CGMA wk6

So this is this week's output for CGMW; the illustrations aren't required until the thursday of each week, but because I'm at work for nearly 14 hours a day, I can't switch gears in my brain from work to art, so I cram all the artwork into my brand-spanking new 3 day weekends (YAY!!!!!) then leave the rest of the week for work.

Anyway, last week we had to do 4 colour thumbnails based on a theme of our choice. Frustratingly, I suck at coming up with themes on my own, so last weeks thumbs were kinda shit, in fact, I kinda got embarrassed by how much my stuff got ripped into, but; I took all the crits on board and moved on.

This weeks requirements were to take on of last weeks thumbs and take it to final. haha, that was a tough decision, by this point I hated all of last weeks output. I eventually chose an image I'd ear-marked to work up in the future, as I flt it had a pretty iconic feel, I then got to work.

This is the result. I've got a work in progress shot done for submission to CGMW too, which I'll post here shortly to show how different this is to the original thumbnail.

There wasn't a concept at first, just "make a cool image" but as I was working through this I started thinking about this huge alien machine maybe mining for raw materials under a sacred holy city, and these guys up on the rocks are coming up with a plan to destroy the machine - maybe scoping it out, trying to see weaknesses or something like that.

In the end, I really enjoyed working on this; it's probably taken about 6 hours, with loads of painting and photo-bashing (new technique we were shown this week)

I still feel like photo-bashing is a little cheaty, but for speed it gets results, so that's where it'll be used.

Anyway, let me know what you think!!

--Andrew