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by Lavender Skies Dragon snuggler

a year ago

broadsiders are a common style of military hull design prioritizing having as many guns as possible pointed toward the enemy while still trying to minimize the cross-section and maximize the armor slope of your ship that's exposed to enemy fire. although such ships may resemble sailboats, especially with their radiators extended, it's actually the "keel" (or keel+nose) that points toward the enemy while the radiators ("sails") and other squishy hardware are protected behind, on the "deck".

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butch yeena

a year ago

Drawing military and sci fi stuff is a challenge for me, so i really admire how you balanced the busy areas here with the sails. A nice solid tactile shape

Lavender Skies ~lavenderstars

Dragon snuggler

a year ago

💜 tyy! a rule of thumb i tend to follow in design (of any kind, mechanical, creature, fashion etc) is to try to have a ratio of something like 30%/70% or even 10%/90% of positive (detail, greeble) vs negative (empty) space. to show more fine detail, you subdivide the positive space into details vs negative space again with the same rough ratio, and repeat as necessary at successively smaller scales. all of my designs can be viewed this way.

i definitely recommend studying the ships and machines from Homeworld, 70s scifi book covers and 80s-90s anime as they're great examples of design principles that are pretty universally applicable across any kind of design

Atlas the Explorer ~explorermoo

Atlas the Explorer

a year ago

Hmm this is interesting! So the idea is that the radiator is hidden during combat?

Lavender Skies ~lavenderstars

Dragon snuggler

a year ago

yeah! although broadsiders aren't unique in this regard

Atlas the Explorer ~explorermoo

Atlas the Explorer

a year ago

Ohhh, other ships in your universe do that as well then?

Lavender Skies ~lavenderstars

Dragon snuggler

a year ago

in practice it can be more complicated, esp. with magic and other special circumstances, but under realistic physical laws you usually want to hide your ship's squishy parts when possible. basically you usually want to put everything, other than the guns that need to face the enemy directly, behind the main wedge of armor that faces the enemy most of the time - missile racks, pipes, fuel tanks, engines, comms, etc. not a hard and fast rule everywhere, as my fantasy ships make clear, but it's common

Atlas the Explorer ~explorermoo

Atlas the Explorer

a year ago

I mean it does make sense but I do wonder what the exceptions look like... Then again if magic is involved you can "bullshit away" some of the more complicated things hmmm

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