Ah yes, my perennial Alien art!, after watching the film Alien for the umpteenth time I saw an image right at the end of the film which I liked a lot, so I snapped it with my camera with a resolution to artify it!
It was the closing scene where Ripley goes toe to toe with the creature, I love the lighting and the intense blue, with a little colour tweaking in GIMP and rested on the magenta counter colour and with a bit of ArtRage warping bent the alien to a reflection in the helmet.
Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new. Trying to stay faithful to my original pen drawing that I did a very long time ago by layering my previous alien paintings over the top. In the end I was quite happy that I achieved the correct texture balance and gave the alien I slightly different hue.
Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
Playing around with lots of digital tools at the start, including the gloop pen and watercolour and defining initially some very cute digital eyes. The rest of it was just made up!
This is also one of the first times I am starting to play around with the soft palette knife, I really like the way this tool pulls around the paint. The last final addition was a simple radial background fill using the bucket tool!
I had an idea to render a variation of an alien, namely the one in the film prometheus but to add something extra, my own spin on it. This involved mainly plenty of colour dodge to present an almost luminous effect to the skin and to overlay a single light from the eye, although I’m not quite sure I positioned it correctly.
Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
I was playing around with this painting at the start, I knew I wanted to start off with something cute, so I focussed on the eyes and then played around until I felt an idea coming through, a cool dude of an alien idea then started to form and I just went with it, very much focussing on an illustrative look again.
Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
I always like rendering an alien as the detail is so much fun to render. I am still trying to figure out how to use the oil brush, currently using it on a thin paint setting as I am not yet comfortable with the thicker paint mixing.
Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
