Sunday, January 22, 2012

Squiships and Island Towns

Here's something I thought up this morning: near-magical spaceships with flexible, deformable membranes as their outer shells. As the note indicates, I'm thinking something along the lines of graphene membranes with embedded networks of high-temperature superconducting loops to change shape and become rigid where needed, forming such handy items as landing feet or airlock tubes.
Materials: Pilot Penmanship EF with Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink, Kaweco Sport EF with Kaweco royal blue ink cartridge, Pentel Pocket Brush pen with J. Herbin Gris Nuage ink, and a touch of Waterman South Sea Blue out of a Lamy Safari EF, on Strathmore 400-series medium-tooth drawing paper.

About mid-way through drawing these I decided they're out in the middle of broad, ephemeral inland seas that dry up for years at a time.

Since I'm such a materials nerd, it only makes sense to start listing faithfully the involved parties. I'm having a blast with a light-blue Pentel R.S.V.P. ballpoint, a grey Zebra Mildliner highlighter, and a black 0.5 mm Uni-ball Jetstream ballpoint, on a blank Rhodia 80g sketchpad.

4 comments:

mordicai said...

Have you read any of the Virga series by Karl Schroeder? That is what these guys make me think of.

Logan Pearsall said...

sweet designs, man!

William B. Hand said...

I especially like the landed look... more like an adorable robot.

Tim Ridley said...

Very clever design, and I love the contrast between organic and mechanical. Well done!