70s Sci-Fi Art

Two humanoids walk past what looks like a large vegetal structure with a small lizard-like creature (with wings) on top. There are. various flowing plants with their flowers aimed at the people.

Karl Kofoed's interior art for D. D. Storm's "Mud/Aurora" in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (November 1981)
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978, Ralph Bakshi)

That’s a great one!

Control panel Saturday for @70sscifiart.bsky.social
Jean-François Pénichoux. From Robots: Historique de la robotique mobile du XXIeme au XXVeme siecle, Messidor/La Farandole, 1981. #Jean-FrançoisPénichoux

Worst part of writing alt text is revealing my lack of tech knowledge haha 😅

A hand emerges from a pumpkin, covering in gross innards, to type into an old word processor, c. 1983.

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Art by • Gary Leach

A human wearing metal antennae and headphones on his head and riding on a weird vehicle platform helps lead a charge of humanoids with bug wings against an army of giant ants with rifles.

Ed Emshwiller’s 1964 cover art for "The Radio Beasts," by Ralph Milne Farley

I just learned Thomas Cahill's "Looking for Books: How to Find Hard-to-Find Books" is both A) real and B) impossible to find a copy of

Two ape-like early humans sit under a tree, looking over a lush pastoral landscape dotted with prehistoric animals and dinosaurs.

I love this 1978 Don Davis cover art for Carl Sagan’s "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" - anyone have a less blurry version? chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2010/03/vint...

🕯️𝕴𝖓 𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖞 🎃🅷🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴🅴🅽🦇𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖞𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖎𝖓!! 𝕴𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖙𝖔 𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙, 𝖆𝖑𝖑 🕷️𝕆𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕓𝕖𝕣🕸️ 𝕴 𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞/𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖆𝖗𝖙.⚰️

Turns out those initials are actually MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin, who also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest, though Mark confirmed for OVGA that neither original painting was ever returned. Mark said both were a rush and had to be done overnight!

A black and white illustration of a retro desktop computer sinking into a prehistoric swamp, with volcanos and a flying dinosaur in the background.

A collection of animals including a puffin, cheetah, dinosaur, groundhog, giraffe, and others crowd around a desktop in a savannah.

It's up now! Check it out! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/computer-pla...

Here are a few more artworks, both from ads with no artist credited.

Theodore Sturgeon's 'The Stars are the Styx' book cover by Rowena Morrill (1979)
#scifiart

I love how the Aurora Prehistoric Scenes models of my ‘70s childhood, with their epic box art, actively reinforced the idea that humans and dinosaurs battled & co-existed. I used to marvel at these colorful box covers, which fired up my imagination. I don’t blame them for not knowing any better!

Jean-Louis Rigaud #1986 rb.gy/nw7yac

Shoutout @lookcaitlin.bsky.social who surfaced a lot of that retro tech art in their tumblr! You should follow them

Thank you!!

A selection of 1980s-era consumer technology grows out of a patch of green leafy plants. Several desktop monitors and landline phones sit on plants, two plants have floppy disks for leaves, and one tree has radar dishes for flowers with cables for vines. The artist is credited as "Hom and Hom," 1989.

A frog sits on a microchip that's floating in a pond.

A field of crops is growing computers on the left, game consoles on the right, and a row of "hybrid" labelled gaming computers in the center.

Black and white pixel art of a desktop computer with vines and a tree growing on it, in a jungle, with old stone steps leading up to it.

Last day to sign up for my art blog before the next issue's out! This one's about retro tech illustration of computer plant life. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's the sneak peek, featuring Hom & Hom, Paul Kratter, Robert Tinney, and Michael Green

Mom’s Chocolate Sauce - John Bolton (1986)
#BlackPudding #Monstermanual #horrorart

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A business man holds a laptop and a sword while wearing a knight helmet. Lightning bolts shooting from the sword have text on each one saying Industry News, Technology, Financial/Investing, Internatinoal News, and Healthcare.

@kennylogins.bsky.social Could you turn this into a meme but keep the original text on it

Vampirella cover by Jeffrey Catherine Jones & Vaughn Bode (1969)
#horrorart #fantasyart

Space 1999 set design. Production designer / art direction by Keith Wilson with Michael Ford (Space 1999 first aired 1975-77)