Dorok Monitor

Digital oils and airbrush using Painter X and a Wacom tablet. A flotilla of Dorok Monitors comes under fire from Torumekian corvettes. Nausicaa and the valley gunship arrive to meddle in some way.

This picture took quite a while. I am happy with the composition/layout, but I struggled with color choice, particularly with the lead monitor. It still feels cartoonish to me (wooden decks do not always equal simplistic brown coloring). This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn’t what I was aiming for. Part of the reason for doing a bunch of landscape speed paintings earlier was to improve my use of color, but I don’t know that I have demonstrated any of those lessons in this picture. That said, I think I effectively conveyed a sense of height/depth, and Nausicaa is just plain cool anyway.