Title: The War of the Worlds Author: H. G . Wells Publisher: Only Classics Audience: Young Sci-Fi Readers Illustration for Chapter 5: The Heat Ray ”After the glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the cylinder in which they had come to the earth from their planet, a kind of fascination paralysed my actions. I remained standing knee-deep in the heather, staring at the mound that hid them. I was a battleground of fear and curiosity. … Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. I saw a lad trundling off the barrow of apples. And then, within thirty yards of the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag. …. Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a quantity of luminous greenish smoke came out of the pit in three distinct puffs, which drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air. This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal. At the same time a faint hissing sound became audible.”

Unfortunately I struggle with finding the time, but it was a lot of fun

My submission is from old pictures of my wife’s family, she’s the little one in the middle. Her mother always loved painting and art in general, so I put her in this floating portrait, while her father has always been passionate with photography, and took many black and white pictures of his family, so I represented him like that. This was done in Procreate over this weekend, never did anything such intensive before :)