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.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Squiships and Island Towns
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4 comments:
Have you read any of the Virga series by Karl Schroeder? That is what these guys make me think of.
sweet designs, man!
I especially like the landed look... more like an adorable robot.
Very clever design, and I love the contrast between organic and mechanical. Well done!
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