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Chokehold, watercolors and gouache on Arches paper.
First piece of 22′, and the first piece I completed since recovering from Covid last week…stay safe folks. o/-<
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it has been. SO LONG since i've gotten a piece of concept art out (what with my vacation, starting a new job for the summer, and Artfight) but I'm finally starting to get back on track! Might still be a bit slow for the rest of the month since Artfight is in fact still happening, but come August I'm hoping to ramp up pre-production once again, and hopefully continuing through the fall since I have a much lighter courseload this year!
And for this round of concept art, we're finally diving into the OTHER half of MiOrMa, since I've been mostly focusing on the Mindfarer's half until now! Here she is, The Event Horizon herself! The main location of Zenith's half of the story, the spacefaring ship which will take her and the rest of the crew on the many monster-fighting and conspiracy-unravelling journeys they'll encounter!
MASSIVE shoutout and thank you to @spyglassrealms , who helped me come up with the floor plan for the ship, and a lot of the general more technical elements of the design, because I am not a technically-minded person, so thank you SO much for helping me build this thing to have a level of practicality in mind, you're a real homie!!!
This is concept art for my currently in pre-production webcomic Mind Or Matter! If you are interested in seeing more, please give the blog a follow to keep up to date on progress!
Freight rocket Neon Navikea
Typical dry cargo freighter designed to service colonies without extensive spacing infrastructure. The engine, as insane as it sounds, is a real though somewhat tenuous proposal from NASA: NTRS.NASA.GOV/CITATIONS/19930015551 NTRS.NASA.GOV/CITATIONS/19920001892 DOI.ORG/10.2514/3.29778 DOI.ORG/10.2514/6.1991-3512
In order to facilitate the movement of coven officials and the their congregations, the Maris operate a fleet of large executive shuttles, ideal for inter system flights. The passenger cabin is, essentially, a sanctum in its own right.
Ozymandias
by Percy Shelly
Introductory Post
Hello, and welcome to my blog! Above is an infographic I've made detailing the Milky Way as well as the commonality of life and intelligence itself across the galaxy, which will serve as an important base of reference for all else I plan to post on this blog. I won't say much in reference to this image that isn't already included in the infographic, so I'll go on to explain what my project is about, which I will elaborate on with future posts:
In short, the primary focus of my speculative biology sci-fi project takes place around the mid-Centaurus arm, as indicated on the infographic, in a region of the galaxy locally known as "Ruminaaan Space", which is the single largest interstellar community in the history of the Milky Way! Although the majority of these Ruminaaan residents have only began their joint interstellar societies within the past 3,000 years, an ongoing battle has been waging for the past billion years and counting between a species known as the Yn and an entity known as Xii, and while I'll leave more detailed elaborations for future posts, this is a story of a single species divided and disfigured by their own conflicts and the long-term consequences it holds on their stellar neighbours, even one billion years later.
Onto the blog itself, to help with organisation, I will use the following tags on my posts:
#Alien Person Asks (for when I answer asks in my inbox (feel free to send any if you want to know more about my world!)), #Ruminaaan Theomachy (for posts relating to the central aliens of my project and the communities they've built), #Alien Person Spec Bio (for posts relating to the more biological aspects of my worldbuilding) and #Alien Person Worldbuilding (for other posts about miscellaneous or more general features of my worldbuilding process)
Besides transcripts for the featured image, that's all for my introductory post, so stay tuned for more!
{Main text-wall transcript}:
The Milky Way The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years across, which happens to be the galaxy in which Humans are located, as well as over a couple hundred other intelligent species. The galaxy is estimated to be about 13.6 billion years of age and has thus far been identified with two major arms (the Perseus and Scutum-Centaurus Arms) which branch off into many smaller minor arms.
