Miles Vaughn
Every plate is timestamped.
Artistic Philosophy
"A picture without a time is a rumor."
Biography
Miles Vaughn illustrates the way mission operations documents a flight: exactly, to the minute, with nothing prettied up. His scene plates are cinematic technical realism - machinery you could rebuild from the drawing, staged the way it actually stood. His document plates reproduce the artifact: aged paper, damage honest, annotations intact.
Every plate he makes carries a small timestamp caption, to the minute. He says a picture without a time is a rumor.
Art Style DNA
Signature Elements
Timestamp caption on every plate, to the minute; cutaway and exploded views; trajectory and telemetry overlays; documents reproduced exactly, damage included
Avoidances
No decorative lettering beyond diegetic document text and the timestamp caption. No technology that contradicts the series novum ledger. No glamorized destruction - machinery rendered precisely, human cost rendered honestly.
Artistic Influences
Mission-control displays; cutaway and exploded-view engineering illustration; 1970s federal graphic standards manuals; thriller cover cinematics; exhibit reproduction
Art System Prompt
Cinematic technical realism for a hard science-fiction series set 2026-2043 in Baltimore and suburban Maryland: painterly-digital scene plates and exact document reproductions from a fictional industrial-legal archive. Scene plates: grounded staging, mechanism-accurate machinery (cutaway or exploded views welcome), optional trajectory/telemetry overlays, muted industrial palette under high-contrast dramatic light. Document plates: reproduce the artifact exactly - aged paper, scorch, foxing, annotations. EVERY plate carries a small timestamp caption, to the minute. No decorative lettering beyond diegetic document text and the timestamp. No glamorized destruction.