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Rob Turpin

1 year

I'm Rob, an illustrator from the UK. I love to draw spaceships, robots, and imaginary places. I've worked on several books, including my own sci-fi project - Weird Field World. I'm available for private and commercial commissions. You can find me…

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Little showcase of some of my Weird-Field Spaceships. #weirdfieldworld

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Sketchbook spaceships.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Sketchbook spaceships. When in doubt, drawings fucking spaceship. #Spaceships

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Rob Turpin

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2 years

I'm Rob, an illustrator from the UK. I love to draw spaceships, robots, and imaginary places. I've worked on several books, including my own sci-fi project - Weird Field World. I'm available for private and commercial commissions. You can find me…

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Sketchbook spaceship. #SciFi #Spaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

1 year

Another client going down the AI route for art, marketing, campaign stuff. Fuck AI.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

1 year

When I left art college (kicked out for the second time), I didn't draw again for almost 20 years. When I did pick up a pen, I soon realised I needed to draw regularly if I wanted to improve. So I decided I'd draw a Robot a Day for a month, which soon became a year… 1/n

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

15 days

I really fucking hate Generative AI. I mean, really fucking hate it. And everyone involved in it - making it, funding it, promoting it, using it - can just fuck the fuck off.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

An updated look at my Weird-Field Spaceships. 24 ships with data sheets so far. #spaceships #sciencefiction

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Best corridors in scifi.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

I need some spaceships in my feed today. If you’re drawing spaceships, reply with one of your favourites. If you just love spaceships, reply with an image of your favourite. Real or imagined. I’ll start. Nebulon B Frigate / Rebel hospital ship from Star Wars. #spaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

1 year

So, Robot one from ten years ago, robot two from 9 years ago, and robot three from a few months ago. Draw, draw, draw… 3/3

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

9 months

The Seventy Three. Drawn on an iPad using Procreate #SciFi #Spaceship #Illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Gas planet refinery platform. #sketchbook #scifi

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

I’ll always RT this when it comes up in my feed. Absolutely incredible.

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@wonderofscience

4 years

This is the surface of a Comet, seen through a blizzard of dust, ice particles, and cosmic rays against a backdrop of stars. The alien landscape of Comet 67P as seen by the Rosetta spacecraft and animted by @landru79 .

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Martini Space Racer. #SpaceRacers #Spaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Sketchbook spaceships. #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

A couple of two-minute Super Star Destroyers. #sketch #Maythe4thBeWithYou #starwars

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Would anyone be remotely interested in a video or timelapse of me drawing one of these little space stations?

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

I could watch this all day.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Just signed a contract to do some work for a company that I've dreamed of working for. I imagine it'll be months before I can share anything, but I am very happy.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Tiny sketchbook landscapes. Always a fun little exercise.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

I’ve started designing an art book, after many stop-start attempts. It’s probably just going to be my Weird-Field sci fi stuff. So it will, obviously, be mainly sketches and illustrations of spaceships and other tech, but it will also include some background text. Good idea?

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 months

Excellent examples of survivor bias.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Give me a page number between 1 and 250. #Moebius #JeanGiraud

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 months

Rebel Moon 2 review… Thank fuck they didn’t let him make a Star Wars film.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 months

Going to try and model this in Blender next. Very much running before I can walk. But hey, it’ll be fun right? Right?

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Little sci-fi sketch. Hanging in the atmosphere of a gas giant, at that goldilocks altitude where temperature, pressure, and oxygen are all perfect for humans. #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceStations #scifi

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Planning to work on some more of these 'Weird-Field' Spaceships over the next few days, and to add to the background I've started to write up. #scifi #spaceships #illustration #weirdfield

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 months

Just to reiterate, it doesn't matter who you are, or if it's just for fun… Don't use, post, or generate AI images. It is ALL based on theft.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Deleting Twitter from my phone for a while. Sick of the sight of so much Cryptoart and NFT promotion.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Little reminder that if you enjoy my scifi illustrations and spaceships, I now have a @patreon page where I'll be developing my Weird-Field World of alien tech and strange spacecraft. You can support me, and get access to all my WF work for just $2/month

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Just had some encouraging feedback from @theaoi regarding AI art. They're working in conjunction with the Creators Rights Alliance and British Copyright Council to lobby the government to extend copyright protection to art from 'Text and Data Mining' online.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Spaceship inks… #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Added a bit of colour to this cloud mining sketch. #scifi #sketchbook #illustration #orange

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Tiny spaceships, and teeny tiny spaceships. #spaceships #illustration #scifi

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

#inktober2019 No.1. Here lives Captain Cat. All my illustrations this year will be buildings based on the characters and setting of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

7 years

@realgdt Can’t wait for the Shape is Water here in the UK. In the meantime here’s an illustration of one of my favourite GDT creations!

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

9 months

Timelapse of drawing The Seventy Three.

Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

9 months

The Seventy Three. Drawn on an iPad using Procreate #SciFi #Spaceship #Illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Deep Space Fleet II is now available to buy. Free shipping to the UK and Neptune. #scifi #spceships #artprints @ellipressuk

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Coming soon… #weirdfieldworld #sciencefiction #books

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

OK, slightly random. Who does great clouds? I'll start with Franklin Booth, NC Wyeth, Moebius, and of course @nicodelort #Art #Clouds

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

@ellipressuk This poster, with around fifty spaceships on it, is probably my favourite of all my prints so far.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Spent the last couple of days playing Tetris with spaceships. New postcards and print coming very soon from @ellipressuk #spaceships #sciencefiction #prints

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

How many Weird Field Spaceships? #WeirdFieldWorld

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Four people encouraging me to NFT my Weird Field Spaceship print in just over 24 hours. Not. A. Chance.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Some more ‘Gulf Oil’ spaceships. #blueandorange #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Sometimes when drawings not going well you just have to throw some colour at an @ianmcque sketch. Support Ian on @patreon and have a go yourself. #ianmcque #patreon

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

1 year

I was rubbish when I started, and a year and 365 robot drawings later, I was a bit better - but not much. I still wasn't drawing much, apart from the robots. 2/n

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Seems to need repeating - if you are sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, anti-trans, antivax, bigoted, anti gun control, or specifically pro Trump, UKIP, or white nationalism, - you can, and I absolutely mean this, fuck right off.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

1, 2, or 3? Help me decide which spaceship to feature on the cover of my book. #weirdfieldworld #spaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

My Kickstarter is now LIVE! Click the link if you'd like to find out more of the Weird Field World. #weirdfieldworld #sciencefiction #kickstarter #spaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Recent spaceships… #spaceships #scifi #illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Fuck racists. Fuck people who are friends with racists. Fuck people who make excuses for racists. Fuck people who elect racists. #BlackLivesMatter

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

What’s your favourite cliched sci-fi visual? You know, it’s completely over-used, but you still love it? I’ll go first - bloody great big moons and planets hanging in the sky with complete disregard for orbital mechanics and gravity. Love ‘em! #SciFiCliches

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Gulf Oil Space Racer. #Spaceships #Illustration #GulfOil

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Some more orange spaceships. That’s why you’re following me right? #scifi #spaceships #thisnorthernboy

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Linework.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

1 year

Well, it’s a big day (for me). It’s my fiftieth birthday. 50. How the hell… How old do I feel? Still about 17. How old do I look? Maybe mid 40s? How old do my knees feel? 973.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Some Star Destroyers for #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWars

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Some black and white ship shapes from the archive. I bloody love spaceships. #scifi #spaceships #illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Prompted by @ankaris I went a bit Chris Foss with this. And why not, @ChrisFossArt is an absolute master and one of the most influential figures in science fiction art. #scifi #spaceships #illustration #chrisfoss #thisnorthernboy

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Sketchbook spaceships. My go to sketch. #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships #sketchbook

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

6 years

Another weird little Toppi inspired cityscape. #illustration #drawing #thisnorthernboy

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Couple of new Weird Field Spaceships. The WF Bell Burnell and the WF Pasaban. #WeirdFieldWorld

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Drawing a mech. It’s been quite a while. #mechtober

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Really happy with these. But that’s probably enough tentacles for now. #tentacles #illustration #ArtPrints @ellipressuk

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Just got this absolutely spectacular Moebius book from Beautifully printed and a wealth of gorgeous art inside. It's a stunner. #moebius #books #art

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Scribbling Star Destroyers. Haven’t looked at any ref for these so no idea how much they resemble the actual designs in any of the films. Couldn’t quite remember how the bridge bit worked. #starwars #sketchbook #spaceship

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

If you'd have told me at any age between 4 and 40, that I'd be getting paid to design spaceships, it would have absolutely blown my mind.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

It’s my birthday today, and I’m forty fucking nine. How did that happen? I still feel about 17. Except my knees, which feel a thousand and seventeen.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Eight days of #inktober .

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Mystical landscape thumbnails. #sketchbook #fantasy

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

3 years

Just had to say goodby to this absolute queen. Milly was 20, and was just the most beautiful, placid and affectionate cat. We’re going to miss her immeasurably. Love you Mill x

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

7 years

My Tentacled Island (no sniggering) has proven to be by far my biggest selling print. It's available as a postcard, or an A4 or A3 print. #prints #tentacles #lovecraft #illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Sci-fi noodlings. Samples for a potential client.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Sketchbook spaceships and spacestations. #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

As it’s Alien Day… #alienday #illustratiion

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Let's just have a quick @WallMeatJones Alien appreciation tweet shall we. He's having quite the week. #aliens #originalart #xenomorph #tristanjones

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Character design for the book. Dresden Shipyard worker. #weirdfieldworld #illustration #book

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Hopefully starting a nice new project nice week, but this seems like a good time to say I'm open for commissions. Spaceships, weird places, buildings etc. DM me if you have an idea you'd like to discuss. Stuff like this…

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Photogenic mountain. Can’t believe I haven’t seen this anywhere before.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Five minute spaceship sketch. I’ve been working digitally a lot lately, so it’s nice to just scribble away in a tiny sketchbook. #SketchbookSpaceships #Illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

Gubbins…

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

More sketchbook spaceshipping.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Sketchbook Spaceships - in glorious technicolour. #SketchbookSpaceships #Illustration #SciFi

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

2 years

Thought I might talk a bit about my Innsmouth project. It started a couple of years ago, when I started to get the idea for a story to go with my tentacled island illustrations. 1/n

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Some sketchbook cityscapes. Part fantasy, part medieval, part something else. #sketchbook #illustration

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

An old tentacles island illustration. Always fun to draw. #illustration #lovecraftian

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

Added some colour to last week’s spaceship sketches. Bit of a Chris Foss thing going on here and there with the colour schemes, which is never a bad thing. #spaceship #scifi #sketchbook

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

5 years

#inktober2019 so far.

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

7 years

Can I have a job where I just draw these? #spacships

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Rob Turpin

@thisnorthernboy

4 years

It’s been ages since I just doodled something for myself. So here’s a little spaceship. Drawn with a Carbon Platinum fountain pen and outlined with a Rotring Tikky. #StayHomeAndDrawSpaceships #scifi #illustration #sketchbook