| 10 Dec 2004 |  Deike ´Luzilla´ Pintat | I've already seen this one on your homepage, but here it is bigger and quite impressive... I think the special effects and tricks they use are sometimes the most fascinating part of a movie. I've got a book by HRGiger explaining his work on the alien movies, based on his diaries, where he is writing that the first versions of the alien eggs where actually filled with condoms... I think this guy must have had quite a strange sense of humor!   Steven P. Love replies: "I've heard of this diary of his. I don't have it but I read some excerpts from it in a magazine called Fangoria. In one excerpt he mentioned that his first concept drawing of the alien egg was rejected by the movie's producers because it was too suggestive. He quoted a producer telling him that they wouldn't be able to show the film in Catholic countries. So he redesigned it to the one shown in the movie." | |
| 10 Dec 2004 |  Cecily ´SLWS´ Webster | The blue is somewhat eerie and rather beautiful. It's hard to make the early xenny stages look that way. Did you know that the movement inside the egg was someone waving a pair of rubber gloves?  Steven P. Love replies: "I'm glad that you liked the coloring. If you read the caption I did mention that this was my very first attempt at Air Brushing. And I don't mean air brushing with a computer program like I do now. I did this the old fashioned way when I was a senior in high school about 23 years ago; an air brush spray tool, a long cumbersum airline hooked to a noisy air compressor and the mess of properly mixing the inks. I kept it kind of monochromatic because it was easier to correct mistakes. That's why I looks darker in some areas than you would think. I had to paint over more than one mistake. On your question about the rubber glove; I actually have a book I bought back when the movie first came out telling some of the special effects secrets, and yes they did use some hand operated puppets for certain scenes. They said that their budget was very tight back then. But they did build an actual animatronic version of the face hugger creature for the scene where it launched out of the egg and the scene where Ash, the science officer, was poking the dead one with a probe and it moved seemingly be itself. " | |
| 11 Dec 2004 |  Deike ´Luzilla´ Pintat | I have seen this first version of the eggs... very interesting indeed ;-) | |
| 12 Dec 2004 |  James 'Jimbo Fett ' Inwood | DOCTOR: Congrats Mrs Queen! You have given birth to a beautiful baby...er....facehugger. QUEEN: Are you sure? Could you just look a little closer for me? Nice colour and all, it would be interesting to compare this piece to one done by modern methods i wonder if they'd be any differance?  Steven P. Love replies: "Yeah, that Alien Queen in the second movie was a real monster. This one is kind of old. I did it when I was a senior in high-school. I did do a more colorful version when I was in college but I gave that one to my Grandfather. After he died about 10 years ago I inquired with the other family members where the picture had gone but none of them claimed to know. I'm willing to bet that one of my cousins spirited it away to their private collection without having the guts to tell me. Sometimes family members can be so greedy when it comes to dividing up the property of the deceased. Maybe I'll try to recreate it using this one as a template. I'll let you know." | |
| 13 Dec 2004 |  C. 'Liari' Seidel | Ooh, the blue. Creepy gorgeous. Steven P. Love replies: "Thanks. As I mentioned in a previous reply I stuck with blue and black because it was easier to paint over mistakes. This was my first attempt at real airbrushing after all. " | |
| 4 Feb 2005 |  Sparkle | I dont see an alien in here,maybe becuz i never saw the movie and dont know what they look like in the egg.My mom says that the movie is so scary that i can't watch it becuz otherwise ill have bad dreams!But charlotte saw it she's my friend and she says that its not that scary but shes not scared of anything.Do you think that its a scary movie? Steven P. Love replies: "The alien is wrapped up in itself. The only part that is visible are the fingers. This was inspired by some concept drawings I saw made by H.R.Giger, who designed the original Alien back in 1979. As far as the movie being scary that depends on how easily you're startled by things jumping out at you or gory images. The original movie was scary when I first saw it back in 1979. But nowadays it's a little tame by comparison to some of the current movies. " | |
| 21 Aug 2005 |  Richard H. Patton | Cool. It looks much like an x-ray. I always hated the threat of those face-huggers, and the great forbidding feeling of this reminds me why!  It really looks like an egg, with the fluids and everything. Very nice! The fact you used a real airbrush makes it fantastic! People just don't know how hard that is. Great job! The Alien graphic novel was the first gn I ever saw. A gift from my parents, and since I was nine, they used a marker to censor-bar a few choice words! I read that thing until it fell apart. Love that movie. Steven P. Love replies: "Yes, the mono chromatic blue and black is a little X-Rayish. This was one of only two air-brushed paintings I did in my youth. I didn't really find it hard in terms of doing the painting itself, but it was terribly messy. Unlike oil paintings or acrylics most air brushings use colored inks. Inks are easier to spray than other mediums. But the draw back was that the spray tended to get on everything and you had to clean your tools fast after you were done or the ink would dry and clog the tools. I know about the graphic novel. I have one myself that I got when I was a teenager. It's in storage at my parents home in Michigan. One of these days I'm going to have to have them bring it to me when they come on one of their visits. I'd like to do some more Alien Fan art but I need some photo references from that book. I'll have to wait I suppose. Oh, this particular painting was inspired by the original works of H.R.Giger, who designed the original Alien." | |
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