Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Scott Clark

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Scott Clark is entered in the “Steampunk Myths and Legends” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Concept / pre-visualization: Atropos scribble

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[Edit] Entry Withdrawn.

I looked at the calendar, and with work and the holidays, it seems like a waste of time for me to try and do a 3d entry. There’s just not enough time to get an epic quality 3d piece done. I hope for the next challenge they give those of us with day jobs the full amount of time, or it might as well just be the “2D Painting” category.

Best of Luck to everyone else…maybe I’ll be able to get in right at the start of the next one!

Well, it took me a week to finish up a Job, but now Im ready for the Challenge.

  As wont as I am to make some big steam powered robot or engine of war with Victorian styling, that ground seems pretty well covered here, so Im going to try something different.

Petitioning the Fates

  My project will be about The Fates of the Greek Mythos (The Moirae), the three witches who were the weavers of the destinies and lifespans of gods and men, and who even Zeus feared.  I was originally going to try and do something with Arachne, but I had trouble establishing coherent narrative idea with a single image and that subject.  But it did get my mind thinking along certain lines.
  
  
  Ive decided to impose spidery imagery on the Fates to make them not weavers in the conventional sense, but weavers of the great "web" of fate".  And in keeping with the Challenge theme, not a web of silken strands, but a great web of chains.  The chain imagery not only works well for the steampunk angle, but lends it self to the idea of the relative immutability of destiny in the Greek Mythos. 


 They all wear a sort  of mechanical spider like apparatus for negotiating and manipulating these strands, and Im shooting for a more clockwork magi-punk (Think Bubo from Clash of the Titans), than the stereotypical victorian styled steam furnace.
  
  
  Im going to *try* and model everything.  Since theyre giving the image entries the short end of the stick on the deadline again, I doubt Ill be able to pull off a fully 3d rendered piece (without quitting my job at any rate), but I might be able to do something Zbrushy.  Ill take stock in a couple weeks, and if Im not well ahead of schedule, Ill switch to a more conventional "painting", which is not my strong suit, but better that than nothing.
  
  
  IM still working on a layout Im happy with, but I have a few scribbles I can put up.
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One of the most difficult components of my image will be showing an actual “thread of life”…a silvery chain interwoven between other chain strands, and sort of forming simple silhouettes of the various stages of a man’s (presumably the petitioner) life as it goes along.

This is just me working these ideas out, so I can try to figure out the best way to progress the chain unbroken. Ideally, I’d like to figure out a way for the strand to strike more through the center of the silhouettes.

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Please forgive my sketch here…its been a long time since Ive used my “drawing” muscles.

Anyway, this was a quick sketch of roughly the idea I had for one of the Fates. This is Atropos, she who cuts the thread of life with her dreaded shears.

I expect the design to evolve quite a bit in the modeling phase.

I hope to have a Layout I dont hate over the weekend.

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Cool design, only if it was up to me I would make the legs a bit longer …
Hope 2 C some WIP modeling soon …

Cheerz

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Thanks Mid Point. I agree, I would eventually like much longer/beefier legs on the “spider” apparatus for all the figs. One of the problems though, as I struggle to layout this complicated scene, is that with all the “web” strands , and 3 prominent figures with the leg protrusions, it makes for a lot of tangents and other detail that forces me to shrink the figures in order to get the “idea” of them across…so I have to find a happy medium.

Im really looking forward to the modeling too, but I’ve learned the hard way that if I dont really work out up front what the image is going to be doing ahead of time with big complicated scenes, it makes big trouble for me down the road.

Thanks for the early feedback!

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Hi Spyndel!Great idea, shouldl be huge fun doing it!IS she goind to be in action, like “live cut your life thread action”?
HAve fun & Good luck:thumbsup:

#8

beautifull drawings looking forward to more

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Yeah, don’t be so modest, that’s a real nice sketch! :slight_smile: Looking forward to seeing where you will take this, keep us posted and best of luck!

#10

This is going to be an amazing image! I will be following it, look forward to seeing it at the end.

#11

Hey nice character design buddy. looking forward to ur thread.:thumbsup:

#12

Hey nice character design buddy. looking forward to ur thread.:thumbsup:

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