Wild Aliens I Have Known
You know the routine. Click on a thumbnail below to see the larger image.
You'll find some rambling reminiscence accompanying each picture as well. This is the alien gallery.
Follow the links to see other galleries.
These images are copyright by the artist. You may enjoy them for personal use
but may not publish them.
Probably my favorite science fiction subject has always been aliens -- not the Hollywood kind, an actor with a piece of latex stuck to his forehead, but truly non-humanoid and strange aliens. Throughout most of the '80's, before I started routinely getting illustration assignments, I had the opportunity to let my imagination run ungoverned.
Often I used a system to randomly generate descriptions of aliens
as a springboard for a painting. At first with dice, then later
a with computer, I would compile the creature and its environment from a list of
attributes concerning locomotion, manipulation, sense organs, body covering,
colors and textures, etc. Always I edited the result to make the alien more
convincing. I probably would not choose to cover a creature with big yellow
polka-dots, for instance, even though you might find a salamander in your
own back yard to fit this description.
My apologies to Ernest Thompson Seton fans for the silly title of this page.
