Perspectives on the Alien (and Predator) saga

1. Thoughts about who and what the Space Jockey is.

2. Development of the Alien life form via Tintin and the Pink Panther.

    

"Predalien breaking out through a cafe window surrounded by Paparazzi"

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concept / exploration doodles

Alien sketch for Alien Day 2020. 

"Predalien breaking out through a cafe window surrounded by Paparazzi II"

It seems to be an attempt to revisit an earlier drawing done about five years ago seen here, and perhaps the earlier drawing was much better. If there's anywhere further to go with the idea, I could end up churning out the same old thing many dozens of times again to get there.

"Predalien breaking out through a cafe window surrounded by Paparazzi II" (April 26th 2020)

See also: "Predalien breaking out through a cafe window surrounded by Paparazzi I" (September, 2016)

Alien: Window Display

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concept / exploration doodles

Space Jockey with single lower limb being airbrushed

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Inner-Space Rocketeer images

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concept / exploration doodles

Towards Paradise

Towards Paradise II

Space Flight (version 1)

Alien heads skewered on a stake

Alien heads skewered on a stake. 

Might as well be oversized cocktail sausages. 

Perhaps in this world they are simply heads made as parts of costumes and sticking a stake through them considerably reduces their value. 

There is the idea of a crossroads in the snow and mechanical half buried junk on the sides

Alien Revenant sketches

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Concept exploration doodles

1. Glass in biomechanoid suit vehicle crossing landscape with pile of alien heads. I decided to have a an alien queen head that looked a bit like a jet aircraft, probably to irritate Aliens fans. Glass travels around in a vehicle roughly inspired by the biomechanical suits from Independence Day but mergd with the idea of a bear and a sled.

image of Glass visiting a pile of bison heads in a dream

2. Glass in biomechanoid suit visiting the derelict spaceship/ church ruin version 1

3. Glass in biomechanoid suit visiting the derelict spaceship/ church ruin version 2

4. Source images for derelict spaceship/ church ruin drawings

The derelict ship churches also incorporates the idea of merging Chris Foss' derelict ship with Giger's derelict ship with Sylvain Despretz's Skullship from Superman Lives , Patrick Tatopoulos' cave walker's skull from The Cave and "Behemoth's World" by Richard Clifton-Dey. Since I believe one image led to the other and then the other, I decided to look for the commonalities and put them together. The Skullship also has qualities of Dali's Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano and so I have added that into my derelict spaceship/ church ruin

ruin of a church that Glass visits in a dream.

Chris Foss's derelict ship concept for Alien

Giger's wreck detail work 396 for Alien

  Giger's derelict painting (Work 374: Wreck) for Alien

Sylvain Despretz' Skullship from the unmade Superman Lives

Cave Walker by Patrick Tatopoulos for The Cave

Dali's Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano

"Behemoth's World" by Richard Clifton-Dey