Far Out There Looks At Christmas Lights – page 2
I don’t think I was specifically thinking about having the green-skinned characters in this picture when I zeroed in on a glowing green decoration. I’m pretty sure I was just thinking that this looked like a really “spacey” kind of light to show in a futuristic scifi comic.
Also, those who know where this is will also notice I’ve cheated a bit with the scale. Tabitha’s tall, but she’s not THAT tall. It’s always tricky to try and combine drawn elements with real photographs, because there’s always the risk or realizing too late that things don’t actually fit together the way you expected, and that’s when details start getting fudged in order to force it all to work.
I feel Tabitha and the kids need to be that large for the composition of the image to work. If you had scaled them down then they would have become secondary to the entirety – it’s the difference between “Tabitha and the kids (against a real-world Christmas backdrop)” and “a real-world Christmas scene (with Tabitha and the kids)”.
Does that make sense?
Oh yeah. There’s a lot of instances where I wound up having to crop off parts of the photo because the characters look too small otherwise.
Basically, this whole concept would have been a lot easier to do if I’d had some body doubles to stand in while taking the pictures, so that all this scale and composition stuff would have been right there in front of me while taking the photo… but that would require actual planning ahead on my part.
The simple explanation is that due to the accelerating physical expansion of the Universe’s spacetime over extremely long time intervals (purportedly, according to prevailing theories, as a result of unidentified pervasive ‘Dark Energy’) all objects, including people, in the Far Distant Future are actually significantly larger than they are now. Of course, when depicting the future, nobody notices, since everything is scaled up equally.
So this is their true actual size, relative to current-timeframe environments. Just imagine how HUGE Stilez really is!
There’s also the fact that Bridget & Alphonse are already victims of very inconsistent height as it is (since I habitually draw Tabitha holding them and Layla holding them the same way,despite there being such an obvious height difference between Layla and Tabitha)
The expanding Universe becomes very unstable in the far future, and heights can vary at times due to this instability. It also occasionally causes one’s eyepatch to randomly flip back and forth from one side to the other. 😉