Is that a commercial cargo ship? It is definitely not ours, is it? “It is a cargo ship, but its load is not commercial”, I thought. I had no idea what the dark octagon in the sky would unleash.
Rob Bosco – Complex City extract.
“It was obvious then that STAR had a mole deeper than the Trident thought at the time. Those soldiers didn’t know exactly what they were preventing when they fought those rebels in that small room”
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“It was Captain Valdan’s obsession, you know? The gunship project, and I can’t blame him, really. He helped with its development; he and I, we were a team. However, he was the only one getting all the credit”. Complex City extract.
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For this Inktober, I decided to match a selected group of prompt words from the official list to a scene from an original story of mine: Complex City. A science fiction novel in which the individuals are merely disposable instruments of groups of power and institutions, but will somebody rebel?
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Hard to pinpoint what the source of inspiration was for this one. The image came to my head, and I just knew it needed to come out. By the way, what kind of weapon is our fellow chicken holding?
Continue reading “Reckoning Time”
Way back in 2017, I designed an alien-roach bounty hunter gunslinger. It was for an illustration festival contest depicting a “most wanted” intergalactic original character. I couldn’t really finish it back then, but now, here it is, as dangerous as it looks. The collection of law enforcers’ badges on his chest should speak for him. You can check the process below.
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We should really think about stopping the pollution of nature with plastic. What do you think? Check the process below.
Continue reading “Someone’s gotta pay for this”
The mysterious Mermaid with sea creatures dancing around engraved on Don Angelo’s mysterious vault of wonders is finally here. It is amazing to think this illustration was born back then in 2021, when I wrote my first short story “The Tiny Paper Man”.
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This is the illustration for a short story I wrote titled “Old Man’s Creek”. It is very special, it is inspired by an actual place from my father’s childhood town, about a creek where all the kids were afraid to walk by, especially at night.
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This is a remake of that CASTLE prompt word inktober drawing I made back in 2023.
I have also updated the original SHORT STORY for it, you can find it here (I hope you like it.):
https://roding.substack.com/p/grounded-things
