I met up with Tristan at B.Lucky & Sons in Melbourne Central. He’s one of a few Alien people in Melbourne and it was lovely to catch up with him outside of his work.

Listen to our latest Creatives interview with Tristan Jones, comic artist for Aliens: Defiance and Aliens: Resistance.

Footnotes

Tristan spoke candidly about his battle with depression. If you think you ever felt or feel this way, please seek out help through family, friends or Beyond Blue. You are not alone.

Tristan and I lamented the fact that the guns on the Alien game were not ‘pulse rifles’

Tristan’s Art vs Artist post.

Tristan’s alternate cover design for Aliens Resistance.

Have you picked up ALIENS: RESISTANCE #1 yet? Among @IGN's recommended new titles: https://t.co/SmVrHNkqlR



"If you've been jonesing for a sequel to #Aliens: Defiance, the wait is over." Variant cover by @tyrannojones pictured. pic.twitter.com/5IdtrixDVp — Dark Horse Comics (@DarkHorseComics) January 28, 2019

Tristan’s WIP for The Predator.

The Predator

Work in progress

Lines and heavy blacks done; tones and washes to come… pic.twitter.com/8SZeGBiZaA — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) January 20, 2019

Sneak peak at the creative process of designing a cover.

A look at how I generally handle those blank cover commissions. Really wish the stock used on a lot of these worked better with Copic markers… pic.twitter.com/yXHitMpbJt — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) January 1, 2019

See Vincent Ward’s unrealized concepts here or read the script in AvP Galaxy’s Downloads section.

Some cover art by Tristan.

Side-by-side comparison of linework vs coloured.

New Aliens cover art! Colours, as always, by Dan Jackson! pic.twitter.com/SU5LNZzXQ1 — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) December 18, 2018

Original linework for Aliens Resistance cover by Tristan.

Here’s the original line and ink work for the ALIENS: RESISTANCE cover revealed the other day! This one took a little longer to nail down the way I wanted to so I didn’t have time to add the tones and effects I probably would have liked to, but Dan smashed it out the park wi… pic.twitter.com/CNq14QCKyt — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) November 21, 2018

Tristan’s rendition of the Neomorph.

Simon Gough (@Spidey2099) kicking all of the arses with colour sorcery! Here's the Neomorph I did a while back with his colours added! pic.twitter.com/TrWh5xtv60 — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) October 18, 2018

Aliens Defiance Concept art and other various Alien Universe characters.

ALIENS: DEFIANCE character concept art.

Security Compression Suit

"Jess"

Weyland-Yutani Spec Ops

Hollis' Wright-Aberra Compression Suit pic.twitter.com/cQF5abtUQJ — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) September 7, 2018

"Big Ugly" from Aliens: Defiance (now also a figure from @NECA_TOYS!) commission piece. pic.twitter.com/XsTtaaPzeR — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) August 30, 2017

Amanda Ripley

Axel

Johner

Bishop pic.twitter.com/LyckogjmWc — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) September 7, 2018

Various designs for DAVIS-1 combat synthetic. pic.twitter.com/4Qh2QT8IgQ — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) September 7, 2018

I've been prepping once off artists proofs of the pages I did for ALIENS: DEFIANCE and looking back over some of the pages I did. There is so much I'd do differently now (hindsight), but there are some panels I really fucking still love, usually involving corpses… pic.twitter.com/ritXsCf68s — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) February 21, 2019

Actually, there's a whole fucking heap… pic.twitter.com/m8X6nISCO7 — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) February 21, 2019

…the hive bit was super fun… pic.twitter.com/voH3zwcPJl — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) February 21, 2019

…and then bits like this. This is probably my favourite page I've done in comics, ever. pic.twitter.com/1ZD5bJYWD3 — Tristan Jones (@tyrannojones) February 21, 2019