Issue 163

Hello!

We're making a shipping space for the space ships book...sorry, had to do some dad humor.

Things are starting to get crazy here as we begin shipping out the Spaceships books to Backers! The house turns into a fulfillment center for a couple weeks every time we do this, with the kids all helping out as workers. We tell them it's like the harvest where everyone is expected to help on the farm in order to eat. Haha.

ALSO: THANK YOU for the Fall Original Art Sale turnout last week. It was a huge success. All the pieces that sold have been shipped off, so you should be getting them soon. There's still some more left in the shop that haven't been snagged yet: LINK​

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LATEST

I do all kinds of things that never end up in the newsletter, so this spot in the header here is just a quick run down of what I've done this week that I didn't want to devote an entire segment to:

• Latest Podcast Episode: From Corporate America to Making Art with Anthony Wheeler​
• Latest Youtube Video: Hey Artists: Real Success requires you to focus on THIS​
• Latest Discord Discussion: Which Star Wars is the best Star Wars​
• Latest Patreon Post: Moonbreaker Concept Art​

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Alright, here's 5 things I thought you'd find interesting this weekend.

Enjoy!

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1) SPACESHIPS Books have LANDED

From the Division of Products and Services

The books are here and ready to ship! Hot dang, I'm so happy with this book. It's been all I've thought about for most of the year and to FINALLY have it in my hands is just...I have this huge sense of relief and pride and gratitude. So happy I get to do this kind of stuff.

Order Now!

This book has a mix of everything: sketches, finished renders, cross sections and a bunch of stuff from the DRAWINGS book series.

The book is beautifully printed by a 4 color offset printing press. It's a softcover, perfect-bound book that fits nicely with the other books in my DRAWINGS series. It holds a comprehensive collection of both finished and exploratory artworks from the last 10 years of most of the spaceships I’ve drawn.

Think of this as a themed version of my Drawings books. It has all of the art and quality you’ve come to expect from my Drawings books, but incredibly focused on spaceships.

PATREON: Join now and see how I made this book from start to finish. Every week I show patrons the process of at least one drawing. At the end of the month some patrons get all my working files to learn from and pick apart. Sign up here: LINK​

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2) The Chronicle of Georgia

From the Cultural Archives Concern

When I first saw a photo of this monument I thought it was an environment of some fantasy video game or something. Nope, it's an actual place, and the scale of it is massive.

From the Chronicle of Georgia Wikipedia "There are 16 pillars that are between 30–35 meters tall and the top half features kings, queens and heroes while the bottom part depict stories from the life of Christ."

Definitely want to visit this place some day. And will be using it for inspiration in environment design for a comic.

More photos here: LINK and LINK​

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3) Alien Organic Robot

From the Office of Robots

This robot design by Japanese model maker nozomu looks like something from a fever dream. I love the organic shapes with small accents of rigid mechanical engineering. Such a cool design!

That red light is a nice touch. Looks like its scanning my soul. What do you think this thing is? A reconnoissance drone? A weapons platform? A communications amplifier? I kind of love its ambiguity.

Via: LINK​

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4) Gobli Prin

From the Illustrators Division

Remarkable character designs by Tokyo based illustrator Gobli Prin. If Yoshitaka Amano and old school Hayao Miyazaki had a baby you'd get the work of this artist. And yet, some how I think he's bringing something of his own to the table besides just his style. I don't know what he's cooking up, but I want to see a world book or comic or game based on his designs. Hoping this all leads to something!

I wish there was more out there about him; a website or something, but all we have are his twitter and instagram: LINK and LINK​

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5) On authenticity

From the Inspirational Thought Unit

This week I was trying to make a new youtube video and in the writing and recording I was getting a little full of myself. I was thinking I've got to amp things up in order to get noticed on Youtube. Beat my chest! Make the videos louder! More music ! More cuts! More extreme! (not mr beast extreme, but extreme for 'art youtube').

Thankfully, Alison intervened and told me to dial it back. WAY back. I think the fates also wanted me to chill out because after I recorded most of the video it turns out my microphone malfunctioned and I had no audio. So a day of work was trashed.

It wasn't wasted though. Can you imagine if I posted that monstrosity? Lesson learned.

In my quest to make a more viral video I forgot the thing that makes a youtube channel (or any relationship) successful: Being authentic.

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That's all for this week. Thank you for reading this newsletter and hope you have a great weekend!

-Jake

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