Shaddy Safadi

Last of Us – Forest Church

shaddysafadi — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:48:13 +0000

An early painting done for one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time “The Last of Us!” This illustration was from early in the game development showing a story moment where Ellie and Joel are held up in a barn for the night hoping they will wake… un-fungi’d

Forest-Church-Safadi

shaddysafadi — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:37:22 +0000

Mrs. Comstock

shaddysafadi — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:07:41 +0000

Working back and forth with Ken Levine, the creator and Lead Designer of Bioshock infinite, we attempted to get a finessed image of Mrs. Comstock that had the feel of an old painting while exaggerating the proportions slightly to keep in line with the Bioshock aesthetic.

The Last of Us

shaddysafadi — Tue, 28 May 2013 09:34:38 +0000

It is not exaggeration to say this will likely be the greatest game of all time and it’s coming out June 14, 2013. Pre-order and set aside a weekend! I had the great fortune of helping out on this project in the early stages and will be posting concepts and concept process breakdowns regularly in the coming weeks.

Bioshock Infinite PROCESS

shaddysafadi — Tue, 28 May 2013 09:01:41 +0000

A explanation of the process involved in creating town square concept for the critically acclaimed game, Bioshock Infinite.

Bioshock Infinite Town Square

shaddysafadi — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:26 +0000

Had the pleasure of working with Nate Wells and Ken Levine on this image. Spent about 4-5 days total adding more and more signage trying to push for a feeling of life and energy they were going for in Columbia.

Columbia Digital Plein Air Process

shaddysafadi — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:41:41 +0000

PROCESS/MATERIALS:

ASUS Piece of Shit N53S Series / Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet / Photoshop CS6

My amazing hosts took me to cozy glass walled house in the Columbian countryside. It was raining hard when we started but it let up towards the end of the day and a bit of sun was able to start lighting the clouds and ground. With digital it’s relatively easy to change the lighting and color on a moments notice assuming your layers are well organized. 3 hours in the field and another 2 at home adding subtle gradients and making subtle color tweaks using the curves tool. I feel like in general, shapes can be stylized a lot but color often has to stay VERY accurate to feel real.

Drinking Robot

shaddysafadi — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:05:07 +0000

A higher rez version with a full tutorial series coming soon!

The NEW Concept Art

shaddysafadi — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:57:37 +0000

This Week! A two day intensive workshop at the Illustration Congress in Bogota Columbia. We’ll be going over in great detail all the modern tricks and technique concepts artists use to get their work to that next level. Later this year I will releasing my first paid concept tutorial series that will be very reasonably priced and go in depth in to some of these career changing techniques. Updates coming soon!

Little Lord

shaddysafadi — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:58:27 +0000

Photoshop CS6 trying my darndest to copy Jaime Jones. Some of his most recent images from “Destiny” the new Bungie game caused me to cry myself to sleep… For Tyrion, I painted the hair over twice, it got too fussy the first time. Started with a quick line sketch, something I rarely do but should more often, and then did everything on almost one layer except the eyes and pupils which which were a separate layer and clipping mask. The shape of those where my anchor for the image. I blended their edges later and overall started with a vivid red orange underpainting. Towards the last %20 I started making tweaks ALL on separate layers as a lot of it was experimenting with stuff I wanted the option to change.