SciFi & Fantasy Art is Still Weird

[Becksworth]

Iguana I told you to get a real gun! What are you going to do? Scan their barcode?

 

[lincolnic]

I can't tell if having the middle guy's face clearly modeled after a real person -- and only the middle guy -- is better or worse than if they'd all been.

 

[Büge]

 

[Exposition Owl]

“Hey, it’s my old friends from the future, Tiny Sasquatch and Deathbot! Come on through that portal and have some soup!”

 

[Johnny Unusual]

The original version of the Lake House is far superior to the remake.

 

[lincolnic]

Do we think Tiny Sasquatch actually has arms, or just pseudo-wings? (I'm voting for the winglets.)

 

[Torzelbaum]

Arms that are crossed.

 

[Exposition Owl]

I couldn't not post this one:

 

[Exposition Owl]

 

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[Violentvixen]

That iguana one is borderline Lisa Frank to me and I love it.

 

[Lokii]

What are they trying to achieve here?

 

[Torzelbaum]

"Sober Men Doing Important Things"

What Atari 2600 game is this?

 

[lincolnic]

This is a particularly excellent series of images, even in a thread full of excellent images.

 

[Exposition Owl]

That iguana one is borderline Lisa Frank to me and I love it.

Yeah, I can totally see that. It just needs, like, ten percent more neon-colored rainbows.

What are they trying to achieve here?

My guess would be “trying to stop a mysterious alien probe from blowing up the Earth,” but I might just have seen Star Trek IV too many times.

This is a particularly excellent series of images, even in a thread full of excellent images.

 

[Kirin]

So I googled the name on the saxophone, Mark Wickart, which appears to be the illustrator, and the two other works I found by him were an extremely 80s-looking werewolf and a Lucky Charms cereal box cover. Also he was once profiled in Airbrush Action Magazine. This all pretty much tracks.

 

[Exposition Owl]

So I googled the name on the saxophone, Mark Wickart, which appears to be the illustrator, and the two other works I found by him were an extremely 80s-looking werewolf and a Lucky Charms cereal box cover. Also he was once profiled in Airbrush Action Magazine. This all pretty much tracks.

Yes, that extremely tracks. Thanks for letting us know, Kirin!

 

[Becksworth]

Camel vape ads are getting out there.

 

[lincolnic]

So I googled the name on the saxophone, Mark Wickart, which appears to be the illustrator, and the two other works I found by him were an extremely 80s-looking werewolf and a Lucky Charms cereal box cover.

And you didn't think to share them with us?

 

[Kirin]

And you didn't think to share them with us?

Sorry, but they were way more generic than space-sax-lizard and would only be a letdown.

 

[Bongo]

We'll be the judges of that.

 

[Kirin]

Fiiiiine

The Lucky Charms is pretty forgettable

The werewolf has some energy, but is pretty much the early 90s ideal of a werewolf

However, y'all's nagging led me to finding more. Here's another work for hire, a Chester Cheeto with some seriously unhinged vibes and even more airbrush...

This next one, though, this one actually belongs in the thread maybe. It's a cover specifically for the Lynx reissue of an old Atari game:

Some serious Tron-meets-Lisa-Frank going on in here.

 

[lincolnic]

The more I look at that Vindicators art, the more Escherian the front of that tank becomes.

 

[Paul le Fou]

The striped ground in front of the tank keeps making me ask questions. Why? There's no reason. And yet.

 

[Octopus Prime]

That’s the crosswalk

 

[Büge]

 

[Octopus Prime]

oh don’t give chocolate to the cat-shaped one

 

[Exposition Owl]

The dude in the middle has saved the Earth from destruction by introducing aliens to chocolate ice cream, and you can see from his expression that he knows it.

 

[Octopus Prime]

The guy in the middle is Owen Wilson