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I’d like to say I am big in Japan… but I’m not.

Analogue signals ♾️ digital multiverse. Industrial designer drafting a conceptually abstract corner of the science fiction universe, 'Sub Orbital Machine’, in lines of ink, graphite and pixels. CBR, AU.

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digitalangel, to art

Girl in Action Painting style (4 of 100).

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@digitalangel AI…. image

androidarts, to random
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Nuke-jumping Ogre, breaking. Who needs parachutes?

iamgerardthomas,
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@androidarts Have to ask what's with all the Ogre lurve? I hardly see anyone talking about these days.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Busy with work, school holidays and doing rough development sketch work that's not for posting 😞 So here's something I like, done with #fountainpen... Backyard hillybilly Mecha

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #artist #design #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #artistonmastodon #pencil #robot #mecha #slowart

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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Greebling.

#b3d #SciFi

iamgerardthomas,
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@thisnorthernboy Mate! You’re on fire and making us all look bad. I insist you stop it immediately.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Etchings. 1600's. From the 'Discovering Ancient Egypt' at the NMA. Magnificent stuff...

#art #fediart #mastoart #ArtHistory #cbr #canberra

Closeup of Etching of ancient Egyptian statue
Further closeup of Etching of ancient Egyptian statue

androidarts, to random
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More Ogre stuff. Not sure what the scale are, since it varies a bit between drawings, minis and 3D models... as do the designs of the side silhouettes and drawings. Apparently there are ninjas in the game. I imagine they're only useful for taking out other infantry, and maybe some kind of OGRE sabotage with sticky bombs?
Added a Stridsvagn 103 GEV for fun. Rifle is from a single drawing, as is the antennas, Winchell Chung did much of the original art back in the '70s.

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@nyrath @androidarts Gotta love some.... GEV

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@nyrath @androidarts @fnordius Would have to agree. From GEV it started to get too granular and became 'another' war game. Ogre was perfect as it was snd represented the madness perfectly

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Two sides of the same coin... 3D photomontage and 3D single object renders; probably a reflection of my past professional use of the medium as a industrial designer and having done technical archiviz for many years. I am going to be using both of these styles in Sub Orbital Machine to do things I can't express with drawing in ink and graphite.

Closeup crop image of a photomontage of a spaceship over a turbulant ocean
Render of a space craft

iamgerardthomas, to scifi
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My originals are long gone but I have the entire collection in digital format. Starblazer was pulpy but oh so good and often the highlight of Saturday afternoon trip to the news agency (news stand in the US)

Image of a Starblazer comic cover - Cosmic Outlaw

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@nyrath I’d love to have it just to have it but would never play it :/ Expensive stuff now!

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@nyrath @evildrganymede Does the tome have the art from the comics like the reviews say? It seems to be quite heavily illustrated by all accounts

iamgerardthomas, to art
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I know the clickthrough rate from SM to websites is horridly low, BUT!.... My collection of very brief world building words and equally brief PostIt Notes doodles is growing.

If you're at all interested in what the flavour of Sub Orbital Machine is all about, you can check out the collection here:

https://suborbitalmachine.com/sketches-from-the-silent

golgaloth, to history
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Excavation at Pompeii reveals new Roman paintings

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2024/04/11/pompeii-new-frescoes-discovery-paintings-cprog-orig-us2.cnn

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@golgaloth They are stunning!

iamgerardthomas, to art
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#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #artist #design #fineart #artistonmastodon #slowart

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Jan Kaplický Drawings. Probably the most important book I've bought in many years. My father is an architect & I have vivid memories of an arch. magazine with Kaplický's concepts in it. They, along with Chris Foss's '21st Century Foss' set me on a trajectory I am still travelling. Finding this book over the weekend makes it feel like everything of the past year has fallen into place.

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #drawing #artist #design #scifi #sciencefiction #artistonmastodon #slowart

Barebower, to HashtagGames
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Logan-5's lifeclock...

iamgerardthomas,
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@TechBean @Barebower You just took all the joy out of it!!! 🤣

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Ya gotta pick the right weapon son, no point bringing a knife to a gun fight.

I love working in graphite, and all my fine art pieces for Sub Orbital Machine are done with it. But I have to accept that for some work, you just have to go ink...

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #artist #design #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #artistonmastodon #pencil #spaceship #slowart

harriorrihar, (edited ) to art Spanish
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I came to this place with my imagination and then I found it in reality.

iamgerardthomas,
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@harriorrihar Hell yea! Big crack cams!!!!

iamgerardthomas, to random
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NASA getting in on !?!?! That's pretty damn cool!

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Keep it sharp people

iamgerardthomas, to art
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They sailed the skies in craft made of tin and cloth.

harriorrihar, (edited ) to art Spanish
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Shop ⚡ https://lama.co/harriorrihar/

Little by little I will add more things.

iamgerardthomas,
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@harriorrihar Really love these, especially the second one

iamgerardthomas, to bluesky
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It’s interesting just how many of my followers have ‘dormant’ accounts. Many came over in the artist exodus from TwiX, stayed a bit and then went elsewhere. It’s a shame, as there are many great folks in that list. I know a lot are active on that baffling place , so why have they left the ? What was the lack of appeal?

iamgerardthomas,
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@maegul Interesting. I actually find Bluesky more stressful due to complete lack of organic reach for what you post. Without hashtags, you rely 100% on reposts from followers (or to find anything), unless I am missing something. It’s like a system designed to rely 100% on ‘influencers’…

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Someone had to say it:

Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/boffins_propose_regulating_ai_hardware/

iamgerardthomas,
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@not2b @nyrath Yea, I think all the doom gloomers have watched too much Terminator. Problem with the LLM? Just kill the power. Back up generators will run out of diesel pretty quickly.

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