Number Of Spacecraft I Have Drawn Doing The Blehhh... Pose: 2

letters from the end of the world

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11: Warm or cool colors?

Cool colours ALL THE WAY! 🧊

In fact, I don’t think I recall ever having used reds and oranges in an atmospheric way. Even my “warm” colours—against all odds—always end up looking cool thanks to how much I love drowning things out with grey.

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1: What is your favorite color to work with?

Grey! I absolutely love greyscale stuff and enjoy making works with limited colours (quite literally in this case) in chase of that sweet, sweet feeling of ease you get from freeing yourself from the hell that is colour choice in order to focus on value and form directly. A lot of my stuff’s usually just a couple of saturated hues against a sea of white and/or black. Can’t mess up a colour when there is no colour!

But that’s a bit of a boring answer…

I also love blue! Specifically, imperial blue—that sea colour. You could probably tell by how much I draw space agency coveralls, haha.

The Chipspeech discord server has been nothing but chaos for nearly a year straight. Bert and Rotten are there. We do not know peace.

Sputnik 1 is 6x as heavy as Explorer. So, it is possible that he could carry him...

Oh, totally. But Sputnik's all about surprises, so why stop there?

(They live in low earth orbit with zero-G so it technically works both ways.)

OC Alphabet Soup

Send me a letter of the alphabet A-Z, and if I have an OC starting with that letter, I'll tell about them.

On This Day in 1957

Happy Sputnik Day. On October 4th, 1957 the USSR launched the very first satellite into Earth orbit disjointing countless noses here in the US.

Pictured above is the backup Sputnik that was to be launched should the first attempt have failed. It can be found at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas along with many more air and space wonders.

ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme, CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite).

[04/10/1957] — Бип...бип...бип...

History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. It was around the size of a beach ball, weighed 83.6 kg (183.9 pounds), and took about 98 minutes to orbit Earth on its elliptical path. This ushered in a new age of political, military, technological, and scientific developments, and although the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.