Celebrating Alien Day w/ original artwork!

Happy Alien Day, Hive! I’ll get to the celebration soon, but let me get the baggage out of the way first. Finally, after Matrix-style dodging it for two years, I finally succumb to COVID. Very few symptoms, in fact, the night I’d tested positive, I had just finished an 800 calorie workout during kickboxing feeling about the same as always. Obviously, I altered the gym staff the following morning so they could go through possible exposure protocols, but other than some congestion and mild joint pain that only lasted a day, it was barely noticeable for me. In fact, I wouldn’t have even tested if it wasn’t for the fact that a few of my friends I saw during Viva were positive.

I’ll be spending the next few days home until I test negative again. During this time, I’ll be working on various @mirrorpool projects and a new offering for the Dark Pinup NFT set to support Act Two that’s still on sale. As always, one of primary focuses in life in general is getting back to illustration and comics, and that’s what I’m looking to share with you all tonight. Last year, while still working with @facingsofficial, @swarddraws and I were hired to create a series of Alien pieces of art for a client. As far as comic work goes, this was as big of a deal for us as working on Garbage Pail Kids.

I went through the first few Alien films and tried to distill the franchise down to five iconic images or solid concepts. Together, @swarddraws and I ended up with the Queen, a xenomorph, a face hugger, the engineer […which later was elaborated on in Prometheus] and the derelict ship. I bought a couple of Giger art books and watched, “Memory”, the documentary by Legion M. This had to be a strong showing and in some ways, I felt like I had to punch above my weight class. I’m really happy with these and I’d consider them some of, if not my best work of all of 2021.

In addition to celebrating Alien Day, just bringing these out and sharing them is encouraging me to hold myself to a higher standard for the work I’m going to be grinding on during the rest of this unfortunate quarantine. My approach to my art is always a process that makes me feel lost until I finally find the right composition […which is usually by accident]. These pieces remind me to just trust in that abstract process and that I’ll eventually discover something if I stay with it. Thanks for reading and I’m glad I got to show these off on this special day.