Ancient alien astronaut with damaged space craft - WIP stages

3 stages of the creation of the artwork.

Painted during May 2021 this digital illustration, created using 'Auto sketchbook pro', depicts a sci-fi scene. A long dead alien astronaut is drifting with his damaged ship in to a field of space inhabited with large, long tentacled monsters.

The panel above shows three stages of the creation leading to the completed illustration. In the first panel the original sketch can be seen in a reasonably cleaned up version. Moving to the second panel the drawing has had rough colour areas and details added to indicate tone and hues. At this stage the image is a small size document, with 1200px on the longest edge, and has been done on an android tablet. The next stage is to export the file to a desktop PC, enlarge the image up so that the longest side is now 6000px. This becomes the start of the final artwork where the imagery is reworked/ painted and refined so that it can be printed up to many sizes without loss of quality. The last panel shows the finished illustration, and can be seen in greater detail on this link. 

 

Ancient alien astronaut with damaged space craft - digital illustration

Completed digital sci fi space wreck illustration.

This scifi illustration shows a scene featuring a damaged space ship floating with its long dead alien pilot nearby, attached with a tether. It is now a skeleton after the tentacled, flesh sucking creatures living in the area, have removed it.

The image was created digitally using 'Auto Sketchbook pro' during early May 2021, with final touches carried out in Photoshop, and can be seen in detail on this exterior link.

 

Vintage space probe encountering flying alien creatures - WIP stages

Display of a number of stages involved in the creation of the illustration.

This scifi fantasy illustration depicts a scene with an ancient space probe being destroyed by some winged alien 'dinosaur' like monsters. It was painted during late winter 2021 in 'Sketchbook Pro.

The picture above shows four stages of the creation of the digitally produced artwork. The first panel shows a rough sketch to indicate size and composition of the elements. The document is at this time a small 1500px lengthways. The following panel, still at the same doc size indicates that the elements have been 'fleshed out', colours applied and some details beginning to be worked out. Moving on to the third panel the document is now enlarged to 6000px length-wise and now the final stages of painting can be done. This includes painting details in a more refined manner, and colours/ hues homed in to the final choices. Lastly, in the fourth panel can be seen the final illustration, completed. The above photo of the 3^rd and 4^th stages is probably not so apparent in differences due to the small size shown here.

The final result can be seen in detail on this link to an external portfolio site.

Spaceman With Space Station Orbiting Green Planet - digital painting

Spaceman With Space Station Orbiting Green Planet - digital painting

Spaceman With Space Station Orbiting Green Planet - digital painting

There is a retro sci fi feeling to this illustration painted during January 2018, featuring a scene dominated by an astronaut in space, looking at an approaching scout vehicle. This craft has come from the much larger space station seen in the distance, and which is orbiting a hazy, green alien planet. There is evident visual influence from such productions as 2001 and space 1999 in this digital painting, made in 'Auto Sketchbook Pro' initially, with Photoshop used to finish off the illustration.

The illustration can be seen at a larger scale on this link.

The Twelfth Doctor Who

The Twelfth Doctor Who

This digital painting celebrates the arrival of the 12^th Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, in August 2014. With him is the current assistant Clara Oswald, as played by Jenna Coleman. The other figure overseeing them is the first Dr Who, as played by William Hartnell. Behind them is their TARDIS, a transportation device that travels through space and time, its appearance stuck as a 20^th century police box.

Painted in August 2014 at A4 size.

http://martin-davey.artistwebsites.com/featured/the-twelfth-doctor-who-martin-davey.html

The Twelfth Doctor Who

Old Saturn V rocket in desert

Old Saturn V rocket in desert

This digital illustration was painted in January 2014 in photoshop to A3 size. It features a dusty, barren desert landscape with a man riding a camel. In the background can be seen a very old and weather beaten Saturn V rocket, as used for the Apollo moon landings, standing upright it appears for a very long time...

The rocket is shown to be similar in some ways to the surrounding rock formations, tall, old and worn by the sands of the desert storms, and part of the landscape. The rider on the camel has no interest in the rocket, it having been there longer than himself.

Old Saturn V rocket in desert

 

Alien Ice Cream (vector version)

Alien Ice Cream (vector version)

This illustration is based on an earlier digitally painted image of mine, which featured two child aliens eating ice creams, standing on an alien planet. That illustration was painted in photoshop using pixels, but this image is created in illustrator, and is a vector based image. This image uses only one of the aliens and is quite close to the original one in design, though the artwork is far more graphic and stylized in look.

alien ice cream vector version

kids on the moon

kids on the moon

Alien ice cream
moon kids catapult
the top 'ice cream' was done in the summer of 2007. I particularly enjoyed painting the ice creams. Its always good if food looks good painted. The later 'moon' catapult' was done in feb 2010. I was thinking of 'giles' the cartoonist moon creatures when painting my troublesome kids  in character rather than design.

from the website...
moon kids catapult
This image of cheeky children aliens firing a catapult at an astronaut was painted in photoshop to a format 8" x 10". I wanted the aliens to look old fashioned but have a clear pose and attitude. The astronaut and the moon module are based on ones from the 1960s for the Apollo moon landings. The intention in the image is that the astronaut has already been hit by one missile. In reality the moon is a very grey place so the purple band of stars and the gold coloured parts of the module add some colour to the scene.

Alien ice cream
This was quickly painted as a fun project in photoshop. The space aliens, standing on a moon type planet, are cartoony and appealing on the eye and quite old fashioned. The blue space, rather than a black space colour, also makes it look old, cartoony and quite traditional. The ice creams with cornets were enjoyable to paint, there is always something appealing in painting food! The simple colours help to add to the flavor and appeal of the painting. the little alien popping out of the crater gives young eyes something extra to look at that is not apparent on the first viewing.