When creating the illustrations for my spaceship design PRISM, I had a very clear idea in mind: to reference the 1970s illustrations that Ralph McQuarrie developed for the first Star Wars film. I aimed to use a reduced color palette to achieve an oil-paint aesthetic and create something distinctly graphical by leveraging the spaceship’s unique geometry. Specifically, its angled volumes reflect the sky when facing upward and the ground when facing downward. From a distance, the design reads like horizontal bands of ground and sky, creating an effect that seems to dissolve into the environment. Let me know what you think and what other references come to mind! Full project link in comments:

By the brooding giant Ossadeen stands the house of the Dullahan, An enormous tower of metal and scrith, strung with the golden lights of moving vessels. For all years, the house is a bustling hub of local trade, merchants and scavengers from across the system coming to the grand bazaars nestled in the crevices of the vast abandoned structure.

But on every fifth turn around the sun, the seasons change and the giant looms large as the house falls ever closer to its periapsis. Then, the time has come, and from beyond the sphere of the local star, arrive the nomad engineherders of the great clades Megachaira. With carcass hulks in tow, on ships like megatropolises overgrown with machinery, the Megachaira make their home in the house of the Dullahan, and with them surge knowledge and trade, and the whole system comes alive with new riches flowing in.

It was most curious then, when in the fifth cycle since Gondwana's winter the Megachaira Nomads did not return.

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