Listened to Cory Doctorow hold forth with Joe Reis while drawing today, might have been a bad choice as I had to pause (the drawing) to take notes. Well spoken people who think deeply and well are a gift. Not going to disgrace my TL with YouTube engagement bait thumbnail so no link.

One of my hobbies is the digital cleaning of poorly scanned or photographed SF art while respecting the source material. (I.E. No AI upscaling, descreening, respectful color grading, etc) Removing the dust, fibers, creases, tears, logos and branding can be a pleasant way to unwind.

It's been a long winter, but drawing SD Macross can brighten your mood and cover your desk with eraser crumbs. The bottom and left VF-1J's were drawn while referring to the original production materials.

日本人ではいないけど末然のアイシャドウをもって生わる人もいるんだよねとんでもねーハナシだわい Mr. Mamoru Nagano's tiny handwriting is too hard to read. I'm pretty sure I messed up transcribing this panel margin note about Sopp's natural eyeshadow, but this is pushing my skill limits.

Scanning last few year's sketchbooks and revisiting old projects. MWO Corsair reimagined as a production militia mech. Goals: Lots of corrections. Incorporating more JPTech design elements. Emphasizing reuse of existing industrial components. Properly readable asymmetry.

Old long since. I drew this 22 years ago.

Still one of the coolest SF space ships, regardless of canonicity/lore. Battletech Argo Blender w. PGI's assets

Needed a new vertical BG for monitor 2: Sid Mead's Moon 2000 (1979) HSV, Levels CRT mask, curvature, vignette. Bit Rot

Thanks Coach. トップをねらえ!

I want a set of ICO こけしnow.

Bonus follow up BattleTech post: Numbers 9-12 are Jeff Laubenstein's redraws of Shoji Kawamori redesigns repurposed as arena customs. Bonkers timeline. 1991 Solaris VII: The Game World box set.

バトルテックメック図鑑 1992 Contents will be in the replies but it will be a minute as I'm cleaning the pages.

Sprite comp at 4x scale of various BattleMechs drawn for MekHQ. Originally only meant to cover Technical Readout 3025, it grew quite a bit.

Today is Director Keita Amemiya's birthday. You should set aside some time to enjoy the beautiful cuts and designs of his 1991 SF film ZËIЯAM. It's not the greatest movie ever made, but it is immensely stylish.

平行線 I see all.

Frame two is the most important one.

Bladerunner is still a perfect film. Photoshop

...any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

So much to adjust.

Moo~

ghost

There is just something about the early 80's and B/W art. Tony Hough: unused Rogue Trader illustration Mamoru Nagano: panel from The Five Star Stories Hayao Miyazaki: panels from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Just gets the creative juices flowing.

Spending some quality time with Mr. Nagano.

Nice. Zeonic released their retranslation of M.S. Era. One of the most refined Gundam artbooks with a powerhouse team coming off their work on 0080: War in the Pocket.

Front Mission is one of those game series that just never quite made it. Niche genre (mecha) in a niche genre (turn based tactics videogames). Playing Pokémon again after all these years has really opened my eyes to some squandered potential in gameplay.

ギャオーン PKMN gen1

I should redraw this. And do a proper F14 too. Macross VF GraphicsGale 2.09.02

PokéCenter Poster PKMN gen 1

Absolute Landscape. PKMN GEN1

sketchbook comps

The artist's circle of doubt progression. Keep Your Hand's Off Eizouken! Oowara Sumito Profound manga on a lot of levels. The surface level adventure manga is just the dust jacket on a massive essay on why humans make art.

delta-v

I still think that Steve Venters' designs of the original sixteen Clan OmniMechs remains a mostly unsung landmark in western mecha design. His conversion of the low poly Virtual World 'Mechs refined the limitations of 90's computer hardware into a sensible design language.

Metal Gear Rex, original is 72px wide. Made for MekHQ/MegaMek, a BattleTech board game simulator.

pixel fragments II

pixel fragments I

Do you ever wonder where past work you sold lives now?

Process - sketch - digital rough - finish (never finish)

Saw these stickers and thought of @androidarts.bsky.social counterfeiters.stores.jp

Sometimes I think that rendering metal is my favorite thing in the whole world.

Endlessly iterating in photoshop with classic concept art OODA process, old, never finished.

Akira Damacy, photoshop, never finished.

Thinking about bevels and chamfers.

Brian Eno, 77 million Paintings, Swarovski Kristallwelten, Austria. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Armored Core: For Answer Sobrero

Armored Core: For Answer Lahire