tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79540288131425264472024-03-05T08:58:20.795-05:00Alien MenagerieBruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-29269202094499388482017-06-06T05:00:00.000-04:002017-06-06T06:19:10.932-04:00x.42
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Here’s x.42, a new painting for my alien menagerie extracts series of artwork.
It’s been a while since I’ve finished one of these; 289 days passed between the completion of x.41 and x.42. Even accounting for how relatively rapidly time seems to pass, that’s a long interval! Between those two paintings I made 108 illustrations for broadcast on the 49th season of 60 MINUTES. That is work which I find challenging, rewarding and sometimes frustrating because of the schedule. While creating alien menagerie pieces aren’t without challenge, I experience a deep sense of serenity, and satisfaction. It’s every day, every moment, I’ve sat aside time to work on art for the love of it, connected as one.</div>
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preliminary pencil doodle, and ink rendering of alien x.42.</div>
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-92200389953612511072017-05-30T02:28:00.000-04:002017-05-30T02:28:24.458-04:00Fanzines 1977•1978<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynu4D7WACbk83S-FUtN-lp5yaYdnsrUw2pRBxlV_RzvaOqfnGYz6EPR3M-eSTr8hW_sKCkwiXXFE7LIPdQkpDEa4F7WrFqSV3NvAXEYbTY6vYJ3TvfPFRZLtkVZe9w7xdh86yjSknTOll/s1600/fanzines_1977_78_1600px.jpg
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When I first dreamed of a career for myself as a professional artist of some type, I thought it would be in comics. I found a co-conspirator in my good friend Pat Talbot, who I met in September 1973 as students in our first year of Middle School. We were both fans of Star Trek and Planet of the Apes. Together, we started a small science fiction club, and I began reading Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and E.E. “Doc” Smith books. Eventually Pat won me over to superhero comics, and Iron Man #71 was my first purchase in August of 1974. Not long after, we were fervently creating our own comic books with markers on typing paper. When Pat learned that professional comic artists used india ink on large sheets of bristol board, we upgraded our methods. We competed with, and encouraged each other to be better artists and storytellers. In 1977 Pat published his fanzine “Armageddon" which I contributed to, along with other artists and writers from the comics scene in Indianapolis. I had some nebulous plans to print my own zine as well, and I interviewed the artist Al Milgrom for it from a pay phone, dropping in quarters as he patiently answered my questions. By the publication of Pat’s next fanzine, “Eons” in 1978, I had started teaching myself to paint and shortly after began to entertain ambitions of someday becoming an illustrator creating book covers for science fiction novels. My artistic goals had shifted, and I never got around to printing my own zine, but forty years later, I’m correcting that in a modest fashion. “9 aliens” collects together a group of pen and ink drawings I made in the fall of 2016. I’d been wanting to try my hand at this media again for some time and found the catalyst in the social media challenge “Inktober”.
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May 2017
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I’m excited to announce that I’ve printed a small quantity of a zine I’m calling “9 Aliens”, which collects together the pen and ink drawings that I made for ‘Inktober’ 2016. The printing is in black and white with a color cover and introduction by myself. “9 Aliens” is 5.5 x 7 inches printed on a heavy stock. The cost is a flat $6 for purchases in the USA and Canada, and $7 for all other International orders. Shipping is included, and will be mailed to you first class in a manila envelope.
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My 3rd attempt at an alien in ink. These are 5” x 5” </div>
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-40983541589675333372017-02-07T11:38:00.000-05:002017-02-07T11:38:54.553-05:00inked alien #2<br />
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-37676702958090822502017-02-06T16:45:00.000-05:002017-02-06T16:45:42.152-05:00inked alien #1<br />
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As a teenager in the mid-seventies my artistic ambitions were initially directed towards comics and fanzines. In October 2016 I decided to try my hand at drawing in ink again. It was challenging but fun to dip into this media again. This was the first off my drawing board. </div>
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My new alien menagerie piece to celebrate the Year of the Rooster which began January 28th 2017.
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Below ~ sketching the evolution of a space chicken.
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I found the inspiration for X.41 in an ink doodle on a post it note. A fairly straightforward redraft was the basis for my final painting. The color palette is a purposeful homage to the Oms from the film FANTASTIC PLANET.
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Extract 40 is a revisit of an idea from some years ago - when I made some digital studies to get a feel for my alien menagerie as paintings. I’m happy with the subtle evolution it’s taken.
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On February 8th, 127 days ago, the Year of the Monkey commenced. I began marking the Lunar New Year with a painting for my alien menagerie in 2011, the Year of the Rabbit. This is my sixth entry, and the first to be late. It’s an unfortunate circumstance for a series that celebrates the passage of time! Not to be deterred, I’m willing to take a chance that sharing this late is better than not at all.
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With any luck, I will be completing the Chinese zodiac in the Year of the Tiger 2022 and celebrating my own completion of the sixty year cycle. </div>
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These are some of the sketches that evolved into my own space monkey.</div>
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2015 is coming to an end soon!
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I didn’t get to spend as much time with my alien menagerie project as I’d hoped this year, but I consider it a victory to end 2015 with the second installment of “Santas From Another Planet” </div>
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These are some of the sketches that led to the final design.
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Inspired by my love of the Ugly Stickers and Odd Rods from the late 60’s, “Santas From Another Planet” is a Holiday card with a trading card attached to the front.
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Back in art school, I used to twist every assignment into something science fictional with the aim of building a portfolio to get work as a book jacket illustrator. Now I have an even more specific instinct to see how any theme for a show can lead to an alien menagerie piece. In 2012 the Society of Illustrators Member show called for illustrators to create art that illustrates one of the traditional five methods of perception. I didn’t submit anything, but I did put down some ideas and held onto them. Recently I’ve taken those and made X.39, who I’m calling “Optikus”.
