Sam Fontaine Studios

Someone recently turned me on to a vintage science fiction book series called "The Culture" by Ian M Banks. The series takes place within an intergalactic, fully automated communist federation called "The Culture". Scarcity no longer exists so everything is run by robots, drone and AI while all organic life no longer has to work, die or suffer. In a world where a person can never move from a couch and still live to be 700 years old, the search for meaning in one's life become

I recently had a lot of commissions to work on all within a short amount of time and when they all reached completion I was faced with a terrible amount of artistic burn out and lack of inspiration that I found to be rather depressing. I went online and did some research on techniques that other professional artists use in order to combat burn out. What I found was an interesting meditative technique called "Automatic Drawing" which was used by one of my favorite artists of a

I don't have much to say about this piece, it was a nice little side project/distraction after working on the scifi long ship poster for so long. The concept was loosely inspired by an old episode of "Courage the Cowardly Dog". The main thing I learned after this piece is that, unless you are using color theory, its not a good idea to lay more than two colors because then the color gets kind of muddy and dirty looking, but I'm happy with how it turned out overall, a nice set