HELLO FOLKS!

This is my entry to the ART EXPLOSION WEEK contest hosted by @juliakponsford.

This week's theme is Sci-Fi.

Science Fiction

I love this topic, especially futuristic stories based on robots and technology, as well as human evolution and that's why my drawing this week is a CYBORG.

Let's study science fiction a bit.

Science fiction is the denomination of one of the genres derived from fiction literature, along with fantasy literature and horror fiction.

Born as a genre in the 1920s (although there are recognizable works much earlier) and subsequently exported to other media, such as film, history and television, enjoyed a great boom in the second half of the twentieth century due to popular interest about the future that awoke the spectacular scientific and technological progress achieved during all these years.

It is a speculative genre that relates possible events developed in an imaginary framework, whose verisimilitude is narratively based in the fields of the physical, natural and social sciences. The action can revolve around a wide range of possibilities (interstellar travel, conquest of space, consequences of a terrestrial or cosmic hecatomb, human evolution due to mutations, evolution of robots, virtual reality, the existence of alien civilizations, etc. ). This action can take place in a past, present or future time, or, even, in alternative times alien to the known reality, and have as a scene physical spaces (real or imaginary, terrestrial or extraterrestrial) or the internal space of the mind.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

What is a Cyborg?

Is a creature composed of organic elements and cybernetic devices generally with the intention of improving the capabilities of the organic part through the use of technology.

The term was coined by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline in 1960 to refer to an improved human being who could survive in extraterrestrial environments. They came to that idea after thinking about the need for a more intimate relationship between humans and machines at a time when the new frontier represented by the exploration of space was beginning to be drawn. Designer of physiological instrumentation and data processing systems, Clynes was the scientific director of the Dynamic Simulation Laboratory at Rockland State Hospital in New York. The term appeared for the first time in printed form, 5 months earlier, when The New York Times reported on the psychophysiological aspects of the Space Flight Symposium where Clynes and Kline first presented their paper: "A cyborg is essentially a man-machine system in which the control mechanisms of the human portion are modified externally by medications or regulatory devices so that the being can live in a different environment than normal. "

Summing up a bit what is Science Fiction and the Cyborgs, to not extend talking about it, I will explain the process of my illustration .:

THE PROCESS:

For this work I used a lot of graphite pencils, as well as charcoal.
The use of the graphite pencil is because it gives me better effect and tones to simulate the metals. In the darkest or blackest parts use the charcoal pencil, to give a matte volume and avoid the shine.

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To make the helmet use HB, 2B and 4B pencils. To highlight the dark parts use the 4B. In the blackest parts use Charcoal pencil, degrade using a diffuser. (This is the small station of Drawing and the way in which I illustrate).

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Illustrate the human part, or the face with a HB pencil, did not need to do many effects so it was simple, soften with the brush and followed with the mechanical effects of the helmet. Highlight the dark parts with the Charcoal Pencil and use the texture to fill with the brush and blend.

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To illustrate the mechanical parts is what takes more time, since to give the effects of the metal and to give him light is something complicated.
Continue using the texture of the charcoal to shade, use in all areas where two metals meet, the moldable eraser.
Right on the edge where they meet I made a line with the eraser, this gives the brightness and effect necessary to simulate a metal, also the reflections.

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From here, I will place the larger images so that they can appreciate the details.:

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In the same way, this was to highlight the dark with the charcoal, use the brush to give volume, use the HB to get the right shade of gray, blur and make light with the eraser.

And the final Art is this:

Science Fiction is a genre where the imagination has no limits.
Thanks to the technological evolution that we live, it is not very difficult to imagine that in the not too distant future we can see these technological marvels, or be part of them prolonging our lives becoming CYBORGS ...

Thanks for visiting my Post. I hope you liked this illustration as much as I did.

I want to thank @juliakponsford for this great contest!

Until the next time!