The galaxy is estimated to contain anywhere between 100 to 400 billion stars, most of which host a minimum of one orbiting planet. Although on Earth many may consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life to be a rarity, it is more common than one may think, with there being roughly 14.33 billion planets and moons combined which host native life. However, only about 8.59 million of these worlds host multicellular life (around 0.06% out of the total life-bearing celestial bodies), which is due to eukaryotic multicellularity being a very challenging hurdle to get over for life everywhere for a variety of reasons. This being said, approximately 91.67% of these worlds do host sapient life forms, as high intelligence is almost an inevitability with multicellular organisms given sufficient time, though an extremely lower fraction of these planets and moons are actually home to sophont, technological civilisations comparable to anything humanity has accomplished throughout the past 200,000 years, with there being only 237 star systems with native sophont life (as indicated by the bright white dots shown to the right), and 268 sophont species overall, accounting for only 0.000028% of worlds with multicellular lifeforms. Among these 268 civilisations, very few actually aspire to be spacefaring, with there being less than 40 such civilisations, such as the Jodomii or Sirt, who even have space programs to begin with. Most either do not have the desire to explore outer space, as is the case with the Shreau, Uut, Samrinians or Aniin, do not even have the means to discover that outer-space exists in the first place, such as the Fline or Udrae, who have limited or nonexistent vision, or the Katudit, who live in the subglacial oceans of a rogue planet, or may never leave their home planets for any other multitude of reasons. While the abundance of technological, cultured civilisations across the Milky Way is fortunately higher than most may be led to believe, it’s important to keep in mind the fact that the space which separates the majority of these civilisations is tremendous, with even the closest being hundreds of light years apart. Despite this, only four interspecies interstellar communities have managed to spring up across the interstellar medium (not counting the Yuruuc, who have yet to encounter any other intelligent species despite how far they have dispersed throughout their corner of the Outer Arm), which is simply due to the fact that interstellar travel is nigh-impossible without the use of warp technology, though only one of these such communities has managed to grow to such an extensive size which incorporates over a dozen unique civilisations; Ruminaaan Space. Ruminaaan Space (the blue area marked along the mid-Centaurus Arm) is the single largest community of interstellar civilisations with the widest reach in interstellar space in the entire history of the Milky Way thus far, with the Boueue and Scerere only having came into contact nearly 3,000 years ago. This region of the Milky Way will be the main focus of my ongoing project, titled ‘Ruminaaan Theomachy’, as you’ll all get to see more of as time goes on, so stay tuned, and welcome to the Ruminaaan Theomachy project!
{Milky Way Labels Transcript}:
Norma Arm, Sagittarius Arm, Perseus Arm, Orion Spur, Scutum-Centaurus Arm, Outer Arm
{Sophont Labels Transcript}:
Scerere, Boueue, Udrae, Samrinians & Aniin, Shreau, Jodomii, Humanity, Sirt, Yuruuc, Fline, Katudit, Uut
The Lords of Baryonic Life; The Xeelee, meeting a silvered human. Fanart for the Xeelee sequence, one of my favourite scifi works
Albino microraptor by Ruben Koops @paleo.parallax
I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.
If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.
Back From The Brink - Prologue
The comic just started and our hero appears dead on arrival. How unfortunate.
Updates Every Other Tuesday.
Heaven Surrounds You
Just a quick little piece, showcasing a family portrait of Saturn and her major moons as seen from Hyperion!
Painting head on is very odd; I'm so not used to it! Hopefully the next piece will be better <3
edit: realizing now i forgot dione noooo
A storm rolls over Late Cretaceous Hateg island, nourishing the land and drenching the local wildlife. Featuring: Tethyshadros, Hatzegopteryx, Paludititan, Balaur bondoc, an Enantiornithine, Sabresuchus, and many other critters.
The Third Lover
I had forgotten Father's Day was coming up, and I had only just learned that my father likes Ganymede and Io, so I decided to quickly paint this piece for him!
I really enjoyed working on this; I'm still definitely lacking experience, but I've seen a noticeable increase in the quality of my art since I started painting in values.
I've got a long way to go, but I'm happy to finally be making art I can finally almost be proud of. :)
As always, image ID will be in the reblogs and in the alt text!
P.S. Here's a timelapse of all my artwork this year so far! Please be careful though, as it is fairly flashy, and may trigger those who are photosensitive.
Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s
Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?
The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe
Dinosaur Ghost