Thanks to everyone for visiting me at Emerald City Comicon 2021. It was my most successful comicon yet in terms of sales, and I got to chat with so many cool people, success on all levels! Thanks To Isaac Hannaford, Mark Van Haitsma, Jason Felix, John Giang, Mark Jessup, L0FiTheRobot, and many more for dropping by. Here's a couple of pics and some sketches I did during the convention. Hope to attend the next one August of 2022!
Emerald City Comicon starts tomorrow & I'll have a booth in Artists Alley! Entry requires proof of vax & wearing a mask, if you're in the area hope you get a chance to drop by. As well as Inc books, will have the proofs of the Megastructure book to see in person!
So Curious Archive made a wonderful 10 min video showcasing some of the megastructures in my upcoming book. Check it out & his channel in general, so many interesting videos on speculative science!
There are many techniques to make something look big. But this tutorial focuses on details, how you can make something look the correct size by the size of the details, and conversely, how you can ruin the illusion of scale using the wrong details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewY2ZJ5hhQc
My friend Lowell was kind enough to do a 3d print of my Testudo spaceship. Turned out great! May paint it one day, in the meantime, here's the grey one right off the printer.
Digital line drawing of the spaceship from my Testudo IP. This is the angle you'd see it most in the game, since it's a vertical scroller.
This spaceship from a future book project seems to be a real fan favorite. The illustration has scored me 2 freelance TV jobs over the years. There was another variant of the ship with larger rear engines, which one of the two is your favorite?
All of the Kickstarter editions of "Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia" will receive a bonus postcard, a random 1 of 6 designs. Here's the first test printing of one of the postcards. I think people will dig these.
In my Contrasts In Composition lesson, I discuss how you use different sorts of contrast to direct the eye around an image. One of those types of Contrast is "Contrast Of Detail". That tutorial is an overview of all the different types of contrast, but each type really deserves a deep dive, so this lesson will be a deeper look into "Contrast Of Detail", or another name for the same thing, "Areas Of Visual Detail and Areas Of Visual Rest".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDYB2bXvuM
