The skin was created and inspired from HR Gigers' artwork which was used for the movie Alien. It's a morbid blend of organic elements combined with other-worldly mechanical parts - a fusion of human and alien parts. The rendering style derives from the airbrush which produces graduated blends, and simulate diffused…
Here's some vintage HR Giger - you can see the morbidity of his images, the crazy going on in his head. He was crazy brilliant and an Ace with an airbrush. His artwork inspired the creature in Alien, which in turn inspired the "Alien K-47" kalashnikov, AKA, "The Invader". In creating the Xenomorph (the Alien), Giger…