Biomechanical Colour Study | V0.082.008 | Sci-Fi Art Process

This session pushes the piece further through colour, texture, and small mechanical details.

What started as a loose collection of strange forms is becoming something more deliberate. Part machine, part organism, and somewhere between illustration and visual experiment.

I kept the process fairly intuitive, building one section at a time and letting the shapes determine where the colour went next.

The music ended up fitting the piece surprisingly well too: synthetic, repetitive, and slightly strange.

Vision: V0.082.008
Status: Work in progress

More work in progress from Visions by Ross W.

#SciFiArt #ArtProcess #Drawing #SketchbookArt #BiomechanicalArt #CyberpunkArt #MixedMediaArt

A Memory Beneath the Surface | Sci-Fi Art Process

A fish swims through the foreground of this piece, and while I was working on it I found myself thinking about something from my childhood.

I used to swim in a local lake that had enormous carp in it. As a kid, I was fascinated by how big they could get. Sometimes we would catch them, releasing them afterward.

I remember being amazed that a fish I associated with ponds and aquariums could grow into something so massive.

That memory started influencing the design.

On one side of the creature I built up overlapping scales, borrowing from that heavy, armoured appearance of a large fish. As I moved toward the underside, though, I let the design change direction. The scales give way to green serpent-like stripes, pushing the form away from anything completely natural.

I don't usually begin with a completely defined creature or story. Details develop as I work, and sometimes an old memory, image or association finds its way into the drawing without planning.

This session follows another stage in the piece as colour, pattern and detail continue bringing the creatures to life.

SPECTICAL — Vision Session 26: War, Power & Spectacle

SPECTICAL

Vision Session 26

This piece started with war, power and the machinery around influence.

Not just the violence itself, but the spectacle surrounding it — screens, symbols, personalities, approval, outrage and the constant competition for attention.

The more I worked on it, the more it became about perception.

We experience enormous parts of the world through images selected, cropped, repeated and presented to us by someone else. A screen can make something horrifying feel distant. It can turn power into entertainment. It can make influence look like consensus.

The bunny skull sits among all of it while the screens continue doing what screens do.

Displaying.

Competing.

Asking to be watched.

SPECTICAL is somewhere between spectacle, optical and skeptical.

I think that ambiguity suits it.

War. Vanity. Power. Influence.

And the machinery through which we watch it.

Familiar Faces, Unfamiliar Identity

This piece started as an experiment with some familiar faces in media lately.

Some are recognizable. Some are altered. None of them are real anymore. It emerged from combining features until something new looked back at me.

Something interesting.

I tend to think of a face as something fixed. This is me. This is you. This is that person.

But just slight changes in proportion, blending together familiar lines and removing clutter, can make identity quite unstable. A familiar face can become unfamiliar very quickly, while a completely contrived face can feel like someone you recognize.

This session also made me think about how much of identity exists in the face, and how much comes from what we already know, or think we know, about the person looking back at us.

At what point is a face not the face you see in the mirror anymore?

This is an area I want to keep exploring: somewhere between portraiture, distortion, technology and identity.

TechTocktopus WIP Part 6: The Clam Comes to Life

In Part 6 of TechTocktopus, I begin transforming the clam from black linework into something brighter, stranger and more alive.

This stage is focused on building up the giant mollusk with colour, one small section at a time. The contrast between its softer organic shapes and the mechanical TechTocktopus is starting to become much clearer.