Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/07/10/spaceships-are-hollow/

It’s time for Illustration Friday again, and spaceships are once more on my mind. I haven’t given up on my cat animation – oh no – it’s just that spaceship designs come so much easier to me.

Anyway this week’s word on Illustration Friday is “hollow” and this immediately reminded me of the predicament of hurtling through the voids of space in the hollow tin can of a spaceship – an all too real feeling for the brave adventurers of the future, and almost as real for the players who roll them up for use in an RPG.

As an ex player of science fiction role playing games I have designed and made illustrations for a great many spaceships over the years, and I just can’t seem to kick the habit. I might come up with fewer statistics for role-playing games such as Traveller than I did way back then, but I’m still sketching just as many spaceships.

This has given me the idea to start a spaceship sketch book as part of the spaceships section of my website and so have an easy little corner to upload all these generic spaceship sketches without having to bother about coming up with RPG stats for them first.

I typed “spaceship sketch book” into Google to see if anyone out there was doing the same thing and I found this very nicely designed science fiction art site. I’ll have to be working very hard to compete with high quality work like this.