"Post-Apocalyptic Girl" Cover Illustration for Xabiroi Magazine!

So here it is, as I announced to you guys on Facebook and Twitter, the new "Post-Apocalyptic Girl" cover illustration for Xabiroi Magazine's October issue. A little more subtle on the Post-Apocalyptic theme perhaps, but just as full of emotion for me, as the one I did a year ago. In fact, this image is a tribute to my beloved muse and personal heroine, Emma Nuttall: A heart of gold, and the most beautiful cluster of atoms in existence. I even got some pointers on color theory from her that I used on this piece. Who knew a de-saturated red could be a blue? Perceptual wizardry to me.

Wait, where was I? Oh right, the cover. Since I am admittedly more of a draftsman than a painter, I really wanted to push myself here, so in addition to picking a subtle 3 point perspective and trying to make the character's pose interesting, I tired to force myself to tackle rendering tricky BG elements, reflections and materials. I definitely feel that I understood some concepts and techniques a little better by doing this, and I hope the final result is also more exciting and appealing because of it. Bellow are a few detail shots where you might be able to appreciate some of the concepts that I was trying to implement (reflected colors, rim lights, transparency, different materials, wetness vs dryness, etc...)

For those of you who are interested in the process of creating an image like this, I am currently editing the recording of the entire process and will be making a timelapse video of it, as well as a commentated video/tutorial further down the road. If you'd like to make sure you don't miss either of those, make sure to follow DEISIGN on Facebook, on Twitter, or right here through Blogger/Google. You can also buy a high quality print of this image in a variety of formats over here.

Bellow is the image as it will be published in October by Xabiroi Magazine. I hope you enjoyed this image/post and if you really did, you are more than welcome to share it!
Thank you!

Final Cover by Xabiroi Magazine.

 Post Apocalyptic Girl Cover Illustration by DEISIGN is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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