Space Jockey's with Sommelier knife/ Waiters Friend bodies

See Space-jockeys-with-sommelier-knife bodies for an explanation behind these body structures at the Alien Explorations blog

And see Space Jockey's with Sommelier knife/ Waiters Friend bodies 2 for more images

Space Jockeys with Sommelier Knife bodies

Space Jockeys with Sommelier Knife body

Space Jockey with Sommelier Knife body

Space Jockey with Sommelier Knife body

Predalien Predalien to the extreme II

Predaien

Predalien

Predalien

Predalien with dreadlock spines transformed into mandibles

Predalien with head divided at the back

Predalien with head divided at the back

Predalien Predalien to the extreme

a) Although, various artists were having ideas about what an Alien that was born from a Predator should look like for some time before the Alien Vs Predator films were made, it wasn't until Alien Vs Predator Requiem that we managed to see near enough an adult one that was supposed to be a young queen. When the film makers of Alien Vs Predator Requiem was made, they coined the term Predalien for such a creature which as a term has stuck. The film makers wanted to pay homage to Texas Chainsaw Massacre with their effort, the jagged heads of the alien warriors were their chainsaw blades and the clicking noises of the Predalien was their slow chainsaw engine.

b) Once the images of the monsters from the movie had been released, already I was very dissatisfied with their alien monsters. So their Predalien was supposed to be a young Alien Queen which alien queen features on its head. The Predator mandibles of the creature resembled spanners either side of it's normal alien mouth.

c) What I did like was the idea that perhaps the aliens were the chainsaws. I wanted to slowly design my own Predalien, perhaps a far more basic one, I admit that I had been undecided about the way the head should look however I imagined it as a weaponised biomechanoid and developed an urge to turn its tail into a chainsaw that would rip through it's victims.

d) Over time I would imagine the dreadlock like tendrils of the creature becoming almost like the legs of a trilobite

e) The creatures body became more and more spikey

 

f) The large lower jaws mandibles of the creature sticking out with sledge runner like blade

g) But it's true that at the end of the day I am not entirely sure what I would the Predalien should look like and indeed I have kept on trying, but realising that beyond these urges to see something that must be the ultimate blend of Predator and Alien genes, we might want to see something that we really might not be so one hundred percent sure about what we saw and maybe would not actually comprehend for many years to come. I thought also about how the original alien had human jaw bones with human teeth extending from its ankles and I also wondered to some extent about the idea of the Predalien's dreadlocks being replaced by a row of lower mandibles. The ideas about extending parts and changing parts of this creature could go on forever and I liked perhaps the idea that the creature might continuously change slightly. I continue drawing these vague sketches without much thought being given to a final piece

 

study for a Predalien made from bits of Giger paintings

original Alien Poster

leading from

Film Scenario Explorations

a) When the Alien poster first came out in 1979 outside of the cinema, I wondered what to make of the organic grid at the bottom. I thought at first that these were humans bowing down to accept their hellish fate as the primal egg unleashed it's glowing energy.  The since these things were not necessarily actually humans, I wondered if perhaps they were transforming into something less known and it was also something therefore very alien.  I also thought about people in anti-nuclear weapons protest people lying down with their arms spread out which still goes on today. This bowing down of multiple humans idea that I had would also bring me to think about a possible mass ritual suicide.

Alien Centipede 2

I had been drawing pictures of the Alien Centipede inspired by Tom Six's The Human Centipede and then when The Human Centipede 2 came out in 2011 which featured a group of humans layed out in the form of a centipede in a dark space, I took note of the poster and it reminded me of the strange criss-crossing pastries effect at the bottom of the Alien poster that when it first was shown at the cinema reminded me of humans lying down with their arms spread out on the ground to accept obliteration or a sense of hellish transformation into something else, perhaps in the Alien movie become victims of the cocooning process, in Alien to become food for a spore to grow, or in Aliens, a host for a chestburster. Perhaps now we are dealing with Prometheus, the imagined might undergo an actual transformation into some sort of other thing.

Alien Centipede

Having seen the publicity for Human Centipede which came out in 2010, a rather wonderfully strange but severe movie about a surgeon who stitches three humans together that seemed reminiscent of early David Cronenberg,  I began to wonder about a Giger's Alien version of the concept and thus began to draw Aliens forming a chain connected by genitals or strap on dildos inserted into one another's rectums since there was enough of this sort of connectivity going on in HR Giger's illustratons. Perhaps this is what would feature in an Alien movie if Tom Six the director of Human Centipede had a go at directing one.

Alien meets Gravity: Gravitalien

a) While observing the publicity images for Gravity, I began to wonder how one might transfer ideas to do with Alien into this movie since it was in some way asking me to.  I wondered about Aliens crawling around ruined parts of space crafts in Earths outer orbit and then when I looked at the images of the astronauts connected to one another by umbilicals marooned in space. Perhaps there are aliens out there in the outer orbit ready to pounce on any stray astronauts

 
b) I thought about my earlier concepts for an Alien version of Human Centipede which might feature aliens connected to one another with their phallic tails inserted into one another's anuses walking around together. I took an image of the alien suit shown at various exhibitions of Giger's and replicated it a few times to build a chain as if they are passing by in the manner of a train.