Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

Brumtasia more art / clips from story   Alan G Brooks - Jay M Brooks

 and  'things.' Hidden Forest Totem The men of Sherwood Artworks are a combination of pencils, airbrush, acrylic paints and photoshop Alan G. Brooks Jay Brooks BROOKSWAVE

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

 This or That is . . . Now and Then [Alan G Brooks 2018] ---| implanting of machine forces into humans |--- Man will, in time, manage to implant the death-forces in man, related to electrical and magnetic forces, with external machines. He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine. ( Rudolf Steiner, Individuelle Geistwesen und einheitlicher Weltengrund, November 25, 1917, Dornach "Monskeeto" - Mosquito / Monsanto Alan G Brooks 

 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

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...

. . . to my backgrounds, unfinished pieces, works in progress and so on. Workspace #1 - portrait of "Led Zeppelin '69" [started] and background to "Forest 1"  [started] Detail of "Forest 1" Woodland Work in Progress - "Untitled #1" Woodland Work in Progress - "Untitled #2" Detail of "Led Zeppelin '69" - [work in progress] Background setting, figures to be added - Work in Progress - "Untitled #3" Work in Progress - "Untitled #4" Detail from "Untitled #4" Work in Progress - Paws for Thought Lots of artworks to finish here. All acrylic paints on canvas and board. All at various stages of completion or development.  Alan Brooks Onward and Upward

or Pot Noodles - take your pick . . . Pink Floyd of 1968. Left to right Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright Acrylic and colored pencil I like doodling . . . Not having any restrictions and being free to just mess around and see what develops. The couple of pieces here are examples of what I'm talking about. More heroes of mine from 1968 - when I was an impressionable school kid - Pink Floyd and Cream. CREAM of 1968. Ginger Baker at top. Jack Bruce center. Eric Clapton bottom. Acrylic and colored pencil. Alan Brooks Onward and Upward

1993 or thereabouts . . . So, more pieces discovered from a visit to England. This time it is a couple of design / drawings made in preparation for paintings. I had signed the originals 1993 and remember they were made for a poster company in Holland [if my memory serves me well.] I was still working in airbrush, watercolors, gouache and inks on illustration board at that time. Dolphin Princess 1 - Alan Brooks 1993 Dolphin Princess 2 - Alan Brooks 1993 Another erm, quirky couple of pieces here I reckon. Quirky in as much as we have been hearing a lot from the Diamond Princess / ocean cruise ships in the last few weeks due to the pandemic happening right now. Seems to me there is a lot of ocean, princess and crown going on in these pictures  . . . . time of the signs - or sign of the times - I don't know for sure. I would say that these - and the other pieces brought back from England all have specific time related stamps in on and about them.  Mad...

Jethro Tull . . . Alan Brooks 1968 Another picture salvaged from the treasure trove that is my Mom's house in Catshill England. My drawing of Jethro Tull from when I was 14. Looks like I have drawn their likenesses from the cover of their first album This Was. Their best album and sound imo. Alan Brooks

Still watching . . . I was surprised to see the pieces that were brought back from my Mom's after a  visit to Catshill in Bromsgrove England. Among the artworks  gathered were two paintings and a drawing from 1968. I would have been 14 at that time. Same Difference 1 - Yesterday, Today and Forever. Alan Brooks 1967 - 2020. The really surprising thing was that I was able to see I haven't swerved from my basic standpoint in art from all of those years ago. These pieces were blueprints as far as I could see. They were as now as they were then . I am still using these same artistic recipes and themes right now as I was back in the day. You have the Beatles, angels, destruction, pop art, social commentary, Armageddon  . . . well, I don't have to go on, you can see for yourself. Same Difference 2 - Yesterday Today and Forever. Alan Brooks 1967 - 2020. Same difference . . . still me . . . older for sure, but still the same sad world of fighting, politi...

development art and more for my Dr Clockheart story -  "Royd" from the Dr Clockheart story / movie short. More musings, reminiscences and artworks for all things Clockheart are over at my Dr Clockheart blog  please drop in and take a look at the recent developments there Alan Brooks Design

 . . . what? MANSTROSITY! I said "R.4. - Dawn of the Vymme" . . . it's in part a retelling of the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. It is a story to keep the legends and mythology of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales alive. It is also done with a steampunk, and cyberpunk "twist" if you like. The Dawn of the Vymme part is a tip of the hat to all the old fifties and sixties Hammer Horror type films, Outer Limits tv show and so on. R.4. - Dawn of the Vymme R.4. - Dawn of the Vymme. An Arthurian sci fi steampunk mash up! Now and then . . . retro future . . . or is there no future? . . . Time will tell. Ruination - ruined nation - from the ashes . . . R.4. approaches the Steam City Dawn of the Vymme - starring "ROYD" of Dr Clockheart fame. Who watches the watchers? Stay tuned for more insights into R.4. - Dawn of the Vymme -  A story from Alan Brooks Design.  Main artw...