Incomming

Some concepts for a post-apocalyptic story I'm working on.  Due to pollution humanity has adapted in different ways.  One was to live in glass bubble-cities where large amounts of plants can create breathable air.  Another was to live in airships above the layers of pollution.  For this scenario, an airship has discovered the existence of the bubble cities and is descending to raid it for resources.

In all honesty though, I really just wanted an excuse to try painting a bunch of different things.  One was texture.  I had rather failed in that department in my last painting and wanted to redeem myself.  The clouds gave me the perfect opportunity, and I'm rather happy with the variety in the sky too.  I also wanted to paint something glowing.  That's where the ships lights came in.  The dome glows too to some extent, though that was purely for compositional purposes.  I ended up adding reflections to the dome because oh man, it looked like a planet for the longest time.

This took me about a month on and off around other schoolwork.  It's done in acrylic on illustration board.

Eavesdropping

A painting I did for class.  It's acrylic on illustration board.  The idea is that the guy at the bottom of the painting is on the roof of a tall building at night, listening to the man talk to the cat on the porch of the smaller building below.  Their shadows, cast by the light from inside, stretch out along the ground.

I worked on this on and off for about a month.  I'm rather fond of the strange, bird's eye perspective and how I improved with the working of paint and light.  Still have a lot of improving to do though, that's what it means to be an artist after all!