Uldar's Concept Art

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:58 am

Seems to be a lot of people submitting concept art these days, so I figure I should put some of my work out too.

Actually, for me, it started with the Adamantium Armor discussions. I had an idea for some Nord style armor after doing some research, and decided I would put together some images to show my concepts.

Well the armor is coming along nicely, but I needed a break from it so I threw together a few other images as well. This one is of a Morphoid Daedra. Soon to follow will be a Herne, a Spider Daedra, the adamantium armor in both male and female variants, and also some sketches of the Argonian bamboo armor I started a while a go. So stay tuned...

This is a water color painting, photographed and then color balanced and resized in Photoshop. No other adjustments were made.
[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_161665.jpg[/img]

storm_crow · Post by **storm_crow** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:02 am

this is really cool!

oh and making te spider daedra is brilliant, I always read Darkest Darkness in morrowind where they describe all the lesser daedra and thought it sucked becaused they didn't have that spider daedra in the game...
anyways great drawing!

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:17 am

Uldar, that one's great! I can't wait to see some more of you're stuff, keep up the good work!

Vyvara Araneae · Post by **Vyvara Araneae** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:10 pm

Excellent work on this piece, my dear.

Your watercolor technique is quite impressive. I especially love the posing as well as the perspective.

I greatly anticipate viewing more of your work.

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:16 pm

Thank you, storm_crow, Timito, and Vyvara, for your opinions. I am always grateful for people's feedback. And doubly so when it is praise.

OK as promised, here is my next peice...

It is the Nord style Mithril armor for the ladies. It consists of plate and chain with leather/fur underneath. In the design I was trying to get it to have a bit of influence from Imperial style (Adamantium) with touches of real world viking (note the face plate and sword hilt).

I figure this style would be found near the south eastern borders of Skyrim, with some crossing into Cyrodil and Morrowind.

The painting itself is not exactly a finished work, but there is enough there to get the concept across. I will likely finish it, but for now, here it is.(So much to do and so little time...)

And much like my previous piece, it was photographed digitally (too big to scan) and color adjusted in Photoshop (white balancing)

[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_161667.jpg[/img]

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:28 pm

SHIT! It is just awesome!

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:04 pm

That is fucking mint!! Would you be willing to help me do some concept art for the Hircine cult?

Graff.

Asylum · Post by **Asylum** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:49 pm

great now do a nice detailed front and back picture of that armour and i won't even have to make textures :p

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:16 pm

:shock:That looks like you just ripped it of the concept art page at elderscrolls.com! Very, very, very (x10) good work, can you make weapons concept art? That'd be great

.

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:24 pm

@Everyone: Thank You

@Graff: PM me the details of what you want and I will puts some stuff together for you.

@Asylum: If you make the meshes, send me the unwrapped UV images and I will make the textures.

@Timito: Sure I'll do some weapons. Anything specific you have in mind?

Nairb · Post by **Nairb** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:33 pm

100 out of 10. simply amazing.

Negrodomous · Post by **Negrodomous** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:36 pm

wow... how long did that take you? your very good.

viKING · Post by **viKING** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:51 pm

Oh man... I just became a little dizzy... How in the name of god did you mannage to make those???
Those are far better than the oblivion consept arts!!! keep up the good (great) work!!!

(And please, please, please, PLEASE make more daedra consept arts!*makes big begging puppy eyes*

)

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:06 pm

This is what i call..... AWESOME DUDE!!

(about weapons, i would like to see kinda elven weapons... like the shield that was ingame)

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:18 pm

Maybe something Dwemeri ? :p

Maurtini · Post by **Maurtini** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:23 am

that is some slick artwork! i love it!

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:27 am

Uldar Gerzae wrote: @Timito: Sure I'll do some weapons. Anything specific you have in mind?

I'd love to see some swords

.

wishmaster · Post by **wishmaster** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:13 pm

Sacrifice Dagger

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:03 pm

Thanks again everyone...(I'll get to your suggestion in due time)

OK this piece comes with a warning:

WARNING
The following image may prove disturbing to arachnophobic viewers.
If sweatiness, light headedness, shortness of breath, and/or skin crawling results. Then I did my job

Seriously, after several hours researching the anatomy of spiders I had one hell of a time sleeping. I woke up out of a dead sleep turned on my light, and stood there staring at my bed for like a minute before I realized that there were no spiders in there. I think it was the images of the Brown Recluse bites that got to me. Horrid things.

This is the second Spider Daedra image I did, the first one had some errors. I used the info from the UESP site, and didn't get a close look at the image. So my first Spider Daedra looks more like a Spider Centaur (normal 'human' arms). When I was nearing completion of that piece, I went back and got a closer look at the image (from Battlespire) on the site and realized that the arms end as the front legs. And so I remade it.

And here it is...
[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_161669.jpg[/img]

viKING · Post by **viKING** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:15 pm

Oh I got a bit dizzy again... This time because I'm shit sceared of spiders!
Seriolusy, You did it again! Someone should deffently update the conseptarts at the main page soon, and add some of those!

Your works are AWSOME, man! Keep up the good work(and keep coming with the daedras!

)!

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:17 pm

That is f*ck*ng amazing!! I'm glad I'm not afraid of spiders!

Graff.

P.S. Uldar, are you still willing to do some concept art for me?

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:28 pm

I hate brown recluse spiders, I still bear the mark of their molestation (a small scar right across my heart).

Looks very nice.

