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[Derpy Dev]

Even leeeess free time today. So tired too, I even fell asleep over the drawing tablet haha.

Anyways its the Europa 6 astronaut:

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What did she witness in that first one LOL

Nice drawings dude!

[Imic]

She probably saw what futuristic Áine is like when she hasn't had her coffee.

[vastaghen12]

What did she witness in that first one LOL

"ALIENS"

Ugly aliens.

Hopefully I'll have more free time during the weekend.

I don't.

I drew this while waiting for some stuff today, it oughta count for something:

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[vastaghen12]

A spacefighter pilot, outrun style:

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[Egan_BW]

The extra lights on the helmet are there because it's IN SPACE.

[vastaghen12]

Aint no proper future if its not full of unnecessary LEDs everywhere.

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An holographic ghost, because I'm committed to merge my science and fantasy universes together

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[Imic]

Hmmm...
Vastaghen, do you prefer magic systems where the rules are clear-ish, specific and/or defined (I'll call this Hard magic for convenience ((think Harry Potter or Avatar)) or mystical, mysterious, unperdictable, and/or unexplored (Soft magic (Think LoTR))

[Egan_BW]

I tend to like magic with fairly self-consistent rules, but that can still be violently unpredictable when you mess something up. It's nice to have a good picture of how the metaphysics fits together, but it would also be a shame if something so powerful were also perfectly predictable.

[vastaghen12]

I dont really like the idea of rigid-rule magic, feel it makes it to much like technology and thus boring, I do think that having some limits on what magic can achieve is a good idea.

I particularily dislike when magic is something that can be taught like mathematics  or some variant of science.  I prefer it when magic is akin to an art or an attainable through some sort of spiritual enlightenment, that way learning it is not just a matter of reading some good books.

[Egan_BW]

Technology is indistinguishable from magic, and isn't boring. Knowing how it all works just gives me greater appreciation for the amazing wizard magic we have now. If magic were real, you would teach it as a science. (Or alternatively, it is and we do.)

[Imic]

I prefer to make magic subtle, and veryunpredictable. Want to appear somewhere else? No flash, no bang, you're just there. There are no colours no explosions, it just happens. Any rules that might exist are kept a secret from the audience, and the entire system is shown to be unpredictable, and with a mind if it's own.
This has often led to gods of magic who control every aspect of it's existence, decideing when something will work, and when it really, really won't.
That's my thought on the matter.

[Rose]

I lean in the opposite direction.

I agree with Brandon Sanderson, who says that the rules of magic need to be understood enough by the reader that they can make informed guesses about what it's capable of, otherwise it's just deus ex machina

[Derpy Dev]

First: Love Brandon Sanderson.

Second: I like magic with rules, but preferably with rules that differ per individual. So many different people each have a different variant of a base fire magic. Magic that changes so that everyone can use it differently and uniquely.

...kinda like super powers now that I say it out loud.

[Cathar]

I think it's not incompatible tho ; in folktales lore, especially in celtic and nordic ones, magic can do a lot of things. Details needs not really to be explained - like, how do the dwarves craft the chain to hold Fenrir ? Who cares really, the important thing is we know they can, so magic conserves its aura of mysticism while the story keeps its consistancy.

In the folktales of my region, magic (fairies etc) can do a LOT of things, and the stories are precisely based on the fact the protagonist don't know the rules. Ex : the story of the little fey shoemaker, who comes naked at night at the home of an old shoemaker to do his work for him, until the shoemaker wife tries to dress him with handmade little clothes. The fey gets very offended and leaves, never to be seen again. In this case the undefined nature of the fey is what makes the story.

It really becomes a very obnoxious deus ex machina when the protagonist knows something the reader doesn't, and withold the knowledge from him. It's like Sherlock Holmes starting to use clues the readers didn't had access to ; it feels like cheating

It's just my opinion tho

A spacefighter pilot, outrun style:

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I always had a soft spot for this kind of aesthetics. Jump into a car and ride in a neon miami style landscape!

[Mesa]

Aint no proper future if its not full of unnecessary LEDs everywhere.

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An holographic ghost, because I'm committed to merge my science and fantasy universes together

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Saw this make its way to the top of r/worldbuilding on Reddit yesterday and I (near) immediately recognized your art style.
Didn't comment on it there (Because I Forgot and didn't want to be weird on Reddit), but I'll do it here and say that it's Awesome.

(I have an inherent bias towards the mixing of magic and technology together, and have at least a few settings like that of my own.)