Drawing Demo Vids

A couple of vids of me trying out a Wacom tablet mod made by Lez Wright. It's pretty good and works out quite a bit cheaper than the real thing. You can find out more here. The Jedi one has come out a little dark but you can see the pic at the end of the video.

Sov Judge

Deckard Commission

And another one.

Not quite sure why I'm doing these but they're fun.

Sketching again...

The rest of that page.

Ended up doodling over the rest of the page.

Little Sketch

Quinch

Another commission, still taking orders if anyone fancies one. £50, p&p free!

More Sketching

Sketchbook Stuff

Here's some sketchbook stuff, plus a couple of the sketches done at Birmingham. Had a great time there, sketched pretty much constantly both days. The web address on the top sketch is from one of the people I did a sketch for I've just drawn around it.

*edit* found a couple more sketches on line. Anderson and what's supposed to be a Red Sonja had no idea what her costume was so I just made something up.

Meat page 9 process

Another page from Meat almost done every one now.

I think I did the rough for this straight in Manga Studio, can't find any little thumbnails in my sketchbooks anyway. Just went in and sketched away then put on panel borders and perspective grids to match what I'd sketched.

The first panel was pretty straight forward so I just loosely did some blue pencilling and inked straight on top of it same went for pans 4 and 5. Panels 3 and 6 needed a bit more work so I pencilled them pretty tightly and inked using the blueline method mentioned in earlier posts. Panel 2 was a re-use from an earlier page. I decided to render that whole page greyscale it was supposed to make the whole colouring process go smoother, it didn't, I'll go into that a bit more when I do a step by step on that page.

Next up are the inks pretty self explanatory on this one, though I did decide to make panel one a full bleed panel also I inked some building silhouettes with the hatching brush in Manga Studio.

Colouring, same as usual though I did recolour the re-used panel, keeping it all red made colourising the greyscale simpler and I think it looks more effective than the original panel. I used a technique of adding some extra shadow to the last panel by colouring the whole panel normally but then on a new layer set to multiply I added a dark green and then lowered the opacity.

Oh yeah, the guy kneeling down touching the blood wasn't in the script, I imagined him as some sort of psi judge who could touch the leftover bits from an accident and kind of tap into what happened, forgot to put any psi logo on him though so he probably looks a bit weird.

Life Drawing

Just a couple scanned from A3 sketchbook having trouble getting my Mustek to pick up any of the lighter shading. Going to have to try and find a better setting so I can scan some more in.

sketching

Robots

Trying to come up with some robot designs

SJS Judge Quincy

He shot Dredd through the head in the Judge Cal story.

Johnny Alpha

Really enjoyed doing this one, onto an SJS Judge next.

Cover Colouring

First up are the colours to the John Romita Jr piece. This was quite a fun one to colour, I've always liked his stuff especially on a Daredevil year one book a few years ago. It was done in pencil with the bulk of the shading already worked out. I turned them into a multiply layer and coloured underneath added some textures and shadows to the bg. I like the way the lettering has been done to fit in with the style of the pic. I'll stick up the Cliff Robinson ones in a bit.

Some More

A Couple More...

£50(p&p included) if you want one. Any character you'd like.

Commissions

Here's a montage of some of the commissions I've been doing, still available £50(includes p&p) if you want one.

Sketching

All for charideee.

Spent a bit of time doing some sketches for Draw The World Together at the last Bristol con. All the artists did some extra sketches in between sketching for people and they're now all up for auction here here's my one. Bid away it's all for a good cause.

More Sketching

More sketching, top left face is from ref the rest are made up. Made the eyes look a little wonky in that first face.

Character Designs 2

2 posts in a day!!

Sketching From Photos

Going to try and do this a bit more regularly. I think you learn a lot from it and it'll, hopefully, improve my faces done without ref.

Character Designs

Rose is back!!

Here are a couple of Rose O'Rion pics for a short story by Rose O'rion co-creator Kek-W for Zarjaz a 2000ad fanzine. Was really good fun drawing her again maybe Tharg will commission a new Rose strip in the future, would be cool :)

Stuck up another commission piece too £25 plus p+p if you want one.

Another Page Step by Step

Here's another one, still a few left. A bit spoilery this one but there's been a couple of Megs since so hopefully it's ok.

This done much in the same way as the other pages but on this there's quite a bit of digital inking done in Manga Studio. I tried something a little different and pencilled the page at print size. I took it into MS and inked it tightening up as I went along. In some ways it was good as I could leave a lot of things looser than I normally would and I could also sort out the perspective in MS. There's still something a bit odd about digital inking though. I think because you have to work a bit more zoomed in so that the accuracy of the tablet/cintiq works better you kind of lose that sense of how much detail is needed. When working on paper you kind of build up a sense of what will and won't work for reproduction. I was quite pleased with how it came out in print though as I think it was quite hard to tell the digi from analogue inks. Maybe with a bit more practice it will seem more natural, I hope so as there are a ton of advantages to going all digital. Oh yeah digi panels are pans 1,2,5 and 6.