ORCA-class Light Transport / Freighter
Added 2016-05-21 23:09:54 +0000 UTCAs I mentioned before I've been lately quite busy with the Indiegogo campaign for my upcomign RPG, and before that I had some pending releases that I had to take care of. But, now it's a bit more calm again and I had some time to finish one of the maps I've been working on.
Staedler fineliners (0.5, 0.3 and 0.1) and finalized the details with Neopiko fineliners (0.1, 0.05 and 0.03) and Copic markers (C-1, C-2, C-4, C-5 and C-7).
I wanted to draw some kind of small freighter or similar space craft and I also wanted to try again the style I used in the Vargr Pocket Scout
I published recently. I actually had a little different workflow this time. I did not vectorize the lines for example, but I think this worked out well without that too. I think the vectored lines give a nice smooth feel to the lines that works better for scifi and modern maps, but I think this works with out the vectored lines just fine too :)
I drew this map mostly with my
The Dotted Lines...
Oh, and I was asked about the dotted lines. Those are something what I call "fold field stabilizers". This is related to how hyper drives work in a scifi universe that I've been working on since 2006 – actually much before that already, since I started working on the universe some time in 2001. Anyway, in that setting hyper drive is based on folding or warping space. Pretty much like in Star Trek actually. The Oberman field generator (named after its inventor) creates a warp bubble around the ship, but without the stabilizers the field oscillates and deforms very easily if there are large masses nearby, for example. And this is what the stabilizers are for. They keep the fold field stable, even if the ship moves relatively close to a start or a planet.
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The maps are attached with this post and you can also get them on Dropbox, HERE.
I hope you like this :)
