Alright. So the word for this week's Illustration Friday was "Prepare". Now this one didn't strike me with as solid an inspiration as last week's so this one took a little bit more thinking. After trawling around Flickr for some inspiration for a while I stumbled across this image by George Samerjan:
Now this image made me think back to something I've always been a big fan of: Pulp Sci-Fi covers. It was then that I got my idea for what this week's illustration would be: Some sort of astronaut with a ray gun preparing to take on a huge robot. So I whipped myself up some thumbnails:
I eventually settled on the composition in image number one but with the more humanoid robot from the other thumbnails. In hindsight I think number 3 would have made for a better composition, but at the time I really wanted the landscape to be a big focus which heavily influenced my decision. I then went on to sketch out the landscape:
Then did a little rendering:
Sketched out the figures:
Then coloured them in, added effects and added them to the final scene:
In the end I love the landscape I painted for this was probably my favorite part
Looks great, Steve. I'd really like to see a graphic design component each time, though, as per the instructions on our class blog:
ReplyDelete"Show the final design - and include graphic design elements. Mock the design up to demonstrate its potential usefulness for some commercial purpose (i.e. a movie poster, a brochure, a web page, etc.)"
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