The latest (and final) version of this image before its premiere at Boskone (a regional science fiction convention). This piece was a bit of an eye-opener. The cheaper the render, the better this piece felt, since I was going for an old, retro-illustration look. I wound up blending a number of different layers that initially flattened the image, but ultimately gave it that "pulled from a really old magazine" look. This is part of a continuing series of images I'm developing as part of a storyboard for an idea I've been kicking around for years. A "discovered" illustration from a secret terraforming mission briefing (circa 1905) shows a small fleet of rockets shepherding rogue ice and frozen oxygen high above the surface of Mars, towards an impact near Stickney Base, on Phobos.