PLANET OF THE APES And 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY At 50

Yes I am a few weeks or so late posting this seeing both PLANET OF THE APES and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY were both released 50 years ago, so this should of been a 2018 post. So happy 50th birthday to both great films which one would say in 2018. With that out of the way I created these two digital paintings in tribute to these two films that I really like and influence me in many ways! Also both films had apes, cool space ships, and astronauts dealing with wild situations, etc. stuff I really like in films at times! The two films also have many differences, but in the end are both great scifi/fantasy type films to me! So below is my more straight forward PLANET OF THE APES tribute piece and my off beat 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY tribute piece. Both of these pieces were created in Photoshop.  Also there are some pictures of apes and me from Creatures Con 2018 where I had a table selling my art creations. 

Book Covers

Here are three book cover illustrations I have created over the last few years. All three were digitally created in Photoshop and Illustrator. Of the three covers presented here two were for actual printed books and the most recent cover titled NICK NOMAD AND THE HAMMER OF LEMURIA was for an e-book only. Here is the link to it.. http://www.amazon.com/Nick-Nomad-Hammer-Lemuria-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00WLAWHPS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429915344&sr=8-1&keywords=nick+nomad

Farewell Mr. Nimoy

Earlier today Leonard Nimoy passed. He was an actor, director, creator, writer, photographer, etc.who played a character Mr. Spock on a fun little show called STAR TREK. I decided to create a tribute image in Photoshop of Mr. Spock this evening. So Live Long and Prosper in the great beyond Mr. Nimoy and thanks for your great and inspiring work.

Cardboard Three Dimensional Artworks

Already September is over and I have gotten behind in my postings again. Anyways this post starts out at the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 2013 where I was helping out artist Mike Bennett of Bennett Blacklight with his booth. Well there was all this cardboard kicking around so Mike penciled some fast images on a few sheets. I then inked/colored most of these images and when some people saw them they wanted to buy the finished ones. I did sell what I had left in Oakland where I do street sales at times. Well move forward to May of 2014 when I decided to create some new ones finally and for some reason I felt like cutting out the images and layering them on top of each other to give them some depth. Anyways up to now I think I have created at least 15 or more of these layered quasi 3D cardboard images. At least half of what I have created up to date have been sold. The images posted below are as follows the first robot image is one of the ones Mike penciled and I inked last year and it got sold in Oakland. The second one was the very first of these layered 3D cardboard images I started to do this year. They have been starting to evolve as I experiment with some of the more recent ones. The rest that follow are just various types of images that popped in my head or I planned out. I tend to like robots so you will see many of those in the mix. The DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES piece that is the seventh one down was the first one I really painted and also was in a show recently. Some of these I still may have like the APES one and they are for sale. Just contact me for details or questions.

 

BENEATH

It has been a busy half year of 2014 and I keep noticing I have not posted in this blog even though I have created much content. So now in the second half of 2014 I will play catch up. Anyways here is something from the the second half of last year. I illustrated the cover and back cover of a novel titled BENEATH by writer Peter Alexander. I have done various illustration jobs with Peter throughout the past decade or so. Anyways this novel has an apocalypse plot dealing with the journey of survivalist Dennis Quant along with his niece Aggie.The two illustrations I did for the book were created in Photoshop.The BENEATH title font on the cover I roughed out in Photoshop and cleaned up in Illustrator. I am posting images of the final art alone, the actual book and a few pictures of a book signing by Peter. Peter is on Facebook and is in the process of getting a main site going again. If you want more information or to see if any copies of the book are available just contact me.

September Sketch Tuesday Drawings

Here are my drawings from the last Sketch Tuesday session a few nights ago that actually happened on a Wednesday at the 111 Minna Gallery. As with all my original drawings they are for sale you just have to contact me to purchase them. They are all ink drawings on card stock and are 6.08 x 7 inches.

Friday 1999

I could not resist creating this very fast Photoshop illustration mash up of two different properties. Why did I do this? Well today is Friday the 13th and September 13th at that. The fun and let's say a bit nutty at times in style and substance SPACE 1999 started with the date September 13, 1999 in it's storyline and of course throw in Jason from the FRIDAY THE 13th horror film series. I have seen most of the FRIDAY THE 13th film series and find it quite fun at times and like 1999 a touch nutty, but fun in the end. Anyways I whipped this image up in Photoshop as this certain date comes to an end.

May Sketch Tuesday Drawings

I have been so busy with freelance work of late among other things I have forgotten to post here lately. Here are some Sketch Tuesday drawings from May. I was unable to make the June Sketch Tuesday last week so nothing will be showing up from that month. As always any original art I have posted is for sale so just check with me.

Fugitive 45-RWX

Hello all this is my first 2013 digital illustration created in Photoshop and finished in Illustrator. The scene is a robot on the run is it on the right or wrong side of the law? I will let the viewer's imagination finish up the story. Cheers. 

October 2012 Sketch Tuesday Drawings

I got so busy with various things this last October I did not post anything on my blog here. Anyways here are some ink drawings I produced at the October 23 Sketch Tuesday. So something created in October is posted now in early November. These drawings are 6.08 x 7 inches and go for $15.00 each which includes postage. Just contacted me if you are interested in any. ricklucey@sbcglobal.net 

Killer Bot

I started playing around in Photoshop today and ended up creating this image.

The Find

I was in the mood to create a space scene recently so this is something I came up with. I thought it would be fun to have a more modern star ship coming across a 1950's type rocket ship that is floating near a planet. All this was created in Illustrator.

Stranded

This is a digital painting I did last year with a fun retro scifi theme. The idea was inspired by the many fun science fiction films/science fiction pulp/book covers, etc. I grew up with.  Lately I have really been getting into doing digital paintings using Photoshop. So I hope to post more of this work near future and possibly sell some as prints or get some jobs using this skill.

Six Watercolor Robots

This last week I was in the mood to do some fast watercolor paintings, so I whipped up a few robot designs in the mix. I wanted to go with a more simplified look with each robot. Each image is about 4 x 6 inches. Like any of my originals they can be purchased. Just contact me for details. Cheers.