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This is a pretty old piece -- 1975. I'd already been drawing for a few years and the material was that old too. I've shown Saara in this rather extreme view because I wanted to show her looking upward at the huge transparent panel above. Through the panel you can see the central spine of this "ring ship" outlined against the stars, as well as the guywires holding the spine in place.
A "ring ship" in this context is a donut like outer habitable section, with the drive and power source hung through the hole, like an axle in a wheel. The ship belongs to the Dnebrala, a member species of Civilization. They aren't as technicalogically as advanced as the Kjola, but a great deal more so than the Teh Langgi (who don't even have their own starships). The Dnebrala are a pale blue-green colour, and their diaphonous veil-like "wings" are photo-electric. They don't need to eat, only absorb sunlight. Of course, it takes a long while to store enough power for movement, so they tend to be active only for short bursts of time, and in vegetative state with their veils spread most of the time.
In this early depiction of Saara, she needed to carry tools about with her. But such physical instrumentation became obsolete in my drawings of her in another couple of years.
The stars, by the way, are individually painted in by hand. The guys were drawn in after, obliterating some of the stars in the process. After finishing this I did a rough estimate of how many stars I had painted, and came up with a figure I'm still not sure I believe. I think there are around 40,000 to 45,000 of them!
A "ring ship" in this context is a donut like outer habitable section, with the drive and power source hung through the hole, like an axle in a wheel. The ship belongs to the Dnebrala, a member species of Civilization. They aren't as technicalogically as advanced as the Kjola, but a great deal more so than the Teh Langgi (who don't even have their own starships). The Dnebrala are a pale blue-green colour, and their diaphonous veil-like "wings" are photo-electric. They don't need to eat, only absorb sunlight. Of course, it takes a long while to store enough power for movement, so they tend to be active only for short bursts of time, and in vegetative state with their veils spread most of the time.
In this early depiction of Saara, she needed to carry tools about with her. But such physical instrumentation became obsolete in my drawings of her in another couple of years.
The stars, by the way, are individually painted in by hand. The guys were drawn in after, obliterating some of the stars in the process. After finishing this I did a rough estimate of how many stars I had painted, and came up with a figure I'm still not sure I believe. I think there are around 40,000 to 45,000 of them!
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I made a starfield once, similar to this but I used a much faster method. I dipped an old toothbrush into white paint and flicked the bristles onto the black background. I then used an airbrush to add some twinkle and nebula here and there. Nice work and who doesn't like gratuitous alien cooter views. :P
I know about the toothbrush spatter technique, but it tends to make stars the shape of commas, fish books, bowling balls, and dumbells, some of which actually string together. I suppose if you water the paint a bit more, that isn't as much of a problem, suggesting that the highly "textured" starfields I'd seen made that way were done deliberately. Some artists like the medium to almost overshadow the image.
Oh! Yes, I see thme now... I was... distracted.
Boy, what dedication to detail. I did a piece of art with a star background once, but I used a toothbrush and white paint teo do the star field, then just added some refraction points to the larger (brighter) ones.
I hope to re-do thst piece some day. It sold at an art show (Denvention or Chicon, I believe), but I still have the original sketch (and I still like it).
Boy, what dedication to detail. I did a piece of art with a star background once, but I used a toothbrush and white paint teo do the star field, then just added some refraction points to the larger (brighter) ones.
I hope to re-do thst piece some day. It sold at an art show (Denvention or Chicon, I believe), but I still have the original sketch (and I still like it).
Seriously I miss that era of Science Fiction, the 50's to the late 70's were wonderful, then it became 'Trilogy's' then massive fifteen plus book epics. If you can't finish your story in one book you are wasting your time, very very few stories deserve the EPIC label.
I miss this style of work, then I'm just a white haired old member of the Solar Guard. Beautiful work, a classic.
I miss this style of work, then I'm just a white haired old member of the Solar Guard. Beautiful work, a classic.
I often thing I was diverted away from work I ought to have been doing, into humor and then into furries, which where easy and popular. Also they sold well ... but I never made money on my "serious" fan art. Now I'm just too old and tired to go back to where I was. With luck, at least I'm not through with where I might go in future. You can't step in the same stream twice, they say.
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