6/17/14

Worked on Kovacs' Wedge combat sleeve:

6-3-14

Back to the Kovacs series, this time from Broken Angels:

12-10-13

Finished up Jezal:

12-9-13

Here's the next part of the First Law character designs:

Jezal Dan Luthar, officer of the Kings Army. 

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.

7-30-13

Mars-Pattern Hoplite Power Armor:

Europa-Pattern Hoplite Power Armor

7-29-13

Working on some plausible mid-future spaceships:

That's a Torpedo Frigate up top and a Destroyer underneath. Each carries a few point-defense gauss cannons and the Destroyer mounts a pair of railguns. In order to power those big guns, it needs a reactor in addition to the main drive reactor, making it heavier and more expensive. The red things are radiators so the reactors and crew won't melt.

More to come.

7-22-13

Worked on the Cyberpunk environment a bit more:

Added a few more people, put some missiles on the truck, I think this piece is starting to come a little more alive.

7-15-13

Finished the Plausible Mid-Future Space Marine.

7-10-13

More space marine:

7/8/13

Plausible mid-future Space Marine*:

The main weapon is computer-controlled and aim wherever the user is looking. I figured that a few hundred years from now and we wouldn't be trusting our notoriously unreliable meat** to aim weapons anymore.

*I'm not a fan of the term Space Marine, simply because it's so heavily freighted with baggage. Orbital Marine doesn't really cover it, Vacuum Marine is probably more accurate but has strange cleaning connotations.  Astro-Anything just sounds weird.

**I realize that eyes are still technically meat.

7-1-13

spaceshiptime

6-30-13

Little bit of power armor before bedtime:

6-26-13

More Ninefingers:

More cyberpunk enviroment: