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This illustration was done as a commission assignment for a client who has bought a lot of my original art. He commissioned me to do an original illustration of this monster called "The Flukeman" from the TV show, "X-Files."
First off, let me say, I never was an X-Files fan. Before the guy asked me to do this illo a month ago, I had never even heard of the Flukeman.
It's not that I dislike the show. It's just that I never really got around to watching it. All I know about the show is that the guy with the big nose and the red headed girl are FBI agents who investigate UFO's or something. Oh yes and now I've learned that there is a monster in the sewers called "the Flukeman". That is literally the extent of my knowledge about The X-Files.
Out of curiosity, I looked up some info online and learned that the X-Files was on TV from 1993 to 2002. Which explained why I never became a fan. During those 9 years when the show was popular, I was in college and preoccupied... Then I got out of college... but moved to California to start a career in TV animation, and ended up living in a valley where I got no TV reception... So for a long time, I missed out on all TV shows and just used my TV set as a receptacle for my DVD player and video games.
If The X-Files had been made ten years earlier or ten years later, I probably would have been a fan, but it fell into a ridiculously turbulent era of my life and just sort of breezed passed me. And now I just don't care enough to go back and figure out what all the excitement was about.
I actually tried to talk my way out of doing this commission. I assured the client that my lack of knowledge in the subject could only result in a failed piece. But the client supplied a lot of invaluable reference and I did the best interpretation I could, from those materials.
In the end, for what little I know about the X-Files, I feel like it turned out fairly well... ...But I suppose all you hardcore X-Files fans out there will have to tell me if I'm right or wrong about that!
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First off, let me say, I never was an X-Files fan. Before the guy asked me to do this illo a month ago, I had never even heard of the Flukeman.
It's not that I dislike the show. It's just that I never really got around to watching it. All I know about the show is that the guy with the big nose and the red headed girl are FBI agents who investigate UFO's or something. Oh yes and now I've learned that there is a monster in the sewers called "the Flukeman". That is literally the extent of my knowledge about The X-Files.
Out of curiosity, I looked up some info online and learned that the X-Files was on TV from 1993 to 2002. Which explained why I never became a fan. During those 9 years when the show was popular, I was in college and preoccupied... Then I got out of college... but moved to California to start a career in TV animation, and ended up living in a valley where I got no TV reception... So for a long time, I missed out on all TV shows and just used my TV set as a receptacle for my DVD player and video games.
If The X-Files had been made ten years earlier or ten years later, I probably would have been a fan, but it fell into a ridiculously turbulent era of my life and just sort of breezed passed me. And now I just don't care enough to go back and figure out what all the excitement was about.
I actually tried to talk my way out of doing this commission. I assured the client that my lack of knowledge in the subject could only result in a failed piece. But the client supplied a lot of invaluable reference and I did the best interpretation I could, from those materials.
In the end, for what little I know about the X-Files, I feel like it turned out fairly well... ...But I suppose all you hardcore X-Files fans out there will have to tell me if I'm right or wrong about that!
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You should at least occasionally catch the “Monster of the Week” episodes! They are mostly stand-alone, so you don’t have to worry about being lost in the middle of the main arcs, as they have nothing to do with them.