Cyfa's art challenges and other bits & bobs
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- Thank you, Atolm
- Yep. No space for Earth plants here (maybe a venus fly trap?)! Thanks, SantamanPlant life in the garden.. oh, uh alien plants.. they just ATE the garden..
And Atolm is right, pretty awesome.
- Oh, now there's an idea! Have you started an entry yet, Michael?
A morning of rain thwarted my plans to get out and work on my garden, so I worked on my indoor garden instead. Yes, I finished my arboretum!
The arboretum of USS Percy Thrower (Constitution class) is stocked with many species of plants -- some of which aren't even native to this universe!
In this image there are 9 plant species from on-screen Trek, and 1 from Gold Key Comics. Then there are the interlopers from other realities - 5 in all. Have I rendered them well enough for you to identify them?
The arboretum of USS Percy Thrower (Constitution class) is stocked with many species of plants -- some of which aren't even native to this universe!
In this image there are 9 plant species from on-screen Trek, and 1 from Gold Key Comics. Then there are the interlopers from other realities - 5 in all. Have I rendered them well enough for you to identify them?
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- Thanks, gazomg. Yes, pollen allergies are a thing of the past. Stings, spines, poison and huge gaping maws, on the other hand...
- Thanks, SantamanThat is an awesome job.
- Thanks, gazomg. Yes, pollen allergies are a thing of the past. Stings, spines, poison and huge gaping maws, on the other hand...
So half the garden is edible, the other half eats YOU!
I have a couple of ideas, as I often do, but I'm not sure which of them will crystalize into an actual entry. We'll see …Have you started an entry yet, Michael?
Very cool and very colorful! Since you have suggested a movie to me in the other thread, have you by any chance seen the classic “Silent Running”? Because your space arboretum very much reminds of that wonderful movie. It's definitely kind of off-beat, but very unique in its tone and message. And I love the score.
- Exactly! But appearances can be deceiving - which half is which?!?So half the garden is edible, the other half eats YOU!
- Thanks, Michael
I have seen "Silent Running", but a very long time ago - I barely remember it. I've been meaning to watch it again for ages, so thanks for the reminder.Also, something you said earlier gave me another idea -
- but I don't know if I'm going to have much time to work on it (the dratted sun's out - again! - which means I simply must get out into the garden and sort things out before the end of Spring): Stellar Botanica, illustrations of giant machine-plants (and their various associated wildlife).
This is such a cool idea! A bit silly perhaps, but that's why I like it.Also, something you said earlier gave me another idea -- but I don't know if I'm going to have much time to work on it (the dratted sun's out - again! - which means I simply must get out into the garden and sort things out before the end of Spring): Stellar Botanica, illustrations of giant machine-plants (and their various associated wildlife).
I love these. They look very organic!I love looking at all your amazing starship art (@ashefivekay, @Rekkert, @Atolm, @SCE2Aux to name but a few), but I've recently realised that I've never actually produced any finished artwork featuring one of my own (this one doesn't count because it's just a mithered photo of a little model. Neither does this one because it's... well, it's a uterus). I've just had a look through a couple of boxes of notes and sketches and ideas (which stretch back 20-30 years!) and found these, though:
This Scirocco-class starship is based on a concept drawing by Alex Jaeger for Star Trek: First Contact.
This is USS Proteus (NX-77177) - I'd only drawn one half of it, so I flipped it over just now to create the whole thing.
And this is USS Auriga (NCC-79989-δ) - again, only half a ship flipped to make it whole (those phaser arrays strung between the nacelles are not part of the ship - they were part of a different sketch on the same piece of paper).
With the extra time that a certain event has freed up, I intend to produce a finished bit of starship art of some description. But first, I'll need to do a lot more sketches...
- Silly? I don't see what's so silly about harvesting and hunting spaceship parts from the Faster-Than-Light Lagoon to construct one's star fleet? Whatever next - making starships from scratch? Preposterous!
- Thanks, fireproof. Back when I sketched these, I vaguely recall going for a more flowing, organic look, so the fact that that's what you see means something went right! Thank you
I think they worked well. The smoother lines definitely contributed to that look while still coming across as very high tech.- Thanks, fireproof. Back when I sketched these, I vaguely recall going for a more flowing, organic look, so the fact that that's what you see means something went right! Thank you
you might be interested in this cyfa
https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2020/04/cherry-tree-reveal-their-pixmit-hoodie.html#more
https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2020/04/cherry-tree-reveal-their-pixmit-hoodie.html#more
For anyone who is interested, I've listed the different plant species from my "Into the Arboretum..." piece on my blog
A morning of rain thwarted my plans to get out and work on my garden, so I worked on my indoor garden instead. Yes, I finished my arboretum!
The arboretum of USS Percy Thrower (Constitution class) is stocked with many species of plants -- some of which aren't even native to this universe!
In this image there are 9 plant species from on-screen Trek, and 1 from Gold Key Comics. Then there are the interlopers from other realities - 5 in all. Have I rendered them well enough for you to identify them?
recognize the Capherian apples that Gary Mitchell "summoned" into existence. I pot that ambulatory spiny pod from "The Infinite Vulcan" as well as a Phylosian spacecraft seen through the view port. The blossoms in the foreground are from "The Counter-clock Incident" and I see a pair of Triffids from an early 80s BBC adaptation.
The rest elude me.
For those that are interested, I've made a list of the plants in my arboretum, below.
If one was to wander along the path from right to left (front to back), on your left you would see:
If one was to wander along the path from right to left (front to back), on your left you would see:
- Pet vine - the green edged/centred leaves
- Capellan flowers - the pink & purple flowers withthe yellow stamens
- A couple of "Beauregards" - the pink flowers with thick brown stems
- Two spiky cactus-like plants from Ledonia III
- A singing plant from Talos III - with the blue disc-like flowers
- Three retlaw plants - the pink pom-poms on "legs"
- On to the first interloper: the Rangdo from 80s British game show The Adventure Game - the aspidistra on the pedestal "talking" to the Starfleet science officer and the Kressari botanist by the Vortex Grid (both the shaking aspidistra Rangdo and the Vortex Grid scared me silly as a child)
- The second interloper is the leaf pile from Calvin and Hobbes - barely visible next to the door at the far end
- A Phylosian crew member - on the path partially obscured by the Capellan flowers (a Phylosian starship can be seen out of the viewports near the planet)
- A Kaferian apple tree - palm-like leaves with yellow-green fruit (there's one at the end over the door, too)
- Pod plants from Gamma Trianguli VI - the purple flowers with yellow centres
- A K-G running vine - it seems to be happy being stationary (this is the plant from the Gold Key comics - the Kressari botanist is wearing the same type of coverall as those worn by Captain Kirk and Janice Rand in the comic)
- Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors film
- Red weed from War of the Worlds
- Triffids from the 1981 BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids
Cyfa, you are an amazing artist! Do you have any social media I could follow? I love your costume designs the most.
