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illustration day boys! and this is an extra special one! 10.5 hours from this post, at around 8:30pm utc (12:30pm pst, 3:30pm est, 7:30am aest), the rover “perseverance” will attempt to soft land on the surface of the planet mars. if it succeeds, this illustration will be a celebration for percy and nasa’s amazing accomplishment. if it fails, this will be more of a sad farewell. either way, i definitely need to come back and edit this description based on the outcome.
this is possibly the most i’ve ever procrastinated on an illustration. drawing complex messes of machinery is so hard and confusing, i just kept putting it off. pretty happy with the outcome though.
UPDATE: PERCY MADE IT! EVERYTHING IS OKAY IN THE WORLD!!!
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this turned out so cool, thomas!
and also quite cute and warm; great color choices.
converting utc to am/pm system though, that was… odd.
24 hour clocks are too complicated for my poor brain to understand. :|
well, percy landed successfully anyway, so no harm done :)
correction: everything is okay in the world of Mars now that Percy made it
Great work Thomas. One of the best illustration
Great draw! (and you nailed the machinery)