Eon (Illustration) Entry: Damir G Martin

[AIR]

This is my first 2D challenge.
Over the past few challenges,I have seen what goes on here,and I liked it, now,I'l return to my roots,where I started in the first place as a kid,drawing and painting.
Seeya friends!:)

[makaron]

hallo Damir...

Put the flying hemlet on.. here we go!:bounce:
good luck and have fun...

[Zapan]

Heya Damir !!

Great to see you're in !!
You're gonna do 2d this time ? Can't wait to see that , would be awesome for sure !

Have fun and best wishes to you

cheers ,

-Zapan

[MichaelZHsee]

goodluck to ya mate~:)

[AIR]

makaron;mona,dearest GP in miles...hahah,glad to hear from you...
Im looking forward to next couple of weeks here...
seeya arround,cant wait to see first thumbs and ideas....great.. :)

[calisto]

WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!! DAMAAA!! yay so glad to see you here!! cant wait for you to start posting!! yaaay :D :D :D

[AIR]

UUPS.
I posted reply forgeting to re others,,,I wont do edit previous one,just write another,,

Zapan_as I said,Im so delighted to see and hear from all those pals from last challenges,,so cool.

MichaelZHsee,Hello mate,thx for droping by.I saw some of your work,and you are good,
I guess we gonna get together arround this challenge more often..

Seeya guys..of for some brainstorming, I never read this sci-fi books,so It is time to change that fact to. :)

[arte-i45]

Hi there Damir, it is great to see you in the challenge, good luck man!

Matt :)

[DaddyMack]

Whoah... another heavyweight enters the fray... I'm intensely curious wherer you'll go with this bro:curious:

May the force be with you

[ChristianHammer]

I love the vivid colors of your illustrations, pretty much full saturation in Mantis which is awesome by the way.

Good luck on the challenge!

[Gunilla]

Damir - good luck with this and let's have fun!

[nebezial]

im not gonna wish u luck, im just gonna rip your lungs out uf you dont finish:twisted:

[AIR]

Hi guuuys!
mmbenya_thx man,,you too.

DaddyMack_Daddy man is here,,whoooeeehhaa,may the forcebe with you to pal..btw,my bearded dragon is pretty big now,my little/big australian pest..:)

HammaJamma_thx for the uplifting comment on mantis,as for luck,,we all need it now,,the theme is big,and gonna need lots of imagination to turn this into nice illustration,,where to start for starters is what Im having difficulties :)

Gunilla__Elam,ma' man.Let's have fun,shall we :)

Thx for dropin by squad !!

[AIR]

I took some time exploring EON and things related to it...and this is what I cam up with.

quote
"Little or nothing was known about Jart anatomy, psychology, or history. Even less was known about how they had made their own reversed gate just after the Way’s creation, and before it had been opened and attached to Thistledown. The Jarts had begun a furious surprise offensive at the moment of the opening, killing thousands. Ever since the war had been waged unmercifully by both sides, using all the weapon available--including the physics of the Way itself. Those who had built it, and who accessed its many realities strung like beads, could also make large stretches of it inhospitable to anything living".

Legacy by Greg Bear, page 23-24


Jarts, far more even than humans, had superseded their physical origins; most had been consumed by their cybernetic structure.
But in all honesty, Olmy could see that had the Infinite Hexamon continued its development, humans might have ended up in a society not qualitively different from that of the Jarts.

Eternity by Greg Bear page 178.


The Jarts are mostly just a background in Eon,from what I understud,but nevertheless important part of book, their existance and actions are explored more in Eternity.

more of quotes!

"Humans, however, aren't the only ones interested in the Way. A hostile species of aliens known as the Jarts also uses the way for transport and for conquering other planets. At one time the Way was open for public use, but at the time the book starts, it has been closed since the nuclear war with Russia. The entire plot of the book revolves on the debate with the Hexamon, the global government, on whether or not they should reopen the Way."


In the end,It is quite obvious what I'm aiming here,I intend to make my vision of JART's.

I hope I didn't misunderstud any rules about this challenge,and since Jarts are important part of the whole story,,this is for me the logical way to go,,cos Im not as good as some other artist here in recreating wast cities and planets,I'l tryout creature and character design what I in the end really like to do.
I'l giv it a go with JART species,I found them very interesting and challenging to visualize,especially when there is no specific description of ones,which lit's my imagination.
Having a bit of freedom interpreting Jart's is atractive fact where one can let imagination wild,and not having many restrains.

I'l start updatin' as soon as I have some descent ideas!

