The Crystal Maze (Classic) - Futuristic Zone

And it's done! My first 'Crystal Maze' set image, based loosely on the Futuristic Zone. For the uninitiated among you, here are a few notes about the zone's inclusion in the series and the pic itself...

The Futuristic Zone - also called Future Zone or Future World - is set on an abandoned space station. Among the zones used in the show's original run, it's set apart from some of the others by featuring several corridors connecting to a central control room. Although some of the games used in the zone featured robots, the main recurring character in Future is the ship's computer. During Richard O'Brien's stint as host, the computer would swap between a friendly female voice and a snarky male voice between series, whereas for Edward Tudor-Pole's series, the computer was named 'Barbara' and was his love interest! The face in the monitor was not part of the original series (whether the new series has a face, or even a computer with a personality remains to be seen), but my own little addition based on the computer character. I figured the style looked appropriately '90s!

Although this took me quite a while to complete (it was indeed an on-and-off project at times), I am still committed to continuing this as a series of classic Crystal Maze zone scenes. I just hope what I learned here can help prepare me for later scenes.

Pencil sketch, cleaned up and coloured in Art Rage. 'Crystal babe' made in GIMP.

The Crystal Maze is copyright Channel 4