Started off drawing an alien bullet using convention drawing methods and painted a giger inspired background i also played around in photoshop with some shapes and patterns that i thought would be good for textures, using typical 80's colours..
So this is what i started to play with the top texture was created by drawing squares in photo shop then applying blending option such as bevel and gradient overlay to create the desired star wars technology style pattern.
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i decided to liquify the texture i made earlier to make it more majestic
Then after a few hours of tweeking using the textures i created and adding extra detail to the alien bullet head shot, and the skin became this
i didnt like too much blue but after another few hours of tweeking i found a good balance
Then a few hours and finishing touches later i had this