Onward with the new background solution, Im going on full detail with these rocks. I'll keep rendering them until i feel that stone texture. I'm still studing some coloring that i could use on the scene, as well as some textures to add. I think it will contribute to a more apeeling final image.

Environment Build Up: I'm currently in the greyscale phase, the story is slowly building up. I want to carry out some interesting story, it might look simple in terms of perspective but it can be meaningful. What's missing is life, next phase I'll be covering on lighting, color, and deeper details. Keep you updated:)

It was a long hour practicing and painting this piece, I couldn't be more proud of it.

With the macro structure of the city in mind I found that coming up with interesting illustration ideas was much easier since there was now a clear goal. In this case, it was to really highlight the verticality of a city built above the 'eco bed'. The extreme angle allows for all of the layers to be shown off at once, and give a sense of immersion into the environment, as if you were there as a tourist.

My main issue however with this piece is how limited the view of the city above is.
 

I am really indecisive and I'm not sure I've ever done this many versions. But let's get it on. One week, yikes. 
Best of luck to everyone!!

After the initial exploration I had two concepts stuck in my mind:

- the first was a scene where a mother and her two daughters can share their experience with another family member in real time, through some kind of drone-projector object; in the background, we would see a vibrant eco-friendly city;

- the second was an evening-to-night scene in a skatepark, where we see friends hanging out (some are physically there and some are projected - as if they were skating in an exactly replica of this park, somewhere else in the world, and could share the experience with friends that are far away); I was thinking it would be fun to have cities designed like this, where people can interact with the architecture in a very physical, tangible and fun way, inciting us to lead more active lives.

I had also gathered some images: pictures I took from skating spots I visited and some color palette inspiration.

Been fleshing out the world with some more concept sketches.

I've now got a much better idea of what I want to include in my final illustration, largely focussing on the tiers of the city.

Now that's more like it. I feel this is something I can work better with. Onward we go.

After a little break, i realized that the image was boring and cramped. and decided to fix it. Though i had no intention of throwing away the work done on the characters, so a new idea came up. Once again, I'll rely on the coloring for a glow up.

Flat colors for the characters are complete, but there still is much to be done. I could start to paint the light and shadow on the characters, but i think that I won't get the pretended lighting unless i start working on that background. I'm sure it will tell me a lot more about the scene ambience and help me to set everything else. 

Now that my characters are in their places, i added some base colors to help me define my depth and some idea of what's in light and what's in shadow.

English:
Testing the shapes and values ​​of the characters with the background

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Español:
Probando las formas y los valores de los personajes con el fondo

After blocking in the colours I go back to polishing the lines and adding some additional details to make the city feel more ''alive'' and flesh out the characters.

Now that i had the characters line art out of the way, it was time to build my background. Im no pro in this matter, so i'll keep it simple. but not too much. hopefully I'll give a glow up on this in the coloring preocess.

I made the two soldiers lineart and repositioned them into a better composition. i also drew the missing body parts and details that weren't there due to repositioning. Some hard shadow was added to give a hint how to color and illuminate this illustration once the lineart is finished.

Monocerosim: it will be the first an artistic style that influences the entire planet at the same time.
A young student will have crafted in her garage (there is always a garage) a prototype of a H.H.W. - Harvesting Hertzian Waves. Her younger sister ended up putting a sticker of a unicorn on the prototype because it reminded her of a unicorn's horn. It ended up being presented to scientists around the world as a unicorn. Years have passed and all energy consumption has changed to something really clean, zero carbon. People all over the world have come to see this symbolism as a sign of hope. Everything was influenced by this technology, the arts, music, architecture, fashion. Monocerism is a way of life, which uses simplistic lines to achieve the same result "minimum consumption from A to B". Straight lines to avoid consumption as much as possible.

I liked the idea of ​​seeing little robots doing the picking work. I put together a mockup in Blender to be able to try another view and I chose something similar to the sketch.

I forgot to post in here, but here are some concepts of the robot body sections as well some layout ideas.