Today I've been doing some preliminary concept work for a new painting. I'm trying to set myself strict parameters to work in on this project. Most of what concept artists and production designers do, like in most jobs, is to solve problems. For instance, maybe the producers want a functioning monastery for some Buddhist monks, but they want it on the bottom of the ocean, so the concept artists need to figure out how that might work and how it might look. Today I'm doing an activity where I combine two unrelated things to make a cohesive design. I decided to combine a front end loader with a bumblebee. The idea was that there is some precious mineral, but it is in an environment that makes it so ordinary mining equipment cannot be used. The mining company needed excavation equipment that could fly into where they wanted to excavate and hover there while the machine worked, similar to how bumblebees will fly around flowers and hover slightly over them if needed to harvest pollen. So this is the idea I came up with. It's still in the rough sketch stage so I hope to have more up on it later today or tomorrow.
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