This is a piece I created for “Monstrous Optimism“, a gallery show and fundraiser held for the family of my graphic essay professor at VCU, Kerry Talbott. Sadly, he died from cancer last October. He was a great teacher and artist, very much into aliens, robots, monsters and anything else sci-fi, which is the focus of the show. You can see some of his work artwork here. I decided to draw an astronaut coming into contact with a strange alien form in space because drawing astronauts and weird shapes is fun. The show opens on August 22nd at the Art Space Gallery in Richmond, VA.