check other images of the wolfen like i did and you'll see it.
since the ship its quite poligonal and it barely has any round surface, shading shouldnt be that hard. look how every face of the object its afected by light in my reference. notice how some faces are ligther and others darker. try to set an imaginary light source at lets say the top left corner of the ship and use blocks of colors to show every face of the ship with only three colors so you can have the basic shapes of the ship defined.
since the ship its quite poligonal and it barely has any round surface, shading shouldnt be that hard. look how every face of the object its afected by light in my reference. notice how some faces are ligther and others darker. try to set an imaginary light source at lets say the top left corner of the ship and use blocks of colors to show every face of the ship with only three colors so you can have the basic shapes of the ship defined.