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Dashboard

Very Loose Batman pics

More Doodles

Big Spaceship in bg

Sitting by a Window

Megazine Strip

More Sketches

Quite pleased with how my freehand perspective came out, but I think I left a bit of her ribcage out in the second pic as she looks a bit squashed.

Flash ahh ahh!!!!

Just finished this for SFX mag. Really enjoyed doing it. I'm a big fan of old style comics and love Alex Raymond's and Al Williamson's stuff so I really tried to get that feel across. Thanks to Ben for doing the lettering too.

Loads of Sketchbook Stuff

Here's some random sketches. I usually do them after eating lunch in the local cafe, I still find I'm a little too self conscious to sketch the people there and end up doodling from my head.

Illo

A portrait of author Austin Grossman for the next SFX mag

Other stuff

Here's some of the pages from the educational strip I was doing a while back... I need to improve on how I draw animals and foliage.

New Cover, step by step....

The brief asked for Smantha Slade to be hanging from the edge of a tall building a bit like the shot from Blade Runner.

I knew it would be tough to get the pose right from this angle, so I used Poser. Poser is a simple 3d computer app that allows you to manipulate a figure into different poses you can then light it and set the camera up for the angle you want.

Having done this, I tweaked it a little in PS flipped it and printed it out light blue.

I then worked on it in pencil and scanned the pic back in to PS. I comped it into a still I'd found just for ref and a perspective guide. I sent this off to Matt for approval. Matt said the angle was right but wanted her to be hanging off part of the scales of justice from the Old Bailey, and to make the scarf more prominent. In the strip she'll be wearing a "sentient scarf".

I printed this all out artsize and inked in the figure and the part of the scale. I started getting a bit stuck on the background at this point as the imag was quite big it was quite difficult to not get bogged down in the detail of the bg buildings. I thought it might be easier to go for a looser approach. I scanned in the figure and scale, shrunk them to print size and printed them out light blue with some rough perspective lines. I then went straight in with inks and drew a load of buildings. With a white pentel correction pen and some toothbrush splatter I added a bit more detail and texture to it.



I Scanned this in and combined it with the previous inks and coloured it up.

New Cover

Superb Hulk pose by John on this one., Inks and colours by me again.

My Name Is Earl: Randy sings the Lollipop Guild

Lol

page 1

Here's the rough for page one of the strip. I've tried doing the rough at artsize on this one to speed up the process, I'm hoping anyway.

New Sketches

Zodiac

Really enjoyed this, great acting and script . It's pretty retsrained for Fincher too in terms of his usual visual trickery but I think this is to the films benefit. The only annoying bit was Downey Jr ,he really gets on my nerves in most things he's in and this is no different. He mumbles and twitches his way through his scenes and ruins the believability of the film whenever he's on screen, at least he's not in it too much.

Heroes

Here's the full pic.

Spidey!

Just finished this for Spectacular Spiderman, Pencils by John Royle inks and colours by me, it was a lot of fun to do. I always enjoy working on John's stuff it's really dynamic and you get to do loads of big sweeping brush strokes it's nice and open for colouring too.

Uh Oh

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I really hope he doesn't mess about with it too much. Blade Runner is probably my favourite film. I first saw it when I was quite young and it just sort of stuck in my head, I've seen it countless times since. I love pretty much everything about the film the tone, the pacing, the music and especially the design. I read an interview with Scott a while ago about how he wants to cut bits out to speed it up a bit! I hope he doesn't stick in the hospital scene either, there's really no need for this scene as it just repeats info already given and the acting looks a bit dodgy by the guy playing Holden.

One More

Character Sketches

Here's some character sketches I did a while back. They were done as part of a pitch with two Italian writers for a possible European album. It would have been fun. The story would have followed a group of gangsters from their beginnings in the seventies to the present day. It didn't get picked up though. I'd love to do a European album at sometime though it's my favourite format for comics. Something sci-fi would be cool.

Hiro

Here's a little section of a double page spread of Heroes I've just finished for SFX magazine. It was pretty tricky fitting them all in. I'll stick up the whole pic as soon as the mag is out.

Perspective

I love using perspective, even though it takes bloody ages, it can be really satisfyng building up a scene. I remember reading in a book on it ages ago that with two-point perspective neither of the points should be in the scene. Like some rules this will just stick in my brain and I'll always work to it. Anyway on my latest job I've been mucking about with the angles to jazz it up a bit and have started putting one of the points in the panel!!!

I've noticed you can get away with it if the points are far enough away and the point that's in panel is close to one of the edges., otherwise you start to get nasty distortion.

If anyone is still awake.....

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New Strip

Just got my copy of the latest Meg with my new strip in. Bit gutted tho as the printing has come out a bit odd, there's a funny fuzz arround the linework like it's been resized too much and a moire pattern on the tone. Probably my fault for sending in the files fulsize 600dpi. I did the tone on computer too so thought that would be alright.
It's annoying cos it took me ages and now feels like a bit of a waste of time...... ah well c'est la vie I guess.

more sketches

I'm working on an educational strip in the day at the mo. Whilst it's quite fun to do nothing really beats sci-fi for me so here's some stuff from my spare time. They're only taking about 15 mins or so a panel so I may do some more.