This was a full page illustration that got away. In the sense that it is supposed to be an interior illustration. But the thumbnails that were more scaled to a interior didn’t suit the client. He wanted a sense of scale and wanted bad guys and good guys and pretty specific visuals on the good guys. This turned into full blown cover in its detail. Took me forever. I certainly lost money on this one.
But sometimes you have to take a bullet for the team. It is better to have a happy client than to finish something too fast.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/Space%20dock%20Firefight%20F%2072_zpsemwlbujz.jpg
I really love this image. I don’t really get why, i think its the very archaic and backwards futuristic style, it reminds me of shadowrun. It’s really cool.