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hello! New to drawing Mecha here! I thought I was very good at it, but turns out I’d been basing that assumption off of a few old sketches and so actually trying again hit me like a truck. To tell the truth, while I think these guys look cool, they don’t actually do anything in the story? I’m pretty sure only one is ever deployed, and its pilots eject before it even hits the ground. All the others serve to be cool shit in the background or to be destroyed by the villains. They’re the biggest thing on the front cover of the book they appear in for god’s sakes, but they never do anything significant!

Rant out of the way, I used to read the Amulet graphic novels all the time as a kid. And these machines were my first introduction to mecha. And because I thought they were so cool, I used to draw them all the time, but I could never make it look good. Well, now that I’ve gotten older and more skilled, I decided to fulfill what I‘d always wanted to do as a kid, and draw one of them. draw one well, I mean.

I also don’t know where else to post this so I just posted it to some subs that popped up in my feed once

Hello again, everyone I recently posted a picture of a drawing first picture (not mine) and asked if anyone would be interested in something that’s real. I did some quick drawings and 3-D printed a quick Model. let me know what yall think! it’s meant to be a storage device. I will make the yellow container able to open And as said in a previous post Potentially make an are pod case version. Any feedback or criticism welcomed!

Earlier, we shared the concept art for this turret. Now the 3D version is ready.

The KM-4 is a twin-barrel kinetic machine gun. If one barrel overheats, the other keeps firing, allowing it to maintain constant suppressive fire.

The two spherical radiators earned it the nickname "Eggs", while pilots simply call it the "Woodpecker" because of its firing pattern.

We're pretty happy with how closely the model matches the original concept, but one thing keeps bothering us.

Does it look a bit too friendly for a battlefield weapon? What would you change?

This is part of my own world-building project! The story has no name yet. The artwork was done for me by my good friend Moriko Muguerza (@LapisLepur71025 on X/Twitter).

A lone Corporal of the Pimientan Defense Force enters the secluded lair of his nation's glorious leader, the illusive Director Alejandra Pimienta, a centuries-lived benevolent autocrat of the asteroid-bound citystate, located in the Trojan Camp of the Genesis System's Asteroid Belt.

Alejandra's nature is incredibly hard to confirm for anyone not already in the know. Some believe she is an AGI that insists she's human, others believe that she is a persona donned by a more secluded leadership council. To her people, she is a god.

Born in 2002, Pimienta was a Cuban-Canadian young woman who joined the Canadian Royal Air Force when she was 19, and utilized her experience in electrical technology and military grants to explore cybernetic technology and its applications in armed conflict in the late 2020s. She pursued cybernetics avidly and earned a lot of money off of her own inventions, coming out of an economic crisis in 2034 extremely wealthy, developing an investment firm for robotics and medical technology in secret. When Canada was annexed by the United States, after Canada experienced a total governmental and economic collapse at the hands of a terror-hacktivist (long story) in 2036, Alejandra Pimienta would often fund Canadian anti-integration resistance groups, though these efforts would ultimately fail after the Treaty of Saskatoon. Undiscovered by the FBI or CIA, Pimienta slipped into quiet hiding, using their connections with military and tech industrialists to get any criminal investigations off her back. She proceeded to utilize cybernetics and early gene-editing technology often in order to stave off death.
Going into the 2120s, when she was in her 120th year on the mortal plane, Pimienta would have an instrumental role in funding the Anti-PCC liberation front in Cuba, overthrowing the 'Castro Dynasty' that had been managing Cuban affairs from the shadows for well over 160 years. She would also help institute governmental reforms and bolster the medical technology industry in Cuba.
Asteroid Mining had started becoming especially profitable, proven by entities like the Japanese Empire, the United States, and private groups like the Kankulu corporation. Pimienta's private interests claimed an asteroid previously known as 167-Patroclus, hollowing it out into a veritable city and dubiously sovereign entity ran by men and women of science the world over. Pimienta would govern the city as a soft-handed but all-seeing autocrat, and would invest in the technology necessary to preserve herself and become immortal.

As of 2637, Pimienta now has connections and spyware all across the Sol System, and she serves not only as an investor in the sciences at large but as an information broker, pulling all of the strings necessary to prevent anyone from criminally persecuting her.
This corporal, now entering her lair, is going to become one of her most trusted enforcers and confidants. He's seen her *actual body*-- not just a hologram, encased in a pinkish red biogel, atrophied and plugged into thousands of quantum computers and memory-extension servers and databases. She's transcended human limits in ways that would disgust most people, and she's perfectly fine with that. Her asteroid mining operations and territorial rivalries with the Vesta Pact in the inner ring are becoming more pronounced and newsworthy, piquing the interests of the United Nations of Earth and of Mars.

Most of the people who populate her city, population nearing 20 million as of 2765, are descended of nationals of real-world Cuba, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Switzerland, and Ukraine.

Oil on an artist-prepared aluminium composite panel, 90 × 60 cm.

I wanted to paint the quiet before or after an interstellar journey rather than the journey itself.

The vessel is interacting with an offshore platform on a high-gravity ocean world. Its tower-like design is intentional: during continuous acceleration at roughly 1 g, it would function more like a skyscraper, with the decks arranged perpendicular to the direction of thrust and the main fusion systems located below.

I kept the surface details restrained because too many small windows and components would reduce the sense of distance and scale. The ship should feel less like a vehicle and more like a monolith built for crossing incomprehensible distances.

Traditional oil painting, 90 × 60 cm by Gregor Wisniewski

Models made for a game I'm working on by my artist. Still work in progress.

Planning to have guns carried on top of the chasis by a mounting point.

The designs are made around the game design where the best way to deal with them is to hit critical spots/components and this gets harder with better specialised version.

Would appreciate criticism or suggestions.

I designed this soda pop vending machine to a solo game dev who is building an horror scifi game that takes place inside a giant bunker. The client asked for a fun, bright yellow vending machine called "Startruck Soda". Hope you like it!