Sci-Fi-O-Rama

Book cover art for the Spanish edition Fritz Leiber’s novel  “La Mente Arana” (The Mind Spider) Artist Salinas Blanch.  Airbrushed Neon colours on black works really nicely, this is the kinda thing it’s possible to do these days using Abobe Illustrator, specifically the Gradient Mesh and Blending tool - maybe with a splash of Gaussian  Blur to!

Hajime Sorayama - Gynoid.

Part of Sorayama’s “Gynoid” series of airbrush Illustrations, which involve the female form combined with chromed machinery, mainly in suggestive poses, that tend to veer to wards the explicit - suffice to say Sorayama’s has often been featured in Penthouse Magazine. Read more about Sorayama at Wiki here.

Thanks to Kiel Bryant again for the scan of the original image.

Aaaah Airbrush art, isn’t it better than digital 3d model rigging and lighting? well thats up for debate, but I reckon unless it’s Halo it certainly bloody is. Airbrush style is not real, its super real (super-realism), digital creations mostly differ, they look to real but yet unreal - it’s like comparing movies like The Thing (1982) and Aliens (1986) to modern CGI stuff, give me a ketchup pissing animatronic puppet any day of the genre. Back to the image, and what I love about this composition is its all about suggestion, plus whats sexier looking tech-wise than near future fighter jets?

Anyway Chris Moore (Yorkshire Lad) is an absolute master at techno airbrush art, check his website, it’s full of Gung-Ho US Military renderings and other Sci-fi extrodinnaire

Richard Phillips “Scout” 1999, Oil on Linen. More hyper realism from Richard Philips, this image was used - or at least the top half was! - as Artwork for UK dance act Dirty Vegas’s single release “Ghosts” (Credence/Parlophone 2002)

“Transfixed” Richard Phillips, Oil on Linen 1996. I’m a fan of Richard Phillips work, having used the book “Richard Phillips, Kunsterverein in Hamburg” (Hatje Canz, 2002) extensively as reference for my own Airbrush Work.