SEEYA! :)

[AIR]

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This is my first vision of Jart anathomy.
I think of them as writer described them,
hostile aliens,and yet inteligent and
very technologicaly advanced race.
COLLECTORS.
They have lot of cyborg elements on them aswell.
I want to achieve look of dangerous and yet inteligent kinda race,So,not GORILLA dangerous type but more subtle,
Dont want them look like thugs,instead I want them to be big and timidating,
and behind all that physicall supiriority I wanna achieve smart and scientific,doctor kinda personality.
COLLECTORS(biologists).

I'l start adding the cyborg elements as soon I figure how exactly the could and should look,by my guess.

After getting the Jart looks,I'l get into image composition,and story behind it.
I must add,Hexamon's sound interesting to.

Anyway hope you like what I have!

[Rebeccak]

AIRz,

Best of luck to you! :)

[Korline]

very cool sketches,
have fun and good luck:)

[MichaelZHsee]

very interesting pre visualisation mate,keep it coming:)
i havent really been able to fit in time for the challenge~will start on it soon after i got my other commisioned project done

[AIR]

Rebeccak_Hi Rebbecka,Thx for dropin by my thread,,I'l need the luck defenetly,and for all,lots of imagination..

Korline_thx, hope to have fun in the end.

MichaelZHsee_Hi man,I also haven got handfull of time but I presisted last night and took a 2-3 hour investigation following diferent clues about eon and everything closely related and
allready came up with some conclusions.

I dont have the time to read the book now,but might do it in near future,cos it sounds interesting from what I came across trough my last night research..

Im waiting with anticipation for your and everyone others sketches and concepts...

seeya,thx all for adding to my thread..

[calisto]

very nice ideas i love it :D keep it up Dama!! yaay GO GO GO!!!:D :D

[arte-i45]

Hey Damir, sweet looking concept. It seems like the Jarts are one of the most interesting parts of the story to portray, very cool!

Matt :)

[ThierryS]

All my best to you man, will follow your progress! good luck:thumbsup:

[AIR]

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Im trying to dive into character,detail,and stuff that makes it look believable.
It is kinda hard to get something unseen and original,it really is.
But generally I like the way Im going at the time.

C&C's welcome'd

[living_for_cg]

Oww. so nice sketch:thumbsup:... it seems it will be one of the bests ::buttrock:

[SweD]

Hey hi Damir, happy to see that you're on of "us" and pretty good start for you ! love your character (as always :) ) I will follow this thread with interest ! Good luck and have fun. :thumbsup:

[TheFirstAngel]

awesome character design. great expressive eyes and kewl drawing/painting style :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[AIR]

ALI,thx for the most kind words,glad you liked my work,hope to keep it up to date as it get's more and more complexed.

Cyril,thx for dropin by.One of "us" means 2D I guess,I was allways one of you guys,as far 2D painting.
I'm trying to become one of 3D guys along 2D,but it is kinda difficult.Im happy to have you "on board".I wont be far of your page too.

Sacha,triple thumbs up,,wow.I better take my tablet and make up to that. :)

I really loved the orange city composition what you did by now,I call it orange,cos it is.. :)
I probabaly ouw you 3 thumbs for that so here goes.. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I have to try creating somekind city concept here to,,cos I never actually did it,my architectural drawng skills are not yet properly tested,I think I'd giv it a go soon.

Thx for the atention,im off for some snack,seeya.

[monsitj]

Hi ya ! glad to see you here! , and I smell a nice hard core creature modeling here , wait for your zbrush combo ! about this challenge I think I had hard time to read even example chapter in inspiration page ,because of language barrier , I just know from your thread that this fiction have alien! but the deadline are the longest one from the past challenge , can't wait to join the fun with you man! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[FrozZT]

Hey man! The last character concept looks really nice.. I feel sorry for them in the first, looks like alot of pain in the neck/back for them :P. Good luck!

[Nomad]

Those drawings looks promising, the face is cool and mysterious.Good luck and have fun :thumbsup:

[ukitel]

Nice concept, probably too human... but as you said it's very difficult to create something really unseen.

[AIR]

monsitj_Hi pal,,glad U droped by,I wait the moment you start sending in your cool art,
as for the language barrier,,I think art has no barriers and speeks all languages,and in the end you might get inspired from other people work,to make something of your own...

