Ken Marschall’s Titanic paintings have always been my favorite. When I was little, this and other books were treasured possessions. As my obsession with the Titanic grew, Ken’s paintings were a window into a lost piece of the past, and a way to visualize parts of the ship that nobody had seen before. Fast forward to the present…
Ken Marschall is now a consultant on the video game project I work on, Titanic: Honor and Glory. He helps us to get the details right on all the work we do to recreate the Titanic, using the same sense of detail that he does in his paintings above. And what’s more amazing is the fact that the stuff me, Matt DeWinkeleer, and the other team members do provides Ken with the same kind of excitement and sense of awe that Ken’s paintings did for us when we were little.
Ken is still painting Titanic today, with the same attention to detail. He does them in acrylics, and he utilizes a vast library of Titanic research to get every rivet right. I’m proud to say, however, that I’ve actually helped Ken on one of his most recent paintings, shown below. Using the Titanic model I created for T:H&G, I whipped up a digital rendering of the ship from the same angle with the same lighting as the below painting, and Ken used that rendering as a reference to get the outline of the ship and its various details, proportions, plating, riveting, and shadows just right in the painting.
And if you’re curious about Titanic: Honor and Glory, you can see plenty about it here: http://titanic-honor-and-glory.tumblr.com/
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