Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

  ST K 2 Art of War Man O' War Shatner ST K 1 Collection of artwork from the Klingon Art of War and Man O' War - William Shatner.   More artworks from the Art of War following . . 

Star Wars Insignia   link to gallery  Alan G. Brooks - Jay M. Brooks Gallery Han Solo Book Cover comp / rough / idea Star Wars Books. Lucasfilm Han Solo Cover figure comp, treatment 2 Star Wars Books. Lucasfilm Cover figures comp, treatment 3 Star Wars Books. Photoshop digital drawing / painting Cover figures comp, treatment 4 Star Wars Books. Digital drawing / painting. Alan G. Brooks - Jay M. Brooks

  Pet portrait, acrylic and inks Airbrush. Alan G. Brooks Alan G. Brooks and Jay M. Brooks Gallery

Or  Here we go again Gouache and inks airbrush painting. Early nineties. Alan G Brooks - Jay M Brooks

 Level 42 . .                                                                              Level 42 The Chinese Way 1982 Airbrush painting record sleeve watercolour and inks. "Out of Sight Out of Mind" Level 42. 1983 airbrush painting on board. Gouache and inks. 7 and 12 inch record sleeve art BROOKSWAVE Alan G Brooks Jay Brooks

Part Two  I saw Black Sabbath at  Birmingham Town Hall in around and about 1969 / 1970 It cost me ten shillings and sixpence . Thats not even a pound. The previous year I saw - at the Town Hall again - Led Zeppelin for the same price. I call that watching history in the making! Ozzy Osbourne Incoming! Kings Heath fly by #3 2024 / 2025   There is no wonder that they call Birmingham  the Home of Heavy Metal ! Birmingham - Home of Heavy Metal Brookswave Jacket Design 2025 BROOKSWAVE Alan G Brooks Jay Brooks

Still Life Jimi Hendrix - 'Winter Still Life' - 10 x 8 inches oil on board. Pink Floyd - 68 - Syd Barrett. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 12 x 5 inches approx   Alternative York Road - Kings Heath 1967 - [ or not ] Above - so, after the previous post that got me thinking about Silver Street , York Road , Alcester Rd Sth etc and how it would be if Jimi Hendrix did do an impromptu 'concert' in Kings Heath - seeing as he was at the Ritz and not playing officially there that night. Maybe he'd spill out and over into the street somewhere? Well, anyway - it made for an interesting flight of fancy for a fleeting moment or two. Those fleeting moments have been a surreal platform for my imagination thats lingered now for over 56 years or so! Time Flies! Alan G Brooks

 True story this one.  It was 1967 and I had just been to the swimming baths. It was cold and typically English weather.  I was in Silver Street at the Fish and Chip shop. Getting some nosh to stave off the hunger that swimming had brought on. Also - fish and chips are much better after you've had a swim - and it's a bit of a ritual anyway. So, I bump into an old school friend out side the shop. He was a guitar player and getting involved in all of that. Guitars hadn't totally got me yet - but it was all around - and it was 1967 too! I wasn't prepared for the statement that unfolded next. My friend told me that Jimi Hendrix was here last week in this very road, York Rd. a few paces from where we were standing. This place had the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Pink Floyd - you name it - all flooding through its doors since 1963. All had played there and the building itself was no bigger than the average pub to squeeze everyone into. Those really were the days appare...

 Music - Art - Illustration I have put up some more pieces on my website that are sci fi and music themed.  I am settling in to work again after settling in to the new house. I am taking commissions again in music, sci fi and fantasy related art - cover art, logo design - the works. Back in the saddle is - [I guess] - what I'm saying - so Onwards and Upwards and back to it. See you there - gallery  Alan G Brooks Design

 Very nice! Lost Civilization #1 Character art #1 Flying Saucers - Harryhausen project - # Jay Brooks

 For all those in Lockdown - caged - chained and despairing . . . . . Prayer 300 Way Out I did the picture above around 1999, 1998 even. It shows a man in a stone circle - in reverence - who at the same time has yet to understand that he is not only encircled by these stones but at the same time enslaved by them.  Just before he is to awaken to the fact that he is imprisoned by that which he is in awe of, his attention will be taken by the cross which is starting to appear before him. The cross is within a crystal encasement, but will be revealed fully to the man as soon as he gives his attention to it.  For the hard of hearing it is well worth remembering to harken unto the words of the book of Malachi [4:5] where it is explained in the last words of the Old Testament -  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and [4:6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the ch...

