Czacen's Cool Concepts

As a kind of offshoot to Czacen's recent project to give classic Wing Commander ships a more contemporary feel, he's undertaken the task of creating some very cool concept art to improve his technique.

In an attempt to better my rather shabby concept art skills I have been training hard on building up a few techniques. While I am far from close to getting good at it, I have managed to do a few practice pieces that people might like. Please feel free to comment on them, and also please note that these are not 2010 redesigns but rather just 2 illustrations in the concept art speed painting technique commonly used by game and move designers today. I also have taken some artistic liberty with the engine/intake glows just to add some excitement to the images.

It takes me roughly a 4-5 hrs for one of these renderings. I did these by hand but directly in Photoshop. I used some 3d elements to place the perspective properly.