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Lane Boeding “Flight of the Dominus over Argoth IV”25”x19”, Graphite Pencil, 2021 The idea for this was to show off a simple scene of some Imperial ship flying either in space or over a planet I went with the latter because it would give a better background to the artwork rather than just empty space.First, I started off drawing the stern of the ship with the large fuel tanks and armor plating coming first then I worked my way up and over making an outline of the rear of the ship. Then I worked my way forward filling in the details as I went, I got to the midsection of the ship and got a bit frustrated with the perspective but decided to push onwards and work my way to the bow where I could finally finish the ship’s outline. Finally for the ship I did some detail work like adding a trim to the armor and adding parts that raise off the armor. Then after that I started the planet with an ever-flattening curve to make it look like the ship was close to the planet with the planet done I started work on the gradient of space getting lighter near the planet and getting darker away from it. Once that was finished, I started working on planetary details like a massive smog cover using graphite powder and a cotton swab. A light covering over the planet was done and then came the hive spires, they were going to look a lot more grandeur but I couldn’t get the abstract look of them down so I relegated them to being shadowed and obscured. And finally, the last thing I did was give the hive spires a thicker smog covering the area surrounding them as a final detail.One of the more difficult parts to do was the perspective of the ship at first it was going well but once I got to around the mid-section of the ship I started to notice that the look of the ship was slightly ajar but I made do with what I already had and decided to make it look as best as I could with minimal parts erased. The whole perspective part is one thing I would’ve changed, I think I would change the ship to be flatter rather than being at the angle I picked.The style of art would be realistic as it depicts something that humanity could achieve sometime in the far future. As for what makes it unique to my style is that everything has been shaded with a pencil giving it a more detailed look rather than just having the whole thing be unshaded and white. That’s what I like about the art is that I can use my own styles to make something that I can look at and be proud of.
Lane Boeding "Merrimack Class Screw Frigate USS Roanoke (Ironclad Monitor Conversion)"25"x19", Graphite Pencil, 2021
The idea of this drawing came from my liking of early modern warships, this ship is a monitor style of ship which means that it trades off a full deck’s worth of cannons for a few large caliber cannons housed in turrets. The Roanoke itself is unique compared to most of the monitors of the time as it has an armament of three turrets rather than just one. I was going to do just the USS Monitor but I decided to change the ship to the USS Roanoke as it looks better and has more detail than the Monitor. First, I started at the rear of the ship and drew an outline of the hull with the waterline giving the lower part of the hull a hazier look to it. Then I started work on the deck and the front turret, this part was a bit more difficult to do as there were multiple different types of turrets that the Roanoke had ones without the cone roof, ones with shorter turrets, but I stuck with the conical roof as it looked better than without a roof. After the front turret was done, I moved on to the smokestacks and their housing at the midsection of the ship. Next were the last two turrets, identical to the front turret in all ways except that they were linked via a small bridge, I don’t know why they needed to be linked but it looks nice. Finally, I added flags on the front and back of the ship and to go into more detail I gave the ship some parade flags going from the rear up to the signal flagpole. More detailing was done like giving everything a run over with a pencil and smoothed out with a blending stump. No symbolism here other than this being an odd-looking ship for someone who’s only ever seen modern warships, other than that there’s the U.S. flag that states that this ship is one made and used by the U.S. Navy. The most difficult thing here was getting perspective done properly, at the start of the drawing the angle I drew the ship at made it look like the thing was bending at the mid-point. I fixed it by making the curve in the hull shallower in its curve. But if I were to start over then I would maybe rotate the ship to be more parallel with the sides of the paper rather than it heading to the bottom left corner.This drawing is realistic as it depicts a ship that was made and used in the past. Most parts of the ship are to scale as they were on the real thing. One thing I really like about drawing metal things like ships or vehicles is when I get to use the blending stump to make the metal parts look smooth as seen on the turrets and the large smokestack.
The idea of this drawing came from my liking of early modern warships, this ship is a monitor style of ship which means that it trades off a full deck’s worth of cannons for a few large caliber cannons housed in turrets. The Roanoke itself is unique compared to most of the monitors of the time as it has an armament of three turrets rather than just one. I was going to do just the USS Monitor but I decided to change the ship to the USS Roanoke as it looks better and has more detail than the Monitor. First, I started at the rear of the ship and drew an outline of the hull with the waterline giving the lower part of the hull a hazier look to it. Then I started work on the deck and the front turret, this part was a bit more difficult to do as there were multiple different types of turrets that the Roanoke had ones without the cone roof, ones with shorter turrets, but I stuck with the conical roof as it looked better than without a roof. After the front turret was done, I moved on to the smokestacks and their housing at the midsection of the ship. Next were the last two turrets, identical to the front turret in all ways except that they were linked via a small bridge, I don’t know why they needed to be linked but it looks nice. Finally, I added flags on the front and back of the ship and to go into more detail I gave the ship some parade flags going from the rear up to the signal flagpole. More detailing was done like giving everything a run over with a pencil and smoothed out with a blending stump. No symbolism here other than this being an odd-looking ship for someone who’s only ever seen modern warships, other than that there’s the U.S. flag that states that this ship is one made and used by the U.S. Navy. The most difficult thing here was getting perspective done properly, at the start of the drawing the angle I drew the ship at made it look like the thing was bending at the mid-point. I fixed it by making the curve in the hull shallower in its curve. But if I were to start over then I would maybe rotate the ship to be more parallel with the sides of the paper rather than it heading to the bottom left corner.This drawing is realistic as it depicts a ship that was made and used in the past. Most parts of the ship are to scale as they were on the real thing. One thing I really like about drawing metal things like ships or vehicles is when I get to use the blending stump to make the metal parts look smooth as seen on the turrets and the large smokestack.
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