There's a Christmas robin at the end

 Don't mind me - Just popping in with a little Star Trek fan art catch up.  

 First up is the adorkable Sam Rutherford from Star Trek Lower Decks.  

 I did this pencil sketch back in September for The Trek BBS's fan art challenge, Alphanumeric Soup:

 

The Star Trek universe is littered with initialisms and acronyms for devices, technology and organisations: GNDN, UESPA, ODN, EPS, PADD, DS9, DTI, MACO. Take your favourite(s) and use them as inspiration for your piece of art. Alternatively, you could coin your own initialism or take one from the modern day and show us how, in the future, it might become the GOAT.

 

 I chose to depict Rutherford from the second season's first episode "Strange Energies" undergoing treatment for falsely diagnosed Synthetic Memory Degradation (SMD).  His friend and science officer Tendi didn't have Rutherford strip down to his undercrackers in the episode (he just had his top off), so I thought I'd correct that egregious error in this piece: SMD with a side order of PADD & LCARS.

[ I found a sketchbook with some pencil shaded sketches of figures in various poses that I'd drawn many years ago while at art school, so I thought I'd have another go.  Rutherford's a bit wonky in places and the shading was a bit of a rush job, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out considering that I haven't done any life drawing in years.  I copied his pose from the cover of this appropriately titled magazine. ]

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October's art challenge theme was Rough Draft:

 

Do a pencil sketch, a scribble on a napkin, a rough rendering, a chalkboard doodle - show us the "genesis" of a Trek idea. It can be one you've done for a previous contest, or a new idea.

 

 I have long been fascinated with the adorable little Oberth-class starship, and jotted down these notes and sketches (the first page was from last year).  I'd love to create a set of orthographics and/or an MSD, but I don't (currently) have the skills to pull them off, so sketches and musings are the closest I'm going to get (for now).  Here are some ideas of how I think the Oberth-class starship could work at between 120-160 metres long (there is much hoo-hah about just how big/small this starship is).

 

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 November brought an Unexpected Perspective:

 

Mostly we see the Star Trek Universe from the point-of-view of our heros, but how do others perceive their life in the future? Show us an interpretation of life in the Trekiverse from a different perspective, perhaps from that of the villains or a small child, animals, space-aliens or pets (Livingston, Porthos, Grudge...) or maybe even from that of technology or the Starships themselves - the stranger, the better.

 I struggled a bit with this one until a couple of the board members helped me out with some ideas.  One of them mentioned Pixar's Cars which got me thinking about anthropomorphic shuttlecraft - here are the results:

This is Commander Arjun's son saying goodbye to his new friends after a trip to the shuttlebay.

[ The yellow craft is a Sphinx workpod, and the grey one a type 7 shuttle ]

 

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 And finally, my first entry (from earlier today) for this month's fan art advent calendar:  A robin redshirt sporting The Original Series/Those Old Scientists Starfleet insignia.

This is the European robin: Erithacus rubecula

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P.S. I didn't hide the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event Finale behind that sensitive content warning (see previous post), it was Blogger.  I think it must have been the combined bottom-related goodness from Mitzi and Maddie.  Bloody spoilsport Blogger!