Starting with a pencil drawing, I then painted it in photoshop using textures and clone tool.Photo references were used for the hand and sea.Evidenceand FaerieGoodmother stock for the waves.Good luck to all of my fellow competitors.
I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect. I moved on a hundred years, and there was the same red sun-a little larger, a little duller-the same dying sea, the same chill air, and the same crowd of earthy crustacea creeping in and out among the green weed and the red rocks. And in the westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.From The Time Machine by H. G. WellsThe background is painting, smudging, clone painting from the red rocks source, and some texture overlays. Most of the time machine was drawn in Photoshop, with textures/details added from photos. The Time Traveller and monster crabs are photos with various painted elements.An extremely quick sketch I did to get the basic composition downQuick progression to show illustrative process for background and machineSourcesSources courtesy of stock.xchng, Falln-Stock, Grant MacDonald, calumscotland, Clintus McGintus, donielle, Cryptonaut, bdjsb7, atteSmythe, CJ Sorg, star5112, DanLoaTmba, sara~, Ian Koh, mogmismo, Harry-Harms, Elsie esq., Ed Yourdon, Leo Reynolds
A Hunter Morlock, from H. G. Wells Time Machine, harvesting his meal.SourcesPlease comment.
Captain Nemo playing his organ. The captain and the the window frames,wall and part of the organ and lamps are painted. Also used a lot of clone tool painting...and found some great sources.
"Bilbo is too shocked by the sight to warn the dwarves, steal some mutton, or kill the trolls (even if he could). He stands in the shadows and then tries to pick William's pocket. William snaps around and grabs the hobbit. The other two trolls want to eat Bilbo, but William argues that he wouldn't be more than a mouthful.They ask him if he has any companions and he says yes, but thinking better, then says no. He begs, 'please don't cook me, kind sirs!...I'll cook beautifully for you!'"This is the initial Sketch Look at the Textures/Images used Thx Lindowyn Stock for the man image.