Originals #30 • Peter Elson ‘Mission To Universe’


Anyone of a certain age who was into sci-fi in the 70’s and 80’s will be familiar with Peter Elsons work, if not his name. His highly detailed spaceships and futuristic tech were as recognisable as Chris Foss‘s and I used to seek out the tiny ‘PE’ logo that he hid in most of his work time and again as confirmation that an image was by him.

*Special ‘Originals’ guest post – I don’t own this one* My friend David Rees recently bought this original painting from Peter’s sister (Elson passed away many years ago) and was kind enough to share these images with me. It’s fascinating for me to see the close up details of this piece – ‘Mission To Universe’ – that I first saw in one of the Steven Caldwell Terran Trade Authority books way back when. As far as I know there is only one book of Elson’s work collected, ‘Parallel Lines’, long out of print and shared with another artist of the genre, Chris Moore. That’s a real shame and he deserves wider recognition. The painting is shown next to the paperback which it was painted for below.

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Originals #22 • Kev Walker – Tharg

Kev Walker – ‘Tharg– 2001

(59.4 x 420 cm, ink on paper).

I was recently lucky enough to win the original pencil sketch from a seller on eBay too…

(59.4 x 420 cm, pencil on paper – image is cropped down, the drawing is nearer A4 in size).

Original pencil and ink drawings for the cover of 2000ad Prog 1263.

Note from Kev Walker: “I blew them up on my printer, then drew the linework in ink. Then I scan the linework, and fill in the solid blacks on the computer and add any other stuff that needs adding. In Photoshop, nothing else.

They really should be classed as final pencils, because hardly anything changes from those. I draw at print size cos I find it easier to judge how much space I’m leaving for speech bubbles.”

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