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Some quick studies

Flight

Study

Morning warmup

Taking one of the thumbnails from last week through to final. Some of the working stages below

More colour comps

Colour thumbs

If anything, I'm learning to push myself into paintings and make them work instead of getting disheartened and starting again. Rushed these out in about 2-3 days, so they don't have the strongest designs, but I'm fairly happy with the compositions...

Citadel Slums

This week I focused on putting together a single environment that I could take a bit further with detailing.
I spend a lot of time at the thumbnail stage trying to find an interesting composition, this usually just involves throwing down random shapes till I see something I like, and then work it through the fundamentals, applying perspective, using the rule of thirds, repeating shapes and working on value and atmospherics.

With this piece I explored and ended up deviating from the initial sketch, in fig 2, and it led me to a bit of frustration as to "why" it wasn't working. Ended up taking a step back realising that all the interest and energy was in that first thumb, so I stuck with it.

I settled on the idea of these slum like settlements below a huge futuristic city. It definitely helped to give the whole piece a huge sense of scale, with all these tiny rooftops scattering into the distance