The concept artist shows his industrial background as he constructs a variety of marvellous mechanical designs
SPACESHIP INTERIOR
“Interior explorations for a hero ship. I love the gravity created by acceleration that forces ships to have vertical architecture. It’s interesting having to think about design that has to work with both gravity and 0G.”
WANDERER
“Fineliners and ink wash are two of my favourite mediums to use. I’m not the most comfortable with colour, so working with values in a traditional way is where it’s at for me, especially since I grew up with a lot of art like this.”
HAVOCH SPIDER
“During one Inktober, I came up with this little spider robot that can be carried around and released close to the front line. The mech scurries over to the enemy and makes chaos. It was a fun sketch to work on.”
FISH SHIP
“An ink wash sketch from a previous Inktober where the prompt was ‘fish’. That year I tried to only draw spaceships based on the prompts. It’s quite a fun challenge to set for myself, and I ended up with a couple of interesting designs.”
THE GREATER GOOD
“Ever since I discovered the Tau in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade, they became my favourite faction in that universe. I love their design and feel I should draw them more often.”
CYBERPUNK CAR
“I’m pretty sure I was inspired by Fernando Correa’s amazing cyberpunk car sketches. This was a year or so before Cyberpunk 2077 came out, coincidentally, and I found myself really getting into watercolour during that time.”
APC CRAFT
“Another ship from the Inktober series where I was drawing ink wash ships. The prompt was ‘armour’, and I wanted to do a spacecraft that was sort of a mix of something like a Boxer APC and a gunship. I was quite happy with the end result.”
SCOUT BALL MECH
“One of my favourite Inktober sketches, as I was coming up with it while doing the pre-sketch with pencils. I liked the silly idea of the eyeball in a mech with no arms and the results were good. It made me like ink wash even more!”
LIFE DRAWINGS
“I love life sketching in parks. I have a small travel watercolour set and usually carry a mixed-media sketchbook. On hot summer days I love sitting in parks and sketching what I see.”
