This illustration featured here is a very rough digital sketch for a new painting. It was hammered out a few days ago as an emergent concept from the illustration we did for the latest cover of Scientific American. You gotta love logical progression… heh heh. We should be starting on it in the coming weeks. It presents a famous/well known portrait of Darwin as a sythesis of man and machine. There will probably be a few more itterations before I commit to canvas – as I mentioned previously, its a rough ‘proof of concept’ piece.

I was quite surprised that this concept had never been realized, and I scoured the net for several hours to ensure I was not duplicating another artists concept – and thankfully came up with nothing even close. It seems like an obvious solution given the growing emergence of transhumanist technologies and artificial inteligence augmentation, as an inevitable evolutionary step in human kind.

We really enjoy working out our paintings using digital technology and then taking it back into the analogue world for somthing a bit more permenant as an Oil on Canvas painting. It allows us to quickly realize a piece, and work out all of the elements like colour, composition - which lays down a solid foundation for creating a painting quickly and efficiently.

Thank you for looking and have a great week!

Kenn and Chris @ Mondolithic Studios