Jonas minnebo

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Sketchbook

Makeshift spaceships and Gundam-inspired mechs are part of the experimental designs in the concept artist’s sketches

Jonas Minnebo

**SELF-PROPELLED GUN** “This self-propelled gun started out its life as a mash-up between the Bandkanon 1A and a Soltam L-33. This was an attempt to push the shading’s refinement using black watercolour paint over a ballpoint pen line-art base.”

**SET OF COSMONAUTS** “Some astronauts in a makeshift style to accompany the spaceship designs I was doing at the time. These were also a workflow experiment, using watercolour pencils to create an overall gradated base to refine with pencil shading.”

**MECHA UNIT** “I’m a fan of Gundam design, and I wanted to make a more humanoid mech design, inspired loosely by the style of a Zaku. Done in ballpoint pen with pencil shading on marker paper.”

**FUEL VESSEL** “A spaceship design done on marker paper. I tried to show restraint in my use of the black fineliner pen, combining it with several grey markers to build shapes, as well as a grey fineliner for choice details.”

**JOUSTING SHIP** “Part of an ongoing series of makeshift spaceship designs. The idea for this one was for it to be a jousting vessel, using an array of thrusters to propel itself to high speeds and a combination of a jousting shield and lance to crash into other ships.”

**WALKER** **MECH SKETCHES** “This is a thumbnailing and sketching style I’ve recently grown quite fond of. I focus heavily on occlusion shadows drawn with an ink brush pen, and then denote shape with grey alcohol pens. The idea for these specific designs was just to experiment a bit with fun shapes, with not too much of a pre-planned objective.”

**GEARS OF FLIGHT** “I quite like drawing aeronautical designs, especially when they have an exaggerated, over-the-top style. The design mindset that I adopted while working on Gears of War definitely seeped into the design of this one.”

**EXPERIMENTAL** **FLYING SHIPS** “These drawings were done at the beginning of my series of makeshift spaceships, and are in a way the precursors to the style I ended up using for that series. These sketches were drawn with a Pilot Hi-Tec pen, and then shaded by using a water brush to smear the ink around.”

**WALKING** **WEAPON PLATFORM** “A bipedal mech for which I did a fair amou

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Imagine FX Magazine

19 December 2023

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