FrozZT_hahahaha,,,you got point,,hahahaha,looks kinda uncomfortable position,,,hahaa :)

Nomad_thx for nice comments...

ukitel_yeah,it is problematic,to fight your imagination limiations,,,

But at one point in first page,,there is a quote where it says,

"Jarts, far more even than humans, had superseded their physical origins; most had been consumed by their cybernetic structure.
But in all honesty, Olmy could see that had the Infinite Hexamon continued its development, humans might have ended up in a society not qualitively different from that of the Jarts"
Anyway,I interpret it that way,but non the less, dificult task ahead.
My guessing is,Il probabaly make some diference in design when I start adding detail...

thx for droping by guys. :)

[TR4d3r]

loking realy nice

[gardogg]

I like your sketch alot man.

[AIR]

TR4d3r_thx.

gardogg_man,,what's up,long time has passed and here we are again,having fun,,
glad u like it,,il start the more studious and detailed stuff tonight hopefully.

I wish I could have 2-3 weeks of free time just for this challenge,,away from all responsebilities...

[maksy]

Great work man!

Može malo po naši... Super rad! Baš mi je drago kad vidin da se netko iz RH natječe ;)
Navijam za te

[JamesMK]

But generally I like the way Im going at the time.
I concur, it could be an interesting Jart portrait. He really does look very intelligent, in that slightly nasty way.

[calisto]

woooooooow great update!! his portrait is amazig!!! way to go Dama!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[AIR]

maksy_hahaha, hvala stari, sta cekas,prikljuci se?!Pozdrav.


JamesMK;yes doctor,it is a good diagnose :)Glad to see you arround man..Il drop by my old 3d squad soon,to check things out..

calisto_Lindach,allways happy to see you here,I'l go check how are you doing,Is stivn deciding his theme,,what the heck..

I bought new tablet :D A4,,this sucker is huge comparing to old genius,,I mean huge..
TRUST makes very good tablets,and very afordable too....beats WACOM in price by far.

Anyway.Hope to get some updates soon.
Seeya squad,thx for droping by.

[Golpe]

So, are you going to work with the Jarts?hehe good luck and I´ll be watching to your progress!:thumbsup:

[OKMER]

Really like that last sketch!
Have loads of fun!!!

[mazalo]

nice alien :)

[Tonik]

Love the Portrait - your sketch style reminds of Giacometti's paintings which is a huge compliment.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=Giacometti&btnG=Search

[AIR]

Tonik_It seems I really have some things in common with giacometti.cool.thx mate

mazalo,,,kako napredujes?

OKMER_thx,Il try to have fun,,

GonzaloGolpe_yeap,JARTS it is...I'm just unable to sit down and start where I left of,,have lot of things to deal with at my job wright now..
But hop soon I'l be able to get back to it..

seeya guys,.

[TheFirstAngel]

lol, any update in sight? :p rofl, keep on going mate ^^

[warpy]

looking good, will visit later on too.

[nebezial]

woohoo ajmo smrade da vidimo te vanzemaljčine, možda se joinam kasnije i ja samo da ti napakostim :D iako treba to čudo i pročitati:sad:

[mazalo]

polako napredujem...fala na pitanju...noga mi je u gipsu pa i nemogu bas puno sidit :)..
ali ima vrimena ...

[MarkSnoswell]

hey - nice rendition of Olmy. It's so cool browsing the entries and seing the book come to life.

[nwiz25]

i must say! ur character sketches r astounding! cant wait to c the final result! :eek:

good luck to u dude! :thumbsup: cheeeeers! :beer:

[AIR]

TheFirstAngel__it would be a time to pick up where I left..wouldn't it.

warpy_hi man,,Linda did nasty job taking you trough phcs...
Glad to see you arround.:)

nebezial_you wouldnt dare,,or would you?

mazalo_vrijeme leti care..get to it.

MarkSnoswell_First of all,great pleasure,
second,this is not olmy,,Or am I missing some picture cos I havent read the book.
I know olmy tried to understand Jart while conecting to its mind memory or something like that.

nwiz25_thx for droping by,,I cant wait to make some progress aswell,i had lot to do lately in my firm.

Seeya soon,this time with update defenetly.

Bye.

[RPM]

i can feel the wisdom behind this face
i like the colors you used!

[warpy]

nice drawing there, but you gotta keep working man.. show me some new stuff!

[AIR]

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Im trying to understand,,how did the jart race digitalize everything arround.

What were they're methods.

This is what I have in mind when I first started thinking about it.

