Multiple stories and the mystery of the mountain.

 

No.213

Look, Up In The Sky - No.214

 

The Echelon pictures often starts with a spaceship. It’s what gets the juices going. Actually, come to think of it, it really starts with the sky and almost always the same sky, the same blend. 

Sometimes I’ll make a secondary ship that may or may not be part of the picture or it will be part of a future Echelon picture. As you will see, I used both of these ships for 214, although the first one is rather smallish and I would like to use it in a larger context in a future image. And the second ship as you will see has been altered slightly. It’s all dependant on what serves the image story.

In Search of New Echelon

 No.132  The end dissolves into the beginning. The journey continues. The search is forever.

Episodes 133, 134, 135

 

No.136 The Time Lens

 

No.137 The Device Divider

 

No.138 Virtual Controller

 

Episode No.139

 

There is always a balance. 

I’m always thinking about old spacey cartoon shows I watched and psychedelic pop art I saw when I was a kid…..and still ❤️ when I make these. And at times some of the old Warner Brother (looney tunes) cartoons as well for some extra spice. Did not have a color TV back then!

Elixir Machine

 

No.141 Elixir Machine

No.140 Video Game

I’m always thinking about old spacey cartoon shows I watched and psychedelic pop art I saw when I was a kid…..and still ❤️ when I make these. And at times some of the old Warner Brother (looney tunes) cartoons as well for some extra spice. Did not have a color TV back then!

The TWILIGHT of ECHELON book

 IS HERE!

Four Fantastic writers have independently explored the imagery of Echelon and have returned to tell their tales in Twilight of Echelon, published by At Bay Press.

The Pyramedic Spires and the Healing Visitor

 

No.143

No.142

ARRIVAL of Echelon

Coming to or going from.

 No.146

No.145

No.144

No.147 - Big City

 

As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple procedure of overlapping shapes and gradations and graphic elements that I find appealing. They often turn out quite abstract. 

Below is an offshoot image using craft, not necessarily an Echelon image, just something further abstracted.

148 Echelon

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.

Wonder Stories

 

No.150

No.149

Echelon Dream - 152

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?

No153 Ahead of Time

 

Back in Time - No.154

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.

No.155

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.

In The Coming Days Ahead.

 If I only waited a couple more days it would have been one whole year since my last post here. Geez. What have I been doing? Lots of things, but mostly comics…abstract comics. I have not stopped creating Echelon images! The cycle of Echelon has come around.  I think they are getting better and better. Yes the book will be coming out, now in November, and sadly I do not seem to be involved in the design mechanism for the mighty publisher. Everything is different now; size, format, design…. I can only hope for the best. In the meantime I have many many new Echelon works I hope to share in the coming days. There is nothing that can control my output of these beauties. Enjoy!