Who has read Isaac Asimov??? I just love his epic and monumental stories. Foundation, The Robots of Dawn, I Robot... all of them, milestones of my adolescence.
This image is my tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi writers of the XX Century.
"...and the artificial humanoid keeps scouting the massive abandoned metropolis for any sign of human life, like he was programmed to do. He of course, won't find any... and even though he has some precarious notion of this in his positronic brain; he will, nonetheless, keep perfoming his task until a human master change his programming... if this ever happen."
Additionally, I always wanted to create retro-futuristic buildings in Art Deco style; I just love it. I was just waiting for the right project to do it. I gave to the character a rugged metal texture; like he was cast in rough iron.
This was commissioned by an american record label to be a cover art for Ekotren.
I proposed 5 sketches for this job and they choose this one. I was told I had some freedom to intepret the working title as it was very vague, but the band and record label ultimatelly decided the image fitted better the concept without the character, which I completelly understand; it creates questions about the concept that would probably depart from the original title ("the dead of night"). Besides, the Art Deco structures I created for this were cool enough to catch the eye by themselves.
Each building took about 8 hours to paint. I recycled the starry sky from a previous work.
Made in 3 days in Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom Intuos3
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