Friday 9 September 2011

Apocalypse (Thumbnail Sketches)

These are the thumbnails for a single cover for the same guy who asked for the Phoenix Rise Album cover. Only this time its an war torn almost apocalypse scene, which is something I have never done before. This should be very interesting, weather in a good way or not is yet to be seen, haha!


Above is a landscape that has been made barren with a town crumbling in the distance. The big 'thing' in the middle is some sort of great crash, it could be anything from a giant missile to an alien craft. The area is also dotted with craters and burnt objects like vegetation and wrecks of cars.


The figure appears to be walking away from a burning city, as if fleeing the destruction or just counting their lucky stars to still be alive.


This one is focusing on being within the town cloaked in fog/smoke amongst wreckage and ruin. The road is cracked, the soil/earth has been turned up as if made into hasty barricades and there is a wreck of a tank to the right (I know it looks like a hot-dog with a pencil stuck in it, ha!)


This is a little like the first thumbnail, only the person is close in the foreground and the force of nature is much more dominant.

A person is standing on top of a building in a town that has been barricaded and left to it's fate by the UFO hovering above, shooting lightning and tornadoes from is belly. This is what you get when you watch War of the Worlds before planning things (damn you Spielberg!) There are also a flock of birds that are flying towards the giant object (mistake on my part, they should logically be flying away off screen)

The same again but exploring the idea of spotlights from the UFO.





This time the person is dangerously venerable on the ground.





Like the one above, only with the UFO and with a denser city. All those below are exploring colour schemes, although that sort of thing is quite easy to change within a painting as I go along, thanks to Photoshop's tools.











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