Carta Galaxia – Art Spotlight #4 – “Reach”
Another wonderful Claudia Cangini piece. This one went through a couple of revisions for scale, placement and such; ended up looking really awesome. I like how the shading elicits juuuuust enough of a double-take to catch what you missed the first time.
4 – Reach
View from inside a complicated machine/computer. In the center is a power core/battery held from above and below by cables. Cables, little lights, pipes, and circuits in the background. From the left, there is an opening, which is the only source of light. An arm is reaching into the machinery from that opening, reaching for the battery. They’re wearing a heavy-duty glove.
In the lower and upper right side, there are hints of an alien creature inside this tight space. A few obviously organic hints of the creatures, like long scythe claws or a spiky, segmented tail. It will mostly be in the dark, the focus will be on the power core and the hand coming from the left.
I half expected to see that hand grabbing for Jubilee, from the X-Men, but this is much worse!
Ever since seeing parts of the movie Arachnophobia as a child I’ve been wary of this situation. I’ll have to use that on my players!
Look out, big alien! That could be Thanos’ hand!
Awesome image! Claudia is bringing the thunder with these.
UW has cool, evocative art across the board, and it is neat to see it from screenplay to shot, as it were.