All I have to do now is turning them into pieces of finished artwork... I'm almost there, just a little longer... here's a preview but you can see some more at outlawcreations.co.uk under 'Illustrations':
Sunday, 12 February 2012
More Monster Republic!
At this point, all the concept sketches for my client are done.
All I have to do now is turning them into pieces of finished artwork... I'm almost there, just a little longer... here's a preview but you can see some more at outlawcreations.co.uk under 'Illustrations':
All I have to do now is turning them into pieces of finished artwork... I'm almost there, just a little longer... here's a preview but you can see some more at outlawcreations.co.uk under 'Illustrations':
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Monster Republic concepts
Since I finally got my computer back, I can start to polish off the concept sketches for Monster Republic. The refining of those sketches is a necessary step to transform rough ideas into finished illustrations.
The image above shows the result of playing around with different possibilities to render an artificial head/skull and how it would fit beneath the (synthetic?) skin. The first image, the sideway rendition, is a concept of a bionic skull which also incorporates features that would not be normally part of a skull, such as the muscles and the tendons of the neck (hydraulics and cables), artificial gums (polycarbonate perspex), optical sensors and the hearing apparatus (in the form of micro cameras and mic receivers). The rendition from the front instead is simple variation on the previous image where I decided to change things a little bit, although I still incorporated an eye for pure graphic purposes (it looked empty without). A particular I had to keep in mind was to maintain the skull expression-less, which per se wasn't a big challenge, but somehow I had to fight the temptation of making it look 'evil'... I guess the influence of 'The Terminator' is a difficult one to ignore when drawing up artificial skulls, but I still managed to get the desired result.
The image above shows the result of playing around with different possibilities to render an artificial head/skull and how it would fit beneath the (synthetic?) skin. The first image, the sideway rendition, is a concept of a bionic skull which also incorporates features that would not be normally part of a skull, such as the muscles and the tendons of the neck (hydraulics and cables), artificial gums (polycarbonate perspex), optical sensors and the hearing apparatus (in the form of micro cameras and mic receivers). The rendition from the front instead is simple variation on the previous image where I decided to change things a little bit, although I still incorporated an eye for pure graphic purposes (it looked empty without). A particular I had to keep in mind was to maintain the skull expression-less, which per se wasn't a big challenge, but somehow I had to fight the temptation of making it look 'evil'... I guess the influence of 'The Terminator' is a difficult one to ignore when drawing up artificial skulls, but I still managed to get the desired result.
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Fiction Vs Reality
For my client project, I'm working on some concept art and a short animation inspired by the Monster Republic novel.
The project requires a certain understanding of anatomy (its ok, is not my first rodeo when it comes down to drawing bodies) but also bionics which per se, it's nothing I've never done before, although after reading the novel I realised that to fit this concept, this time around the bionic elements should be less 'over the top/bigger than you sci-fi' inspired and a little closer to what is going on in the field of medical bio-engineering and artificial prosthetics.
Basically, my goal is to make things look good but functional at the same time. For inspiration, I decided to look both ways, reality and fiction... I've put together a little collage of some of the images I'm using as reference... Talking of having two Damocle's swords hanging above my head instead of just one...
I think it's pretty interesting to see how the fiction involves a certain amount of 'cool' factor while the brutal reality reminds us all that, sadly, there's nothing cool about needing an artificial limb. This is something I got to keep in mind while working on the Monster Republic concepts. Maintain a balance between aesthetics and grim reality.
The project requires a certain understanding of anatomy (its ok, is not my first rodeo when it comes down to drawing bodies) but also bionics which per se, it's nothing I've never done before, although after reading the novel I realised that to fit this concept, this time around the bionic elements should be less 'over the top/bigger than you sci-fi' inspired and a little closer to what is going on in the field of medical bio-engineering and artificial prosthetics.
Basically, my goal is to make things look good but functional at the same time. For inspiration, I decided to look both ways, reality and fiction... I've put together a little collage of some of the images I'm using as reference... Talking of having two Damocle's swords hanging above my head instead of just one...
I think it's pretty interesting to see how the fiction involves a certain amount of 'cool' factor while the brutal reality reminds us all that, sadly, there's nothing cool about needing an artificial limb. This is something I got to keep in mind while working on the Monster Republic concepts. Maintain a balance between aesthetics and grim reality.
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