As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple procedure of overlapping shapes and gradations and graphic elements that I find appealing. They often turn out quite abstract.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024
148 Echelon
One of my favourites. Maybe because of the graphic element of the Morse code like dashes superimposed over the architecture. I think the flying ships are stellar! A few posts earlier you can see the design development of one of them. I often put too many elements in these pictures. It’s hard for me to be satisfied with simplicity. The top ship probably doesn’t need to be there but it adds a nice counter movement to the two other ships.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Echelon Dream - 152
Every once in awhile there is an Echelon piece that does not quite seem like a Twilight of Echelon image, so it must be a dream. I’m still wondering who or what is dreaming … and what does it all mean?
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Back in Time - No.154
Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below.
This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.
No.147 - Big City
As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple proc...
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I am Starting to play around with some cover ideas, designs and images for the book, which is now scheduled to be out next spring 2024. I’ll...
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We have a new 4th writer for The Echelon book coming out next year through At Bay Press. Alex Passey joins the rest of the Echelonauts, L...