Phalanx

Here is another of the pieces I completed for the Alexander project for Pearson Educational Group. This piece needed to show a group of soldiers in a phalanx formation. It was a fun piece to do - I enjoyed researching the armor and I was rather pleased with how the composition turned out on this one.

You will also see that the final art changed a bit from the original thumbnail.

In the original thumbnail the phalanx is pushed back a bit, but the client thought it would be a good idea to pull the phalanx up a bit closer so we could see a bit more detail. Personally, I think it was a great decision - it added more depth to the piece as well as allowing me to show more detail in the character and armor in the foreground.

Naturally, you are the final judge, but I am pretty pleased with how this turned out.

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I've got a few more pieces in this series I'll be posting up, so I hope you are digging these!

Jer

About Jeremy

Jeremy grew up on a farm in Topeka, Kansas. He attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2004. He has been featured in ImagineFX fantasy art magazine and he was juried into Spectrum 15 in 2007.