7-30-13

Mars-Pattern Hoplite Power Armor:

Europa-Pattern Hoplite Power Armor

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.

6-30-13

Little bit of power armor before bedtime:

5/18/13

Way back in the halcyon days of 2010, I did a futuristic rendition of Aladdin. I always meant to do other, sci-fi cyberpunkish versions of Disney characters, but never got around to it until now.

I figured that Mulan was a good candidate for a sci-fi makeover, so here she is in power armor. I need to get in there and make her face more feminine, and I also need to focus more on the cool-hot contrast with said face and the rest of the piece, but this is definitely going in the right direction.

I'm also inordinately pleased with the rendition of the armor, and how much it looks like the armor from the original movie.

7-1-12

Mo' Gunz, Mo Problems.

Giving the ol' Sunjet another go-round. I'm pretty excited about this direction.

5-8-12

Worked on the Sunjet a bit more:

And tried out a new technique that is shockingly similar to the way I learned how to do acyclic portraits.

3-12-12

Worked on the Phillips gun some more:

3-10-12

The first part of the twelve-part series that is The Month of Weapons is finished! I give you the Nemesis 10, Kovac's primary weapon in Altered Carbon:



I don't have the book in front of me, but I've read the thing so many times and am such a huge dork for techy-writing, that I remember the salient details pretty well. The Nemesis 10, or Nemex is a big-boy gun, holding 18 rounds in a double-stacked magazine and firing a big slug using a new propellant. Using the concept of a powerful propellant as a starting point, I began with the combustion chamber, located in between the trigger and the cartridge. I gave the barrel assembly lots of reenforcing to handle the powerful detonation of the round, and a muzzle brake up front to compensate for recoil. The only moving parts are located in the slide, which is sort of fudged but it's set 500 years in the future, so I'm okay with it.

Moving on to Kovacs' second weapon, the Phillips gun:



A slim, grey pistol half the size of the Nemex (making it roughly analogous to a modern compact or sub-compact), the Phillips gun uses a pair of magnetic rails to accelerate a steel dart to lethal velocities, and does so silently. The battery is located in front of the trigger guard, and the only functions are safe and fire. I'll freely admit to altering this one from the original text, as the book describes a reverse fuction on the magnets, allowing the user to pull darts out afterword, but I feel that is too unrealistic, even for 500 future-years.

3-6-12

OMG YOU GUYS EVEN MORE GUNS. Also knives and grenades:




This is also the official announcement of the Month of Weapons! My goal by the end of March is to have produced 10ish pieces of finished, industry-quality weapons concepts. The Nemex is the first of those.

3-4-12

I drew eighteen guns today. The first six of these are from a few days ago.






These are pretty much all based on descriptions from Altered Carbon, mostly Sunjet blasters with a few shard guns and stunners thrown in.

1-1-12

My main New Years Resolution is to draw and post something every single day. Not necessarily a masterpiece, but I've got to put stylus to tablet for a bit and then post it. So here's the first in the 365-part series:



The top gun started as just a random scribble, then I figured I might as well keep working on a project I've been kicking around for a few years, so it turned into guns from Altered Carbon.

See you tomorrow!