12-3-13

Continuing with the First Law Trilogy theme, here's Inquisitor Sand Dan Glokta:

I had a lot of fun with this, partly because he's pretty much the polar opposite of Logen (both in terms of character and the design), and partly because I've found a new technique for drawing characters quickly and cleanly:

Get the design down quick with a rough greyscale sketch, then move in with a detailed line drawing. Color overlays on top, then just work and refine things. Figure out all the issues with proportion and pose early, so everything after is merely a matter of cleaning up.

Just for fun, here's a jig I made to do some color correction on the coat:

Blue Man Glokta!

12-2-13

Finished up Logen:

And just for fun, here's a close-up on the face:

12/1/13

More and better Logen Ninefingers, the Bloody Nine:

8-15-13

What has my old friend Kezar Stanyon been up to?

Fully armed and armored, with a retractable helmet and a pair of anti-projectile/anti-personnel launchers on the shoulders. 

8-14-13

On to the Frigate:

Twice the size of the Corvette, the Frigate can carry either a pair of railguns and a large number of missiles, or an additional set of point-defense gauss cannons and a laser cannon aimed through a 2 meter mirror, which gives it an effective range of around 100 km.

8-12-13

I'm taking the whole "realistic spaceship" thing in a slightly different direction:

The Corvette is still realistic in that it has no magical shields, no artificial gravity and no faster-than-light anythings, but I've scaled back the size of the the fuel tanks and radiators. The drive-cone(in yellow on the top left) is a borderline-magical drive reaching efficiencies that are likely borderline-impossible. At around 100 feet from nose to tail, this would be the smallest ship that can carry a militarily useful drive and weapon complement. The lower Corvette carries an auxiliary reactor in order to power the railgun in the nose. Both ships mount two (possibly four?) point-defense gauss cannons in the back.

8-6-13

Dusted off Maya 2010 and modeled a space cruiser:

Here's the sketch I was trying to recreate:

While these models are no where near where I need them to be for what I have in mind, the fact that I retained enough memory to bang them out in a few hours gives me hope.