Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Out of the Fog


It's just a couple of days into the new month and I feel pretty positive about September. This month I want to be able to produce more illustrations and generally continue to improve my skills and the quality of my work.
This piece is for this week's ImagineFX challenge with the theme 'Mutation'. For this piece, I first worked on the main image, I thought it would be cool to create an insect-like mutant reminiscent of the classic scifi monster, the Fly. For the background I had a more elaborate set in mind, I was going to have the creature be in the middle of a laboratory surrounded by crazy equipment and giant jars filled with mutant fetuses, but in the end I decided to concentrate on the creature itself and just have it emerge from the fog, with the hint of an abandoned factory in the background. I'm pretty happy about the final piece, especially on the treatment on the monster and the monochromatic sepia colors, but mostly I'm happy about finishing it earlier than usual.

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