Happy to say that I have completed a new piece of concept art for Mesh. Hope you enjoy this new scifi digital painting that I call ‘Chilling at the Station.’
Part of the story takes place in virtual reality, and the main school VR construct is a Victorian station that branches off into many cyberpunk-y areas. I decided to visualize that for this piece of concept art and show you some of the steps I took in this Imgur album.
I use photo-realism by using stock photos as my guides to paint the scene with photoshop and a digital tablet. In this case here, I started with a kid who looks like my protagonist and a Victorian building – in this case it’s the British Museum of Natural History in London.
Gradually, I paint over the scene – I’m a writer, not an artist – until I have a competely-drawn digital painting of the overall structure. I can’t use the complete picture because that wouldn’t fit with the story. In this case here, the Station is a massive place – almost endless in some areas – and the room above is too small to capture that.
I hope you enjoyed walking through the process of me painting the pictures in my brain. Let me know if you have any questions!