Posts Tagged illustration
First Women
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on March 4, 2010

Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times during her three day spaceflight in Vostok 6 in 1963. First woman in space!
A friend pointed me to these excellent and quirky sketches of the first 14 women in space. Actually, to be precise, the first 13 women in space, and a sweet sketch of Christa McAuliffe. In the artist’s words:
Working for months at a time just penciling a comic book I started these portraits to get a bit of inking and colouring out of my system. I shouldn’t say ‘portraits’, I’m not going for much of a likeness. Usually I’ll glance at a couple of photographs and then go off and draw a vague impression. Margaret Seddon is blonde, Judith Resnik is a bit barmy looking, that sort of thing.
I started with Valentina Tereshkova in January 2009 thinking if I drew one every week I’d finish the series around the end of the year. See how well that worked out.
Regardless of how fast or slow the series is coming, I think they’re very unique — Valentina Tereshkova is my favorite, but I also really like his Judith Resnik.
The Art of Robert McCall
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on March 2, 2010
The great space artist Robert McCall passed away on February 26 at the age of 90. McCall’s illustrations of the space age are nothing but iconic, and epic in scale. I’ve seen the Opening the Space Frontier, The Next Giant Step mural at Johnson Space Center, and would love to see the others. If nothing else, you’ve seen his work on stamps, mission patches, and 2001: A Space Odyssey posters. He will be missed.
February 28, 2010 — An artist whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian, Robert McCall died on Friday of a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 90.
Once described by author Isaac Asimov as the “nearest thing to an artist in residence from outer space,” McCall’s paintings first attracted the public’s attention in the 1960s on the pages of LIFE, illustrating the magazine’s series on the future of space travel. He expanded on that theme at the invitation of director Stanley Kubrick, who had McCall paint the advertising posters for his seminal 1968 science fiction film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
— collectSPACE
NASA has a gallery of his work online; collectSPACE has this excellent post, and NASA Watch has additional links.
Nice Suit
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Crafts & Hobby Projects on February 11, 2010
Disclaimer: I know absolutely NOTHING about Black Widow, her deadly origin, or anything about her plotline. In fact, pretty much, I know nothing about comics. I learned recently that Iron Man is a Marvel Comic, after seeing the movie, but that’s about the extent of it. Well, I also know that pretty much all superheros are comics. And Batman. And X-Men are comics. Should I keep digging?
Anyway, I think her spacesuit, as illustrated above, is really really cool. And this piece is just GORGEOUS. Love the subtle colors and all the grays.
Spaceship Concepts
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on February 4, 2010
I ran across this post of spaceship concept art earlier this week and had to pass the goodness on to you, dear reader! Featured are a few of my favorites.
This one just charms the dickens out of me, I can’t explain why! ↓
As for this one, it’s the colors. ↓
Interesting shape on this one. ↓
And this one is just… very strange. ↓
S is for Space
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on January 11, 2010
Extrasolar
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on December 22, 2009
Here is but a sampling of the fantastic astronomical illustrations and space art of Fahad Sulehria, specifically some of his extrasolar planets.
All Alone In The Night
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on December 16, 2009
Posting a couple of neat space art pics I found recently, both featuring the lone astronaut.
Album Covers, Nagaoka Redux
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on December 4, 2009
More space-faring album covers from Shusei Nagaoka. Check out the rest of his art for an amazing array of bellbottoms, launching into the final frontier….
Album Covers, Nagaoka Edition
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on December 1, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve posted album cover art, and I just couldn’t stop with the Shusei Nagaoka awesomeness. Viva la 1970s!
Japanese Futurism
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on November 26, 2009
Another hat-tip to Sci-Fi-O-Rama for showcasing some of the 1970s-80s artwork of Shusei Nagaoka. (Unknowingly I featured his ELO album cover art quite a while ago. He has quite the funky, spacey portfolio going, as far as album covers go!) There is an amazingly hi-res selection of Nagaoka-san’s art at Pink Tentacle — don’t miss it! (It was hard to restrain myself to just two images, I admit. I may yet publish more.)





























