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Toned pencil commission!
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ShipCore
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Ahhhh I'm over the moon this is so cool!!!!
Toned pencil commission!
I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...
hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality
but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao
and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google
and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed
and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways
which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something
very mysterious
oh doing his name in russian gives me some actually useful results, why didn't i think to do that
Š”Š¾Š»Š½ŠµŃŠ½Ńй Š³Š¾ŃоГ "Sunny City" - No date given.
ŠŠøŃ "World" - No date given.
ЧŃŃŠ¾Š²Ńкие ŠæŃоŃŃŠ¾ŃŃ. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.
ŠŃŠµŠ½Ń "Autumn"
ooooh this one is really nice
ŠŠ³Š½Šø ŃŃŃŠ“ового Тагила, "The Lights of Labor Tagil" acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.
окŃŃŠ±ŃŃ "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm
ŠŃŠµŠ½Ń Š½Š° ЧŃŃŠ¾Š²Š¾Š¹, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm
Š§ŃŠ³Ńн ŠøŠ“ŠµŃ "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976
okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other works!!!!
the very cool guys at Grafito Editorial are putting out a spanish version of my book Habitat RIGHT NOW (check out the pre-order page here)
Even cooler, they're including the story @turndecassette2 and I made as part of this new edition!
the very cool guys at Grafito Editorial are putting out a spanish version of my book Habitat RIGHT NOW (check out the pre-order page here)
Even cooler, they're including the story @turndecassette2 and I made as part of this new edition!
panels from the conclusion of "the grand tour", a story about reconnecting estranged family and extrasolar feudal hellscapes - now live here
Asking here because I get notified if you reply: why rockettes? Beside the obvious cool factor and the vague notion that euhumanists can't just do things normally and have to have an extra layer of complexity, is there like a... practical advantage to having a gun that shoots rockets vs one that shoots bullets? They don't seem guided or explosive, and without fins would they be more accurate or reach longer distances than a single-impulse munition?
My rationale for this is both aesthetic (retro-futurism) and internal world logic.
First, the internal logic of the world.
The Euhumanists have spent centuries, presumably, using beam weapons for small arms (like star trek). If they were stuck without reliable beam weapons (because of limited power sources, manufacturing capabilities, etc, like in "the grand tour"), and were developing their industrial capacities from a very limited base, circumstances would possibly force them to essentially re-invent the gun.
Given their own history as space-faring people, I was thinking that the rocket would probably be their most direct reference for a combustion-driven kinetic device - so having them develop an awkward micro-rocket, instead of first developing muskets or cartridge ammunition, felt suitably unique, clunky and weird for the world.
Also, in researching "caseless" ammunition of this type, like russian VOG launched grenades, the gyrojet, the italian 9mm AUPO round, and, the granddaddy of them all, the 1800s ROCKET BALL (see below image), it was interesting seeing all the other methods of containing projectile and gunpowder in one discrete unit.
The rocket ball came about in 1848 and was my biggest inspo for this, but the utterly magical and deranged GYROJET missile-bullet was up there too. If you search youtube for gyrojet firing footage, its completely fascinating!
This is all to say, though, that aesthetics and the idea of this colony fumbling their way into firearms came first. This style of ammo doesnt have much in the way of practical advantages over modern cartridges, but modern cartridges also just felt WAY too anachronistic to throw into this setting. But it has been a very fun research rabbit hole for me to clamber down!
sometimes when working digital, you get carried away zooming in - and fit a splash panel of detail into something that covers less than a third of the page. Gotta scrap this, but i like the drawing still...
(pictured - a prisoner exchange)
This month, on the p@treon- a new tale from the same horrible planet as āthe grand tourā- a story called āthe kelleriteā, exploring the life and times of Dr Keller and his clone personality cult⦠But living on the fringes of a hostile culture that wants them dead has soured Dr Keller and his clone sonsā¦
read it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kellerite-part-1-113009515?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Soviet Movie Night #10: To Kill a Dragon
Featuring a wonderful write-up from the esteemed @mattsheean ! CHECK IT OUT (and better yet, watch this gem!)
