The War of the Worlds

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Concept Sketches

Early Concept Sketches Concept Sketches from back in my late High School, Early College Days, featuring a variety os specilized Tripods, and orbiting comand ship, and small landing cylinders, as well as some detail of a overly complicated "hand" for the fighting machines

Early Fighing Machine Concept Sketches Half colored Fighing Machine, shorter, with reduced numbers of tentacles, and a very Anime look, with the Heatray, in a cyclopian head. the little cannons on the sides are steam jets, to neutrilize the black smoke.

Concept SketchesCross Section of the contents of a Cylinder, Martian, Early Handling Machine Sketch, and a doodle of a Fighting Machine design I had in High School

Concepts Sketches Two
Digging Machine, Shield Mode Fighting Machine, Refining Machine, and Handling Machine Concepts

Concepts Sketches Three -Handling Machine, and control couch and Martian, showing a bit of anatomy the lungs and ears, and with a feeding tube.

Concepts Sketches Four -Tripods Walking, Standing up, Seen from below and in front, the flying machine spreading black smoke, and more.

Machine Concepts Sketches -Fighting and Handling Machines, with some attention to the legs and joints.

Martian Landing Concepts -Scale sketches of the Cylinder, and the Fighting Machine, cross section and cutaways of the cylinder, and misc Martians and the flying machine.

First Tripod Concept -My first revisitation of the Fighting Machine, attempting to be more mechanical than my original design, seen in the Etching below, some attention paid to the retraced form

Tripod Two -The next evolution, with a more curved line to the cowl.

Tripod Three -Near Final design, with regards to the body, the legs are in an early form, having added a single knee, foot with a blunter design than the final claw.

Tripod Four -Evolution of the Leg Designs, now with two knees, and extensible leg lengths, rather exagerated here

Tripod Five -More on the hood, while developing the final design, in semi cross section, with some detail of the body/leg join

Leg Study -A blueline sketch of a full Fighting Machine leg

Second Leg Study -Study of a Martian "Knee" showing the overlapping friction bearings

Handling Machine -Freehand Sketch of the latest version of the Handling Machine

Handling Machine Half Inked Vesion of the near final Handling Machine, I stopped when I messed up the inking, and grew dissatisfied with the look of the tentacles.

Digging Machine- The martian's excavating machine

Flying Machine Concepts One -Flying Machine Concepts, focusing on the fanlike wing design, inspired by the desc of the winged Martians in "The Crystal Egg"

Flying Machine Concepts Two -Diffrent design, with a more underslung fuselage

Flying Machine Concepts There -Details of body and engine in the evolution of the machine

Flying Machine Concepts Four -Same as above, with some attention to the front louver design

The Great Gun -The invasion cannon, in the crater of Pavonis Mons, showing a bit of the underground construction

Fighing Machine Emerges -The first Fighting Machine engages the Infantry at Horsell Common,before standing erect.

Underfoot, In the Storm -A Fighting machine coming down the road in the storm, from the Narrator's POV

Dead LondonThe narrator wanders through the empty streets of london

The Thunder Child The Ironclad rams the first martian

The Pit The narrator looks down over the Martian Pit on Primrose Hill

WOTW:2005 In a modern day setting Martian Shock Assult Machines, scrabble from their landing craters

Pencils

"And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career"
- In the Storm

"Then something...something struggling violently...was lifted high against the sky, a black, vague enigma against the starlight; and as this black object came down again, I saw by the green brightness that it was a man."
-Days of Imprisonment

Finished Peices

"The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation."
-The Falling Star (Pencils/Inks/Sepia)

"As it did so a second glittering Titan built itself up out of the pit."
-At the Window (Pencils/Inks/Sepia)

"To us and to an observer about Ripley it would have had precisely the same effect...the Martians seemed in solitary possession of the darkling night, lit only as it was by the slender moon, the stars, the afterglow of the daylight, and the ruddy glare from St. George's Hill and the woods of Painshill"
-What happened in Surrey (Pencils/Inks/Sepia)

"The cylinder was already opened in the centre of the pit, and on the farther edge of the pit, amid the smashed and gravel-heaped shrubbery, one of the great fghting-machines, deserted by its occupant, stood stiff and tall against the evening sky."
-What We Saw From the Ruined House (Pencils/Inks/Sepia)

"Of a night, all over there, Hampstead way, the sky is alive with their lights. It's like a great city, and in the glare you can just see them moving. ... And the night before last"...he stopped and spoke impressively..."it was just a matter of lights, but it was something up in the air. I believe they've built a flying-machine, and are learning to fly."
-The Man on Putney Hill (Inks/Sepia)

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