For our final we were allowed to design our own project. I decided to make an illustration using a character I had drawn a while ago. His design made me think of aircraft, so I ran with the idea of a zeppelin war with smaller drones fighting as well. I drew up some concepts to help me compose the piece.
I got suggestions that my character seemed to happy to be in a war, so I changed him into more of a soldier and gave him an actual uniform. I researched about the altitude that the WW1 zeppelins could ascend to and costumed my character appropriately by researching the equipment used by fighter pilots. I then created a few value comps.
After getting some feedback I went on to create some color comps.
I really liked how the red created the sense of an atmosphere in flames. I decided to bring it to a finish.
