Tag: startrek
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inktober 2020 day 23
rip If you’re just discovering us today, please visit all of my Star Trek Themed Inktober Comics here. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve modified my posting schedule to every other day. This means my Star Trek themed Inktober will continue sometime into November. With day 23’s prompt, ‘rip,’ we have the return of the Gorn,…
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inktober 2020 day 22
chef I continue to fall behind, but also continue to carry on. Day 22’s prompt is ‘chef’ starring Neelix, from Star Trek Voyager, who took over in the ship’s kitchen. I think they decided to have a cook in order to reserve replicator power? I haven’t seen many episodes of Voyager. And I just realized…
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inktober 2020 day 21
sleep Maybe trying to show the different approaches to sleep, or sleeplessness, rather, that different captains have. pencils Here’s a shot of the pencils before I inked the page. For the captain’s quarters, I found this great resource. For Kirk’s image, I referenced Star Trek VI, and in particular this great read on the movie,…
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inktober 2020 day 20
coral Another of those Inktober drawings where I had just a single image but didn’t know the story. This time the idea was from the point of view of Livingston, the fish in the aquarium of Picard’s ready room, looking out at the captain. I doodled ideas in my sketchbook. Lynda Barry, I think, talks…
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inktober 2020 day 19
dizzy This was another of those ideas that took a long time to come up with. Back in September when I was first thinking about these ideas, all I had was a few notes in the sketchbook like ‘Picard ice skating?’ Just yesterday I hit upon the idea of the bridge crew doing donuts in…
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inktober 2020 day 18
Trap Today’s gag (I don’t love that word, gag, does anybody have a suggestion for what to call the twist or story in a comic? Maybe turn, how about turn. Let’s try turn. Maybe it will stick.) came from the idea that everybody and I mean everybody is there waiting for Admiral Ackbar, when he…
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inktober 2020 day 17
Storm Last night I hit a wall of exhaustion after drawing the strip and just couldn’t get to the inks, so today’s inktober is arriving a little late in the day. I’m starting to spend longer on each strip, too. The last two have taken me about 4 hours each, from drawing to completed inks,…
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inktober 2020 day 16
Rocket Picard and warp drive inventor Zefram Cochrane share a moment in Picard’s past, Cochrane’s present, and our future. Browse This Year’s Star Trek Inktobers I created a collection to house all of this year’s Star Trek Inktobers, so you can easily browse your favorites and skip over the clunkers. It’s easy! Inktobers Past You…
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inktober 2020 day 15
Outpost Researching today’s prompt outpost in memory alpha, I hit upon the Starfleet outposts that are built into asteroids on the edge of the neutral zone between the Federation and the Romulans. In the original series episode Balance of Terror these outposts are being destroyed by an unknown ship. I decided not to reference those…
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inktober 2020 day 14
Day 14 Armor An armored Klingon from the Kelvin timeline for today’s strip. This morning I woke up early and did another inked version, but ended up going with the original. Though the inking feels super clumsy on today’s strip, this version was more interesting than the second version I did. I’m not entirely sure…
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inktober 2020 day 13
Day 13 Dune I read Dune for the first time in January. I’m re-reading it again now. Taking it much slower this time. Enjoying it more. If you haven’t read it before, you should give it a shot. The first 60 pages or are difficult, Herbert throws everything at you and expects you to pick…
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inktober 2020 day 12
Day 12 Slippery Today’s slug-like creature was really inspired by Peter David’s run on DC Comic’s 1984 Star Trek series. David embraced The Animated Series’s ability to populate the crew with non-humanoids, since it’s not any more expensive to draw a character with three arms than it is to draw a traditional humanoid. Sketches Here’s…
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inktober 2020 day 11
Day 11 Disgusting For today’s prompt, I pretty much stole the hilarious teaser of the season 2 episode from Next Generation, Time Squared, where Riker prepared ‘Owon Egg Omelette’s for his friends. (For some reason, I inexplicably called them ‘Owog Eggs in the panel.) I removed Data from the scene entirely, added a little projectile…
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inktober 2020 day 10
Day 10 Hope Just a single image today. A moment from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy, where Kirk gives them hope for survival by destroying his own ship. I think most of my Star Trek love comes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and this movie, which…
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inktober 2020 day 9
Day 9 Throw Counselor Troi and Lt Worf doing a little judo. I was inspired by the Next Generation Episode Second Chances, where I thought they were doing judo, but apparently I wasn’t paying attention, because Worf was actually leading a class in Mok’ bara. I am a bad Trekker. Inktobers Past You can visit…
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inktober 2020 day 8
Day 8 Teeth For the longest time, I didn’t have a story for this one. The prompt of ‘teeth’ led me right to the Gorn, and so the image of McCoy reluctantly acting as dentist on the Gorn wasn’t far behind. But all I had was that image. It wasn’t until I realized that this…
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inktober 2020 day 7
Day 7: Fancy Inspired by that episode of DS9 where the crew play baseball against a team of Vulcans, I chose to depict Ezri Dax with some ‘fancy’ skills. I saw this episode recently, but didn’t remember Ezri Dax mentioning ‘Fancy Dan’ to Dr. Bashir, but searching fancy in the memory alpha must have been…
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inktober 2020 day 6
Day 6 Rodent Data, Geordi, and Spot (Data’s cat) make their first appearance in this year’s Star Trek themed Inktober. Though I tried to research all of the prompts for this year’s inktober in advance so I didn’t have to try and come up with an idea last minute, this was a last minute idea.…
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inktober 2020 day 5
day 5 ‘blade’ Worf and Jadzia sparring. I gave Worf and Jadzia the weapons and outfits they wore when sparring in the opening teaser of the 14th episode of season 4, ‘Sons of Mogh.’ If you’re deep into the details of Star Trek, (I’m usually not, but when working on this sort of project, I…
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inktober 2020 day 4
Day 4: Radio Inking this strip last night was my most confident inking this month. I think it’s because I spent more time on drawing the characters, though I did get lazy on Uhura’s control panel. I’m also getting more comfortable with my tools, which also helps. I should also note that I leave the…
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inktober 2020 – day 2
Day 2 Prompt: Wisp A quick search of ‘wisp’ in Memory Alpha turned up…not much. Apparently in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, the Enterprise and its crew get swallowed by a giant ship of non-corporeal beings, aka The Wisp, and have to escape. Full disclosure: I’ve never seen an episode of Enterprise. I loved…
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Inktober 2020 Begins
Day 1 Fish The first prompt from Jake Parker is ‘fish’, so that’s where we’ll start in my Star Trek themed Inktober. A quick search of memory-alpha, the online trove of Star Trek knowledge, turns up a game of go fish in the final episode of Deep Space Nine between Quark and the self-aware holosuite…