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TRDL Tribute - Ghost Rider Redesign

Artist: Thom Chiaramonte (All)

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Title:	TRDL Tribute - Ghost Rider Redesign
Artist:	Thom Chiaramonte (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,403
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Added to Site:	10/14/2010
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Description

This illustration was done for the TRDL R3 Illustration Jam, the subject being Marvel�s Ghost Rider.

I was never a fan of this character. I like flaming skulls plenty, but like a lot of 70s Marvel, it�s so pop-culture heavy and therefore dated, it�s hard to accept it. Sure, Silver Surfer still flies around on a surfboard. But there�s something about a flaming demonic Hell�s Angel cipher that just never gets interesting to me. That said, I wanted to give it a try, so I did a TRDL Redesign, pushing forward to the year 3033.

In this design, the world of the 3000′s is one devoid of biological life. Artificial intelligence rules. Therefore, my Ghost Rider is a bot. I thought it was an interesting conceit that sentience, like the soul, is so little understood by science, that there�s no reason that if artificial intelligences could gain sentience, that they wouldn�t gain souls, and therefore have one to trade to Satan. And so, a demonic bot, we have here. To make him more dangerous in this world, I made his core out of a recovered, damaged Chinese nuclear pile. The head may be familiar to some of you. The wheels are actually fission tesseracts, held together by ungravity fields. He�s carrying a container on his belt that contains the DNA samples of each of the men that were once Ghost Riders before freed from their duties. The gun, posture, and framing elements will be familiar to anyone into manga in the 80s, I hope!
Please enjoy!

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You can find a larger version here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/images/trdltr_ghostrider3033_z.jpg

And really, you should see it BIG

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/blog/2010/08/08/trdl-tribute-ghost-rider/
Click through to read more about it and see process pics and the like, if you enjoy such behind-the-scenes business.
Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams!

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Options!

You can see this illustration here on the R3 Forum: http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=17488
Or here, as above, on the TRDL blog: http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/blog/2010/08/08/trdl-tribute-ghost-rider/
And you can see a larger view right off my TRDL Illustration Site, here: http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/images/trdltr_ghostrider3033_z.jpg
A choice for everyone!

Thanks for looking,
Thom
Third Rail Design Lab
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com

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Joined:	November 2005
Last Login:	June 2015
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Website:	http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com
Country:	UNITED STATES
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