Environment Design

One of my modules from university asked me to design and produce an art piece of an environment in a game world of the theme myths and legends or fantastical sea. I choose fantastical sea as I had little knowledge of many myths or legends, and I liked the visuals of the sea more. Here is my art piece.

The location I choose for my environment was a coral reef that had been transformed into an underwater city, where each colourful coral platform had a different building built upon it. At the foot of the reef laid a white palace made of crystals that glow from the sunlight above. In the background, schools of fish are seen swimming around. Overall, I am very happy with the turnout of this image, the development of the image was clear and calculated as seen below.

Personally, I like the final black and white sketch more than the final design due to the harder and more defined edges over the smoothness of the coloured variant. A few things had to be cut from the final image such as the fountain as I realised, I had no idea how to draw a fountain that sprayed air instead of water, especially coloured with accurate shading. I think more design work could be done to improve the quality of the buildings, making the m have the level of detail shown in the third sketch however I am quite proud of the final image, considering my programming strengths.