Sea Launch

Completed 2018-06-08. Available releases:

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One approach for launching really big rockets is to launch them from the ocean. One advantage of this is you can launch them from basically any latitude just as easily as any other.

Getting the volumetric clouds right took some effort and several tries, but I'm fairly pleased with how it came out. The trail is mostly white charcoal (and no, I don't know how that works), and it was darkened with pencil and (lower down) black charcoal. The moon is also pretty good. I'm not happy with the ocean, and I've never been happy with any ocean I've ever drawn. It just requires too much layering and too dark a color. Adding specular on the waves seems to help, but not enough.

Pencil and charcoal seem to work well together, but colored pencil and charcoal don't. In-particular, while drawing colored pencil over charcoal kindof works, drawing charcoal over colored pencil doesn't work at all. Hence, the ocean and base of the cloud used charcoals, and then colored pencil to fill in the remainder.

I also was happier with the scan quality. I think a lot of it was due to some nasty JPEG compression it applies, but raising the save quality in the settings seems to improve it greatly.

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