Friend-of-the-Blog Mathias was asking me about my process, in light of the fact that he liked my Moon Shark ship design (see previous post). I told him I’d been sketching and sketching for quite a while before I came up with anything I liked very much.
In digging through my sketches, I’ve discovered it’s worse than I thought. I’ve been drawing, sketching, and designing stuff for Moon Town almost subconsciously (even on the margins of pages meant for other stuff, and notes done in meetings) for over two years now. There’s practically not a scrap of paper in this house that doesn’t have a spaceman, spaceship, or alien scribbled on it, and looking back, I can see I’ve been trying to puzzle something through.
HERE’s a typical batch of doodles, this one featuring spacemen and aliens. I should point out that I’m sure the spaceman will look nothing like these sketches, and neither will his spaceship. The alien… well, I may be onto something here, but we’ll see.
