Two renderings of H.G.Wells Martian Tripods, from the novel “War of the Worlds” The menacing top Illustration is a close up of the cab, note the circling crows indicating an inert tripod - turned over by germs! The Second Illustration has a real sense of scale, three tripods under the aurora borealis and a violet northern sky
These images a part of a set that ran in Omni Magazine 1985, they are a co-production of designers Roger Dean, Martyn Dean, Tim White and Richard Clifton-Dey. The Illustrations were also re-licensed and used again by Psygnosis (who else!) for the 1987 Computer game “Terrorpods” and thats where I first came across them. Definitely in my all time top 5.
These Images are taken Courtesy of Dr. Zeus who’s expansive site is a homage to all things WOTW. http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/other/other.html
A trashed Spaceship glistens under a low arctic sun, I’m guessing it’s the arctic though being Sci-fi it could of course be anywhere. Quite an original choice of lighting from Salwowski, a long and heavy shadow cast in the glow of weak winter sunlight.
Mark Salwowski is a British Sci-fi and Fantasy Illustrator specialising in airbrush work. His career spans nearly thirty years having produced Cover art for famous authors such as John Wyndham, Orson Scott Card, Brian Aldiss, Iain M Banks and Micheal Moorcock. For more info check his extensive portfolio here: http://www.salwowski.com/Main.html
Super Cool/kitsch Illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia for the 1964 Space themed children’s book “Space Alphabet” by Irene Zacks.
See the full set over on Flickr courtesy of Wardomatic http://flickr.com/photos/wardomatic/sets/782615/
Nice Slab Serif font too!
1978 Fantasy Hyper Realism from Boris Vallejo, don’t know why but this makes me think of Disco! I think’s thats because I’ve seen several fantasy based Disco/Cosmic Disco Sleeve’s / Flyers most recently Via Beats in Space - click the above Thumbnail - not sure of the artist on that one.
Image Sourced from this expansive Boris Vallejo Library http://vallejo.ural.net/1979/
More about Boris himself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo
A beautiful girl with a wildly decadent headress, graceful Illustration from Micheal Whelan - a tag search on flickr confirms it’s a drag queens favourite! - check Flickr for the “The Snow Queen”
Micheal Whelan’s an American artist (born 1949) who specialises in Sci-Fi and Fantasy art, his art appearing on over 350 books and magazine covers… check out more on him him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whelan
A book cover designed by the late Scottish Italian Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) . Starting out working with collage’s of found object Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960’s producing striking Screen Prints, and he also worked as a Sculptor. Paolozzi’s work is akin to the Pop Art movement of the time, although he described his work as Surrealist.
Read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi He’s one of my favourite artist’s s I’ll be posting more up soon…
