Fighter Patrol

Hashed this out quick, two heavy starfighters on a casual patrol.  Based off a photo of a pair of F-14 Tomcats in a similar formation.

Sketch 1/18/16: Fast Landing

A quick experiment.  I started with abstract watercolor shapes, and added the ships in ink afterwards.  It was only when I was laying the water texture down that I realized, "Wait a minute, the main cruise spaceship is accelerating towards the ocean..."

I've got it.  The captain was a washout from the local starfighter-force program.  His cruise ship's passengers forever suffer (or enjoy, depending on temperament) him living out his inane fantasies of piloting the lumbering starliner like a nimble starfighter.  Yeah.  That's it.

Sketch 1/11/16: Demon Guitar

Short on time today.  Here's my take on a heavy metal sorceress, complete with a leather vest, dead dragon, and demon guitar.

Mercenary Mechs: Sunspot Crusher

Continuing the theme of gouache-giant-robot-paintings, I present Sunspot Crusher, the sniper-mech.  It's mostly elbows and knees and looks a bit goofy, but when you're packing the most power anti-armor laser this side of the Rockies (mounted in the right-shoulder wedge), you can get away with looking goofy.  The laser is, however, temperamental and expensive to maintain, meaning Crusher has to work all the harder to 1) land contracts and 2) avoid getting hit.

I was a little looser with this painting than the one for Challenger Jax, I tried some blending in the initial stages.  It wasn't 100% what I expected, but I liked part of the final result, and learned something.  Worth it.

Like Challenger Jax, Sunspot Crusher used to be unreasonably huge.  Crusher now would be a little taller than Jax, because it was built lighter, and could be built taller, all to give the pilot a better field of vision, and the laser a better field of fire.