Here we start with my fixation with airships during our project. I’m not sure what happened here, I sketched out a couple of fish-inspired solo airships and then they started to multiply. At the heart of this two-page spread and the next was a desire to sketch and render some interesting environments ranging from a canyon landscape to a mega-cityscape. The upper right color sketch reminds me of a series of St. Louis Arches on steroids. Again, like childhood daydreams, my imagination ran with the adventurous piloting of these airships. I could imagine being cantilevered out the mouth of one these fishy airships far above a futuristic cityscape. I tried to reflect the storyline through the thumbnail sketches first. As before, I find it very fast and fun to lay down my initial ideas for a rendering in this fashion.

The sketches above took me a little longer than the snow vehicle sketches due to the nature of the environments, the detailing and the more complicated perspectives. The size of the originals range from around 2x3 inches to 3x4 inches. I also had fun adding a bit more value rendering to the forms and the environments.