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Scientific American Project.

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I was recently approached by Scientific American magazine to create an editorial image for one of their articles. The article is about giving NASA the freedom to set it's own agenda, without politics interfering. Which basically meant I got to draw space stuff! So, I was in!
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
I was given a rough version of the article to work from, and I quickly drew up some super rough concepts, playing off the idea of NASA being shackled, or held back. Once they picked a direction, I started drawing in Adobe Illustrator. The final image was going be fairly small (3"x4"), so I wanted to keep it simple and graphic. 
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
Here's the final Astronaut concept with some colour, shape and scale variations.
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
nasa Space ILLUSTRATION magazine editorial astronaut vector
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Scientific American Project.

An editorial illustration I completed for the January 2017 issue of Scientific American. It accompanied an article about the need to "unshackle" Read More

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