xarthean explorers sketch

Colors will be added in the next few days. They are explorers from Xarthean, ready to probe the moons of Jupiter. I’m going to make some adjustments to the droid’s angle, and other things that I think can be refined in the final image. I’ll be using a red palette with this [...]

six different scifi themed thumnail sketches

Here are six different ideas I explored in rough thumbnail format. I tried creating different dominant shapes as well as themes and lighting. The challenge was starting with the same blank space as the foundation for each concept. I’ve titled each of the sketches according to their separate stories, all scifi in [...]

brightest and largest moon in 15 years tonight

If you are out and about tonight and look up at the sky, there is a larger than normal moon. In a rare coincidence, the moon’s perigee has overlapped with the full moon, making it 14% larger and 30% brighter.

Some strange lunar facts:

The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 [...]

crop circles in chungnam boryoung, south korea

A strange pattern appeared in a field in South Korea this past weekend. It hasn’t been determined at this time whether the formation is man-made or unexplainable in origin. What is fascinating about this particular shape is its resemblance to the lunar cycles of the year, which is further explained below.

twelve lunar eclipses

Welcome to the extra day in the Gregorian Calendar’s leap year 2008! To celebrate, consider this grid of lunar eclipse pictures – starting in leap year 1996 and ending with February’s eclipse – with the date in numerical year/month/day format beneath each image. Mostly based on visibility from a site in Turkey, the [...]