Holse's Notebook

Xinthia

(Tensile Aeronathaur) an Airworlder; giant airships (smaller than dirigible behemothaurs); semi-adapted for high-pressure gaseous/liquid environments and space-capable. Now rare and generally Developmentally/Inherently/Pervasively Senile; see WorldGod, the

Nariscene

Sarl mentors; insectile MLI

Aultridia

upstart species that evolved from parasites living under carapaces of Xinthia; mat-like/pelliform (also “Squirmiform”, term of abuse); LLI

Morthanveld

Nariscene mentors; spiniform waterworlers, HLI

From the "Culture" final major project, for the appendix of Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Work not affiliated to Banks or his publisher.

Marain script with attribution to Daniel Solis danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/free-font-marain-scr...

Alien design

Heres a bit of backdated filler while I do another painting today.

Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish

"The Dark Tower - Shardiks Beam"
Adobe Photoshop CS3 - 3 hours
Frost

Republic II

"Republic II"
Adobe Photoshop CS2 -3 hours
Frost

Republic I

"Republic I"
Adobe Photoshop CS2 -2 hours
Frost

Inspired by the view outbound from the Dominican Republic to the UK.
Source image

For Old Times Sake

Thought I would post some of my old stuff. The collective is out of university hours at the moment so updates are going to be few and far between. We need content and we need to pick up a readership so we'll be supplying some backdated eye candy.

Some robot Masai hunters roaming the plains of Kenya

.The HMS Sovereign, a United Kingdom Star-Dreadnought

I got bitched at by my tutor for spending so much time on this. Its pointless but it looks kind of good.

Maidstone, the town most of us live, study and work in at the moment. I once described its residents a a slurry, flowing haphazard down the streets like living sewage. I was being overly-dramatic really, Maidstone is okay.