In my drawing class for high school, the prompt we were given for a project was "beyond the norm." I had the idea of playing with the conflict of man vs machine for Master Chief, mainly in the fourth installment of Halo. Including planning, this project probably took me around 40 hours to make, all with graphite and colored pencils, and I'm extremely happy with how it turned out (though there are things I wish I did better). (Also I feel like the picture doesn't do it justice, as the contrast, especially for the graphite, isn't that accurate. Oh well.)
Yeah, and the colored pencil work was so meticulous, but my only motivation was how it would turn out in the end Thanks!