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I took the name from a song by the band KTU, just because I liked the sound of it. It turns out that “optikus” is “optician” in Hungarian. </div>
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The doodle on the left is where I began working on x.38. I developed it in a few different directions, and the sketch in the middle is one of them, but I wasn't ready to commit. When I found the doodle on the right in my stash of alien menagerie drawings, the path to a final idea became much more apparent. The simple ball-point pen doodle was inspired by how I would assemble the bud from a Rose of Sharon with the flower to make a small 'person' when I was about five years old. </div>
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Just about everything I work on that is “alien menagerie” reveals it to be an art project in slow motion. I’m fully aware of how many times I find myself writing in this blog about how this something-or-other was started “X” years ago. In 1995 I made a Holiday card featuring a whimsical green alien in a Santa hat.
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I thought it could be the beginning of a theme - “Santas From Another Planet”. I’ve made a couple related cards in the years past, but the “Santas From Another Planet” theme just didn’t crystalize until this year. So here, 19 years later, is my Holiday card with a Collector Card attached to the front: “Santas From Another Planet #1” </div>
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My New Years resolution will be to make a “Santa From Another Planet” collector card #2
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-16935926948451693192014-11-12T06:15:00.000-05:002016-04-07T17:29:03.126-04:00x.37 - the prophet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The ballpoint pen doodle that led to x.37 was made while I was sketching through designs for the previous alien. From the beginning I saw a mystical quality in the character, and imagined it as a prophet of some kind. I set that sketch aside as the basis for what I knew would be the next extract from alien menagerie. Looking forward, the nature and appearance of x.38 is up for grabs. I have no idea what that one will turn out to be.</div>
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-25137736131949436532014-08-15T06:00:00.000-04:002016-04-07T17:31:18.276-04:00x.36 - sphynx<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-67468554773681277402014-06-18T06:00:00.000-04:002015-08-08T08:45:38.590-04:00John Schoenherr<br />
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This is the first appearance of DUNE as it was serialized in Analog magazine, cover date - December 1963, photographed in front of 5219 39th Avenue in Queens.<br />
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I've been by this house hundreds of times. It's five, short blocks from where I've lived for the past 20 years! I never knew until just recently that it was where John Schoenherr grew up and worked before moving with his young family to rural New Jersey. The first visualization of DUNE was painted in his studio- in that house. </div>
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So was this: It's his second book cover, and a favorite of mine. </div>
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So were these: Both originally covers for Analog magazine, but I knew them from the book <a href="http://alienmenagerie.blogspot.com/2013/02/tomorrow-and-beyond.html" target="_blank">TOMORROW AND BEYOND</a>.</div>
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I couldn't quite believe it when I learned that the home he grew up in was so close to me. It was a wonderful, serendipitous discovery facilitated by some random web browsing, and a conversation with his son Ian, via twitter. John Schoenherr is easily one of my favorite illustrators of science fiction, and an inspirational influence. It was the Illustrated edition of DUNE I bought at B Dalton's in the summer of 1978 and read. Schoenherr's art left an impression on me equal to the novel itself. He painted starkly and powerfully. With a keen eye for color, lighting and mass, he made big statements without a lot of fussy detail. </div>
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His black and white work was just as stunning and dramatic.</div>
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Ian's blog devoted to <a href="http://johnschoenherr.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">John Schoenherr</a></div>
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x.35 is the newest entry into my alien menagerie. I did a modest amount of redrafting, but my intent with the extracts is to work pretty directly from my sketchbooks.</div>
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The original doodle is from 2003. In 2006 I used the sketch in a quick digital study to help visualize a move forward into paintings of these subjects. This may all serve as some proof that my methods are not all that spontaneous, but in truth it's also a lot of fun to circle back to an old sketch and bring it forward into a more fully realized version.</div>
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Some of my aliens are designed to answer a specific theme or idea I'm chasing. Others are mined from sketches that I've accumulated over the years. i find value and enjoyment in both approaches, X.34 is a modest refinement of a quick doodle from 2011.<br />
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<br />Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-68021219708036220892014-03-18T04:06:00.000-04:002014-03-18T04:15:19.376-04:00Boy Blockhead's Big Book of Outer Space Aliens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without a solid plan, I would work on the idea every now and then. These are from a sketchbook I started in 1995. The sketchbook itself, is a really handsome, bound book that completely intimidated me. Of the 100 pages, I filled a dozen. I'm sure that available time took it's toll, but i was really afraid of making a bad drawing in that book! After a couple of these partially filled in sketchbook debacles, I took to drawing my aliens on loose leaf paper and tossed them into a box for future reference. It certainly helped me keep a more steady stream of sketches coming, and eventually I got over my fear of working in a bound sketchbook too.</span></span><br />
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An awful lot of time would pass before I finally got around to painting the first one. Even today, I still run into periods where other work keeps me from my alien menagerie for much longer than I like, but I'm glad I never gave up on them either.</div>
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no comment on my absence from blogging except to say I'm glad to have something new to share.
Happy Year of the Horse!<br />
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Happy Lunar New Year!</div>Bruce Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17419236212277890603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954028813142526447.post-58555007365341824232013-09-22T10:54:00.002-04:002013-09-22T10:54:55.477-04:00alien menagerie #7 • spring<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This is a painting that I've had around for quite a while in a mostly completed state. I added the final bits to this last month and I'm finally comfortable with calling it finished.</span><br />
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It's the first day of autumn here in the Northern hemisphere, but south of the equator the September equinox brings spring!</div>
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The atomic alien #1 tunes in from the new frontier, a retro-future where bubble helmets are all the rage and time stands still. I bet they listen to Dave Brubeck out there. This one is a small, 6" x 8" painting. I'm pretty sure there will be more...</div>
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