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thisnorthernboy

@thisnorthernboy@mstdn.social

Illustrator from the UK. Spaceships, robots, and imaginary places.

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thisnorthernboy, to random
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My downloadable colouring book, of Weird Field World spaceships, is free (pay what you want) for the rest of this week.

So if you have kids that might need something to occupy them for a couple of hours in the holidays…

https://thisnorthernboy.gumroad.com

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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Interstellar Craft.

#b3d #Spaceship #SciFi

thisnorthernboy, to procreate
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Landing.

Digital sketch.

thisnorthernboy, to Starwars
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Star Wars hangar progress. #StarWars #HangarBay73 #B3d

thisnorthernboy, to illustration
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New print available - Hillside Cityscape.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thisnorthernboy/hillside-dystopia/

#illustration

My new print. An illustration of a hillside cityscape, in teal with orange highlights.

thisnorthernboy, to sciencefiction
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Sketch… Render…

A little Blender model of a space tug. A cylindrical body, with a goldfish bowl style cockpit at the front. Underneath, a yellow cylindrical cargo unit is attached

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Some cosmological dread for you this morning, via Kottke.

In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished—astronomers still can't find them…

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-group-stars-vanishedastronomers.html

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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The Seventy Three.

Drawn on an iPad using Procreate

#SciFi #Spaceship #Illustration

thisnorthernboy, to random
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Explanation from Substack as to why they allow Nazis, and others with extremist views on their platform. All very nicely written, perfectly reasonable…

But no, just fuck off. De-monetize the fuckers, de-platform them. Don't allow or encourage them.

https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

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I'm having a very expensive weekend. Had to replace my iPad Pro. Lovely to have a new one on the way, but painful to have a £1300 expense I wasn't expecting.

Would be a lovely time to buy a print or digital book!

https://thisnorthernboy.gumroad.com

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thisnorthernboy/

thisnorthernboy, to random
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If you've ever fancied a spaceship enamel pin badge (come on, who hasn't?) based on one of my illustrations for An Infinity of Ships, you're in luck.

An Infinity of Pins has launched on Backerkit, and you can choose from over a dozen different designs.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/stations/an-infinity-of-pins?ref=flairboard

A graphic showing a mock up of an enamel spaceship pin badge. The text reads: Welcome to the Future (the ship's name), Sophie-Class Light Liberator. Anyhow, anywhere, any form, any shape, anyway, anything I want. The spaceships is pale blue and pink - the colours of the Trans Pride Flag.
A graphic showing a mock up of an enamel spaceship pin badge. The text reads: Black Origami - Juke-Class Experimental Scout. Everything can be folded. Especially reality. The spaceships is dark grey and black, with a few red highlights, and is very geometric in form - looking like folded paper.
A graphic showing a mock up of an enamel spaceship pin badge. The text reads: Fuck Around and Find Out - Asshole-Class Rapid Raider and Lotus-Class Rapid Scout. AKA The Twins. The spaceships (the are two) are bright yellow and orange, with a cool gradient look.

thisnorthernboy, to random
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It's @nyrath 's fault I think about cooling fins.

Interstellar ship - work in progress.

thisnorthernboy, to comics
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Fantastic video of Mark Morales talking about inking techniques in comics. Featuring a lot of his incredible work, and other comic artists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862pfBBB3cQ

#Comics

thisnorthernboy, to illustration
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Tentacled, Lovecraftian, lighthouses available over at my Inprnt store.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thisnorthernboy/

#Illustration #Lighthouses

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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The 'Kuiper Belle' touches down on Enceladus, with supplies for the Herschel Outpost.

thisnorthernboy,
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@nyrath These look pretty cool to me.

thisnorthernboy,
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@nyrath Thanks fella. The encouragement (and the resources online) definitely help.

thisnorthernboy,
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@nyrath That’s actually one of the initial uses I had in mind for Blender. Haven’t actually tried it yet. Got a little addicted to modelling.

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@eldritch48 Hey Seth, complete Blender noob question - why/how are different elements different colours when you're building? Thanks!

thisnorthernboy, to random
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Might be making a rod for my own back here, but I think the next thing I try to build in Blender, might be a Star Wars spaceship dock - like Docking Bay 94 from ANH. Or Peli Motto's Hangar 3-5 from The Mandalorian.

I will, of course, have to design a SW ship to go in it.

thisnorthernboy,
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@nyrath Thanks fella. Trying to be a bit more considered and thoughtful about how I approach this, knowing that I’m going to have to learn a bunch of new stuff if I’m to get the result I want.

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Sketch to the basic model…

Work in progress. A blender model of a Star Wars style hangar bay - like a bundt cake, with a big wedge cut out. A figure in the foreground shows scale. A couple of Star Wars style random bits of tech have been modelled so far. At the back of the hangar a kind of control room has appeared.

thisnorthernboy, to Starwars
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Progress on #HangarBay73…

#StarWars #B3D

thisnorthernboy, to random
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Just followed a YouTube tutorial on how to create a slightly knackered, dirty, glass texture in Blender.

Looks fine. Absolutely no idea how or why. It's not really a tutorial if its just "…add a colour ramp, no add a mixer, now add a light path…".

Now turning things off and on, to figure out 'why' it worked.

thisnorthernboy, to Starwars
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Done with this for the moment I think. Got a couple of days work for clients to do, so I'll just let this percolate somewhere at the back of my mind.

#StarWars #B3D #HangarBay73

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