(WIP) Federal factbook header
Added 2025-05-27 11:52:53 +0000 UTCWhile it's raining here, I've been working on art for the factbook: visual headers for each faction capturing some essential moment in life in a "photographic" format. Here, John Federalman walks down the platform after a long journey by atom-fired railshaker.
This one was a little interesting to plan out with nothing on hand to use as a ruler but the pencil itself. I agonized a lot over the exact design of the railshaker (being that I do want to depict it in full later); the objective being to portray a powerful but essentially credible machine appropriate to its role. That meant a lot of reading up on things like hammer blow for a close-up of two wheels and some exterior mechanisms.
John Federalman wears a wheel cap and some striped slacks in vaguely 19th century style. His Ike jacket is meant to look fairly slick while remaining comfortable. I might axe the chest pockets or give it a standing collar instead to make it resemble a shell jacket slightly more.
I'm not sure if wheeled luggage was popular in the eighties in real life, but I like it, therefore he gets some.
