Great Martian Railways
■ Drawn in Procreate
using my "INK." brush set for Procreate.
There are also INK for Affinity Photo (and Designer), Photoshop (Photoshop Elements, Fresco),
and Clip Studio Paint (and Manga Studio)
The interior spread art for the July/August 2024 issue
of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine
Vol. XCIV No. 7 & 8
Illustration for the short story named
■Great Martian Railways■
by Hûw Steer
October 2023
"... And what a track it would be—nearly three thousand kilometers of rail, lancing out from the Utopia desert and then veering south. Lowell had seen the plans. She knew them by heart. Out through Utopia—not a straight line south to their destination but arcing to stay on flat desert for as long as possible, turning through the Isidis Planitia before cutting through the Libyan mountains, sliding between the towering peaks of Tyrrhena and Huygens before coming to a halt at the edge of the vast crater that was Hellas Planitia, where vast Hellas City squatted, safe from the howling sandstorms but cut off from the rest of Mars..."