DBed: That's a great concept. Great new costume that ties well into the name, a really cool update of Dusty, and you can really get a feel for the whole "world" from that one picture. FTW. (And I love the protest sign that is a barcode...)
@DBed: You always have great Remake/Remodels, but this one's really slamming it home. Not only have you managed to refurbish nearly every piece of information given on the subject, but in a compelling and appealing way. But the knockout is incorporating the atom design to read as insect wings. Sadly the bar code doesn't resize well. Did you use a barcode generator for it? Dare I ask what it says?
Jeez... So this was a pain in the ass because I have been wanting to make my drawings suitable for print, etc., if I ever want to do anything with them, and so this was a HUGE drawing that slowed my computer down to a crawl and took FOREVER to color (mostly waiting while stuff froze up...). So this is a cropped and resized version without some of the background gradients that I wanted (not enough memory to save???). I'm not sure about the engine lighting effects, so those will probably change before I do anything with it, and I may want to swap background colors, anyway...
Otherwise, I'm sort of happy with it. I just took out her entire reproductive system and replaced it with a rocket pack and stuff, so that's that...
Wicked thread. DBed - that's funny, graphic and stunningly rendered.
Seemed to me to read like a young teen action book. Average boy goes into the future to be a hero with a hot crime fighter. So here's Dusty as the hero:
@ MrSmite: Sadly barcodes don't seem to resize/deform well... maybe if I used a vector program instead.... anyway, that sign says "Whitechapel", though feel free to read it as anything anti-human/pro-robot that you wish!
Atoma uses her time bots to analyse the past, and documents it with her time pen on her time notepad, while travelling through time! Dammit I should be working now.
Crazy mix of ideas in here this week...cool work all around. I love these threads.
@ Yoav--Brilliant depth of focus effect and mischievious facial expression. I'm intrigued by his backstory what with the Maori tattoo and the metal plates in his head. @ DBed--The atomic symbol wings are a stroke of genius. @frequentcontributor-- That is disgustingly awesome. I had to laugh at the first line in your description: "So this was a pain in the ass." Sure looks painful! :) Really dig the stretchy stylized look--especially the arm/hands proportions. Awesome.
If whitechapel will indulge me, I'd like to tell you the story of the following images.
I recently discovered android jones' work and wanted to try out his groove. So I was playing with photochop brushes, using my own character for an upcoming zuda as a drawing-focus, and not really getting anywhere. and then i read this a few hours ago. she does wear EDF (electronic directional flight) control nylon-xenton wings which allow her to fly. somehow this gave me a direction... and I came up with what you're about to see.
So it kinda belongs in this thread, i reckon. If anyone disagrees i'll gladly move it to the artists' thread. Thanks.