This one was a commission. It had to be a vertical US letter half-page size. That kind of layout, at least for me, is kind of tricky regarding composition because of the tall proportion.
The piece had to depict a launch event of a big ass spaceship in a city. I started with sketches for giving me some ideas for composition. One sketch was horizontal:
And other two vertical, how it should be.
The one of the left camera is on a rocket-like spaceship, from there we have a view of the city underneath.
The one on the right camera is at some midpoint of the city height, and we see the spaceship leaving.
I liked better the horizontal one (the first one) because you can see a little of the curvature of the planet, and it let you see the scale of the big ass spaceship. Seemed to me more cinematic and interesting.
So I had to adapt it to the vertical layout. So much of the planet had to be cropped. It ended like this:
Here is a sort of process animated gif of the painting.
Final piece looks like this:
Full Res is almost double in size.
Here are a couple of zoomz:
Spaceship
Breaking its way through the atmosphere, like a newborn breaking its way through the placenta... haha.
Ground
In my head this spaceship was so big, itself was like a city, and took a long time to be constructed, so much that an entire nation was constructed around it, housing most of the crew and all the man power that was needed to develop it. Construction lasted decades. Generations after generations were bound to the spaceship, the one that would make space exploration the only life purpose for all the people on board. It was so big that it actually left a hole in the city after launch. It was the heart of the nation after all. May all the explorer's souls find peace and fulfillment out there in the most remote stars and planets, in the veryheart of the cosmos.
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