Thursday, November 30, 2023

November Spaceship Doodle Roundup

Here's a bunch of new spaceship doodles for the month of November. Check out my new sketchbook to see over 100 spaceship doodles: https://amazon.com/Neil-Blevins-Sketchbook-Vol-Spaceships/dp/B0CJ43Z89J/





Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Lith Painting

A color sketch for a more detailed painting I would like to do in the near future. From my Lith IP. 

Friday, November 24, 2023

Rick Guidice Podcast

The The World's Fair Co did a podcast with former NASA artist Rick Guidice, I grew up inspired by a lot of his work, and on the video he mentions my Megastructures book. Talk about full circle! Check out the whole talk, it's pretty cool.  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7UuWRTyx9U&t=2618s
 

Monday, November 20, 2023

Alderson Disk

Brand new Megastructure painting, a new view of an old favorite, the Alderson Disk. A giant platter (like a Compact Disc) with an outer radius equivalent to the orbit of Jupiter. The sun is located in the hole at the center of the disk. 

https://www.amazon.fr/M%C3%A9gastructures-Neil-Blevins/dp/2382670940/

Monday, November 13, 2023

New Video: Drawing A Spaceship Using Traditional Ink

Here's a demo of drawing one of my spaceship doodles with traditional ink and paper, similar to the doodles in my new sketchbook. Let's all take a digital break and get back to some old-school penmanship!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR8_OfI2UaU

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Megastructures Polyhedral Habitat 4

To celebrate the release of the french edition of my Megastructures book, I'll be releasing some brand new net-exclusive megastructure paintings.

A Polyhedral Habitat would be a space colony consisting of several O’Neill Cylinders attached together to form a larger structure, much like struts forming a children’s jungle gym. The colony as a whole would not rotate to create spin gravity, but each cylinder would rotate along its axis like a standalone cylinder. The tips of the individual cylinders would be attached to adjoining cylinders by joints called knuckles. The knuckles would not rotate and, because of that, would have no gravity inside.

https://www.amazon.fr/M%C3%A9gastructures-Neil-Blevins/dp/2382670940/

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Megastructures in French

To my french speaking followers: Les Editions Mnemos in France will be releasing a French language edition of my book "Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia" on Nov 8th. A big thanks to the team for the translation, you can preorder here: https://www.amazon.fr/M%C3%A9gastructures-Neil-Blevins/dp/2382670940/