Finally I added the words like you'd see in a VR game menu.

Added light and shading and some Sci-fi effects.

Added the flat colors. I prefer a darker, moody color pallete.

I polished my sketch and decided on some professions for the little girl. Digital artist being front and centre because its THU!

Still a lot of things to do, but I like the overall direction. Now, painting time!

I sketched over my 3D Image

But I wasn't really feeling the composition. So I decided to go in a different route.

Maintaining the same original idea I thought I could do a simpler composition since I was running out of time at this point.

I thought I'd show just one kid in a VR set looking at her own future and trying to choose what to be when she grows up, again showing that with the help of technology anything is possible.

I decided to compose my image as a character selection menu in a game. 

At first I thought of showing some kids in a VR set and then the image transitions into a new unexplored world where they are transformed into different characters. This would be to show that the kids are our future and with G technolody anything is possible.

I used Unreal to do a quick composition of my ideas and the I took some screenshots and did some photobash in photoshop.

When I think about 5G I think about the future, technology and virtual reality. So I decided to combine all of those in an image.

In this stage of the detailing, I considered the aspects that reflect nature, the beauty of the care the technology may deliver, and the planet's sustainability. The forms are more defined, the composition is more balanced, and everything is more organized.

Hi 

I'm happy that I can participate in the contest, and this time finished on time:) 

Hello! Second WIP image. I wanted to keep the idea very simple and I found it developed super fluidly - I took the sketch straight into colour in ProCreate.

Hey guys! 

First wip imageThe theme of this challenge really hit home with me from he beginning but I wanted to approach it from a different perspective. This is a super rough sketch of the idea.

We are right in the middle of a global climate crisis and the choices we make every day today will have an impact on the future of our planet. Waiting for breakthrough technologies is great, but we all have the power to be the Agents of Change - appreciating the beauty of our Mother Earth and doing our part to help preserve it.

The change begins with us. Let's unite before it's too late.

Ok, let's get the party (or rehersal) started. We had the stage here, the musicians are going to connect and go live in a bit, everyone is at their country, tunning their instruments, warming up and preparing the setlists. In the meantime, let's add some textures, colors and wait for them with a the nicest layout posible!

It took me forever to paint the kelp honestly this is as good as it's gonna get. next is adding lighting and shadows. maybe add some fish.

i think i will settle on this one...im giving it 8 hours 

The idea is to show natue and technology existing together, so i chose blue, green and earth colors as my color palette. 

Blue representing the new change, new technology and earthly colors representing that things are still grounded and we are not forgeting the roots.

I wanted things to be clear and have more information in the pieace to look at when the viewer spends more time with the pieace, the line art process is very theraputic too.

The new generation of creative people created new ways to create sculpture. ways that are more sustainable. 

Did some more changes to the last final thubnail, i wanted to put more characters in the frame and show a bit more of the village and what the people do, so here is the compostion i came up with.

Hello, I have just submitted my picture! Thought I'd share my 3D workspace (in Blender) as well, sometimes it feels even more theatrical and fun than the final picture I manage to wring out of it.

You can see it is VERY tailored to the drawn composition... things stop working / break apart / go missing with even the slightest camera shift. But that's the most fun bit in composing based on a 2D-drawing ;)

Feels done.

Changes and decisions since the first draft: I changed the perspective from very birds's-eye to more of an elevational axonometric - so that I can better demonstrate architecture and design instead of trying to impress the eye with perspectival tricks. The same reasoning goes behind putting the foreground section very close to the camera to show two scales in the same shot. 

The hot-air balloons in the end really helped demonstrating this scale shift... with one of them up close and all the rest far in the distance.

Not so sure if the 'story' comes out well, but this is essentially about a kid remotely fixing a broken balloon whilst a friend flies over to relay the news (which the protagonist obvisously already knows because - they've got hyper-speed connection... tada.) 

The few trails of smoke on the hot-air balloon and the vehicle also help a bit to tie the composition together and to suggest some sort of movement in guiding the viewer around the picture, hopefully.

Anyway thank you for following, it's been a great imaginative journey. xd

After getting an idea of the composition and colours, I started sketching and compositing the elements for the final image.