C is for Commando! This week's illustration references the scene where Arnold reveals he lied.
Commando is the movie from all jokes about action movies. And like all great action movies lives on momentum and charisma. Stellar performance as always from Arnold. This marks the beginning of the transition of his persona from hard case to ‘dad that likes a bit of exercise’.
The first time I came across this film was just before my family's big move to the countryside. We had gone to visit a family in a town of 20 or less, in the middle of nowhere, to look at their house. Looking through their VHS's I saw Commando. It was just Arnold on a black background with the tagline “let’s party”. It was rated R though, so I wasn't allowed to watch it’’’
This one turned out alright, but I managed to turn it into a slug for all my normal reasons. The first mistake I made was letting the idea for it sit in my head for too long. As is always the case, when it came to sketch it, it was a mess of contradictions. I kept editing the composition until the end where I covered it with text -_-’’’ Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I was able to try a few technical things, like blending materials, scattering plant assets and editing bought assets. The porsche is from Zifir3d on blendermarket, the plants are from a free pack by maxtree.org and the city lights are a photo by bennitalent on unsplash.