Pilot

The motive for this drawing was the 'Merchanter' books of the writer C.J.Cherryh. The world her characters inhabit is a gritty, realistic one, and her space-craft crews are simply ordinary people doing ordinary jobs. I wanted to depict a pilot, just come off shift, taking a chance to relax on dock-side before heading down to the planet's surface.

Pen & ink on cartridge paper.
21cmx27cm.

A female starship pilot in battered coveralls sits in front of a sign that reads Cargo Bay 2