Flashback Friday – Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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Aug 152014
 

It’s a little later than usual for a flashback, but I slept in late today. It’s just that lazy kind of Friday y’know? I’ve been awake for a while now and ready to flash it back!

It’s Star Trek time again.

Here’s Cyran in his Admiral’s uniform from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I don’t know that Cyran would ever rise to the rank of admiral, but it was the colour scheme I liked best out of the ST:TMP uniforms.

Cyran-TMP

Here’s the comparison to the original mash-up. Back then, I gave Cyran the pad just so that his pose would be a little different from everyone else’s. I couldn’t get it to work the way I wanted it to in the new piece, so I dropped it.

Trek-Cyran-TaN

That’s all for this week. Nektara’s back next week. Field your guesses on who she’s going to be in the comments below. Have a great weekend folks!

Flashback Friday – Romulan Zoë

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Jul 112014
 

It’s Friday folks! I’m going to Quebec City today. But before that can happen we have to start our Friday right with a flashback!

When I drew the first Star Trek mash-ups back in 2012, I thought it’d be nice to feature the uniforms from each of the different time periods we see in the various Trek shows and movies. When I got to Barnaby and Zoë, I’d run out of uniforms. I didn’t want to do the variants of the Next Generation uniforms as appear in Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I therefore chose to do a Romulan uniform for Zoë and a Klingon uniform for Barnaby. I wasn’t keen on redoing the Romulan uniform but it turned out alright. I’m not crazy about the colour. This is one of those pieces where it may be worth clicking to enlarge just to see the detailing on the belt and buckles.

Zoe-Romulan

Here’s the comparison to the original piece. I prefer the metallic sheen on the original piece actually. The stills from the show I used for the new piece showed that the actual uniforms were made of cloth, not metal like the design sketch I used to base myself on for the original.

Trek-Zoe-TaN

That’s all for this week! Next week will feature an Avenger! But which one? You’ll find out Friday!

Flashback Friday – Science Officer Todrick

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Jun 062014
 

Hey! It’s Friday! Time for a flashback foray! I don’t know what else I could say, that rhymes with ‘hey’ so let’s just get on with it, okay?

This week’s flashback is of a mashup I was particularly proud of back when I first drew it, but now is actually pretty painful for me to look at. Thank Six for the remake!

From the Star Trek theme, here’s Todrick in a science officer uniform. To change things up a little, I went with the uniform from the 2009 movie reboot rather than a straight-up original series uniform. I will say this, the new communicators look a lot like a cell phone. I know that cell phones were sort of inspired by the old communicators, but from the back the new ones are indistinguishable from a normal cell phone. As always, click on any picture to enlarge it.

Todrick-Reboot-Science

Here’s the comparison to the original piece to see what I was talking about above.

Trek-Todrick-TaNThat’s all for this week. Next week, Nektara is going to be a bad girl. Any guesses? Leave them in the comments below!

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Flashback Friday – Oonchie LaForge

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May 022014
 

It’s Thursday night as I write this, but it’ll be Friday morning when this goes live. Fridays are for flashbacks. Let’s flash!

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise, its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.

That’s right. It’s Star Trek time again. And here we have Big Oonch as Geordi LaForge. As always, click on a picture to enlarge it.

Oonchie-Laforge

Here’s the comparison with the original piece. Back in the early days, I thought Oonch should have two little hairs sticking out. Now I like him “bald”. The long tunic versions of costumes didn’t work as well for Oonch and Cyran since they’re so short and we never saw their legs.

Trek-Oonch-TaNNext week, things will happen and pictures will go up. Which pictures though? We’ll all know in seven days time! Have a good weekend!

Flashback Friday – Star Trek Rad Suit

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Mar 212014
 

It’s Friday! Normally, I leave work early on Friday which is nice, but today I have Friday off, which is even better! Sleep in yo! How sad is it though that sleeping in today, meant 8:15? Maybe I couldn’t sleep a minute longer knowing that I had a flashback to share. Yeah, that must be it!

I try to spread out the flashbacks a little amongst the various themes and characters. For this week’s theme, I felt it was time to revisit Star Trek again and to feature Deema. So, hey, whaddya know? It’s Deema in her Star Trek costume!

I’ve said before that I felt that Star Trek II featured the best uniforms in the whole franchise. That statement wasn’t limited to the standard crewmen uniforms, but the engineering unis as well. One I especially liked was the radiation suits that they wore. When my Deema as a Gorn piece turned out so bad I didn’t even want to share it, I fell back on this uniform for her mash-up.

Deema-MovieII-Radiation-Sui

Here’s the comparison piece. I think it’s one of the more striking comparisons. I’m so much happier with my linework now. The curves and circles especially are so much smoother. I also no longer feel the need to colour in white sections with an off-shade. The shading gives enough texture to set apart the costume from the white background.

Trek-Deema-TaNThat’s all for this week’s flashback. Next week’s will feature Zoë. Come back to see which costume she’ll be wearing!

 

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