This series by Scott Erickson is titled Alliance Is Rebellion. Characters and vehicles from Star Wars are imagined as traditional Northwest Coast Indian art. They combine old traditions with new mythologies in a striking way.
You can buy prints from Scott’s website.
Death Mask
Great Sun Bear
Grey Eagle Horse
Howling Crow
Hunter Mask
Silver Tenderfoot
Skull Mask
Walking Lodge
via Geekologie
The Art of Alien: Isolation is a lovely coffee-table book published by Titan Books, featuring more than 300 concept images, illustrations and sketches designed for the insanely popular SEGA videogame. To set the stage, Isolation takes place in the year 2137, 15 years after the events of Ridley Scott’s original Alien.
This book is 176-pages of amazing work from dozens of outstanding artists, painters and illustrators. It is the perfect companion to the game. There’s no doubt that you can get lost for hours in this book.
Etsy seller FayProductions makes all kinds of prints that imitate the look of stained glass. They are pretty striking and look just like the real thing. Just put them on your windows and you have some instant stained glass fit for a geek church or comic book temple.
Below are some of our favorites. Click the link to see everything they have. They are reasonable priced between $8 and $25. The more complicated and larger pieces are the more expensive. This is the kind of geek art that can really transform your house.
Nick Stember has translated a 142 page Chinese comic book adaptation of Star Wars that was originally published in Guangdong, China, in the 1980s. It’s crazy stuff. It’s best just to take a look for yourself. It seems to have been made without viewing Return of the Jedi, since there are elements of the other movies and none from Jedi.
Below are just some of the panels. You can hit up Nick’s website for the rest. This is a strange rabbit hole to fall into, but you can easily lose a lot of time looking through all of the images and translations.
The 1980 Flash Gordon movie was something else. Something crazy and special. You really had to be there and see it during that time. It had all kinds of weird visuals and it was all varying levels of over-the-top fun. Plus, a Queen soundtrack. You can never go wrong with a Queen soundtrack.
Designer Chris Foss created designs for the Hawkmen’s rocket sled that Flash rides, which weren’t used in the film. These are some really trippy designs. Most of them seem way better than what was used on screen.
Dino De Laurentiis called me when Flash Gordon was almost ready to go into production and asked me to come and see them in the studios because he wanted new versions of some of the designs that had already been done, which he obviously didn’t like. And, specifically, he wanted me to redesign the ‘Space Scooter.’
I saw Dino De Laurentiis, he gave me a verbal brief. I was then taken down to the department that was physically building the stuff and we discussed what this thing was supposed to do in the film. And I then went away and, over a long holiday, produced the designs for it.
via Filmsketchr
Guardians of the Galaxy
Matthew J. Fletcher
Spider-Man
Marco D’Alfonso
Doctor Who
Larry Wentzel
The Avengers
Chris G.
X-Men
Theamat
Batman
Fabio Valle
DugMcUglyArt made these super cool matchbook paintings with some of our favorite geek pop culture characters. Below are just some of his miniature masterpieces. The art is fantastic, but the artist also manages to inject some humor into these paintings.
One of my favorites is “The Hound” with the matches appropriately burned. Another is Jack Nicholson’s joker from Tim Burton’s Batman movie. I would love to display all of these together. Awesome work.
Alien
Hellboy
Captain Picard
The Joker
The Hound
The 10th Doctor
Dobby The House Elf
Jabba The Hutt
Colonel Tigh
Commander Adama
The Brain
The Joker
Paris, France based artist Vladan Filipovic has some quality low poly Star Wars portraits with quotes from the movies. These just jump off of the page, with an impressive amount of detail.
They all look amazing, but I think that Yoda and Boba Fett really stand out. Great work Vladan.
It’s always fascinating to see original concept art and then compare it to what showed up on screen. I love seeing how this art translates into the finished movie. It’s interesting to see what they changed or left out, what they tweaked just a little, or which scenes they kept mostly the same. Also which were enhanced by practical effects.
Lucky for us, Production Designer James Chinlund has posted a bunch of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes concept art, giving us a look at how the art translates into actual sets and finished scenes. It is a great look at the film making process.
via io9
Brazilian digital artist Marcel Fukuwara helped make these ads for the government of the state of Ceará in Brazil. The ad’s message is simple: “The Real Power is in You.”
These clever ads encourage people to donate their organs to save lives, thus becoming superheroes themselves. I think it’s brilliant. I just wish there were more heroes represented. Organ donation is one great way in which ordinary humans can make a big difference.
