Last Stand

Last Stand

When I started this I hadn’t planned it as a reimagining of a previous cover image, it was only when choosing the colour scheme before painting that some similarities became evident and it was then the drawing was consciously adapted to make this a more deliberate decision. Each of the three top figures were initially trials as a central character before I decided to use all three together.

What was a very conscious thing in my mind at the time was to very deliberately make every figure different from each other. At the time these characters had become very uniform with little variation and were almost bland compared to the potential described in the background, this image started to change that. They aren’t soldiers or extras from some generic sci fi game like halo but individual warriors with hand built bespoke armours for each one.

It seems like a process destined to repeat itself over time.

This painting hung in my house for many years and I loaned it for an exhibition and was never returned to me.

Gouache on board