Drawing of guitarist Steve Vai. 2015. This picture was made around 2015 - 2016 while working on the first tour artworks for Generation Axe. roughing in #1 roughing in #2 I found the above photo in my Steve Vai Generation Axe files. I did quite a few pieces for Steve at that period in time. Concert posters, promo art, Passes and Tee's. Check out Alan Brooks Design. Blues for Dust Art Alan G Brooks Design

 Pearl of the Cobra Pilot / Navigator #1 / Page art Flying Ship Operatives - storyboard / animation design Title Card Page art - a retro sci fi noir adventure -  More animation plotting / plus graphic novel double page Medieval / Medi evil Ship crash-land - page art Two Worlds / Fight scene / page art. Some bits and pieces from Pearl of the Cobra developed with Jay Brooks back in Illinois. These pieces / pages and designs were all done in a multitude of ways. Jay did computer modeling . We both did photography and I did the majority of digital drawing and hand painting. We handed pieces back and forth to one another, cleaning up as we went along. Details of the Pearl of the Cobra and it's legend, mystery and supernatural abilities are documented here . It is up to you to decide if such a thing does indeed exist or not. Alan Brooks

Ever Onward . . .  Guard - Cloud Base - UNTOPIA - Ret Romanne - Comic One Continuing on from Part One  -  At top we see an armed guard from the Cloud Base Industrial Complex. This slum like city has become a prison, basically.  This was written in 2006 / 2007 - and military men on the street that enforced restrictions and compliance to government rule at gunpoint was a little extreme back then.  A little extreme inasmuch as it was very possible - but in reality - we never really thought we would be staring that situation in the face 14 or 15 years later, in this so called real life . The story was meant as a warning as to what might happen if we were not remaining vigilant.  We were always close to that situation - but there was always the belief somewhere that with a bit of luck it would never get to that level. Peace would prevail etc. Love would [as it is supposed to] -  Conquer All It didn't happen. Or as I should have said - It hasn't happened...

 Ret Romanne - [Retroman] Ret Romanne is from the United Nations Off World base of Utopia - or as those who reside there call it - UNTOPIA. A world of surveillance cameras, monitoring and investigation under the eyes of "Destinies Designed Corp."  Pat Riot, Operations Manager at the Corporation may have something to do with a fateful crash and Ret's demise both as a successful test pilot and as the partner of actress Glenda Swansong.  Ret thinks so.  Glenda was once a starlet in the making, but now works in the Diner at the end of the road where Ret [unbeknownst to Glenda] now lives. The couple fell apart after the crash. Now the world is rapidly falling apart with them as it spirals into more and more disastrous ways on its own course to  . . . who knows where! Time Dignitary Ensignia Ret Romanne - Cover art #1 Closing the door on the Timecoast story featuring Time Dignitary Extraordinaire, Ret Romanne. Page #1 - Comic One - Introduction Page #3 - Comic One - C...

This book was supposed to hit home and have uncomfortable truth's within it.  It was meant to provoke and make you uncomfortable in it's "what if" scenario.  Now we see it was prophetic all along.  It's happened - happening - and in your face - right now.  Unbelievable.  Actually, I'll rephrase that.  It is totally believable.  Nobody has to travel far to see it unfolding in their daily lives. Live and in color . . .  1984 The above piece was made a few years ago for a magazine when the story 1984 was still a novel.  A disturbing read at the best of times. Provocative and unnerving. But still just a novel. I didn't really expect to see it play out the way that it is. It seemed to be steadily getting closer. Then all of a sudden - and in fast forward - we are now suddenly  in it. Alan Brooks

and why not . . . ? Jimi Hendrix - "Impression 67" - Alan Brooks Oil on board "Floral Peace" - Knight Herald - Alan Brooks Acrylic on board My roots were bound in the late sixties - early seventies. Big O, Oz Magazine, Underground Comics and Posters, International Times, Mati Klarwein, Ernst Fuchs, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Martin Sharp - and on and on and on. Where does the time go? Onwards and Upwards Alan G Brooks

Continuing  . . . . . . I showed some edited highlights from the Flying Saucer project Jay Brooks and I worked on back in 2006 / 2007. I have taken the color out of the pieces so that they ring more true to the 1950's B movie and Sci Fi tv fodder of the day back then. The likes of the Outer limits, Twilight Zone - and children shows shows such as Fireball XL5 and Space Patrol all had an impact. That show with its black and white imagery, robots and strange characters might just have been directed by David Lynch as far as I am concerned. Way ahead of it's time and equally as spooky! Page art from the project. Page art / panels. These pieces and the previous post have artwork that was allowing us to experiment with how my own stories might develop in a retro future way. The Doctor Clockheart story and artwork have a retro future look that echoes some of the experimentation that was tried out in some of the Flying Saucer project and art. Information downlo...