Ok so here we have one of the worlds premier Sci-Fi Artist’s featured on Sci-Fi-O-Rama for the first time and I’d like to point out that it’s not on merit that Ralphs not popped up before… Ralph Mcquarrie IS Star Wars, every bit as much as George Lucas and if you seek Star Wars Art (and why shouldnt you!) I recommend a Google/Yahoo or Flickr image search..
So Back to (70’s) Battlestar Galatica - and following on from the prior post – here are some of Ralph Mcquarrie’s original concept paintings. Ralph’s work – of course – is pretty close to the finished models/art, but as with his Star Wars art its slightly more streamlined or spindly, in the way that only concept art can be – cooler perhaps?
BTW the reason why this blog isn’t laced with art from visionaries like Syd Mead or Ralph Mcquarrie is that a simple google search (or better yet bookshop) will yield far classier info than I can provide. It’s not that these artists aren’t amazing (of course they are! ) Sci-Fi-O-Rama is more about the off-beat…
Images Sourced Via this BSG forum: http://galacticabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=1931
For more Info:
See a complete overview of his Battlestar Galactica paintings here:
http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-1978—news/ralph-mcquarrie-concept-paintings.html
Or an overview of his concept art for Battlestar Galactica here:http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-1978—news/ralph-mcquarrie-concept-sketches.html
Thanks Marcel!
A section of Ridley Scott’s storyboard sketches for Bladerunner, demonstrating once again his flair for drawing and his passion for details. These dystopian scenes in particular – Deckards visit to the Tyrell Corp HQ – were inspired by Ridley’s youth and memories of the night-time vista of oil refineries and steel mills, the fabric of 60’s industrial Teeside (North East England).
These superbly nightmarish pen and ink visuals were preliminary character studies for the 1994 James Herbert Graphic novel “The City” Illustrated by Ian Miller in his indomitable scratchy Gothic style – a really great demonstration of the detail achievable with dip pen, brush and ink.
The City is the fourth installment of Herbert’s popular Rats Series, It maps a chilling post-apocalyptic future where the pathetic remnants of mankind scrape out an existence in ruins under the new order – The Rats! available here on Amazon – thats just got me thinking, what the difference between Post-Apocalyptic and Steampunk?
Images featured courtesy of Ian Miller, via his http://www.ian-miller.org/ portfolio site.
Illustration used as the cover art for the Robert Heinlen novel “Beyond this Horizon”.
A wicked character illustration by another British Illustrator; Bruce Pennington. I’ve tagged this image with fashion but I guess it could also be considered concept costume/character art, a really lavish outfit thats a lightweight blend of both Western (heraldic) and Eastern (Samurai) Armour – love the fanned wings on the helmet!
Read more about Bruce Pennington at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Pennington
This image has come via Flickr courtesy of The Emperor Dalek – Great username! – theres an excellent selection of excellent SF Book covers here http://flickr.com/photos/emperordalek/sets/72157600996437127/
Images from the original Alien Storyboard – Art by Ridley Scott.
Ridley Scott’s pre production storyboards for 1979 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Alien, show he’s a dab hand with the marker pens! these extremely detailed visuals serve to demonstrate just how meticulous his eye for visual design is. The top shows ‘Kane’ and ‘Lambert’ on the Nostromo’s bridge next down show’s ‘Jones’ the Ships cat, used in several of the ships memorable shots, the lower slides show members of the crew outside wearing the costumes based on the Concepts by Moebius also featured on this blog.
Ridley Scott first dabbling in film first started whilst studying Graphic Design at Londons Royal College of Art (RCA) between the years of 1960-1962, upon graduating he went on to work as a trainee set designer with the BBC. Ridley Worked on sucesfull Tv shows: Dr Who & Z cars before moving into directing TV adverts such as the “Hovis Bike Round”, then finally on to Hollywood and the rest is film history!
Read More about Ridley Scott at Wiki or Imdb.com
