Alienology: We Are Not Alone...
OooOooH, it's been aaaaages....... Sorry. It's been a busy month (again).
On 1st October, Templar published 'Alienology' , part of their hugely successful 'Ology' series and the first of these books that I've had the opportunity to work on. I love aliens and robots and space, so it was great fun to work on. Nghiem Ta, the wonderful and very organised Art Director, gave me a spreadsheet with all sorts of information about twenty or so aliens and then I spent a few weeks doodling away, until I had a couple of nice line-ups showing all the aliens to scale.
Here's one of the line-ups, and a few of the aliens at a larger scale. 'Alienology' is available from all good bookstores now!
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And one illustration I particularly enjoyed researching... The internal organs of the 'Grey' alien!! EeeurggHh!!! (I with an under drawing by the very clever pencil maestro, Douglas Carrel)
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And for anyone who lives in London and likes books (and aliens), I'll be at the Waterstones store in Kensington on the 28th October doing some drawing and colouring-in, along with the author of 'Alienology', Dugald Steer. I think we're due at 2pm....
6 comments:
I love your work Jonny, happy to find your blog ;)
Best wishes
Lovely jonny! i really like the brainbot!
Hello Mr. Jonny Duddle,
I am with leewiART, a Chinese CG website. We are conducting an interview and publication project and hope to have you as our interviewee. Please contact me at gallery.leewiart@gmail.com if you are interested in participation.
thanks for your attention
Leta Liu
with leewiART
very inspiring! thanks for sharing your work!
Great stuff. I'm a big fan of the 'ology books especially those involving Douglas Carrel.
I've been a fan of yours since the the early days of ImagineFX but I've only just discovered your blog after seeing some work of yours on Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools.
you rule captain jonny!
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