Omnipixil

Sorry I haven't been posting for a while! Very busy here as I'm trying to finish up my commercial pilot's license + working 3 jobs. Here's some sketches I've done in the past that I will upload over the next few days.

VILTRUMITE JOMARI

I wanted to practice sketching my aliens more, especially the Jomari heads/skull shapes in different angles, and also wanted some way to demonstrate the male and female differences and age/horns/variations/etc within the species, so I thought it would be funny to use this Invincible Panel as a reference lol. I replaced all the Viltrumites with their Jomari equivalent!

Sorry I haven't been super active lately, school and finals and flight checkrides and two part-time jobs have been taking up much much much of my time, so I haven't been able to work on Jom'Gol too much.

After some time, I've finally put together the precipitation maps for both Winter and Equinox seasons now!

Once again:

Pale Green - Arid Green - Semi-Arid Teal - Marginal Precipitation Blue - Moderate Precipitation Dark Blue - Significant Precipitation Navy - Heavy Precipitation

I think I've finally figured out about what each precipitation value means.

Arid - <60mm (~<100 per yr Earth-relative)(Sahara-Antarctic-Mojave)

Semi-Arid - 60-160mm (~100-300 per yr Earth-relative)(Outback-Sahel-Serengeti)

Marginal 160-480mm (300-900 per yr Earth-relative)(GreatPlains-Mediterranean)

Moderate 480-850mm (900-1600 per yr Earth-relative)(Midatlantic-Scotland-Appalachia)

Significant 850-1330mm (1600-2500 per yr Earth-relative)(Olympic-Congo)

Heavy 1330-2150+mm (2500-4000+ per yr Earth-relative)(DeepAmazon-Hypercane)

After a TON of tedious work, I have got done ONE precipitation map for Jom'Gol !! This one represents the Northern Hemisphere Summer Precipitation map.

I don't have a legend actually printed on the map, but I do have it listed out here: Pale Green - Arid Green - Semi-Arid Teal - Marginal Precipitation Blue - Moderate Precipitation Dark Blue - Significant Precipitation Navy - Heavy Precipitation

While these don't really mean much but tell you a general idea of the moisture, they will get actual values later. For now, having a rough idea of thinking where Arid is Sahara-levels of dry, Semi-Arid is shrub/scrubland, Marginal is steppe/grassland or Mediterranean, Moderate is forest/boreal levels of precipitation, Significant is Pacific Northwest to rainforest levels of rain, and Heavy is even beyond Amazon or Congo levels of rain.

I do not know the levels of exact rainfall in inches or millimeters or whatever per year, as the year length is variable and other factors go into how these are determined.

As a reminder, this is JUST the map for Summer (NH). I imagine that because of the extreme tilt of the planet, I will have to also make an Equinox precip map in addition to the Winter precip map for Jom'Gol.

Alright, here's some simple-ish maps for the Equinox season, to represent air cells, prevailing winds, and pressure zones during Spring and Fall. This should hopefully make up for the drastic swing variation of the Summer-Winter movement! As a slight fix, and to account for the lag of the heating over the land, I've also included the Orange and Purple zones in addition to the Red (High Pressure) and Blue (Low Pressure) zones as well.

The Purple represents a conditional low pressure zone, and the Orange a conditional high-pressure zone. On a composite annual map, these are essentually just a normal H and L, however looking at it individually tells us how that could behave in a certain season. If the season in that hemisphere has JUST been Summer, the heating over that area, and thus the effect on the pressure zones, would be more significant in Fall than in Spring (the summer hemisphere is still hot and cooling off moving into fall). Conversely the same thing happens in the opposite season in the Spring, in the reverse direction (obviously vice versa in opposite hemisphere in the same seasons as well).

Okay, not too bad to throw together basic air cell patterns and high pressure/low pressure areas for Northern Hemisphere Summer and Northern Hemisphere Winter. I've also labeled direction of basic prevailing wind for each season based on the rotation of high/low pressure and the deflection off of significant mountains.

I've realized enough to correct my mistakes from the last time doing this, and not following exact earth-tilt rules on a world with a different tilt than earth. However, in doing my research and my calculations, I've realized that the 40 degree obliquity of Jom'Gol is WAYY too significant to do all the data from just summer and winter.

The ITCZ moves up several more degrees than it would on a low-obliquity world, and the large mass of North-South supercontinent changes the heating level so much that the line sometimes moves all the way up to the tropics level (or even a tiny bit beyond!)-- which by the way, is insane on a world with 40 degree tilt (because the ARCTIC CIRCLES are at 50 degrees, only a 10 deg band of tropics!!) So much info on the offseasons are lost from this and are too important to leave out (Spring, Fall, and in-betweens). So, I've decided that I will be doing an "Equinox" tab on data as well. The equinox tab will both cover Spring and Fall seasons, and make up for the offseasons in between.

My mountains are all complete for my planet !!! Everything is all completed with the highest level of detail I can, and I can say with 98% confidence that I'm not going to change the mountains again. I MAY go back later and carve some of the lowland areas based on watersheds and rivers, but I may also move those to specialty zoomed-in area maps instead.

I have included some close-up pictures of a few areas on my planet that I think are interesting and have high detail. You can see evidence in these zoom-ins of multiple different orogeny types, including Andean-like subduction, Zagros-like uplift, Laramide-like uplift and pulling, Basin-Range basement block uplift, Himalayan-collision orogeny, old Appalachian-like fold belts, Altai and Teton -esque Slip-Strike, Old mountain core Ozark-like bluffs, and multiple others.

Just a snapshot at me manually carving all my mountains on Clip Studio Paint for Jom'Gol.... manually is so much better for detail but MAN does it take a ridiculous amount of work. Worth it!

And here's the rough mountain placements based on the previous paper calculations, of course once again adjusted as much as possible for basic distortion. Everything is just sketch lines and blobs right now, so going in to refine the actual highlands, then the peaks, then the lowlands. Much much later I will end up going back to the lowland regions (and some exclusive highland regions) to carve a little bit of land out due to rivers or glaciers. (For now though, I've taken a bit of a guess at a FEW glacial areas and carved them out already).

NOWWWWW we're cooking with grease. Completed outlines of the NEW continents on Jom'Gol. This is just the lowland layer, closest to the shoreline.

Alright, enough messing around. I'm finally doing something with all my redoing of the mountains and tectonic info on my world. First step is to take this ultra-rough paper version with my tectonic snapshots and label EVERY mountain range on the planet over the course of at least 2 billion years of orogeny.

I've labeled every single mountain range, their age, and every major mountain building event (and what type of orogeny it was), and what time it occurred. (Tedious.)

In reality, every mountain range on the planet will eventually be named in whatever languages will be developed by intelligent life, but for now I've come up with a mineral-based naming scheme. Every mountain range is named after a random mineral or mineraloid, and every continent is named after a rock or strata.

If the mountain range splits due to continental division in the middle of the mountain range, I will usually try to split it into related mineral groups (Olivine into Beryl, Chrisoberyl, Peridot, etc.) and if it splits again I label its main direction then (Oriental, Occidental, Boreal, Austral).

Completed this drawing of my D&D party in the style of the Fear and Hunger 2 pause menu! 12ish hours for this, took longer just to try to match the style/lighting and the custom text lol. Tried to make their fears accurate to their in-campaign lore!

WIP - Trying to draw my D&D Party but in the style of Fear and Hunger 2 menus lol.