CGAN Sept 2016 - Random - WIPs

Torch beams? Argggh! hate 'em hate em hate em! I've never done one even halfway successfully. Still it looks good so far Val.

Just as thought but if you wanted to include dolphins into your pic I think they could make pretty cool looking sarcophagi with their noses in the air and their streamlined bodies. Could be fun idea that they were the original space fairing species who eventually settled on earth - I dunno, but you can have that one gratis

I am going to enter this one - I promise! or at least start one if not complete - been spending to many hours slaying beer and drinking dragons recently.

Valence
You have me beat on antiques but mine is older than Charlotte’s by a year or two. Bought it in 2007, though it may have been a prior year model on sale. Did upgrade to Windows 7 in 2009 with Adobe CS4 in 2012.
Anyway great start on your image as always. If you want to add more words, then how about the two guardians being alligators and you could add some dolphin reliefs in the stone work.

Just for fun.
Haven't been active art wise for a while, but I saw this and two of the words came together right away (guess which ones ).
Don't know where to go with this and a third word. At least it gave me a new profile picture,

I love the little fish swimming inside the helmet!
It immediately makes me think of Douglas Adams and "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish!" It would be a perfect illustration/cover for that.
I hope you can fit in some more "words" in an equally surreal way.

And yes I was thinking of sneaking in some dolphin hieroglyphics in the background of my pic. But first things first: flashlight. And I agree with Atto, they're surprisingly tricky.

EDIT: You try and spell hieroglyphics right the first time around! I dare you.

Spent a very happy few hours throwing down a rough for this one - its good to be back.

I always loved Han Solo since I was a kid and I love the whole sci fi/western thing that developed as a basis for their smuggler characters so here's a complete rip off. I also thought a big green humanoid alligator may contrast nicely with our cowgirl smuggler.

As a second nod to the movie element here I thought I'd have a go at using thirds as a compositional tool on a 16:9 canvas.

Nice start Atto.
Adding some contrast variation to the background could help fix the balance that Charlotte mentioned. I'm liking the big alligator creature though.

Done some more on mine...


I'm still experimenting with the flashlight. I've put it on a seperate layer and painted in the background behind it so that I can easily play around with opacity and blend modes.It still looks too dominant at the moment but I'm gonna leave it alone until the end when I'll probably be adding some other lighting gimmicks and it should be easier to balance everything then. I need to try and fix that right side next.

Valence,
Thanks, that’s probably where that image was rattling around in my brain. Loved the series. So the answer is 42 or add a bunch of Vogon demolition ships to add a third word from the list. So here is a second shot at this.

Maybe the little fish are Babblefish, need to stick one in my ear to find out .

That's coming along well, Kodabble.
The colour and texture of the dolphin works nicely and I like the repeated shape of the the helmet and the planet.

And of course they're babel fish!
I don't know why I didn't make that connection too!