"The Keeper of the Fields"
This piece contains a lot of subtle imagery that is represented in a metaphorical sense. The theme doubles both as an industrial revolution taking a look into ecology and the iconism of the scarecrow . As you look at the scene there is meant to be a feeling of solitude because although there is a main figure, he is an old rusty robot being "left behind" so to speak. In the background you see numerous space shuttles taking off into the bright blue sky heading for an unknown location, leaving their home behind and the robot who remains a prisoner of the fields he was once meant to watch over. This is also where the scarecrow symbolism comes into play since his power source has run low and no one was there to plug him in. The crow is mocking him by standing on his axe and squacking at the lifeless machine now represented as a scarecrow, and the keeper of the fields. The color scheme was selected to coincide with the feelings of solitude, where the fields are dying and leaves are falling. This was also done around the time of fall and halloween so I felt like incorporating some of the icons we represent with this time of season.
I wanted to keep the upper portion of the scene bright and clean, with round tipped space shuttles and a 50's kind of style. It delves into the future but in a historical sense during the revolution of space exploration and machines.
Some technical aspects of the image were left less rendered or defined than others to bring as much attention as I could to the relationship between the robot, crow and the city in the background.
This was done using Photoshop 7.0 and some minor tools using Painter 9.0
This was done entirely in Digital programs with no previous pencil sketch.
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