Gallery – Technocrat

Featured

Process/design work, concept art, and self-indulgent doodles. Some of this is a bit old, but the really old stuff is in the separate gallery below. Please click to expand thumbnails, especially the landscape-orientation ones that got tiny!

Includes a number of prompts from the Inktober daily art challenge. Admittedly, most took longer than a day…

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concept art
process
inktober

Promo

Cover/promo page – recently updated art.

Z Turnaround

I use this page for reference when drawing, to keep him consistent.

Yana turnaround

Face design has gone through a lot of updates over the years. I use this page in the attempt to keep her consistent, but she still keeps shifting!

Braid

Self-indulgent doodle <3

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This man needs to get spooned STAT

Strands

VERY old art (2013) but still holds up! Edited more recently to add the heat diffusion lines and some face updates.

Glow

Still one of my favorites despite its age (more than 5 years ago!)

Inktober – “Indulgence”

Prompt #7, “Indulgence”.

Designs

Wardrobe design sketches for Z, Yana, Dr Jun, and Capt Chandris – slightly out of date

Inktober – “Trigger”

Prompt #3, “Trigger”. One of my favorites to come out of Inktober – really loved playing with the lighting and style on this one.

Inktober – “Mysterious”

Prompt #15.

Sync lab

Concept art for Yana’s sync lab, which I later modeled in 3D.

Repairs

Look, I’m gonna be fixing and redrawing Z in this one til the day I die… but I might as well upload it in the interim.

Syndicate

Concept art for the Syndicate (home team was later cut/modified).

Nap

They’re gonna need it.

SPOILERS – Inktober

Prompt #12, “Overcome”.
I figure if you’re on this site, you already know enough about the story that spoilers don’t matter.

Height Chart

Slightly older height/build reference chart. I’ve been pretty inconsistent about sticking to it…

Inktober – “Climb”

Prompt #27, “Climb”.

SPOILERS – Faceplate concepts

Playing with designs for a temp faceplate for Z’s chassis once the biolayer comes off.

SPOILERS – Chassis concepts

Playing with the head chassis and cable “hair”

Old Stuff

Separate from the main gallery for quality reasons, and because details in face and build have changed quite a bit over the years. Uploaded for posterity and for the curious.

…And because I’ve drawn a *lot* of Z cheesecake over the years. I have my priorities.

Kitty

Chassis

Old design for Z’s chassis underneath the biolayer – head/face is no longer canon, but the body is still pretty close.

Inktober – “Good Grief”

Prompt #23, featuring Doctor Jun. As in, “Good grief, we’ll need a lot of duct tape for this one.”

Bad day

Inktober – Trail

Cats love Z because he has no idea how he’s supposed to act around them, so he tries to be polite and ignore them. Which is a cat’s favorite thing.

Subjugation

look i just rly like drawing Z and cats ok

Usurper

Any Service

Gag followup to an early comic page wherein Z mentions that a Knight provides “any service required”.

Bellybutton

Think about it…

Fun with Expressions

Obviously older doodle, but the gag is still relevant: Z is, uhh, very *subtle* with outward facial expressions.