[nwiz25]

man! :eek: gotta love da colours! cant miss this one! :love: caught my attention straight on! :p

keep em comin mate!
cheers! :beer:

[tastatura]

man those 2 things digitalize or terorize :D haha looks like another interesting start man.
dobar i kreativen pocetok
waiting for updates :)

[daWinky]

Hey Damir,

huh, a very sinister looking scene and I'm not sure that I really want to know what they are doing there:D ...but the scene is a real eyecatcher, I like the wired colors and the lighting:thumbsup: ...will be interesting to see you follow this idea!

Cheers,

-sabrina

[AIR]

Hi guys.

Hi Sabrina,thx for positive reply.I LIKE.

tastatura_pozdrav kolega.HAhahaaa.
It is not another start,I still keep to jarts,Im just exploring the way the might look or function.

nwiz25_thx for dropin man,,,i'l sure try to keep em coming as much as I can.

seeya soon guys.

[TheFirstAngel]

"Show yourself, you bastard." Lights came on in a circle high overhead. A block of transparent crystal lay in the center of the octagonal chamber, occupied by a creature unlike anything Olmy had ever seen. It had a large, blue-gray vertical hammerlike head cut through with three horizontal clefts. Out of the uppermost cleft protruded shimmering white tubes tipped with black—eyes, perhaps—and out of the two lower, long black tufts of hair. Behind the oversized head—roughly the size and shape of a man's trunk—stretched a long, smooth green horizontal thorax. Bifurcated pale pink tentacles each as thick as Olmy's wrist and as long as his arm rose in a crest along the back. To the rear, behind the tentacles, was a bristle of short red barbs or feelers. A thick uplifted tail ended with a purple bugle flare. Perhaps strangest of all, seven pairs of lower "legs" or supports lined both sides of the body, not legs or limbs in the traditional sense but poles or long sharp-tipped spikes, each the color of obsidian, and just as shiny. Below the head, or perhaps emerging from the lower head itself, were two sets of many-jointed arms, one set tipped with appendages remarkably like hands, another with pink translucent palps.
Despite his years of experience dealing with non-humans, Olmy shuddered.
first thing i read about jart anatomy.

This Jart was a modified expediter. Expediters carried out orders passed through duty expediters, slightly different in mentality and form. An expediter might be thought of as a laborer, although their tasks were often non-physical; expediters might just as often be assigned thought processing as physical work. Duty expediters designed practical ways of carrying out policy. They decided who should be called up from a pool of expediters, who were stored, ...
detailed info bout social function and this specifical jart

hardly see the planet, there are so many of them.
All those being gathered, large creatures and small. Watch where the light goes.
It ties into a kind of knot...
Harvesting the lives. Gathering all the memories and patterns, all the sensations and recollections.

Who's doing this?
The Final Mind.

jartspeak. all happening in olmy's isolated implant where he downloaded a Jartpersonality.
- but jarts can project pictures i think to take different apearances. usingsort of a simular mind-transfertechnology like the mumans in axis city, they are given physical bodies for a certain task. they assimilate, collect, and dont try to damage if possible but take over whole worlds to store them. a main introduction of 1 physical for of them.

Jarts do not harm by will since killing or damaging in their point of view is wasting resources, but also, they do NOT tolerate resistance.
—the Jarts were the most formidable. Even captured, imprisoned, quiescent for centuries, somehow they could still kill.

about Jart efficience

A Jart individual's personal perspective seemed almost irrelevant; and there was substantial evidence that this Jart at least acted more as a remote sensor than as a self-willed individual.
—that the Jart was using sensory interpreters adapted from other species. The Jart contained many visual "brains," almost certainly patterned after those of non-Jart species.


Jart expeditors are sort of wearing like interpretation "keys" of different addapted species in them ... it is thinkable, since he wears multiple personalties, jarts can also get physical apearances best fittting for their particular mission

Great prism-shaped Jart flawships, moving with majestic slowness over a colonized segment of the Way...

about vehicles, they also have sort of bubbles they travel in, energy made spheres.

these are a few passages on jarts from eternity by greg bear, the second book of the eon epos. i thought they might give you a few points that are interresting or helpful for your own researches :)
keep on rocking mate :)
:beer::buttrock::wip:

[brrrhmmm]

Side by Side comparisons So that you know who is doing

what in the illustration category of the eon challenge only.

Classifier followed by artists.

: Strong/Beautiful Foreground Potraits with EON elements in the background.

Movie Posters theme.

Characters in dramatic poses.

Characters have detailed skin,muscle and skeletal structures.

