Yeah I know more line work

Well its been a while since I've been able to work on this. Of course once I sat down to look over it again, I found a lot of things that needed improvement. Mainly the ceiling and the rest of the background. The perspective was off and the ceiling was too high. I lower the ceiling to further confine the prisoners and enlarged the chandelier (with some small improvements). Along with this I also addd some more line weight for a better feeling of depth/atmosphere.

What I have left in terms of linework is the following:
-finish the brickwork for the prison and its cells
-inmates in several of the cells (with much more detail)
-add the cell bars again
-prison guards
-the robot boy/weapon's heart, which the Inventor is grabbing with his right hand
And then on to the coloring stage (I already have all of the gray scale values and the lightsources figured out in my head, which is why I'm moving onto color). Along with the fact that I'm only running out of more time until classes start up again.

Lately, I've been out of town on family business without my computer (so you know its serious). So I've been studying a lot of artists, particularly Norman Rockwell.

My deadline for this piece is August 24th, around the time that classes start up again. Its going to be a bit of a close call because I work from around 8-4 or 5 weekdays, but I think I can do it (fingers crossed). My big struggle has been working on this in spurts, instead of a whole day at a time, like say 8-4 or 4. Mostly, I just want a really good line drawing to work from with as few errors as possible. So I don't have to hide them or pull out hair trying to fix them too far in the process. Hopefully, if things go as planned, I will be starting the coloring this week around Tuesday or Thursday.

I'm really excited to see how this all turns out and its looking to be one of the better pieces I have yet to do. We'll see.

What I thought was the final line work at the time

Well this is the final linework and now its on to the adding the gray scale values. I'll probably add more detail to the background when I up res. the image in the coloring phase. Mostly to detail out the prisoners in each of their background cells. I'm kind of interested to see how big the final file is going to be.

In this update, I made a few more tweaks and additions. I fixed the Inventor's expression. He was too happy before, so I made him sad and added a few tears. Other than that, I added the brickwork for the prison walls, along with an overhead cage design. The brickwork for the walls was modeled after Frank Lloyd Wright's Circle Gallery. And the overhead cage design was modeled after a manhole cover, which fit the design and purpose that I was going for and some play with scale.

Also just to let you know, the open cell door on the far right is not faulty perspective. The prison walls kind of bow out, so the top row of cell doors tilt upwards, which is why the door looks a little odd. It will all make sense when its rendered out in case you don't see what I'm saying.

I'm hoping to have this done by the 14th, but its looking questionable because I am only doing this in my free time. So we'll see about that.