-Starcrunch

storm_crow · Post by **storm_crow** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:31 pm

This is amazing, someone, of course, has to make this. Spider daedra is in lore and this is one hell of spider daedra. This is what mephala's followers are ment to be like! (if they are associated with mephala, I think they are)

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:44 am

Thanks again everyone. I am glad you all like my stuff.

This post is not an addition of another piece (soon though) it is to inform you that I have recently put up an on-line portfolio. If you are interested you can view some more of my stuff (predominantly photographs) at http://ArtWanted.com/D'Ral

Thank you

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:49 pm

Nice stuff, Uldar.

Graff.

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:14 pm

*takes a look at the spider drawing*

Aaaaaahhhhh!!!! NO... NO! Get them of me! Help...

*Runs to the kitchen, grabs a knife and locks himself up in the bedroom*

Hehe that's seriously sick dude, great job, are you at art academie or... whatever? I would like to see you're concepts being put into models, can you also do armor?

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:34 pm

Howdy all,

Been a while since I've added any new work, but that is all about to change. I just recently received my new toy; I bought a 9 x 12 digital tablet to speed up my creation of concept art. And so far it is working.

This is the Herne, it is based on the image of the Herne posted on the UESP site, which can be found here: http://www.uesp.net/tamriel/monsters/images/herne.jpg

As you can see, I didn't have much to work with, so if you see any discrepancies, please point them out to me and I will fix them.

This is my first piece done with my tablet, it's a little rough as I am still learning how to deal with the way things work. As I get more comfortable with it I will be working faster and probably be adding backgrounds.

How much faster is it? By comparison, the Morphoid Daedra took approximately six hours. The Mithril Armor, about twelve. And the Spider Daedra was around eight hours of work. This piece took roughly four hours, some of which was spent on the learning curve.

And I don't have to clean any brushes

storm_crow · Post by **storm_crow** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:39 pm

Yeah! Another eye-treat concept by Uldar! The drawing is (as always) amazing, I hop your concepts get put in the game! Is a Herne a daedra by the way? Excuse my ignorance.

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:47 pm

I love it, captures the demon ideal perfectly while being completely original. Can't wait to see more.

Graff.

TÃƒÂºrelio · Post by **TÃƒÂºrelio** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:12 pm

Nice, wish I could afford a Tablet, all my arts been done by mouse, and its beginning to get tedious. What kinda Tablet did you get? Wacom right?

The_Warder · Post by **The_Warder** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:51 pm

my brother does them on paper by hand and i take a picture of them or scan them.

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:26 pm

First to answer a few questions:

@ storm_crow: Yes, a herne is a Daedra, and we will be adding it in-game as it is a part of the Telvanni quest line (according to the Brown Book, Mistress Eldale is finishing up a new daedra summoning spell, which summons the herne).

@ Turelio: Yep, Wacom. I too did some work with the mouse and it is not very intuitive. Very slow and tedious indeed. The tablet is closer to normal, but still a little weird: have to look at the monitor, not where you are drawing. And the tactile feedback is different, too smooth. Wacom does have two digital tablets that are essentially LCD displays you can draw on, which should be more natural. Of course they cost over a thousand, so I won't be getting one of those for a while.

OK, and now to the point of this post:

While doing my research for the herne piece, I posted a request on the officials. I got a few replies, which were helpful, but still had to pretty much wing it as far as figuring out what the herne was to look like. Well I got one more response (via PM) with a link to some higher resolution images, and so I need to make some changes to the herne (and the Morphoid Daedra seemingly - we'll see how well I can match the medium with the tablet).

The link to the hi-res images is here:
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~conan/battlespire/battlegmonster.html

As you can see, those aren't antlers on the herne. Oh, well, perhaps I will add a background while I'm at it

TÃƒÂºrelio · Post by **TÃƒÂºrelio** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:05 pm

Yea I know about those ones, but they are way out of my price range for now, unless i get more serious about it. Wacom are pretty much the only Tablets I've heard about, no doubt I've heard nothing but good about them but I imagine there must be some others making similar products for Art applications. Anyhow, good luck on learning to use it, from what I've seen once you do get use to it, it is a very very useful tool.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:07 pm

This are VERY good drawings.... way better as my teacher draws.... (don't hope he gets that). But the time you are working on them.... amazing!

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:14 pm

Alrighty, here is the reworked herne, I made the horns as they need to be and roughed in a background to give it some atmosphere.

I will leave the other one for a little while (for comparison), but due to spring cleaning it will be removed shortly.

Graff, the Hounds stuff is coming shortly

[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_167290.jpg[/img]

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:20 pm

Like it. Can't wait for Hounds stuff

.

Graff.

Uldar · Post by **Uldar** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:08 am

Right, here is a piece for Graff's Hounds...

This is a sacrificial dagger. It is made from the bones of a werewolf (who possibly was one of the founding fathers of the hounds - that's up to Graff) and therefore a sacred artifact to them.

The blade is made from the sternum (breastbone), the hilts are the canines (fangs), and the handle is from the humerous (upper arm - likely from the sword arm).

Graff has already seen the sketches, so I know he approves of this design. I would like to have added hair coming out in short strands around the hilts, and in longer, flowing strands up at the pommel. This however, will likley prove difficult to model (and animate) so we opted to leave it out. Any other suggested changes are welcome.

Otherwise I am off to make some more...

[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_187963.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/17853_187965.jpg[/img]

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:19 am

You are an extremely good artist. You know that?

Majra · Post by **Majra** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:37 am

agreed

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:24 am

Perfect...

I also agree with the previous two posts, you're a great artist. Any luck with the career change?

Graff.