A strange sketch of a sculpture of a droid at the centre of a robot city with a few mechanoids looking on.
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Skrimshaw page1
I have decided to start a comic book. It'll be about a colony of robots that have lost contact with human space and who inhabit a planet where humans are a dim memory. What happened to the humans. That's the idea anyway.
It is available on a portfolio website to buy as well, who knows, perhaps it will be a project that I will be able to keep up with. I hope so.
It is available on a portfolio website to buy as well, who knows, perhaps it will be a project that I will be able to keep up with. I hope so.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
A Robot Bad Guy
This is a sketch for a robot bad guy to be used in my
Tarazet story,if I ever manage to devote the time to
it to get it off the ground. In the mean time it is a rich
source of inspiration for illustrations.
This robot is influenced by the classic designs in the
UK comic 2000ad including deadlock. I love the
idea of inanimate machines being able to interact
with spirits and control magic, just like a human
caharacter in a story, and so although Hamerstien
was my favourite character in ABC Warriors,
Deadlock has also
left a lasting impression.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Giant Space Crocodile
Space Crocodino is enormous, stupendously huge, so impossibly big that it is hard to imagine, take the biggest thing you can think of....etc. Of course I'm paraphrasing Douglas Adams here but Space Crocodino really is big. It is thought that he was a lap dog to some impossibly gigantic and powerful forgotten elder race of monsters. He, or she, or it (nobody is quite sure) is as enthusiastic and playful as a lapdog, which kind of bears out this theory. Of course enthusiasm and playfulness is not always a good thing if you are so large that an accidental twitch of the tail can level an entire city block.
Despite it's huge size, Space Crocodino does play chess rather well. It is thought that the strange creature did not learn to play in the conventional way, but had the rules of the game imprinted on to it's tiny walnut like brains as an amusement for it's long dead masters. This of course brings up certain paradoxes in relation to the true origins of the game of chess. It might strike some as strange to label such an enormous hideous brute as a cute character, but you have to kind of look beyond the asteroid-scarred, radioactive meters thick armoured hide to the playful puppy soul beneath.
Although, barring unfortunate accidents of the aforementioned city block-levelling kind, Space Crocodino is a good soul and gets on well with almost everyone. It does regularly argue with and get into altercations with Giroid. This is quite unfortunate in itself as Giroid is a giant robot and the little disagreements between the two can result in an entire City being reduced to rubble. As usual you can get the t-shirt by clicking the image below.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Tarazet
Today I started writing a science fiction story called Tarazet, mostly as an excuse to create sf art. Like the space ship above. Here are the notes I created today. Morvanwin see previous post will probably be the main character.
A traveller reaches for a metal flower. They grow and die all along the route. He is a scientist
The star paths were built by an unknown civilisation. There are many legends.
A star path ranger is with the group she is guiding. The wolves have been angered and are on their trail. She makes a camp
Make sure to stick to the travel portals, and away from the rebalancing portals.
Sebastian is lost in the sluices in an accident. His boat trapped against a massive spar is ripped in two.
Morvanwin is a star path wise woman in the paths of Tarazet, a kind of ranger or guide.
Sebastian's parents hire her to give them the grand tour. She tells them they are very unlikely to see Sebastian again.
Sebastian is taken through space and time arriving in a labyrinth city populated by the ghosts of a previous civilisation of human like shadows, He feels unwell immediately and starts to fade. He takes the fancy of one of the shadows who finds a way to keep him alive in the lab.
Climax in great hall of the lost civilisation.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Morvanwin a Spacewoman
Another illustration. This is from a story of my own called Tarazet that I'm planning. This illustration is of one of the main characters who is called Morvanwin and is a science fiction shaman, or wise woman. She uses a science fiction version of the Tarot cards which I'm also designing right now. I have some black and white sketches and I'll post then as soon as I've added colour.
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