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I didn't intend for this week's pair of illustrations to share a theme, but apparently I was really in the mood to draw Starfleet uniforms with skirts.
Drawing 535 / 2024 Artwork 68: Shouko Komi from Komi Can't Communicate in a TOS miniskirt.
Drawing 537 / 2024 Artwork 70: Madoka Ayukawa from Kimagure Orange Road, just slightly early for her birthday on May 25th.
Drawing 538 / 2024 Artwork 71: Beckett Mariner from Lower Decks. As usual, I threw in as much detailing from the live-action uniforms I could.
Drawing 539 / 2024 Artwork 72: Pike's Enterprise from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, or - Did I Ever Mention How Much I HATE Drawing Concentric Circles By Hand?
Over in Firebird Studios' writers room, we've hit a major milestone for season 2 on EVA-Trek - the new 73-page writers' guide! I've made copious notes on the cast's trajectories going into the year, which I'll now use in helping me to finalize breaking the stories for the season's fifteen episodes. Here's a little sneak peek, including the new yellow script covers for season 2 compared with season 1's red - a little homage to the Berman era changing the cover color each year.
If all goes well, season 2 is targeting a late 2024/early 2025 start, hopefully with the every-two-weeks release schedule I maintained for the post-WGA strike episodes of season 1.
Also this week, I ended up writing a 900-word outline for what will become a Misato-focused EVA-Trek short story that'll go up sometime this summer. I ended up using some ideas from an earlier scrapped version of the season 2 premiere episode before I pushed it in a different direction. It's funny I can't stop thinking of new story ideas for this damn series. I think it's a sickness.
Yes, I totally agree with @Santaman - Madoka Ayukawa's eyes are gorgeous!
Mariner looks awesome. And I see you stuck with the shallower black shoulder yoke as per LDS rather than the rather awkward deeper version that SNW went with - Good choice (imo)
"Did I Ever Mention How Much I HATE Drawing Concentric Circles By Hand?" is great! (and I totally feel your pain)
And I see you stuck with the shallower black shoulder yoke as per LDS rather than the rather awkward deeper version that SNW went with - Good choice (imo)
I nearly drew the uniform with the deeper yoke, but ultimately I realized that the shallower one from the original design looks a lot better. The best version of the Lower Decks uniform for me maintains the proportions of the original, but adds the detailing of the live-action costume. That detail helps make it look like a real outfit.
After doing some preliminary concept sketches last night and today on some new sets for EVA-Trek, I suddenly got the inspiration to start a thing...
I'm so damn glad I've got full access to Bluebeam Revu to help me put these stage plans together. I'll have everything to proper scale once I get them all finished. That titleblock is even an editable stamp I can quickly place and edit on new sheets.
In the meta-production universe of EVA-Trek, season 2 will add Stage 18 at Paramount for four additional sets - redesigned and expanded sets for the classroom and Ritsuko's lab (formerly on Stage 9), an A.R. Wall, and some new sections of corridors to connect them all. Right now, I'm using the footprint of the version used on Strange New Worlds as a starting point in order to help me figure out how much room I can give to the other new sets.
I've got a good concept for the classroom set I'm finally happy with that I need to translate into digital. It'll be located on the saucer rim on deck 9 of the Galaxy-class USS Nerv and will take some inspiration from the Ten-Forward set.
All this because I'm procrastinating from breaking the stories for season 2...
Had a very annoyingly busy IRL week in the shadow of the Memorial Day holiday, so I only had the energy for a single drawing this week. I'm honestly surprised I even did this! I was on empty yesterday until that little spark of inspiration hit me that I've learned to never deny.
Drawing 540 / 2024 Artwork 73: EVA-Trek season 2 preview cast photo - Lt. J.G. Asuka L. Soryu and Acting Ensign Shinji Ikari.
I'll miss drawing the TNG/Voyager uniforms as EVA-Trek heads into the era of the Dominion War, but I gotta say these uniforms are growing on me more and more.
