We Are Still Here!


I haven't published in a while, but definitely haven't been sitting still. I've been working in the background on different ideas, concepts, themes, etc. and am trying to develop myself as an artist more and more. Today I've decided to upload one of the first skins of the Abstract0 that have been in the making for a while. Below you can read how this skin came to be, and sparked me to create a collection for it!


It started out all the way back in July when I was messing around with some procedurals in Substance Painter. I haven't been a big fan of making Famas skins because of the gun's geometry but I wanted to give it a try anyways. While is was having fun with different effects I all of a sudden created this strange dripping pattern which looked pretty neat. I decided to apply this effect along all the edges of the Famas to make it seem as if the gun was being eaten by this mysterious looking thing.


First rough test in-game July 27th

I thought it might be a fun idea to create many different squares to get a futuristic look to the gun and masked those to be inbetween on the main body. It started to take a little bit of shape but I was still messing around with many aspects of the gun.

I jumped all over the place and decided to start on a grip for the famas. I first wanted to see if I could incorporate the green lines into it but it looked a little strange and I wasn't a big fan of it. Then, after some testing I landed on a nice grippie dot material which seemed to provide adequate grip while also looking aesthetically pleasing.


Old grip/design - August 28th

Then I took quite a long break and didn't work on the finish for a good 2 months while I was travelling, because my laptop seemed to have some unexpected issues with the GPU :( When I came back from my trips I quickly started working on the finish again and started getting into the groove. I finished up the Famas, and started making a list of weapons where I think the design could look really cool.

As I wanted to start taking screenshots today to upload the first 3 submissions I ran into a little data loss scare when my SSD all of a sudden stopped showing my files. Luckily I was able to recover all the files and quickly took the screenshots you're seeing now to at least give you all a little hint of what is to come! In the coming days I will probably get to finalize the images for the Famas, P250, AK-47, and Sawed-Off so make sure to keep an eye out on the workshop!

Also a big thank you to Sofia, Andi, Quzga, and Moonfighter for the feedback and ideas while making these skins!


Thanks for checking out the skin and reading through another wall of text. I hope you enjoyed the skin and I'll see you guys in a few! While you're here, why not check out some more of my skins down below?

Love,

Hollandje ❤️

The font used in this project is free for commercial use/freeware | UA Cadet[www.fontspace.com]