adventures

of aplantfancier

Tag: sci fi

  • f. wailfitus

    I wasn’t long on the mechanical planet Tayne.

    I packed up my mining equipment and my 1000 gold and left no trace — except for the handful of gravitino balls I stole. Left the rocky landscape, strewn with little konpeito machines, and set out for . . .

    Humid Planet! Ah! Last planet in the system. And it’s robot fauna and curly grass again!

    I landed at night and in the dark the grass is purple black, the flowers and ferns a juicy red. Beyond the crest of this hill lies the sea, and behind me the forest.

    Can’t wait to watch the sun come up.

    See you next week.

  • silver lining

    Checked out the mechanical planet Tayne while I finished up painting this curly grass hillside from Piporo 34/L1. I’m never 100% happy with the curly grass, but I’m a little closer every time, so I guess that’s the silver lining.

    Speaking of silver, the metallic paint is soooo pretty in person but doesn’t scan well. Kind of a bummer. In the right lighting, you can see the glint of the sun.

    On Tayne:

    One creature, a ball of lightning, B. Granteuiamosa. “Encountered amidst the endless confusion of planet Tayne,” writes the algorithm. lol

    Scans warn of malicious sentinels. In red instead of black, so you know it’s serious.

    Not much to look at, although the sky is pretty; pale bubblegum pink with near translucent blue and silver rings arcing overhead like a rainbow.

    And there are gold deposits, so I set up my four autonomous mining units and plunked down a save beacon so I don’t lose them — there’s a mistake you don’t make twice.

    I was about to say I’m surprised the sentinels haven’t found me yet, but here they are, right on schedule.

    Better run.

    See you next time.

  • still piporo

    I really like this planet, or moon rather. I keep going to leave, but then I get sucked back into taking pictures again.

    In some places the curly grass shifts mauve to blue. I took one where Triangle Head is just a gold shape in the prairie, like an idol.

    But they’ll have to wait because I have launched back into space, a lime green glow, magenta gas clouds, and after a scan I’m on my way.

    Mechanical Planet, aggressive sentinels.

    Sure, I’ll bite.

    See you tomorrow, in color.

  • b. falseridea

    Another corn-type plant of Piporo 34/L1. Notes: irresistible seeds

    Still roaming the paradise moon, and sure enough, got caught up in a localized gravity inversion while drawing these lovely plants, with big purple-black leaves like a canna. I was lifted into the sky, alarmed, in an updraft of boulders, but then just hung suspended and enjoyed the view.

  • piporo

    In no hurry to leave Piporo 34/L1, paradise moon. Golden sunlight streams down from the sky, pooling in valleys, and everywhere flowers.

    Gone by butterfly in search of my next painting. I haven’t yet had my fill of curly violet grass, or the flowering prairie. The cool blue shade of a boulder. The rolling hills that go on forever.

  • paradise moon

    Had a quick look around the paradise moon of Jasmodus Gamma and I might stay a while and paint the curly, very berry grassland, all shades of fuchsia and blackberry and violet — just my style.

    There’s cerulean tallgrass cascading down hillsides, and two different plants of what I like to think of as the “corn type,” and the shimmering gold of Jasmodus Gamma filling the sky.

    Scan warns of deadly pressure variations but so far it’s paradise.

    I’ll take a long walk and let you know.

  • jasmodus gamma

    Finally finished painting the drawing I posted last week of Jasmodus Gamma, so go ahead and drift away to the mushroom forest, the pastel beach, and the cotton candy sky.

    Over in No Man’s Sky, I’ve left the vermillion globe and touched down on its moon. It’s a hilly purple paradise; curly plum colored grassland studded with blue, and gold above. Can’t wait to show you.

    See you there.

  • vermillion globe

    I snuck away to No Man’s Sky on Sunday, landing on a string of uninspiring planets until I finally parked my ship on a mushroomy little island on Jasmodus Gamma, a “Vermillion Globe.”

    Like my favorite nail polish; pale turquoise and pink flash. I though yeah, I’d paint that, and took a look around.

    Next week: The mushroom forests of Jasmodus Gamma, now in Technicolor.

  • zulphli tau

    I landed here before I logged off last time and expected that I’d move on before painting, but there were some pretty, grassy valleys and flowering meadows, so I hitched a ride on a big turtle dog and roamed around until I found a nice view.

    I especially love the mullein-type plants on this planet. I see different variations on that form popping up here and there and I think they’re so striking. I always select a mullein or five and let them stand in my own wild front garden, and they get a lot of attention. Much of it is even positive.

    I’ve got quite a bit more of this system to explore. I haven’t scanned any of the planets, so I’m not sure what’s out there, yet. Hopefully something tropical. I’m partial to something tropical.

  • six

    I’m playing catch-up today, so here’s one from two years ago, from my No Man’s Sky travel journal. I picked a system with six planets and did one painting from each of them over the course of a week; this was number six.

    I remember I put this planet off for last because it was the one I was least excited to paint. The others had lush hills and active volcanoes and . . . well, I won’t spoil it.