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Bioshock Infiniteby *AlexGarner

Fan Art / Digital Art / Painting & Airbrushing / Games

I had such a fun experience with the Portal 2 fan piece, I decided to go further and paint a bigger one for the upcoming game BioShock Infinite. This game's set design and characters are amazingly well done, especially Elizabeth; she doesn't have that dead-eye lifeless look you seen in so many video game characters. To see what I'm talking about, do yourself a favor and check out the 15 minute gameplay trailer. The action is insane:

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Anyway, because I'm a big JC Leyendecker fan and the game takes place during his legendary Saturday Evening Post cover stint, I decided it would be cool to do a parody issue on the city of Columbia with the two main characters as the center. But after drawing my layout, I discovered that the smart folks at Irrational Games had ALREADY done this concept with a few Post parody Game Informer covers. But to me they didn't look particularly like Leyendecker's art, who had such a distinctive style, so I said screw it and just moved forward with my original design. Now, my version doesn't necessarily look like Leyendecker's stuff either (i.e. no where near as good), but I did try make it recognizable as such in the very least while still throwing in my personal stylistic touches.

A few notes: The was only one piece of online reference for the main protagonist, Booker, so this is more my personal interpretation of him. As for Elizabeth, I wanted the paranoia of Songbird's pursuit to resonate in her pose so that's why she's looking skyward. Columbia was done in all-gold because I wanted the city to look like an idealized El Dorado floating in the sky which also accomplished having the character colors pop.

As for how long this took? No idea. I nibbled away on it for like an hour a day in between work projects. Total blast to do. Thinking of my next piece now...

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~erechy 9 hours ago

This is gonna be in my room. I'm gonna print it.... 'cause GOD, is awesome.

~FlameRaven 1 day ago

This is great. You did a really good job capturing the style and look of these covers--although obviously the actual covers from 1912 wouldn't be in full color.

I actually work for the Post cleaning up and archiving the covers, so I have to say, it's a little weird seeing this style of fanart, but it's also really cool. Well done.

~The-Patchman 2 days ago

LOVE THIS!

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~KaeporaGaebora3 2 days ago

So professional! ^^

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~silveriatha 2 days ago Hobbyist General Artist

Looks really great, and I love the idea!

~Yetac 2 days ago Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Wow! Just wow! I've never been a fan of Bioshokc...needles terrify me, lol. But this looks freaking awesome! I'm now on the list of fandom.

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~Jean2Philippe 2 days ago New member Hobbyist General Artist

Very,very, great job!!!!!!

~Blackwoodforest 2 days ago Hobbyist Digital Artist

Looks very good! I love the style, it really fits into the games atmosphere (as far as I can decide this on trailers etc). Your protagonist looks heroic!

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~zaid1357 3 days ago

Dude You did a Darn good job , because before reading your comment , I immediately thought of JC Leyendecker / Norman Rockwell and was gonna ask you if he was one of your Inspirational artist. keep it up

~Strangeknowledge 3 days ago

Dude, this is amazing I mean simply amazing. I want you to draw me some day.

I hope you don't mind if I tumble this!

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