Sketch Card for April 2 - Alien 5/5

Captain Dallas has one of the best beards in SF! Tom Skerrit was one of my favorite actors after this. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the reasons I wanted to grow a beard even before I developed fuzz on my upper lip.

The past week using all this photo reference was fun and I loved flipping through that old Alien photonovel. I'm thinking I'll come back to this later and get around to Kane, Lambert, The Alien Pilot, the alien itself and. . . Jonesy? Well, the cat would make five.

Next Monday I'll be posting the three Invincible sketchcards from last week. I decided to take a bit of a break and take the Monday off. The rest of the week will be a series of four cards.

Sketch Card for April 1 - Alien 4/5

Ripley!

Sketch Card for March 31- Alien 3/5

Ash -- played by the always brilliant Ian Holm. I was so freaked out by his reveal as an android the first time I saw the movie. Until they said what he was I thought he was another sort of alien.

Yesterday and most of today were essentially lost as far as touching the sketchcards, luckily the long weekend is coming and I. . . hang on! I'm a freelancer, I don't get long weekends. . . .

Sketch Card for March 30- Alien 2/5

Brett. This character has one of the most memorable death scenes in film history. Great actor, too.

Heck, they're all great actors.

Sketch Card for March 29- Alien 1/5

Was about to go to bed when I realized I hadn't posted today's (ahem -- yesterday's) sketch card.

I didn't want to start a series for this week and have a materials issue interrupt the flow like the copic problem last week (got the refills today, so I'll likely post the remaining Invincible cards tomorrow). So I decided to draw everything in pen. I decided to use the pen (Uni-ball Vision Elite) fellow artist, Guy Dorian gave me this past weekend.

It's a very nice pen. Nice ink and flow on the bristol.

The subject this week is the 70s Alien film. I don't know that I'll even draw the creature since the characters are all so amazing. I decided to lean heavily on the reference for these as well.

Here's an in-progress shot.

When I was a kid, the Alien photonovel was one of my most treasured possessions. I loved the movie - I think I saw it over a dozen times in the theater. Even today, if I'm channel-surfing and stumble across a broadcast of the film I usually start watching regardless of whatever else may be on.

Even though I loved drawing as a kid and this was frequently close at hand, I never drew from it. I should have -- I think I would have learned a great deal about lighting.

Sadly, this is a replacement for my lost original. I've no idea what happened to it -- it just disappeared at some point.

Hope you guys like this series of cards and won't mind my essentially "swiping" from stills for this -- I guess I'm just making up for something the 12-year old me should have done.