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Published: 2005-09-24 00:25:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 833; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 11
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This is the one that started it all. Inspired by a favorite AlienVsPredator Trading Card from my childhood, I drew this my senior year. The source de inspriation can more than likely be found on a comic cover, the artist of which is Arthur Suydam.Ok, now my work. Many visual aspects were transfered over onto the drawing. However that does not mean I didn't take creative liberties. Of which include the spines on its back, which I elongated *significantly*(which became a reccuring theme), as well as postitioning of arms. Also, I played around with anatomy and gave it *almost* two sets of rib cages, one ontop of the other(one exoskeletal, the second *lower* one, internal). Making it a lot taller, which aliens are suppost to be. This trait also became a recurring theme in my Alien drawings.
This is my favorite Xenomorph drawing. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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The structure is very reminiscent of the Tyranid, from Warhammer 40K. Nice pic, interesting design...
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Very nice. Good shading, serpentine tail. I like the elongated dorsal protrusions. Too many artists downplay them. They're actually very important to the creature's look.
One thing that tends to get lost by most artists, though, is that they have double thumbs. Six fingers in all. The second is below the pinky finger. To control it, the guys in the costumes had to have the regular four fingers fused together into two [ \ || || / ] so their ring finger would control the two bottom ones and their real pinky would control the extra thumb. That's why their fingers are always stuck together in the first two movies [I can't remember if they are in the third and the fourth is inconsequential to me, as is AvP].
It's a shame I can't recommend you read the Anchorpoint Essays. They got butchered when Resurrection came out to make space for the details that were muffed in it. Thank goodness the articles haven't been updated since AvP came out, though [last I checked...]. Xenomorphs hatching in minutes? For crap's sake. 
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ahhh, so good to find another xeno-enthusiast. some triva here I didn't know. very informative and thank you.
I agree with you, the grestation periods in AvP were rediculously unrealistic . . . but then again . . . so are xenomorphs . . . but thats besides the point . . . the movie did keep very close to the comics and fan-fics. even had a little Machiko Noguchi-esque character, which I was not expecting. Hope they don't do that in the next one. Just all out hell please?
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You're very welcome.
If you had read the original Anchorpoint Essays you would've seen that, as described in the original trilogy, they're not unrealistic at all. There was a very strong sense of logic governing the creatures in all three. A lot of thought went into them. There were different people in charge of Fox at the time. People who didn't mind taking risks.
AvP was made the way it was to satisfy Fox's largest target audience segment for the projected release date, as explained by lawyers and accountants: The younger crowd who knew about the comics. So those of us who'd grown up with the movies were left hanging. It's astounding to me that they'd so obviously alienate the massive cult following, which is what fueled the creation of comics in the first place.
It'd be like Lucas making his prequels based on fan films instead of anything in the original trilogy.
Or a Frenchman translating a Chinese poem to English via the Korean version.
I could go on. It's a sore subject for me. I can't even talk about it anymore because all the people who just loved AvP think I'm a fruitcake or something.
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The trailer for the next AvP looks like they made this one right . . .
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A teen survival horror? I'll reserve judgment for when I actually see it, but the trailer just looks painfully money-grubbing.
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This is great and a little scary.... I like it a lot!
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if its detail you like, you should look at my predalien pic . . .
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Thank you, that means a lot to me Bri *blush*
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always happy to inspire nightmares!
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