Coloring challenge

I got off from college this week, reaaaaaaally smooth stuff that I'm on happy easter holidays so I have time to dedicate towards concept art! I'm running in like two schools, I have the art and design college that I go by day, which I quite like, and then I have the online lectures for concept art... it's all worth it in the end.

Anyway, I took the line work from the past week and took it to a color stage, meanwhile I heard a lot of constructive comments towards the work I posted and decided to weight them all into a healthy balance... I haven't started diving into digital coloring a lot and I'm focusing more on perspective drawing here, but I still liked to have this work presentable enough, so I taught myself a few things about digital painting before I finish the perspective drawing course.

Lucky me, I can't skateboard while the rain comes around the day, so I find dedication to devote to concept art. :)

WIP: Post apocalyptic Happyland

This is a work assignment I've been doing for building perspective scenes, a Post Apocalyptic Happyland :D I think I'm done with the line work and will take this to a final illustration.

Storytelling: 

Before that, a little bit about what I did and the storytelling involved: This is a city that lives in a joyful anarchy, I was inspired by Ska and Reggae Punk music, Cuba, Portugal, Spain, Brazil and latin countries in general, also researched documentaries about gypsy cultures in India and I learned a LOT of mind numbing cool things! A Gnomon Workshop from Syd Mead told me: re-invent the clichés... this is my attempt at that, I always keep that quote with me while working.

The process:

I started off with rough pencil and paper sketches with basic perspective involved still, but not worrying about it so much that it got in the way of form language. With this, I also did a lot of thumbnail sketching, to get my mind away from the clichés. I learned that the horizon line and placement of the camera helped a lot to sell the two main buildings in front of the piece, as you can look up and down on them easily! They also do well at ignoring the roofs just enough to focus the story on the building facades, however, I decided it'd be cool to have houses on top of houses and that also did work out good, (I think?) I learned a lot about perspective in Photoshop.

Here is a moodboard of references too: