Rough Character Sketch

One of the main character's friends. Looks a little too old, but I'll work on it.

Another one of the cast of characters in my Mars story. I've been bouncing around the idea of creating an ethnicity that's unique to the people born and raised on Mars. Since they have lived their wholes lives in the Martian climate, and eaten foods grown from Marian soil, perhaps that could have some effect on their outward appearance. So I'm trying something along the lines of dark reddish skin, and light hair. Maybe it'll work, maybe not. Anyways, names and descriptions will come later...

Working on the cast of characters. I dunno, I worry that the look leans too far towards anime.

BG Style Test

Over the past couple days I've been working on painting a pretty large background to establish the type of setting that the Martian Revolution story takes place in. I decided to take a break from that effort last night to do a smaller, simpler color study. I think what I got done is a decent start. I plan to take what I've figured out here and apply it to the rest of the backgrounds.

Early Photosynthesizer Design

Originally I pictured the Atmosphere Photosynthesizers as these massive stationary machines. But this has been done already in a lot of Sci Fi movies, shows, books, etc, and this design ended up reminding me too much of the Atmosphere Processors in "Aliens" (Which is an awesome movie.) But it wasn't the kind of thing I'm going for in my "Martian Revolution" concept. Its too big, and too complex. Early colonists couldn't build something on this scale, and shipping the components for it from Earth would be too difficult to even bother. So I decided to go with the floating, blimp like Photosynthesizers in this design: Atmosphere Photosynthesizer These self sustaining machines are mostly made up of large inflatable housings that suspend the atmosphere converting machinery in the air. They are easily deployed and are mass produced on Mars.

And Another...

Another Character Style Test

The main characters of the Martian Revolution story are going to be kids who grew up in the colonies, so I thought I would take another crack a style test. Still working out the final style, but I'm slowly getting somewhere.