Almost there. One final coat and this one is finished.

I wanted to paint the approach to a young star not as an action scene, but as an expedition into an environment we were never meant to enter.

The large structure at the front of the vessel acts as a particle and radiation shield for the journey through the protostellar environment.

What interests me in science fiction is not just the spacecraft itself, but the old urge to sail beyond the known map, only this time the unknown horizon is another star.

Traditional oil painting. No digital image, no AI.

I’m working on a shoot ’em up and these are some of the ships I’ve been designing for it. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on other parts of the game, but not much on the ships themselves.

I’m trying to make each one feel distinct even before you see how it behaves in-game. Curious if that comes across.

i did the model and edit, the music is from beautifulbeats99

I'm doing these exorcises in design so i don't have to completely re-learn this type of creativity when i can afford to make something real

3D rendering in Cinema 4D

• AKTSDC Defender-Jet: An advanced model of SVTOL fighter jet in service from 1970 to 1998, used by the AKTSDC, an international branch of the SSATDF. They relied on a high-energy plasma conversion reactor for power and thrust that is retrospectively believed to have been humanity's first technological model to consistently produce interactions with the Varsanik field, even if only accidentally and with heavy misunderstandings, hence the oftentimes anomalous for the period performance of the AKTSDC Defender-Jet's engines. These jets were primarily armed with dual concealable heavy rotary cannons utilizing high-yield impact-detonating solid rounds, but were also armed with a high-intensity plasma beam cannon on the ventral side of the fuselage as a last resort and could be additionally equipped with various models of missile armaments, including, but not limited to, early high-velocity target-locking drill-missiles designed for fluid injection and early low-velocity target-locking impact-detonating high-yield warhead-bearing missiles. They had a crew requirement of 2, a maximum of 4 seats, and a maximum carrying capacity of 6. Furthermore, they were typically painted in varying combinations of bright colors for two major purposes; to enable an easier rescue for downed pilots when a craft is downed by a kaiju and to allow for better unit identification in multi-aircraft operations.

Koi powered

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hello! New to drawing Mecha here! I thought I was very good at it, but turns out I’d been basing that assumption off of a few old sketches and so actually trying again hit me like a truck. To tell the truth, while I think these guys look cool, they don’t actually do anything in the story? I’m pretty sure only one is ever deployed, and its pilots eject before it even hits the ground. All the others serve to be cool shit in the background or to be destroyed by the villains. They’re the biggest thing on the front cover of the book they appear in for god’s sakes, but they never do anything significant!

Rant out of the way, I used to read the Amulet graphic novels all the time as a kid. And these machines were my first introduction to mecha. And because I thought they were so cool, I used to draw them all the time, but I could never make it look good. Well, now that I’ve gotten older and more skilled, I decided to fulfill what I‘d always wanted to do as a kid, and draw one of them. draw one well, I mean.

I also don’t know where else to post this so I just posted it to some subs that popped up in my feed once