Hello, this is some chalk pastels I got from Christmas from my friend. She gave me them. She knows I like them because they have almost No binder in he look how soft and squishy they are they they crumble They're great. I'm drawing in the vague shape and color as you can see clearly It's a blue cobra and the plane of the galaxy And look look it's a starpa Oh gosh, but you can't tell at the moment because I'm just doing the blobby blobby colors and then afterwards I'll spend ages tweaking at it to make it look more More like the thing this picture is a screenshot taken by orange Felix actually for someone who won a raffle prize They made a donation to a charitable event and were thrown into a raffle pot and One of the raffle prizes was oh lucky They got a picture drawn by me and and and not a two sixteen Anyway, this is the screenshot they chose. It's a blue cobra leaving lave station as you can As you can probably guess it's a Corriolis and this is lave station I asked the commander to tell me a little bit about it actually which is rather lovely of them They've given me this information about it and the picture in the head is that the first feelings they got when they first started playing a Elite back in 1984 which makes sense given this is lave station actually So I'll read I'll read what is written for me anyway The feelings of first starting playing Elite back in 1984, but now realized in 2022 the feeling of leaving lave station for the first time in my cobra mark 3 the 2022 version Scott the paint job the ship's name emblazoned on its whole at Astra The Latin for to the stars literally what I was doing and the closest I'd ever get to being an astronaut or a Han Solo treating and smuggling my way across our galaxy Literally living out a childhood fantasy as a huge Star Wars and Star Trek fan my ship's serial number is a representation of me I eat a m my name initials 84 for the year I started playing and eat for Elite The game the rank the achievement something I can now say I've achieved in the original and in the dangerous version So the picture it evokes what he feels about It's feelings about the game and he's dead pleased that he's got a picture Which is quite nice to hear actually because I often feel like when it's a raffle You think I mean guess they they could have not entered that particular one to be fair Anyway, and it was it was really cool that Arif Phoenix did this it wasn't just him streaming It was a quite a few people streaming it a streamer called deep blue beard did quite a lot of the organizing I think as well They they altered turns and took a chunk of it each and would try and build up for each of their segments Something their style of playing Elite and and what they did and what their regular viewers like to see and It went down pretty well actually there may quite a bit of cash for this Charity the charity was an art charity amazingly. It was a company that make digital art images for children who are having treatment for cancer And they and they asked the child what what they want to be and then they make it happen in this image So the children have something to sort of look at and aspire to and feel good about and it's them And it's just a really sweet idea and I and it all seemed to have really struck a chord with the streamers And they did they did really well. I can't remember how much they made but they did really well They did 24 hours of this which is pretty good Anyway, so I get about halfway through my pictures and then I abandoned chalk because I realized I can't do it in chalk So I end up doing it in pencil crayon and paint and HB pencil at one point there by the looks of it as well So yeah, a bit of black and white paint on it to bring out the details and highlights and shadows and whatnot Makes it look a little bit better as best I can but I still whack a lot of black on it The interesting thing with those chalks is that the black the pastel black it's really dark, but it don't it But it's very it's very dry and grumbly and it doesn't stick on the paper as well as I'd like So I end up using compressed charcoal which bizarrely isn't actually a dark I used a white pencil crayon for the tiny Faraway stars and a big white chalk for the more impressive and more chunky stars There's a few ships in this as well as the Cobra There's two ships right by the Toast rack of Of Lave station there's one right in the center and then there's one at a diagonal and just above it You can't really see that because it's too tiny and then there's a side with its plume of Engine trail that's coming out so I imagine that that side winders probably a commander because it's got blue engines And that's not something that NPCs have anyway, I've pretty much done this and So I will once again say thank you very much for sitting through it and looking at it and I really appreciate it and I am happy to do them for whoever asks. Bye