On a side note... does anybody happen to know where I can track down the full orchestral score for Dennis McCarthy's arrangement of the Star Trek: The Next Generation main theme? I wanna make a bunch of tweaks to EVA-Trek's main title theme and a big one is improving the opening ethereal bit to get it to sound as close to TNG as possible.
I'm trying to find the sheet music for those first 43 seconds, which is the same between McCarthy's original version and the final rework of Jerry Goldsmith's theme.
Felt like sharing a couple other concept sketches I've been working on lately. Not counting these as part of my numbered drawing series.
These are my first couple passes at some of the new sets for EVA-Trek's second season I mentioned in my post from last Monday. Still a lot of work to do, but at this point, I'm happy with the layout of the new classroom. Next is gonna be Ritsuko's lab.
INT. NEW CLASSROOM - Version 1. This first version envisioned the set on deck 8 of the USS Nerv. Ultimately, I hated the flow of the room.
INT. NEW CLASSROOM - Version 2. This brought the set down to deck 9, taking structural inspiration from Ten-Forward. It finally got the right flow I was looking for. Also included are rough sketches for the new version of Ritsuko's Lab and my rough attempt at figuring out the layout of the new sets on Stage 18.
Drawing 541 / 2024 Artwork 74: Meru Zetsubouda, girlfriend #29 from 100 Kanojo... a nihilistic fairy tale author.
Sorry to have another single drawing week, but I was on a sorely-needed vacation.
Spent most of the week deep-diving into the archives of William Wyler (The Big Country and Ben-Hur), Dalton Trumbo (Spartacus and Hawaii), Stanley Kramer (The Pride and the Passion and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), James R. Webb (How the West Was Won), and Walter Mirisch (Fiddler on the Roof and The Hallelujah Trail) at UCLA. The trip was a long time coming, as I had these items on my to-do list since before the pandemic. Got to photograph a bunch of scripts and production documents for my research collection and had a great time! On a side note - Kramer's papers are one of the most complete and extensive collections I've ever seen from a director. You could spend days combing through it... and I'd love to do just that.
My evenings were spent cataloging my research... and also writing a new EVA-Trek short story! Had the idea to structure it like an episode of The Ready Room, so it comes with added Wil Wheaton! I also snuck a little seaQuest reference in there for funsies.
EVA-Trek - Episode 1x26.5 - "(Zero Hour)".
Stardate 49938.2: The Captain of the USS Nerv reflects on the months since the climactic "Battle of Earth."
Re: the classroom
I always preferred to have my desk in the back of the classroom. It allowed me to do a quick scan of the students' screens to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to when they were working individually on the PCs.
Re: the classroom
I always preferred to have my desk in the back of the classroom. It allowed me to do a quick scan of the students' screens to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to when they were working individually on the PCs.
That would make sense if I were going for a more realistic setting for sure. In terms of a set, I'm not sure how'd I'd be able to make the room flow as well by putting the desk in the rear. I liked the idea of putting the desk and lectern on a dais at the front of the space to enhance it as the room's focus.
In-universe, I could justify it by saying the teacher has monitoring controls at their desk that tracks whether any of the students are accessing inappropriate content.
@Firebird Fair enough. Just offering feedback.
(FWIW, another reason I liked the desk in the back is that it didn't obstruct the students' view of the wipe-board.)
Drawing 542 / 2024 Artwork 75: Ranma Saotome of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. Heard earlier this week that Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 has an anime remake in the works, following the Urusei Yatsura adaption that will be wrapping up this week.
Drawing 543 / 2024 Artwork 76: Itsuki Nakano of The Quintessential Quintuplets models the skirt variant of the Star Trek Beyond uniform. Oddly enough, this is the first Kelvinverse Starfleet outfit I've drawn in the last 500+ illustrations! Also, there's a special challenge here to spot the little fuck-up I made.
