Shakti_Pro_Fighter

Sol_Confed_Enviroment

Quickly created a perceptive grid in epic carapace. The idea behind this environment is Sol Confederacy orbital dry dock for building and repairing their starships over a gas giant.

Dry dock silhouette in place, I'm still playing with the perceptive and overall composition, after finalizing this I will begin working into the silhouette and developing it to match the Sol Confederacy faction aesthetic.

Hubble Telescope pics for Ref

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/25th-anniversary-of-the-hubble-telescope/ss-AAbqBCE?ocid=mailsignoutmd#image=15

Shakti_Pro_Fighter

I found as I developed the Dreadnought that I was using repetitive forms with loops and beak like shell, to continue to make the Protectorate fighter feels like a logical derivative of the larger ship I chose to keep the beak like shell over the main body of the fighter.

Shakti_Pro_Dreadnought

Starting off with one of the initial Silhouettes and working into try to make a shape that hints of more details and scale.

Going to make it smaller through the transform tool and continue working into it till I am satisfied with the shape. While adhering to the perceptive grid.

 Continuing to build silhouette now going to start adding colours.

 Implementing the colour scheme, however finding it too saturated and will have to paint in darker hues and shows and further details for scale.

 Shakti Protectorate

Misc Work: Acid Reflux

Some misc work:
Three paintings done outside the project experimenting with various brushes and effects.

Shakti_Pro_Moodboards+Silhouettes

As previously stated the Protectorate share a lot of the Confederacy design and aesthetic, so I'm posting the moldboard for the Confed again as well, so I can easily view both for reference.

Silhouettes:
Going to move on to using alchemy instead of drawing silhouettes in Photoshop, to hopefully get some more creative variation.

Finished Silhouettes

Iterations for capital ship. Following the structure of the Sol Confederacy, I design the practical ship first. The reason I do this is design a ship I feel sums up the factions presence and then extrapolate aesthetics and themes into smaller ships.

I've created iterations on a chosen silhouette to test out paint schemes using the factions colour scheme, which the first two iterations I felt looking too toy-like and juvenile with the use of blocks of colour I referenced a painting by Rob Cunningham (below) to help better implement the colours to look more organized and appealing I feel the middle right image turned out the best as the black stripes going mostly in the same direction is less confusing to look at (from peer review).

Finished Emblems

All Emblems commissioned by KnottyProf done to the descriptions in the BA7 Design Document and additional directive guidance from myself.

Sol Confederacy

Shakti Protectorate

Ixion Federation

Zodiac Court

Aquila Dominion

Athenian Hierarchy

Shakti_Style_Test

First images of Shakti Protectorate. more trying to establish an aesthetic before moving onto a mood board (thinking exotic fish and birds) and silhouettes. Using feedback from people working with me, image 2 as this time is the most popular.

The lore behind The Shakti Protectorate is they were once part of the former United Sol Empire. To represent this there should be to common points of architecture that are similar to the Sol Confederacy vessels, such as the standard horizontal profile as well as the exposed beam pieces often beneath the main hull.