these silly bois give me a lot of joy

The painting in progress, adding more detail into the painting. Placing in photo texture for the background as base, wrestling with how much I wanted the landscape to make sense.

I had an idea of making the glowy critters bird shaped, but I felt little bunny-looking things felt cosier.

Figuring out the details of the character and objects. (Initially I thought about a cable that maybe leads to an off-camera spaceship, but it might have come across as too robot?) I was inspired by the flowing fibres of the skintight space suit which is apparently is being worked on in real life, and I wanted a flowing organic look to the shapes. I wanted everything to feel still practical in some way despite this being complete fantasy, and thought was given to how things might join together based on my own memories of traditional art equipment.

Blocking out of the silhouette and different grounds. I was interested in conveying some kind of motion through this static shot of static objects. The rocks are tilted at an angle, and the pose leans opposite to the right-left energy, symbolic of braving a challenge.

Following a basic idea of doing plein air landscape painting on an alien planet, I made a 3D base since my vision of the lighting was complex and this piece was intended to be a challenge for me to draw more environments. 

A blank mannequin was posed in Gravity Sketch since it felt more intuituve for me, and it was imported to Blender for lighting and some quick textures. The plan was that I will flesh out the design of everything as I paint it, by instinct and intuition. In a way, I was also chasing a "flow" of creative artmaking by making this artwork about "flow".

I started work on the idea on a busy schedule but I had a quick deep think about the theme itself. The theme can be interpreted as personal oasis removed from the world's many problems, but can one construct a true oasis that is removed from the world's problems...by thinking about the world's problems? It became clear to me that my aim should be to capture a mood instead of constructing a world, as I didn't feel confident in presenting 'solutions' to any big real issue as a singluar artist or do them justice in a short amount of time.

My oasis has always been art itself, and I thought I should follow just that simple feeling.

I made some changes from the initial sketches, including moving the mother and the daughter closer to emphasize the connection between them.

I wanted the relationship of a mother and her daughter to be the main focus of the image, so I planned the composition around them. Also, did some silhouettes to decide the design of the windmills in the background and foreground

For the ideation phase, I decided on a general concept and sketched a couple of thumbnails. I ended up with three major subjects to have as a guide: nostalgia/childhood, nature, and family.

I aften struggle a lot with the initial composition phase and then the blocking phase. 
I often approach paintings as a background artist, which means I have to sort through my own mess of a concept and figure out how to layer and break down a piece and set myself up for an easier time painting further down the line. 
As soon as each section is blocked out then the real fun can begin and I can just vibe out and paint a bunch. Thankfully I'm hitting that point now! 

I've extended the shot to try and seperate the 'oasis' from city and wall. I reserve the right to completely 180 on that decision and bring the piece back into a square comp (which for some reason I love so much!) 

I'm taking a lot of inspiration from some of my favourite artists and pieces of media. 
I adore the shapes and strong colour blocking from Scott Wills and his work on Samurai Jack. I'd love to get some more of that strong stylisation in this piece if possible. 
For the city and the atmosphere; I've taken frequent inspiration from the game INSIDE by Playdead. The atmosphere and lighting in that game is present, dominating and powerful. I will need to make sure not to overwork details potentially breaking some of the larger stronger shapes. 

Immediate issues I see with the comp now that it's up on the progress page; The new tree shape isn't working and is acting against the other shapes. I will need to experiement here and see what works. 
The walls top line is wonky is aexactly the wrong way. I want to break up some of the direct lines in the comp but also have to keep them compositionally tasty! 

I'm currently in Germany and surrounded by plants and dappled lighting. I'm trying to spy on the neighbours vegatble garden and sketch some plants that I could involve in my oasis dock/pontoon! 

The piece overall still reads too dark (a continuouse issue I face) 
I will make sure to bring up the lights and really push them to emphisise the focal point of the lit atmosphere surrounding the oasis area! 

Sketch 1

B&W version of the painting, before the colors were added

This is the key concept of the project

Preparing the lenses made from "heigthmaps" of the SVD images

A close up to see some textures im proud of

A fisherman city formed by this circles and domes filled with vegetation 

In this check point i´ve already given some texture to the foliage and I was getting ready to dive deep in the making of the ciry

A lot of people say that the work should be completed, but I like the liveliness and charm of the line. I don't like when the end is predetermined, I like the alternative.

My concept depicts a fictional world in which wars are over and war vehichles have been magically turned into wildlife creatures. In these early sketches Im exploring how would the war vehichles wildlife creatures woud look like , how machine-like vs how organic .and natural they will be as well as what will be the nature of the environment around them in the scene Im depicting.

I tested out a few color and lighting schemes to make sure I knew what I wanted. Some of these ideas ended up changing more down the line, but with this I had a good base to begin. 

I began by drafting a few thumbnails for different compositions I could try to tell the story of excited, bookish youths marveling at the Tree of Babel, a great library that would serve as the centerpiece for my oasis. I made a point of trying different perspectives and exploring different possible designs for the massive trees in this environment. 

The perspective of the model is to be in a position of  bringing the idea of inspiration and reflection and being proud of who he is and what he does

Deixei as cores mais saturadas e o foco da luz leva para trás das montanhas, mas para o ângulo principal, a casa.