A Strange Awakening......

.....On the planet Mars. With process images :)

Sneak peek final Illustration from 'The Lock' book 2. - here i decided to move the dead astronaught, mainly for compositional reasons, grouping all the focal/story elements into a tight central region of the painting.

Mid way through the painting process - at this point the dead astronaught is still in the foreground.

This is my super loose photo comp - reference is essential, i like to go a bit further and make a very rough cut composite to use as my reference. I like to aviod actually using photos in my final images these years...

Rover in situ on Mars, with our intrepid (and somewhat confused) hero

The rover drawing worked up - i used modern day off road vehicles and NASA prototypes as reference during the design process.

My initial sketch (1 of 5) for this composition