Career
He has painted over 300 book and magazine covers and illustrations for many major book publishers, as well as Life magazine, Time, and Newsweek. Wayne Barlowe is well known for his realistic paintings of surreal alien (or fantastic) life. His Barlowe"s Guides to extraterrestrials and to fantasy are his interpretations of specific creatures and beings from well-known science fiction and fantasy literature.
His Inferno is an interpretation of the demonology contained in the Grimoire of Honorius.
His Expedition is a complex look of the speculative evolution of the fictional planet Darwin IV.
Design work for the Babylon 5 television movie, Babylon 5: Thirdspace. Creature and character designs for Galaxy Quest, Titan Agricultural Engineer, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Avatar, and Pacific Rim.
Preproduction drawings for Blade World War II Created concept art for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, John Carter, Dante"s Inferno, and The Hobbit. In 2004, his book Expedition was sold to the Discovery Channel for development into a two-hour presentation.
lieutenant was retitled Alien Planet and premiered May 14, 2005.
