hi Nick, thanks,
hopefully you have not subscribed in vain - I hope I will have enough time to finish this piece, or - a few more wip stages at least … 
hi Johan, thanks (neither have I, not even browsing CGTalk forums recently … )
I am glad you dropped in, and glad you like folowing the process
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… and another one -
a quick concept paintover (Painter over ZBrush model);
it is still very rough image - it was only very roughly “rendered” for Painter (just a low/screencapture actually, with only a few quick paintover strokes);
I decided to model the scientist character head in ZBrush, since I wanted to have some more variants to choose from (different angles etc.) in the end, while setting up the final composition;
for now - I only chose one of possible angles of the head, not paying attention to anything else (color, detailing, cleaning the lines etc.), just to see how it works (or - how it may work with the composition - so far) …
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I still love this concept. The apparatus you have designed there looks great, looking forward to updates
i really like this, just love the idea and everytime i’m amazed by your very nice color schemes! Good luck!
ooooh! 
cool concept!!! like it! there’s much freedom to add fun steampunk stuff since it is a lab! not to mention medusa’s head! goodluck!
hi, after a while here is another little update:
I finally completed the laboratory concept /image layout;
after roughly suggesting/deciding for the possible scientist?s body/pose, and after putting all previously designed elements together (very roughly) behind him, I finally set the whole scene - and - at the same time - I finally completed the rough concept stage of the process;
since now I can start refining the image, cleaning the shapes, adding and refining all (still) missing details etc.
its a lot of work though
(and little time left),
I still have to
will try to make it on time,
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James - thanks, glad to hear that;
hope you´ll like the rest of the laboratory too, after I (hopefully) complete it one day
hi Cindy! glad to see you here, thanks!
hi Ronald, thanks!
… yes, exactly, that is why I like this topic so much too, great freedom to play around with all those possible (and also “impossible”) gadgets, apparats, and other thinkable stuff
from Wikipedia:
"… While … some sculptors (and vase-painters) of the fifth century began to envisage her as a being beautiful woman, … in Greek mythology Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (M?dousa) was a gorgon, a chthonic female monster … "
I tried to follow original Greek mythology, so - in my version Medusa?s appearance will be a “women-monster”.
There will be only the lower part of her face visible in my scene (and the snakes, of course), but I roughly defined her face as a whole, anyway … (modelled a quick model in ZBrush again, then did a quick paintover in Painter, just to get a simple “guide” for my illustration; in the final version there is going to be a bit more details added to her face in Painter)
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little update: little last rough concept tweaks - I finally included all the main elements, incl. Medusa?s head, into the scene;
next steps: lineart and then final “2D/Painter rendering”; decided for a bit stylized “illustration-look” in the end;
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A few examples of brass shading/coloring tests;
there won?t be such an intensive red in the final image; optimizing this particular little testing image for the limited 150KB low-res output pushed the color palette a little bit too much to the red here; the colors used for final illustration are going to be less saturated.
Done in Painter; first example prepared in grayscale, then colorized, the two little examples below painted by picking colors straight away.
Still not sure about the black outlines, I?ll see.
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… forgot to post yesterday;
hope the animation will show,
(low *gif quality, 300% zoom)
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thanks, Nick,
actually, I was trying to upload also a close-up image
and a little "making-of demo - but I was not succesfull so far,
so I´ll try again, later …
(btw - I am also looking forward to hopefully see/do the final render, lol,
a lot of work to do, but only a few days left … 
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glad you dropped in,
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… I´ve been trying a few times today again to post another image as a regular “milestone/wip entry”, but I have not been succesful so far,
so I am posting it straight away here instead …
just a closeup image of the previous post -
a Painter/brass rendering test,
plus a little “making-of” demo/animation
(sorry for bad *gif quality, I had to reduce the file size/color palette here pretty dramatically);
about the process: started with a rough sketch (chose one of previously designed elements of mine, used as a guide); then - smudged/blended the first sketch with blenders to get rid of the rough “sketchy” look, fixed the shape, added shadows, lights, smoothed the surface, added details, texture, colors …
the brass apparats/elements are going to be pretty small within the final image, so I won´t have to add any further detailing, I guess, I only plan to remove the guiding lines and to add a few subtle outlines here and there, to emphasize/separate the shapes, where needed …
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