This week's theme was "In Space," which is an awkward fit for a typical (fictional) supernatural horror franchise. But I made it work. I guess the Last Resort series has jumped the shark enough that its old villain, the oracle of some dark god, has become the protagonist. Kind of like Godzilla, but for eldritch horror instead of kaiju. So the nameless oracle is fighting space monsters in space, with dark magic. Neat. I'm not sure what the monster is, exactly; it's clearly from the "add a bunch of tentacles" school of Lovecraftian horror, and it seems to be protecting what looks like a cross between a cloud of smoke and a clump of frog eggs. Maybe the space monster is making baby space monsters that will hatch and start humanity or something.
Torn on whether I should have tried to include more celestial bodies in frame (planets, maybe an asteroid or two), or whether I should have left the Moon out. Or maybe both.
I didn't have any composition in mind going in, unlike the first two posters, which really hindered my progress. Random fact: I threw out this draft initially and went for something different. More complicated, set on a space station of some kind. Spent days on it (or, well, hours divided up into small chunks and scattered across days). Then, when I was done, I decided it was too busy and didn't look enough like my other Last Resort posters, so I cleaned up this one instead. Could have saved myself a lot of effort if I'd just stuck with my original idea. |