I just finished watching Stranger Things when made this. I thought of a parallel dimension where a 17 year old Eleven suffered serious injuries (because of the abhorrent experiments she was subject to), so they had to reconstruct part of her body. Also her powers had grown so much that she had to wear that helmet which contained great part of them. She thrived nonetheless!
I was very subtle with the hints she was Eleven... Bloody nose, the helmet has a worn out print that says '011' and the Eggo tank.
I think nobody ever saw those.
This was the sculpture I used:
And process:
At the end shifted a little the colors and applied filters and that was it.
City In A Canyon
This passed for a lot of iterations... first I tried painting it... solely 2D. But failed miserably.
This sketch I liked, but couldn't bring it to life.
Another failed attempt. Only 2D.
Then I made a 3D model of a canyon using height maps, which are images in black n white that represents levels of height. The more white, the taller the terrain is.
Alone the canyon looked like this:
And for the buildings I just made cubes, varied them in height, copy paste them a lot, rotate them etc...
Found a nice angle and shot. Then I paint over the rendered image. Process:
Some zooms.
I'll left the 3rd illustration I wanted to share for it's own post. Too much images. Perhaps for tomorrow.