The book won many awards and was nominated for many more.
In this book, he painted many of the most well-known creatures in science fiction, forever influencing how fans would imagine them. Barlowe's breakthrough, though, came with the publishing of Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. The example above left shows Barlowe's rendition of a Yilane, an intelligent mosasaur from Harry Harrison's Eden novels. Many of these can be seen in The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe. While starting out as an illustrator, Barlowe worked on a number of book covers. This solid background in fine art principles an natural history is readily apparent in his work. He attended the Art Student's League of New York and The Cooper Union in New York City, while at the same time working at the American Museum of Natural History and collaborating with his parents in book projects. According to his biography, Barlowe's parents were well-known natural history illustrators, so he had both nature and nurture on his side. The publishing of his books such as Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials and Expedition are perhaps the closest thing to events in the history of the admittedly small field of creature design.īut let's go back a few years first. Wayne Barlowe is the most influential creature designer of our time. While it would be a bit overdramatic to say that it was a life-changing event, since I was already very interested in creature design, it certainly was a formative moment for me, as I understand it was for a great many artists. When I was a young child, about seven or eight, I came across Wayne Barlowe's Expedition in the sci-fi section of Barnes & Noble.
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