{"id":2542,"date":"2026-03-16T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:53:09","slug":"book-illustration-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/2026\/2542","title":{"rendered":"Book Illustration: &#8220;Busted!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Illustration made for a science-fiction book in production. I designed all characters beforehand, and then constructed the composition to be a face-off between the guards (the White Ants, in all white), and the intruder (the other man). The illustration had to reflect the post-apocalyptic ambiance of the story, while also featuring more &#8220;uniform&#8221; characters as this specific scene is set inside of a fortress. Most attires and weapons are made of bones, flint, and other rudimentary elements, which I tried to use as much as possible here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:69px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1747\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-scaled.jpg 1747w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-1397x2048.jpg 1397w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-back-study-RGB-s-8x12.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1747px) 100vw, 1747px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final Illustration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2025\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2544\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7909771161028527;width:442px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-scaled.jpg 2025w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-768x971.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-1215x1536.jpg 1215w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-1620x2048.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-white-ant-spear-concept-9x12.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2025px) 100vw, 2025px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Preliminary Spear Exploration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration made for a science-fiction book in production. I designed all characters beforehand, and then constructed the composition to be a face-off between the guards (the White Ants, in all white), and the intruder (the other man). The illustration had to reflect the post-apocalyptic ambiance of the story, while also featuring more &#8220;uniform&#8221; characters as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"portfolio-page","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[37,22],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated","tag-main","tag-rotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}