Illustrations from a meta-sci-fi world. Soon to be a book!
One of my favourites. Maybe because of the graphic element of the Morse code like dashes superimposed over the architecture. I think the flying ships are stellar! A few posts earlier you can see the design development of one of them. I often put too many elements in these pictures. It’s hard for me to be satisfied with simplicity. The top ship probably doesn’t need to be there but it adds a nice counter movement to the two other ships.
Every once in awhile there is an Echelon piece that does not quite seem like a Twilight of Echelon image, so it must be a dream. I’m still wondering who or what is dreaming … and what does it all mean?
Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below.
This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.
The newest New Echelon piece. So new it may not even be finished. (I think it is) Usually I wait awhile after I finish a work just to give it and me some breathing space before others see it. There are usually little tweaks here and there to fix or change that it see through time. Hopefully this stands the test of time.
There is so much other work that I could have posted, and I will eventually, but this one may be the last work I make in a while. I’ve done about 30 new pieces over the summer. It’s time to get back to some other work that I have been neglecting.
This one is also in a more elongated horizontal format than all the other ones. All the old Echelon pieces are in a 3:4 ratio (the short side is 3/4 the length of the long side) and all the New Echelon pieces are in a 2:3 ratio, but this one here is about a 1:2 ratio.
One of my favourites. Maybe because of the graphic element of the Morse code like dashes superimposed over the architecture. I think the fly...
