4th idea on the table. A little deepsea creature encouters another. Scales are not that clear in this 1st rough sketch, but the litte water flea - also known as a copepod - is only about 4-5mm in size, while the deepsea fish in the background is somewhat bigger.
The female copepod appear to be about to become a snack for the deepsea fish but she has just released her sac of eggs ensuring a future generation. Spectacular on a very small level.
Although idea4 seems a little simple with so few elements in the picture, each of the animals will need a lot of tweaking as they both have lots of spines. I am also thinking about darkining the fish further and then giving it bioluminscent organs along the side which might help add some mood. The front “copepod” needs a lot of colour-tweaking to give it a transparent look. I’ll cheat and let it be slightly illuminated even though this is going on deep, deep down in the ocean 
Any crits/comments/booh’s are welcome
in terms of composition - what would be the better option here:
I originally had it in lower right corner, but that tilted the balance completely.
I’m primarily concerned whehter there will be too much overlap between the copepod in front and the fish in the back - or toot litte overlap perhaps?? :banghead:
Any suggestions welcome 
Hi Overchord:) I´d work the image of the abyssal fish. I´d make extremely large, going out of the depth and , perhaps, threatening a poor submarine. Or the same large fish threatening a ship underwater with people all over the place trying to survive (oh man, I´ll take the pill:curious: haha)
Good luck and work!
Zalo
Hi Gonzalo Golpe
Yeah that might actually be a neat idea, perhaps a slightly more side-view of the fish coming up from the deep with a view towards the surface where a ship is breaking up or something
It would flip the scale of this other sketch and make it a bit more spectacular. Perhaps and old sailing ship - and them seeing of th the mythical sea creatures that there were so many stories about. Thanks for your ideas - will definetly be doing another couple of sketches before moving any further 
A new idea - which i think is a bit more spectacular. A firing squad has dragged a man out in the forest to execute him, but recieves unexpected company. We don’t know if this will be the salvation of the man - but surely the odds have turned a bit!
o boy do I love this concept, I think you’ll need to work a little to make a spectacular, but idea is there, very real, good luck dude, I love it :buttrock:
My goodness you have been busy! You have so many ideas and they all seem great to me. I like the deep sea creatures idea the best because of their spectacular nature and their dynamic feel. I also like Gonzalo’s ideas too of adding a threatened submarine into the image.
@Korline - Thanks, I’m thinking that this is the most “spectacular” one as well. It will need a lot of work and character studies as my figure skills will really be put to the test with the firing squad pretty close up. There also needs to be a lot more done to the environment, but hey it’s not called the Challenge for nothing
@Lync - Thanks - yeah the number of concepts is also a reflection of how I’ve struggled with coming up with something that would fall properly into the spectacular theme.
I think i’m going with concept 5 rather than the deep-sea one. I tried out a couple of sketches with a submarine and the big deep-sea fish, but it didn’t really “click” - and I’ve seen quite a few deep sea themed sketches around now - not that it should deter anyone from amking another - but i struggled to make the deepsea scen more dynamic, but who knows - I may return to it if the other one falls apart
[left]Thanks for the comments and good luck to you both![/left]
Oh, I find this latest concept hilarious, I think you ought to have a dinosaur behind the bear and a jumbo jet behind the dinosaur and a meteor shower behind the jumbo jet and intergalactic despair behind the meteor shower…now that would be Spectacular!!!
Good luck!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
@Rebeccak - Rotfl - yup - there might be a slight scaling issue - but that would indeed be spectacular!
Good luck to you too!
Progressing with Concept 5 here.
Just examining some different stances for the firing squad. Considering that one of the soldiers should be lowering his rifles because he thought he heard something
Well this HAS to be my last idea - have to start moving on. But here is a rough sketch of the idea. A Human cannonball is flying high above the fairground when an eagle mistakes him for a quick snack. I haven’t sketched in the background yet, but it will be high above the ground where you can see a cloud or two and the whole fairground below.
Tried putting a few colours on. Basically everything needs a redraw and the ground needs a lot more detail. This was primarily to see if the ground level scale will work in terms of composition.
I’m contemplating letting the eagle actually have gotten hold of the human cannonball instead. This could possible let the guys sprawl a bit more in mid-air and add some dynamics to the picture? Any comments on that?
ok here comes some c&c… I think that all the ground staff (circus, etc) looks very good, it’s got the correct scale… The clouds are ok, but they are a bit like a line that crosses the pic horizontally…mmm…oh, and I don’t know if I could hold my arm up if I were a human cannonball…not to mention the finger… The eagle looks pretty good too, with all the feathers and all…
anyway, good luck with it! keep it up
@elmasfeo: Thanks. Yup the cannonball dude definetly needs a complete redraw. I think i’ll try and do a few sketchyes only of the eagle and the guy in various stages of entanglement
I asl oplan to add more houses etc on the ground. Effectively, the entire ground section should depict a small villag once it is complete.
The clouds are a very quick ugly version with rendered clouds and some deletion - they need a rework too.
Thanks for comments - good luck with your own work!
