The term "Cyberpunk" is made up of two components:

• "cyber" designates "cybernetics" and the new technologies associated in particular with data processing

• "punk" refers to the counter-culture movement that bears this name.

 

 

 

Cyberpunk worlds are steeped in violence and pessimism; they are often gloomy; the characters are disillusioned, cynical and greedy antiheroes.

 

• Cyberpunk questions the definition of human and artificial

• Often the cyberpunk universe reports a post-apocalyptic, or decadent evolution of our society in the not too distant future depicting a pessimistic society, lost, oppressed by perpetual violence and very often enslaved by a quasi-totalitarian power.

 

Key words:

 

Cybernetics, multinationals, cold and polluted gray universe, artificial intelligence, anti-heroes, illuminated advertising signs, neon, post-apocalyptic world, robotics, dirty ...

Graffiti

In a cyberpunk illustration, you can use street art and therefore graffiti. To do this, you can exaggerate your writing by making big letters that fit into each other. Here is my own alphabet book.

For the line, I used a particular brush intended for this purpose. I made thick outlines and smeared the ink in some places for more realism.

 

I then put in colors. I added paint stains in the background, I used a gradient from red to white on the letters, then added a light gray shadow on the left of the letters with an Airbrush and with the pen G, I put areas of light on the right with white lines.

You can also download a ready-made brush of various graffiti.

Clothing outfits

 

Personally, I would like a fairly marked dress style for a character in a cyberpunk universe.

 

I use streetwear fashion with a light touch of punk.

 

You can add chains, gas masks, zippers, straps, etc.

 

I show you different outfits that I was able to do. It would help me to create a charadesign later.

Here are four brushes you can download to help you with your characters' outfits.

Gas masks

An element unique to cyberpunk are gas masks, you can have different shapes, colors. I've made three for you to show you the possible combinations, but you can search the net for references.

To give more realism to your mask, do not hesitate to use textures. I really like the rust textures below.

 

I also gave you an old tutorial to learn how to colonize metal with a robot.

Charadesign

I tried to do several charadesign.

When you have to make a character, do not hesitate to make several drawings, the first attempts are never the best.

Getting a feel for your character's character, background, and goals can help you build it.

 

 

Finally among my 4 charadesign I chose the third one which best suited a cyberpunk universe.

 

The first one was too punk

The second had no cybernetic element.

And the fourth was top simple for my taste and versatile.

Architecture

I live near a city (Charleroi) which has post-apocalyptic allure and a perfect atmosphere for a cyberpunk universe. It was also for many years proclaimed the ugliest / depressing city in the world.

Personally, I find it has its charms.

So I decided to take a few photos and change the color values and saturate them.

I could use these photos as references.

Don't hesitate to take a walk near you and take photos and videos to stock up on references to use for your works.

I wanted to do an illustration where architecture swallows up the character. So I made a huge industrial building with big illuminated advertising signs, a city in the background and the chimney of a nuclear power station in the background spewing smoke.

I mainly used shades of gray and ocher as well as very bright and neon colors for the neon signs.

My goal is to make a dirty, polluted atmosphere with very bright and saturated colors to counterbalance the cooler colors of concrete, brick and urban elements.

 

To achieve this I used a lot of very textured brushes and the layers in glow density mode for the illuminated signs. I also used a graffiti brush for the wall.

Here are some brushes I used to make this illustration.

To give texture to my illustration, I used this set of textures

But you can also find perfect city sets for the cyberpunk world. Example below

here is a small time lapse of the coloring.

Thank you all for following my tutorial, I hope it gave you ideas for your future creations.