This was the first ever piece of official Ultraman art I got to do. This is for Planet X Asia’s licensed Super Gudis vinyl figure from Ultraman: Towards the Future.
In the early days of Venusian exploration, the pioneers implemented the aid of the highly intelligent Venusian Occulo Bird for pathfinding and area surveying. Little did the human explorers know, the Occulo Bird is the root cause of the extinction of the only known sapient race on the planet (they were very small) as indicated by later archaeological discoveries.
One of my most beloved sub-genres is 50s Atomic Age Sci-Fi. I grew up on Them! and Beast from 20,000 Fathoms among others. For this piece I really wanted to tap into those 50s B-movie retrofuturistic sensibilities.
Approach hostile Kaiju in bipedal configuration to maximize intimidation factor. If unsuccessful, transition to octopedal configuration and engage with missile bombardment.
This is probably like the third time I’ve ever tried drawing a mech. There’s a lot I would tweak here and it feels a little heavy-handed for my liking but in the interest of time I’ll leave it at this. Anyway, I’ve always wanted to incorporate Crab Spiders into some sort of design as I grew up seeing them all the time so I thought maybe their cool skull-looking patterns could translate into something designed to intimidate enemies, in this case Kaiju.
Medulla; Good Knight of Dreams; Huntress of Nightmares; Wielder of the Crescent Dreamcaster
My goal for Inktober is to take the simple prompts provided and create either a character, creature, or prop based on that word alone. Let’s see if I can keep it up
“I want to leave this body to the humans of tomorrow.”
Been sitting on this for a while. Shin Ultraman touched me in a way that I don’t think any other film ever has or will and for that reason I poured every bit of passion I could muster into this piece. Seriously adore this film.