So, as part of the general cross-promotional push for the softcover release of "A Star Called The Sun", I'm trying something a little different. I got contacted by this social media shirt company called TEEZR about doing some sort of merch drop, and, being the savvy-ish businessman I consider myself, my idea was to merge merch drop and promotional push into one demonic union! Whether it sells shirts or books, of course, remains to be seen, but a fella can hope, eh?
Here's the copy I wrote for the shirt itself:
A CROSSOVER OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! To celebrate the upcoming release of āA Star Called The Sunā from Image Comics this February, Simon Roy has partnered with Teezr to produce the limited-edition MARTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE T-Shirt! Pulled straight from the comic page, this gorgeous shirt depicts a Terran Commando enjoying a well-earned dart after a tough engagement (presumably inside a pressurized environment with a safe, non-flammable air mixture).
The link to the shirt (shown above) is here, and the book it's promoting can be found by clicking through the image below!
The humble village necromancerās temple. The design mimics the tiered shape of reality itself. The world tree above ascends to the heavens, and beneath it all, the stone chamber of the underworld, where the necromancer does his workā¦
The village bandit defence, and the necromancerās pride and joy- the well-oiled and oft-exercised cadaver of a warrior three generations passed, bearing complicated control talismans, painted eyes to see, and armor long since out of fashion among the living
The man you talk to when your uncle inconveniently dies before the big harvest: The village necromancer. Face always hidden, to protect him from wayward spirits; arms bound in protective amulets; skulls of the villageās previous necromancers, kept on hand for troubleshootingā¦
A Karazadi highland peasant and his uncle (deceased, reanimated) bringing goods to market. The uncleās head rests in the family crypt, while his body soldiers onā¦
Do you have any plans for a paperback release of Refugium or Miramar?
Neither have immediate plans for a paperback release - which is not to say no plans. Ideally, I would like to do a little more on the planet of miramar with @stefantosheff (we have loose outlines so far, but no scripts prepared as of yet)... and our overarching plan for future tales on this planet would involve collecting all the MIRAMAR related stories into one paperback at image, probably after one more hardcover.
Refugium will be a lot more straightforward to take to paperback, but I've got to get "A Star Called The Sun"'s paperback out first and see how @imagecomics feels about everything. My dream is to get ALL of it in mass market trade paperback so its cheaper and easier to find, but one step at a time!
so is the euhumanist logo just a sort of general-purpose lucky charm after the collapse? Like people don't know what it means exactly but wear it because they remember it as being meaningful?
I think that the main function of the Euhumanist logo(s) are as symbols of state power, and their persisting usage is partially from that. Symbols of state often keep going long past their expiration date - like the usage of communist symbols in a few of the post-soviet states, or symbols of the roman empire that keep resurfacing indefinitely!
In most cases, like in Griz Grobus, where the cops still have little euhumanist logos, I imagine that the local governments just never gave up the old symbols, and imagine some level of continuity (and the stability that implies) between themselves and the deep past. Because the collapse of galactic (Euhumanist) civilization came through external pressures (without follow-up, or invasion, etc), the people on these planets generally dont feel the same urges to re-brand their nations and societies to fit their new circumstances.
The one competing group, in my mind, are the people of the Banbeck Autonomous Repubic, who have a new flag, and made war on their neighbours (read more here - hints of the culture of the Banbeck "Mountaineers" are also in "REFUGIUM").
And, of course, I think the most persistent appearances of these old imperial symbols are just holdovers from the past, like in many parts of GRIZ GROBUS and in MIRAMAR, where these symbols are just part of their inherited infrastructure...
But they're probably not making new soviet-style murals on MIRAMAR anymore...
Did you do any extensive worldbuilding for the Azkon's Heart setting, or did you come up with the intricate armors and talismans and names on the spot? I found them all compelling enough that if you were to want to tell the full story from the book, or another from that setting I'd love to read it. I'm at the very least curious how the cook lost his eye and the wizard his arm
The worldbuilding for that world was largely incidental and vibes based, but I have plans to return to a different part of it sometime soon (using the necromantic golems of Karazad as the hook)... i just need to hammer down the story, which has gone through several iterations and needs to go through another!