A re-imagining of a piece I did ten years ago, slowly working through the individual images and integrating new ideas. It's really interesting and at times difficult to resolve old images into new thoughts that are connected, even if tenuously, through the drawing.
Brooklyn 2004, the original piece. 4' x 6' paint on raw canvas
A good example of the detail I'm trying to add to the updated work
You can see a sketch of the original ten-year-old art behind the new drawing
One of the more difficult areas. In the original, this spaceship is drawn as an 8-bit sprite. Obviously I'd like to draw slightly more than twelve lines to depict a spaceship, and resolving that with the original intent to update and not add anything destructively new has been a challenge. In the end I think I'm going to decide to give myself less rules to follow.
The new art has a decidedly darker tone