God's Country

Concept and character I've been sitting on. I'm really interested in southern gothic and wanted to apply that to a post-apocalyptic scenario

I followed John Sweeney's Digital Illustration Theory and Process tutorial as a guide for what I wanted to do here. I really enjoy the 3D base to photobash to overpaint workflow that John teaches in his tutorial, so I've been adopting that into my process. This piece took plenty of trial and error since the assets I gathered were from all different stock and photobash resources. When I had the idea, I knew I wanted it to be during an overcast day, and then midway through I wanted to try reworking it for a foggy/blue hour setting- which inevitably didn't work as I wasn't preparing my base and photobashing adjustments with that in mind. Overall, it was a lot of fun to challenge myself on this kind of design again. I can't wait to share more of this universe in the future :)