Masks

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I produced Masks for a specific call from On Spec, the Canadian magazine of Speculative Fiction, for computer artists. I had produced very little computer art before (since my tools were poor and I could get much better results with traditional materials) but was eager to try. The illustration started as a line drawing scanned at low resolution (the best that I could manage at the time) which was then "coloured" in grey with the Neopaint graphics software.

I have long had an interest in Native Indian design, and robots and thought it would be interesting to meld the two. Of course, the title is "Masks" because there are two masks in the picture -- one the robot holds, the other the robot wears. This piece led to me getting the assignment to illustrate The Monk.