Ellen Ripley - Alien Warrior

The purpose of this project was to create a logo based on a name with an accompanying phrase with the goal of maintaining the cultural background/significance while still applying an aspect to make it unique and reflect my personality as an artist.

Like all art projects, my process began with researching the subject matter to get a better idea of what I was dealing with. The next step was brainstorming potential paths of how I could design this logo and once I found what path I was taking , I went to the sketching stage. From here I decided to actually look at the word “warrior” as the main focus and went with sketches that either showcased Ripley fighting the Xenomorph itself or in a fighting/combat stance to showcase that she's ready to fight. After a long time of brainstorming, I came up with at least eight different variants from her physically fighting the Alien, to her in an MMA fighting stance with the Alien in the background in a circle formation to give off the presence of a fighting tournament look.