I watched the Silo S3 finale & -penultimate episodes last Friday, and I loved these episodes so much, I’m still thinking about them days later! Because of that incredible finale (and penultimate episode), I felt very inspired to draw something from the show. I ended up starting with a few sketch thumbnails while figuring out what from the show I most wanted to draw, and the above is the result of this experimentation. This one isn’t a finished painting and is more of another “sketch-painting,” as I drew it mainly for practice, and without a developed idea from the start.
Because of that, this is one of those paintings that I changed my mind a lot while figuring out what I wanted to draw. I was mainly deciding whether I wanted this to be more line-focused or painting-focused. This caused the process to be quite messy, and less straightforward – which I think is represented better by a process gif instead of stills for this one:
I didn’t have a developed idea from the start, which is also what makes this more of “sketchpainting” instead of what I would consider a more finished or polished work. It’s also why the background composition is a bit lazy – I had Ashley Zukerman, the actor for Daniel Keene, in mind while drawing this – but this is one of those recall + construction practices, so I was drawing this from memory & imagination, and not from reference. (At least, for the figure – I did look up reference for the Pez dispenser!) The painting probably doesn’t resemble the actor very closely, which is alright because that isn’t the purpose of this study for me – it’s to see what the result would be if I tried drawing from memory, to practice my form and construction skills!
But because I was drawing from memory and imagination, I figured the character from the show might not be the most recognizable. I wanted to add some narrative representations from the show – the helix and center pillar of the silo are inspired by the show’s intro (which I love very much!). And, the Pez dispenser is an important object from the show. I hoped adding these would help convey who the character is, and which series he is from.
The beginning thumbnails were sketching out a few ideas soon after finishing the season 3 finale last Friday. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to draw at first – I’ve loved the show for a few years at this point, but I’ve never tried drawing fanart for it before now. I started by sketching the tree (which I read may be a kudzu plant?) from the show, and then ended up sketching the character from the S3 finale which most struck me. More in the rest of the post:
Spoilers for Silo S3 – including the finale – below.
There are going to be spoilers in this section!
Don’t continue reading if you haven’t watched the S3 finale!
If you’re still here, I’m presuming you’ve watched the finale. If not, I warned you!
The character I ended up sketch was none other than Troy/Daniel! I haven’t read the books, and I did not see this twist coming at all. The penultimate episode of S3 had left me feeling the tragedy of Daniel and Helen’s final parting. To go from this ending to the start of Troy – what a brilliant narrative choice. The contrast between the sweet and wholesome “Daniel” with the cold, almost unnaturally robotic “Troy” was such a delight to see from Ashley Zukerman. This actor was apparently in Succession, but I didn’t recall his role while watching Silo – I’ve been enjoying his performance, but man, what a ramp-up with his portrayal of Troy. Wonderful casting and acting performance.
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