The first of many more illustrations of this kind to come cracking out old school traditional media. I have every intention of continuing to produce the pimped out digital paints and illustrations everyone has become familiar with for Theos but I also intend to do more fast sketches like these. With freelance work frequently creating pauses in posting going quick and loose like this is a good way to go and I planned to do so anyhow

Here we have two rough concepts of Polemos settings and environments. Both are based on European settings so there is a basis in reality but the idea is that in the fractured future of Theos Ke Polemos there will be echoes of the past in the visual design and architectural styles. All too often sci-fi settings have this clean and sterile look. For Polemos I intended to approach it with a very old world picturesque European feel retrofitted with strange design flourishes and retro future, almost steampunk pastiches. There will often be a quaint European village feel to many of the Polemos garrison towns with clear indications of heavy industrialization, pipes coming from somewhere belching out who knows what.

Colored pencil and plain old 8 1/2x11 paper