CDDA - Photo Manipulation

So today I did a photo manipulation to give an example of some of the things that might go in my environment. It was quite a new experience to me which I found tricky at first, taking me a long time to put my first item into the environment and feeling that it didn't really fit. Once I started adding light and shadows to the objects they began to sit a lot better in the environment. Also changing the hue to a more orange colour helped them fit in too. I think that I may do something along this line of track when drawing my final environment to sketch over as it could be really useful for getting perspective and shapes right. Overall I enjoyed making this and think it's a viable way of developing ideas for environments. 

CDDA - Environment progression

Today I came up with a few more ideas for what I would like to do for my environment design. This time I used Photoshop, mainly because I was looking at perspective artwork for inspiration on the internet. Both pictures feature large shaped caves which use one perspective. Neither are particularly detailed either as they are just focusing on the perspective and what the idea would look like. The first is a very vast cave which isn't a very full environment. I like the idea of the perspective going off to one side but I didn't like how low the vanishing point was as I want to be able to see more of the surfaces that the Dwarfs would be working on.  

In my second design I kept things similar to the first but changed several things. I raised the vanishing point allowing me to look down on the environment more and see work surfaces (as I complained of in the first picture). I also made the environment more full of items, specifically the foreground. The environment would show a Dwarfs work area with forges, mining carts and other items towards the back. It shared the same cave type as the previous image but is more like how I imagined my Dwarf smith to look like.