Food Bloc Satellite

This is a satellite that the food bloc puts up late in the story, one that has onboard missiles to destroy the satellites of rival factions. I want to revise it with missiles mounted externally.

Here's the food bloc logo. I wanted it to be continuous tone and colorful to contrast with the other blocs. The bottom of the f stalk is supposed to be a shadow, I think to help that be clear I am going to make crop rows stripes on the field mounds.

Colored, Logo'd X2

Just wanted to update with a roughly colored and logo'd version of the Sikorsky.

Re: Fuel Bloc Logo
Here is the bloc logo you see on the fuselage and tail of the craft. The Fuel bloc is basically OPEC with Britain, and if the book were written now it would likely include Venezuela. I used red and green because a vast majority of middle-eastern countries use those colors on their flags. I like the tiny crescent moon in the top of the oil drop, very subtle nod to the Islamic.

Re: Craft Deco
As I mentioned, I wanted to go with a subtly camouflaged color scheme for the vehicle... something a country in a standoff would use for a non-military vehicle, but if hostilities were to break out it would serve well in that purpose. So I used some of the bloc colors (see the Fuel bloc logo, above).

The Planet Jem is stationery in relation to its sun, so the sky glows red-orange like a heat lamp. So it's a no-brainer to use red (which keys off the bloc logo color) for the undercarriage. The foliage on the planet is greenish, so I used that on the top. If I return to polish this up a bit, I might do some more broken color fields on the top. It's a fun challenge for a graphic person to design camouflage that doesn't look like camouflage, not to mention in a different color spectrum.

For some reason I thought if this happened now, a smart government would get have schoolchildren create artwork to add to the vehicle deco. It would be a gesture of goodwill and good morale for the colonists, but the hidden purpose would be to make a mottled arrangement of the art that would serve as camouflage if it became necessary. This may be an interesting story element to include, which would bed down some of the details that arise when you expand a novel into a visual medium. It bothers me when there is no nod to that in adaptations.

Art 101: Steal from the Rich

Art Lesson: When you don't have a model, use a famous actor to develop a character likeness. I'm using Daniel Day-Lewis here as a villain prototype. And I'll be the first to admit this is a bad picture. My chops are rock bottom right now.

Drawbacks:
- They can't be posed in any position, in any lighting, in any outfit, with any expression.
- Halfway through a successful project you may wish you had started with a model.
- Sometimes when you recognize the actor, it skews your impression of the character art.

Advantages:
+ No hassle of finding and booking the right model.
+ They have free, easily web-searchable images than can be traced, drawn, and cobbled together to create new character art.
+ You can find images of them at different periods of their life, and with their famous and non-famous relatives, which is useful material for character development