OM-2. (ORGANIC MECHANICS 2)

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Despite the work it is a follow up to, it’s main line of connection is simply that it’s a detached combination of random imagery associated with my art as well as focusing on a biomechanical character.

The work was mostly made to test out a technique I had been curious to try.

I had seen a comparison of uncoloured and coloured pages from Tsutomu Nihei’s manga Knights Of Sidonia. What caught my eye about them was how good the flat and uncoloured versions already looked.

You could easily call them finished and fit for their medium, this intrigued me a bit. What could I make by doing enough within just flat b/w to call something finished, only to then render on top of what I finished with lots of filters, paint and effects in order to achieve a new type of finished?

This, apparently. Which I am quite happy with.

Subject matter wise there’s nothing very deliberate, just whatever was swimming around my mind while not getting caught.

As for inspiration other than Nihei. Much of the concept artwork by Geof Darrow for The Matrix series had it’s influence.