Very Detailed Vehicle showed prominently

Damir G. Martin

Niels-Ullé Walther

Mathias Verhasselt(Forum Leader)

Tan Guang Yu

Simon Bull

Michael See(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Justin Kellis

Da Feng

Giuliano Brocani

Roderic Rodriguez

Marek Okon

Edward Cicka

Tuan Nguyen

Linda Luksic(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Linda Smith

William Leafe

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Marco Alejandro Castelan Morales

John Streider

Radu Bogdan Boeru

Tiberius Viris

Sacha angel diener

Niklas Frostgard

Michael van den bosch

sandra bott

michael dashow

nabil hamadi

alwyn talbot

timur kiryashov

damir g martin

Nathan L Bachelder

Daniel lu visi

Maurizio Manzieri

dale thomas

ego lataire

rune rask

guo jian

hugo araujo

: massive architectures,detailed cityscapes,plasma tubes,huge eon elements viewed in the distance in the style of grand space opera with miniscule,faceless,diminutive men ,women and all terrain machines reacting and responding to the environment.

Tian Yanbing

David Wolstenholme

Ales Marcik

Renee Bailey

Krystian Polak

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Tuan Nguyen

Jesse Speak

Timur Kiryashov

Mark Goldsworthy

Roman Bernhard Eppstein

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Tiberius Virius

remko troost

tolgahan gungor

torsten wolber

nathaniel west

ramy badie

bryce smith

martin nielsen

emrah elmasli

mauricio alvarado kladt

prabath wijayantha

maciej frolow

nilesh ambekar

constantinos krystallis

greg kaperski

adrian fekete

reinaldoromero

marcin j. nikiforuk

james nelms

maurizio manzieri

jarek sznytzer

Derek wilson

Nazirull Safry Paijo

Daniel justin bird

dale thomas

erik linden

rune rask

david freeman

ori arad

markus graf

ali jalali

raffy encarnacion

alex kelly

jennifer Kathleen Phillips

: air ,sea atmosperics featuring natural elements of islands,skies blend into a grand sense of scale.Includes Tree elements.Gaia oriented.Mountain views and Spectacular chamber vistas. Sky atmospherics

Tan Guang Yu

Ric Brehm

lei huang

adrian baluta

gonzalo golpe

gunilla elam

jonathan colvin

guo jian

oscar jostedt

brian Slayton

yann tisseron

yaroslav kravchenko

dusten s. sonnon

: party scene with the character interacting and gossiping

Parties gathered at gate opening

Radu Bogdan Boeru

nekomouse

Phillip Buchanan

: wonderful sense of humor even black humor and caricature

Torsten Wolber

per trystad

mark david

: action packed conflict with eon elements in the backdrop and lots of machines,ships,cities and soldiers.battlefield atmospherics

Andrzej Rudz

thierry schiel

paul hume

: entire cities,planetary bodies,asteroids,weather systems,gates,singularities,flawships and space vehicles in awe inspiring perspectives with large scale explosions.Ships have beautiful designs.Space/Aerospace Atmospherics.

Will Brown

Michael Burburan

Phillip Buchanan

Dmitri G Michniouk

Mark Alford

sacha angel

neville de souza

prabath wijayantha

greg kaperski

mona eriksson

attilla kurt

vladimir davidenko

paul b castillo

juha kamarainen

mauricio alvarado kladt

joel carlo

shawn andrews

matt benya

Derek Wilson

blaz porenta

oscar jostedt

pavel elagin

yann tisseron

blaz porenta

: detailed explanatory tutorials

sacha angel

matt benya

[AIR]

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I'm kinda pulled out of this challenge by diferent circumstances, not so happy about the fact that I might not finish my image,,atleest in time that is.
im using this prolongued deadline to try and make something.

And pointed to the wright direction from Sacha's side I'l try to make it more to by the book way.
If I dont change my mind in theese closing days again.
It is virtualy impossible to get started if you havent read the book, and I havent.

Anyway, this sketch shows Olmy entering the chamber with crystal, ocupied by Jart, as I understood it from short description I got.

Id try to visualize that moment,adding some of my elements in the way I saw it in my head reading the quote for the firs time.
We will se if I suceed.

[Ivy00]

I really like the sketch, to help you out a bit since you haven't read the book. Olmy has either no nose or no nostrils. Most of the parts in the book where it was mentioned he had no nostrils, some other part I wasn't sure if they meant no nostrils or no nose. Anyway hope that helps a bit. It looks like you have some fantastic illustration skills , I hope you get time to finish. Good luck, now get to work :thumbsup:

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