Eon (Illustration) Entry: Kirt Stanke

[Kirt]

I haven't finished reading the book yet, but I found Chapter 42 had an interesting segment that may provide a good illustration for this challenge. I don't even know if I'll be able to do this justice but I'm going to try.
They watched in silence as the red line of the singularity guided them toward the black shield. Lanier joined Farley and Carrolson in the rear, trying to make sense out of the instruments. They periodically registered meaningful data, but not often enough to be of much use.

"Something approaching alng the singularity -- It's a machine, big and black," Heineman said. "Coming up fast ..." Lanier pushed himself forward.

Straddling the glowing red line, a machine twice as thick as the tuberider, round in cross section, bore down on them, its surgace a glossy black. Bright purple lines on the machine's surface outlined squares and rectangles in symmetric arrays. Lanier watched in facination as the squares and rectangles opened to extrude grapplers and a variety of jointed arms. It now resembled a deep-ocean submersible - or a madman's Swiss Army Knife. "What's it going to do?"

"It's matching speed. Looks like it's --"

Colored lights flashed in the cabin. Heineman flinched and drew back; Lanier closed his eyes and batted out with his hands. "What was that?" Carrolson called from the rear. Red and green translucent objects danced again before Lanier. He reached out to touch one, but it was insubstantial.

"They're symbols or something," Heineman said. "You see them?"

"I see them, " Lanier said. "I don't know what they are, or where they're coming from."

The radio hissed again. "Please state your identity and reason for approaching the Axis City shield."

Lanier took the mike from Heineman. "I'm Garry Lanier." That'll clue them, he thought ruefully. "We're exploring. If there are problems --"

"Do you wish an advocate?"

"I'm sorry -- what?"

"You will be assigned an advocate immediately. Are you a corporeal human claiming the appropriate rights in the Hexamon Court?"

"Say yes," Carrolson advised.

"Yes."

"You will now be removed from the flaw and escorted to Axis Nader."

The machine ran one arm down the underside of the tuberider. Flying sparks obscured the windscreen; the V/STOL rolled and vibrated. Gas hissed against the fuselage and alarms went off in the cockpit; there was a wrenching sound, and with a jerk, they floated free.

The tuberider had been cut from the singularity and cast adrift. The V/STOL had then been removed from the tuberider.

[Rebeccak]

Good luck, Kirt! :)

[Kirt]

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I started working on a design for the VSTOL. I'm going to base the design on the V-22 which is probably a close representation of what this craft's size would be.

First sketch is just the main cargo area and wings. At the wing-tips (not drawn) will be the propulsion engines. The book mentions a rocket in the tail section that is "aimed slightly above centerline." I'm not sure what that means ...

Centerline of the whole craft or just the tail? Eh, I may or may not follow the descriptions exactly. Some of it confuses the heck out of me because ... it's all in metrics.

lazy American never learned metrics.

[LostPen]

Hi mate

Cool work so far, I like the fact that you explain your thoughts before you start showing artwork.

If I may ask, where did you find the book (did you buy it online, in a shop or is it a e-book)??



Is there any way I could download it for free????

Never mind the fact that u didn’t learn metrics. The design of the VSTOL looks great.

I expect great things, having looked on your cg portfolio

Hope to see some new stuff soon



Cheers mate



Raul the Lostpen

[TheFirstAngel]

welcome to the stone kirt, great to see another kick ass toon entry can be expected :)

tuberiding was a nice choice, its a fun scene and offers lots of possebileties :) best of luck and have fun, rock em all. cheers :beer::buttrock::wip:

[Kirt]

LostPen - On the "Inspiration" page of the Challenge rules there is a link to an eBook version (I believe it's under $10). However, I chose to go the "free" route and visited my local County Library. It's past due now, but I finally finished reading it. I may have to check it out again so I can pick out more details.

TheFirstAngel - I found out that there are some interesting character segments later in the book which may be more suited to my style of work. I've never been a technical person, so I think I'll shy away from the mechanical stuff.

