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This is the 3rd digital work I've completed, After finally learning how to separate the sketched lineart scanned into a transparent layer so I could color it below. Inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune Novel, this image is based on a large Heighliner Guild transport arriving to the desert planet Arrakis. Though the novel never mentions cities within a protection dome, I imagined a settlement well above the sand-worms and protected from the dangerous storms Arrakis seems to experience, with the vessel docked as cargo and passengers disembark.Thanks to Vassilis Triantafyllidis for providing great breath-taking stock images in Deviantart, reference used for the background was [link]
Done with Bamboo Fun Tablet & Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0
for reference on the youtube video showing how to create a transparent scanned lineart see [link]
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This is a nice piece! Like ante66k said, I don't think heighliners go down that far. I think that actually happens in one of the other books to catastrophic results, but it's been a while since I read the series, a few years maybe?
I like the dome, but to me it doesn't seem very Dune-like. Arrakeen is protected from the sand-worms because they are behind the Shield Wall and worms can't pass over or through the rock. It also helps with the storms, but I don't think the bad ones get that far north a lot of the time.
I hope you like the books! They're the best sci-fi books, at least in my opinion
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Thank you for your awesome and insightful comment!. I'm really starting to like the books a lot, and also it's been inspiring me to start doing pencil sketches of the Harvesters and Carry-all transports since I'm still at the very beginning before the Duke dies.. I think they'll definitely be on my next 'to-digitally-paint' list. I was curious about how they keep those sand worms out?.. the more I read the less I want to see similar illustrations to see what the book triggers, and definitely won't see the movie until I finish all the books.
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Oh wow, so everything is still new for you! Take your time and enjoy it, it is soo worth it!
I think the spice mining equipment is a huge breeding ground for creativity and design. I mean there are so many things to consider: what with sand being the bane of machinery and how to avoid that, and having to be picked up and carried, so weight distribution is a challenge too. The technology lends itself to so many broad interpretations, and I think there's a lot of playing around with that you could do.
As for the keeping the worms out, it's more taking advantage of a geological feature than any engineering on part of the settlers. Almost all of the actual cities are located near the North Pole of Arrakis, which if I remember correctly has a general higher elevation than the equatorial areas where the worms live. This elevation is mostly rock, which the worms can not pass through or over. It's kind of like a whale beaching on the sand, they can get onto it but they can't move across it or tunnel through it. So the Shield Wall is a massive geological rock formation that protects Arrakeen from the worms because it is stone and not sand, and it also acts as a kind of levee against the sandstorms that do make it up that north (though generally the Coriolis get close but don't come so far north, I believe).
Does your book come with a map? I don't know if all editions do, but as a huge book nerd it's one of those things I constantly refer to while reading because it helps me conceptualize without really breaking the unique interpretations books provide. If it doesn't, there are ones online if you are interested!
Can't wait to see what you come up with, especially for the equipment.
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very awesome art man !
thanks for using my stock
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On the contrary! thanks again and twice, for visiting and uploading awesome stock!
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If I was going to be really dune-geeky, I'd say that I don't think a heighliner can enter atmo 
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Thanks for the feedback and the tip!..I just began the first novel so I'll consider it among the Heighliner's features for future works. I'm barely past the part where Paul and his family are settling into Arrakis.
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Wow - just started reading it and doing art based on it? Kudos to you. If I recall correctly, they use smaller ships to get from surface to the heighliners in orbit, and the heighliner is just a *really* big box which jumps them between systems...
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Thank you very much for your feedback!
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Γrale que genial, antes de leer lo que escribiste,mya estaba pensando en Dune, la verdad vi la pelΓcula, porque ahorita ando mucho en el tema de la ciencia ficciΓ³n me gusta mucho todo eso, te recomiendo el libro de Rama I esta bien chido.
Me gusta como manejas las naves, se ven fregonas, voy a tener que practicar dibujos de este estilo tambiΓ©n
Saludos
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Ah que bien que viste la pelicula, yo no la he visto y creo que voy a esperar a terminar el libro. Si te esta pasando la ciencia ficcion tambien te recomiendo las novelas de Issac Assimov, en especial si encuentras la novela Nemesis, se me hace que te podrias aventar un dibujo bien chido de la protagonista. Gracias por checar!
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orale lo tomare en cuenta
gracias
saludos
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