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Starfire-Productions — Week 03: 'Caprica' Cylon
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I've set myself an 'Alphabet Challenge' for 2018.
Each week I will move through the alphabet and make a piece of art related to whichever letter I have reached. It might be a tv show, film, character or ship - whatever pops into my head.
So, week 3 and we have 'C' and the first thing that sprang to mind was 'Cylons'. Always loved those robots! Something else tying in that begins with C is Caprica so I settled on doing the first Cybernetic Life-form Node prototype from the show.
We've had some great guesses on the WIPs for this one. While most people guessed the 'mechanical' aspect to it no-one guessed what it was. Ideas from Warhammer mechs to Transformers and my personal favourite, a mechanical elephant
Done with polychromos pencils and built up in layers, utilising my pressure application and layering techniques, the picture consists of 16 colours.
The Cylon's eye was done with white, light flesh, dark red and deep red.
The Cylon's head was done with white, dark sepia, brown ochre (dark), black, cold grey 3, warm grey 4 and warm grey 6.
The Cylon's body was done with white, dark sepia, nougat, brown ochre (dark), terracotta, black, cold grey 3, green gold, warm grey 4, warm grey 5 and warm grey 6.
The smoke was done with ivory, dark sepia, raw umber, brown ochre (dark) and warm grey 4
The background was done with cold grey 6.
Completion time: 12 hours 41 minutes
Original image: Caprica episode 01
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Comments: 74
I stopped doing comic style work years ago when I focused on realism.
I do it occasionally for fun but I enjoy working with the polys too much>
I'll stick to writing instead
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I get you
with the experience I got from comic stuff I stuck to metal art works. Its fun to do but takes time.
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Well, every artist finds the medium that works best for them - just go for it
Haven't done any metal work / metal art since secondary school.
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I love the details in the mecha though I'm not familiar with the character. Nice work!
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Wow really nice work! So, you used color pencils on this one- excellent !!!
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Thanks
I love detail work.
This is the prototype Cylon from Caprica, the prequel to Battelstar Galactica.
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Oh! This is what it was! If I had known you'd already posted this, I wouldn't have commented on the other post... lol. But it seems my guess would have been nearly correct! I love this! You are so good at art! I can't wait to see what is next!
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Lol - no worries
Yeah, everyone went with mechanical but no-one got the Cylon.
Thanks, that's very kind.
Well, we're on week 7 now and the WIP for that is already posted
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I have got to say, I would have never guessed cylon. I had no reference for it. 
You're welcome!
Awesome! I will have to give it a look-see!
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Well, folks either know it or not and I try not to make it too easy
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I like that! I can always appreciate a good challenge! Takes the stagnant boredom out of slower days.
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Indeed. Always fun to mix things up and share the challenge
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Thank you, it's really appreciated
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Amazing and spooky! The Cylons from the old series used to scare me. This one is even scarier.
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I loved the classic Centurions but these were a bridge between those and the updated ones we saw in the new BSG.
While nothing beats the classic chrome Cylons, the prototype was an awesome design.
I have a figure of one in my collection
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Arrrh. Beware the Tinnies! Great job as always. Only saw a few episodes as it was on too late at night. Certainly different from the originals of the 1970's.
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Toasters with attitude
thanks.
The classic Centurions were awesome but it was nice to see the Caprica version as a bridge between the two designs.
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I didn't see Caparica...did the red light rove back and forth? please tell me it did!!!
Enjoying your work- thanks for sharing it.
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Thanks
Well plants and robots are two completely different categories!
Yes, the sensor eye did move back and forth and it made that sound, too.
You're welcome and thanks for your support.
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Thanks Louise
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Ur very welcome. ☺
I love the realism on the metal parts.
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Metal is always fun to do.
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Lol it hard for me, when colouring. Painting metal is easy. ☺
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It's all practice. We just get used to using different mediums
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Yep. ☺ after I've completed all of my painting reference pics. I will move back on to colouring.
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i would have never got that, i never got into battlestar galactica XD
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Well, try your luck next week with project 04
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Wonderful Cylon. I love these shows both Galactica and Caprica.
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Thanks
I love all incarnations of them, including the comic ones, but there was something about this one that just looked awesome.
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is that from the new Battlestar Galactica? Or the old one?
because I never watched the old one
it looks like it's from the new one *goes to look it up*
Oh! it's from the Caprica series!
I never saw that one
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Well, it does say that it's from Caprica in the description - lol
Yes, Caprica is the prequel to the rebooted BSG. It was a good show and the creation of the original Cylons, or Cybernetic Lifeform Nodes, was a nice idea.
I will probably go back and do a classic Cylon Centurion at some point, it will give me an excuse to use the metallic pencils.
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I thought Caprica was the name of an episode of Battlestar Galactica at first
but I looked it up and saw that it was a series
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Well, BSG ran for 4 years with a couple of movies and web series.
Caprica went back to before the fall and started to fill in the back story. Only ran for 1 year which was a shame.
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only 1 season 
it was pretty much the same with Firefly too (only 1 season)
I really liked Firefly
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Most of the issue was because that 1 series was broken up and shown over 2 years.
The pilot movie, a year before the first 8 episodes and then another year before the last 9.
Totally killed the show's momentum and hastened it's end.
Firefly rocks!
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fox seemed to do their best to get the show poor ratings as well
my younger brother tried to watch it on television while we had it (we don't have cable anymore), and fox kept changing the time at which the show was aired and they showed episodes out of order
it was a circus
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Well, at least we got one series of it.
If it had come out now it probably would've done well on Netflix.
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that's true
I didn't like that they killed off Wash though
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And Shepherd Book
Still, it makes for a more realistic story if only some of the heroes make it.
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him too
and I guess you're right
after all, they were fighting reavers
reavers are pretty bad in that universe
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Still, there's a couple of graphic novels that fill in the gaps.
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