Is there anyone around here who could do a workshop on Giger's Biomechanical style, I love his work and want to learn that particular style so I can involve it in my own art.

Airbrush + disturbed mind = Giger

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There was a tutorial in an issue of ImagineFX, but in my opinion the end result didn't have a great deal in common with Giger's work. I think you would be better off getting hold of a load of his books and just studying his artwork.

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i second banjaxedmdt. Incidentaly there is a new Geiger book out which i plan on purchasing. I love Geiger & am currently trying out Geigery art.  here's what i've found rendering wise. Build up lots of transparent shadow layres with the airbrush to get a polished look & use colour dodge (if u use photoshop that is) at a very (2-8%)low opacity & build up highlights. Also take a peek at anatomy books - the bone structure diagrams are great for coming up with ideas/combos. also make a colour pallette of dark browns,greys,grey-greens,grey-yellows,grey-blues and other dank colours. On my recent piece, I did the image in black & white first & then used an overlay & soft light layer at low opacity to add colour to areas. Then slowly building these up. Oh & looking at car parts (or my boyfriend's motorbike mags) helps.

Hope that helps :D

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spacejelley:

I love Geiger

But not enough to spell his name correctly.

I've got a couple of books of his art, and I seem to remember there being a progress piece in one of them. I'll need to look them out and check on that.

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thanks for all the info guys, Im currently working on a piece, I noticed that pipes and the ribs key features of his work so im trying out a few figures with those, ill try to post pcs of them soon

No need to be nasty. My spelling ain't great :P

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A more obvious design intepretation is Phallic +++ throw in bits and pieces of spine/hirst = Giger

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Someone doing a tutorial of on someone elses style... seems a bit odd to me. And especially with a significant and characteristic artist as Giger. I would just recommend studying his paintings and the surrealistic idea in general. And of course allowing yourself to go bonkers.

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Life is contrast.

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My IFX portfolio
My sketchbook

Oh and em.. give us a word if you find out what the book with the progress pictures in is called.

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Life is contrast.

www.geiropdal.com

My IFX portfolio
My sketchbook

I'll try and remember to have a look tonight - it's either the one about the making of Alien or one that Taschen put out many moons ago.

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em...:

I'll try and remember to have a look tonight - it's either the one about the making of Alien or one that Taschen put out many moons ago.

I think you might be talking about the ARH+ book by Taschen. It has a page with about half a dozen steps on it.

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Hmm... should really browse through my art books again. I actually ARH+, and yea, I found that But still, if it should be another one give a word. It's not in alien.

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Life is contrast.

www.geiropdal.com

My IFX portfolio
My sketchbook

I can't find anything else along the same lines in any of the other books I have. There's photos of him working and so on but nothing showing a step by step run through like the ARH+ one.

I recommend getting the books from Taschen for anyone wanting to see a wide range of Giger's work. I bought another one a couple of days before this discussion started ("www HR Giger com" - name of book, not me listing his website), it has loads of interesting stuff in it.

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Yeah, it's the ARh+ book, page 44.

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