IF Word "Layer"

For the word "layer" i wanted to combine it with the step by step process we are doing in school right now. I thought it ties into the theme of the picture as i decided to focus on the "layers" of things that we never actually see. Meaning what we perceive as normal everyday life could hold much secrets to it that we would have never guessed. And so that is when I decided to start out with this brief sketch.



This is the first step in which i just went fast and drew out a sketch of what I wanted to do. As you can tell it is a cow that has had it's left side peeled back to show the skeleton underneath, reveals it's "layers" but what we see is not what we would imagine. Instead we see a mechanized side that we never thought would be there. This idea came from how much I love robots.



This is the second step in which I refined the lines and added a bit more detail to the picture, trying to give greater contrast between the normal cow side and it's mechanized counterpart.



And this where I added all the actual color and detail to the image. I kind of forgot to save the basic color outlook before I put the detail in and was too far ahead to go back and save the step. But here we see is the cow, finished in all it's detail, I tried my best to illustrate the robotic parts as best as I could, giving them a shine and a shadow. The same as the cow, I did a lot of different browns to give its hide a real depth to it.



This is the final image with the background added in, again playing to the two sides, where I made the normal cow side have a blue sky with clouds, acting all normal and grazing and such. And with the mecha side I made the red lines to represent a mechanical feel, kinda like a digital stream of information passing through the cow.