So the final piece is done!
And its SO different than I originally planned it to be, with so many characters and ideas all on the page - including the army rushing in the background there.
It came to me last night that when finished, the background itself would look horrible bland and uninteresting, so I thought initially to add a few mushroom clouds - but with Adobe being the lover of virtual memory, that became a non-starter, especially with the size of the piece originally
So that's when I came up with the idea of the idea of the negative image created by a bright flash explosion, one that turns everything from being fully coloured and alive, into a sort of negative of reality. a traditional picture of the devastation brought on by a Nuclear explosion.
This has been a fun month full of doing artwork, while Facebook puts me on a ban list so I can't talk with my friends and the entire project had to basically be restarted because Illustrator just decides to poop the bed every now and then.
Anyway, this is my submission for the contest and I hope whoever comes across it likes it. Because it took my forever to get it done!
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