Chapter 57 has caught my interest now and I think I'll be illustrating the collection of characters and party like atmosphere aboard the flawship or VIP transportation disk. It's sort of amusing with it's collection of odd shaped aliens, homorphs and zero-g craziness. I think I could have some fun with this. :D

[TheFirstAngel]

knopw what you mean, but at least in my case found good possebilety to get sum intense challenge learnboost since i put tech n hardsurface stuff asside for a long while and now got back to it with mixed feelings :p
looking forward to the creature fun then :) bring it on ^^

[Kirt]

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I had some time to put together a quick sketch today. Just trying to work out a focal pose for Patricia.

I believe that I'll be using sea creatures as reference for many of the characters and may look in general for sea-type environments for the composition and design of this scene. I have much research to do.

Slowly putting together an idea ...

[Kirt]

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Beginning to layout the interior of the flawship. I'm trying to pattern this on the designs of a sea urchin. But so far it looks more like a faberge egg.

The flaw is right there in the middle. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with this yet. The book describes the interior of the ship to be rather empty with the flaw threaded through the middle (and encased by the machinery that propels the ship).

[TheFirstAngel]

nice start. characterdesign rocks as expected, as for the flawshipdeign. kewl all over dynamics, no further crits since its an early wip :) keep it up mate, rock on :beer::buttrock::wip:

[brrrhmmm]

Side by Side comparisons So that you know who is doing

what in the illustration category of the eon challenge only.

Classifier followed by artists.Some artists appear in more than one category because of their art is

multiclassed.

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Characters in dramatic poses.

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Very Detailed Vehicle showed prominently together with characters.The Focus is Character.

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Justin Kellis

Da Feng

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Edward Cicka

Tuan Nguyen

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Linda Smith

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John Streider

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: massive architectures,detailed cityscapes,plasma tubes,huge eon elements viewed in the distance in the style of grand space opera with miniscule,faceless,diminutive men ,women and all terrain machines reacting and responding to the environment.Archictectural elements include buildings,pylons,aqueducts,railways station,arches and airports as well as roads.The Focus is Architecture.

Marty Jones

Raul Heib

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Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe(Inspirational Art)

Claire O'Brien

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Michael Merrill

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Kerem

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Tiberius Virius

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ramy badie

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ori arad

markus graf

ali jalali

raffy encarnacion

alex kelly

jennifer Kathleen Phillips

: air ,sea atmosperics featuring natural elements of islands,skies blend into a grand sense of scale.Includes Tree elements.Gaia oriented.Mountain views and Spectacular chamber vistas. Sky atmospherics.Rivers curve and bend and disappear in the distance.Organic and Crystalline Inorganic natural forms.

Jeff Zugale

Thomas Ingham

Tan Guang Yu

Ric Brehm

lei huang

adrian baluta

gonzalo golpe

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guo jian

oscar jostedt

brian Slayton

yann tisseron

yaroslav kravchenko

dusten s. sonnon

: party scene with the character interacting and gossiping

Social Parties gathered at gate opening or onboard a ship or library viewing.

Radu Bogdan Boeru

nekomouse

Phillip Buchanan

christian paterson

Alex Kelly

: wonderful sense of humor even black humor and caricature

Torsten Wolber

per trystad

mark david

: action packed conflict with eon elements in the backdrop and lots of machines,ships,cities and soldiers.battlefield atmospherics

Andrzej Rudz

thierry schiel

paul hume

Karel Fourie





: entire cities,planetary bodies,asteroids,weather systems,gates,singularities,flawships and space vehicles in awe inspiring perspectives with large scale explosions.Ships have beautiful designs.Space/Aerospace Atmospherics.The Focus is on Flight.Very Detailed Flight Vehicle showed prominently with characters dressed for flight.

Kirt Stanke

Mona Eriksson

Emil Petrinic

Bjorn Norberg

Will Brown

Michael Burburan

Phillip Buchanan

Dmitri G Michniouk

Mark Alford

sacha angel

neville de souza

prabath wijayantha

greg kaperski

mona eriksson

attilla kurt

vladimir davidenko

paul b castillo

juha kamarainen

mauricio alvarado kladt

joel carlo

shawn andrews

matt benya

Derek Wilson

blaz porenta

oscar jostedt

pavel elagin

yann tisseron

blaz porenta

: detailed explanatory tutorials

sacha angel

matt benya

[Nekomouse]

Hi Kirt,
That's looking really great! It's such an unsual viewpoint.
Do you have any more updates for us?
Good Luck!

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