'Terok Nor' Star Trek Deep Space Nine illustration
My contribution to #30x30DS9, a fan art initiative celebrating 30 years of Deep Space Nine. This was completed entirely using Affinity Designer.
A diagrammatic representation of DS9 in the style of the Cardassian interfaces seen on the show itself.
Title lettering created in the style of Cardassian script.
Detail of the main station itself.
The illustration is flanked by small but detailed UI elements, like this one showing a station schematic.
The emblem of the Cardassian Union.
More UI elements. Utter nonsense that hopefully looks meaningful.
Detail of the foreground docking pylon.
A wireframe screenshot from Affinity Designer showing most of the elements used in the finished piece.
I created a fake z-buffer layer to apply as an overlay and give the flat artwork some depth. Also, illuminated features were put on a 'light pass' layer.
A ‘lightbox’ layer was used to simulate how they made the backlit displays on the show.
Desktop wallpaper version.