Sci-fi birthday card

I wanted to do something special for the birthday of one of my nephews.  He's nuts about a certain space franchise, so I did some research and made a couple of sketches, suitable for a linoprint.

Then I painstakingly cut the lino - it was a lesson, to consider how you will eventually reproduce a line-drawing in lino: too much detail in a small area (this was approximately the surface of a postcard) just can't be done this side of a microscope :)  In addition, the 'rubber' of the lino gets soft as you work it and a lot of cuts in a small area is most likely to result in chunks of lino coming away from the woven base :(

The finished linocut wasn't half bad, I think.

I love it, to be honest - hope he does too!