2DCavebear drawings of stuff I'd like to model (or someone else can if they like!)

cavebear

Just built a new computer and got a new scanner hooked up. Thought I would start scanning all the little sketches I've doodled while my students were doing their practical exams (when I was teaching which I stopped doing last year).

So here is some basic info:

The 'Shiv' started life as the MDS Naipier, a surplus corvette.
All window's in the Shiv's structure are 1 decimetre thick transparent armoured metaceramioid material.

The bridge windows are fitted with 1 decimetre thick armour plate shutters that cover the outside when in combat situations.

All visuals are taken by externally mounted high definition cameras and other sensors [i.e.: infrared, radar, lidar, visual spectrum light. ultraviolet, x-ray, etc...] tied into the ships redundant computer system and fed to a range of viewing platforms. In other words, nobody looks out the windows to navigate But the view is nice when you are orbiting a planet.



Not really happy with the aft of this ship and have no idea what the engines would look like at the moment

evil_genius_180

I really like the shape of this. It's got a nice flow to it.

cavebear

Thank you

rojren

Interesting. Lots of complex curves.

cavebear

Got some more scanned now. Most are just off the cuff ideas and not developed beyond that but they might be of interest to somebody. I think I will dig out some of the stuff I did in high school when I was a prolific drawer.

cavebear

rojren wrote: »

Interesting. Lots of complex curves.

Thank you rojren

evil_genius_180

You've got some nice concepts there.

I remember when I used to draw in high school. Fortunately, not long after I graduated, I bought my first computer and, not long after, discovered the joys of CGI, because I can't draw.

cavebear

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

You've got some nice concepts there.

I remember when I used to draw in high school. Fortunately, not long after I graduated, I bought my first computer and, not long after, discovered the joys of CGI, because I can't draw.

Yeah, when I graduated high school the computer I had was aTI99. My first though was a Timex Sinclair. Once I was in the infantry and had some money I bought an Amega that was modded with 1 Meg memory! To this day the graphics program I used on it could still kick butt

I pretty much stopped drawing when I joined up as I no longer had the free time. I regret that but as they say; "That's life".

evil_genius_180

My first computer was in the Pentium II era, though mine had an ARM CPU. (cheaper than Intel) Some of the first software I got was a nice 2D CGI package, which replaced my need to pencil and pen it. Though, I replaced the computer a few years later with a P3 equivalent AMD. That was the one where I first started doing 3D CGI. Such fond memories.

Starrigger

Cavebear, loving the sketches! Are you going to model any of them out?

cavebear

Hey there Starrigger

I don't know if I ever will. One of the reasons I'm putting them up is they might give others some ideas. Maybe they might want to model the drawings as they are of just use some of the ideas. I've got lots more to upload now that I have a ton of them scanned.

cavebear

So I've just scanned another 129 pictures that I did a very long time ago. Just a quick look shows that they go from 1981 to the early 1990's. It is very safe to assume that I was influenced by everything from Star Wars and Battle Star Galactica to Frank Frazetta and Stewart Cowley's series of Terran Trade Authority books featuring artists such as Peter Elson, Jim Burns and Colin Hay, Bob Layzell, Angus McKie, Tony Roberts, Fred Gambino, Robin Hiddon, Alan Daniels, Trevor Webb, and Chris Moore.

Steven Eisler's book Space Wars Worlds & Weapons was a huge influence as well as almost everything that Mobius put out in Heavy Metal. Even stuff I was looking at in Cars Magazine helped me out. They used to have a section that showed kids how to draw crazy cars.

I did a lot of ink and pencil work as well a more pencil crayon than I thought I remembered. I sure spent a lot of math classes doodling in my work books!

So here is the first bit which I kind of title my Fred Gambino phase.





















More will be coming later. Hope you like it.

cavebear

This second drawing group is just different "scenes" The oldest one I did before I was 15.

























And the oldest one...

cavebear

A couple of space stations...

cavebear

Some vehicles and robots of various sorts and types along with some Star Wars influenced (like exclusively) sail barges and Mobius/Star Wars influenced speeder bikes. Also some Traveller RPG style grav tanks.





Garbage hauler!



Need you ask?

cavebear

From the "Zoo"

cavebear

Here are a ton of ship drawings now. Some influences are clearly seen







One of my favourites here




This was drawn for the Traveller RPG that I was doing at the time.


Again, Traveller RPG influenced






Another of my fav's






Done for Traveller
















Another of my favourites and I have another drawing of it in flight that I need to find and scan.


Another fav


Top ship in this 5 ship pic is clearly a ship influenced by a design done for the Droyne in Traveller, just much bigger and only a slightly different shape. I was making it for the Traveller RPG so it would fit in with a "style" of ship for the Droyne.




I always liked this one too.


One of my all time favourites that I did for the Traveller RPG. I would LOVE to see this in 3D one day


I love this one. I used it on the first web page I ever did back in the 90's and even did a negative view of it.


I absolutely love this one as well






Never finished this one...










This should be the Orca class and not the Shark class






Here comes the big Star Wars influenced ship - never finished it though...








I always thought of this as the "Water Melon" ship












Here are two pics of a small ship






Two more of another fav




Always thought of this one as the candle stick...

cavebear

For those who do not know, FLEA is from the TTA books

cavebear

Here are some pics for shits and grins

White out family portraite from the late 80's


Mountains in the distance


Beer Stein


dead tree


columns


Chip...or is it Dale?


Desert mud brick fort decaying back to sand


Tomb similar to Conan from the movie in 1982


Another decaying fortress


Cliff


Ruin


Ancient weathered away tomb from England


Another burial chamber


Devil cat that was also drawn on a white bed sheet in CFB Cornwallis for the 7 Platoon banner (this version) and yes that is a red star depicting the USSR (our enemy of the time). It was also tuned into a tattoo when one of my friends in the infantry wanted a tat and didn't have the money. The tattooist said if he can come up with some good drawings he would get it for free. This was one of the ones I let him use. Found out years later when I was in CFB Cold Lake that it had finally been used as a tattoo.


Tree bridge


Volcano


Dead head

cavebear

Think I found the last of the ones I want to scan. Some more Fred Gambino moments, my own ships, and some stuff that only a teenage boy could think of

Fighter cut-a-way


Alcyone Corvette - maybe for a black ops team?


I've always liked the view from the top


Found a coloured pic of one of my fav's that I previously posted!


And here is that pic of one of my fav's flying over land


An abandoned base


A construction gig


Long ship


From a very old DND adventure back in the 80's


The wreck is old but the war is still going on!


I dunno...


A little Mad Maxesque


Mad Max like bike


What he thinks he looks like and what he really looks like (DND player in his mom's basement )


Why is everything so dystopian?


Big ship in trouble


Even more Fred Gambino like stuff...


Flying dino


Original castle drawing


A print of the castle I made after etching it in Plexiglas, inking it and pressing it.