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IT’S COMPLETE!

Take your time zooming in and appreciating all the little details that I put in. It feels great revisiting these classic Imperium designs and bringing them back into the pages of Humanity Lost. It feels like we haven’t seen much of them for ages, but they’re back with a vengeance. Pieces like this one take a huge amount of time and effort, but they’re totally worth it.

A lot of planning goes into making a two-page spread like this one. From conceptualisation to composition, every step requires planning. I even had to research how an object would look as it exited a wormhole from the side, from the perspective of the viewer. Apparently, because of the way that spacetime is curved around the wormhole, it would appear as though a ship exiting it would be turning a tight corner. I also did research into how it would warp an image behind it and used an application on the European Space Agency website to simulate the wormholes you see in the background, to make them as accurate as I could. I’m no expert, and I’m sure some of my patrons who are more knowledgeable than I can see errors, but I tried, okay? Haha.

This may even end up being the wraparound cover for Volume 3, but we’ll see, because there will be other contenders later on that might win out.

As always, thank you so much for your support. I especially appreciate your patience which allows me to create huge centre pieces for the comic like this one which improve the product overall and give readers moments to flick back to. Having patreons supporting me each month waiting for my next post is a serious motivational driver and keeps me moving the project forward. You guys are the best and I hope that your week is going well, I’ll be back soon with some more Humanity Lost for you all!

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Charlie Horse

I just hope that all that detail would show in a print. And yes, I agree, the bio-machine style is always going to be among the best pages of the story.

Ryan

Oh so in other words the good guys are just absolutely fucked then haha

CallumStephenDiggle

There are a few little tricks that I’ve learnt along the way to help bring them out in the print ready pdf, but you’re right that some will be lost. The way to think about it is that they’re a little patreon/digital bonus haha Thank you Charlie, I’m glad you think so 🙏🏻

Shawn Bond

I literally teared up…it’s BEAUTIFUL 🥲. Manly tears obviously, but still…💯👌

nicholas

I'm sorry to say this brother, but I don't think you have enough SCALE.😆

CallumStephenDiggle

I have failed you Nicolas, I will make it a Kardashev Type III civilization next time 🙇‍♂️

Henrik Valentin

Awesome! You've truly mastered form and perspective, color and light. Looks like a huge battle is coming up! The tiny needle-like ships on the left look new, have we seen them before?

CallumStephenDiggle

Thank you, Henrik 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Oh yes, absolutely massive! We have actually, they’re missiles, we saw them back in Deicide’s flash back, when the imperium drop pod lands on his Womb-world, it fires a barrage of these little guys.

Henrik Valentin

Right, I didn't notice them when I first read that chapter since they're so tiny. So we have a sort of lineup of some of the Imperium's technology, from the smallest to the biggest. I loved the first apperance of the Leviathans, how gigantic they look with the Krakens in front of them, who in turn dwarf the anomalocarises. It's gonna be fun to see them all in action! And now the Imperium is sending in enough leviathans to rival the amount of tandraxian star engines... :O

Arquebus

I really love the visual of a flesh-coloured spider appendage grasping what look like a small sun, it really makes the Imperium feel like a tumor in the flesh of the universe.

CallumStephenDiggle

Thank you! Oh that’s no small sun, that’s a wormhole leading to an alternate universe called the FLUX. They really are like a malignant growth.