Once the initial drawing was generated it went to Paramount where the art department folks would go over the details with a fine tooth comb and they would leave notes on the drawing as you can see below. At the time I was working on this drawing 7 of 9 was just coming on the show and one of the areas that I had to rework was her alcove area in the cargo bay... You can see the blue rectangle in the upper hull here with the notes from the art department which was also sent with blue prints of the new set.
One of the cool aspects of this poster is it included a cut away of the Delta Flyer!
This was also fairly new to the show and as such I got to add to the technical canon of the show by showing areas you would never see on the show. The computers and warp core and nacelles as well as some of the rarely discussed Borg tech.
Another part of doing this work was getting models to work from!
The final results of all this work comes after the image is rendered in color. This was the second poster I worked on that did not get the secondary ink line drawing. It went straight from pencil to color. Additionally many of the patterns, colors and textures were supped by Paramount in the form of samples and photos that were input into the colorist computer and added digitally! This really added to the realism of the final piece....
I have one last image still up my sleeve but have decided that I want to complete the image from drawing to finished rendering.... The Defiant.
Stay tuned for this one!
