Star Trek The Art Of John Eaves

When you’re dealing with a mega-property like Star Trek it’s important to make the design of the human and alien ships, equipment, weapons, space stations and the like consistent.

It’s not easy.  It takes a special kind of illustrator and designer to accomplish such a feat.

John Eaves is just such an artist.  Painter, illustrator, architect, mechanical engineer, landscape artist, color composer, and other skills are necessary to develop a fully realized universe such as Star Trek.

Star Trek The Art Of John Eaves, by Joe Nazzaro and published by Titan Books, traces the long and illustrious career of whom many consider the ultimate Star Trek artist and designer: John Eaves.

As a fellow artist I found it especially interesting and fascinating to see his earliest pre-Trek sci-fi art and his first Star Trek concept designs and drawings.

John would go on to design/illustrate much of the technology associated with the various Star trek TV shows and films.

Gorgeous full color art accompanies informative and compelling text explaining how he went about his work, his inspirations and influences.

The huge hardbound book contains full color paintings and illustrations, black and white art, conceptual sketches, ship, equipment and technical studies and variations and so much more.

To me it is exciting to see how John thought out various design problems, how his mind works, putting his thoughts on paper and the final completed projects.

This is a great book on not only Star Trek lore but also on how an artist thinks, conceives and implements ideas and designs.

I enjoyed looking at each page; analyzing each piece of art and going away with a deep appreciate of such a stellar talent.