R. Blackwood - iphone

#7 Game Landscape

robertblackwood — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:48:28 +0000

A WIP maybe for some upcoming adventure game…..

#6 Escape the Sun

robertblackwood — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:05:29 +0000

Took a lesson out of Digital Painiting Techniques: Volume 2, a tutorial in it by Emrah Elmasli called “The Machine Was Their Only Means Of Escape” and tried to replicate it somewhat. I took a different approach this time, using Paint.net to block out shapes and colors and then used photoshop and the tablet to finish it up.

#5 Bridge & Lava

robertblackwood — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:52:57 +0000

Well kinda took inspiration from a Nicolas Bouvier tutorial… discovered a few more techniques involving color burning and overlay and such; the result was this quick little sketch, didn’t really do Nicolas justice and again the result comes out too dark. At least I learned a little bit from this one, still need a lot of work in the composition area.

#4 Sci-fi

robertblackwood — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:55:22 +0000

Well I jumped into a Sci-fi type of theme as I try to apply some of the concepts I’ve been reading about in Digital Painting Techniques, mostly just trying to speed paint different shapes and then trying to pull them together….. kinda worked, the spaceship doesn’t really make sense and my shadowing isn’t so great, but looks kinda neat I suppose. I realize I like the grass brush a little too much….

Still a work in progress; I also had to lighten up this final image as I realized it came out pretty dark.

#3 Quick Sketch

robertblackwood — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:58:34 +0000

Just did a quick sketch and painted over it a bit, going for speed; so it’s a work in progress for sure.

#2 Boat in Storm

robertblackwood — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:54:09 +0000

Ok well challenge 2 was to draw up a rowboat in a stormy sea. This one went a lot quicker and I experimented with a few different brushes, a lot of wavy ones and a spongey one for the sky.

New Drawing Tablet

robertblackwood — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:31:35 +0000

Well, I figured I should revive this blog a bit by starting something different. I got an intuos4 drawing tablet the other day and am now determined to learn to use it and photoshop at the same time. So for fun I’ll be periodically posting random drawings, hopefully I’ll learn something and improve as time goes on…..

This first drawing was a challenge given by a friend to draw an old house on a grassy landscape with zombies approaching…. well turned out to just be one, but all in all it doesn’t look too horrible for a first time… I think.

Been awhile…

robertblackwood — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:34:50 +0000

Well its been awhile since I’ve made a post, but that’s because this blog has been moved to www.mobile-bros.com. This page will now become my personal blog…. which probably still be about mobile bros. and iphone development. So anyway, check out www.mobile-bros.com, I promise it’ll be a good time.

New Game Coming – Harvest

robertblackwood — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:52:49 +0000

We are nearing completion of a new game, called Harvest. It involves manipulating a stream of particles in such a way that fills up all the containers. You can read about it more here: Harvest. Screenshots are below:

Bounce Away Released

robertblackwood — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:59:13 +0000

Well its been awhile and it may not seem like it, but we’ve accomplished a lot. Many new games are in the works for us here at Mobile-Bros and one has even made its way up to the Apple Store. That’s right, Bounce Away is now available!

Bounce Away is a simple physics based puzzle game, where you have one or more balls, only ONE shot, and the goal of getting all of the balls into a basket. Along the way there’s blocks, balloons, spikes, dominoes, trampolines, gravity, and bonuses to be had. Very addicting, with high scores as well (hopefully online high scores soon). So check it out here: iTunes Link

Here are some screens, I’ll post a video shortly.