Sketch Post

Woohoo!! Finished Diamond!

Here are some sketches with a little promo done for fun.

Diamond

Well, this is what I've been working on all these past months, 3 pages to go now. It's scheduled for release January 20th. I love how the colours have come out on this thanks to Christophe Araldi and Xavier Basset for a great job! Thanks to David Chauvel for being a brilliant editor too! This and all the other pics I've posted relating to Diamond are copyright Delcourt and the authors(me and Christophe Bec). Over the next few months I'll stick up some more teaser panels and some process stuff relating to the pages.

Sneak peek panel

Sketches

Trying out a bit of red marker on these two.

Back to Orange

blue pics

Not much time for sketching at the mo here's a few warmups though.

Mini Update

Here's a few Sketchbook pages, I'll try and do some more process stuff at somepoint in the future...

Roughs to Inks

Here's the initial rough done in ps and based on a tiny pencil thumbnail I do in my sketch book. Then the pencils and inks. I changed panel 1 quite a bit and shrunk panel 5

alien thing

More Sketcbook Stuff

Just wondering is it worth me getting these together oneday and selling sketchbooks at cons?

Stuff

Here's some Sketchbook pages and also a couple of panels featuring the really cool Sno-Cat model Andrew made for me.

Trilogy Meter

Cool thing from Andrew Glazebrook's Be Still my Blog of War site, where he's put up a blank one too.

http://bsmbow.blogspot.com/

also on JimSmash blog another cool one btw

http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/

Was a bit of fun anyway. Thing that annoys me about the Matrix sequels was that there was probably a semi decent and action packed 2hr film hidden in the 4hrs+ of the two films. 

bits and bobs

I've joined twitter and have been posting a few bits via twit pic here they are. They're mostly from digi cam so the quality is a little low.

Random...

Blue

Here's a neat trick in photoshop...

I scan my pencils in in colour. As you can see the blue underdrawing is still visible. I then click on the blue channel in the channels pallette and ta-daaa! the blue is gone. The I convert the image to greyscale discarding all the other channels. Dunno why but it's really satisfying. I then print the pencils out in blue so that I don't have to worry about the inks fading when erasing pencils.

New Dredd Film

One of my old covers seems to be cropping up on the articles about the new Dredd film, which is nice :)

Anyway hope it's better than the last one. I do have a bit of a soft spot for it though as it gave me my first break into comics. "Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future" was a kids comic supposedly based on the Stallone film. Dredd wore the movie costume in the strips and the stories were aimed at a younger audience than 2000ad, so no violence and shooting etc. the fact that the film ended up being a 15 cert kind of messed things up a bit though. 

Here's the links

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23915

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=7928

And the cover, colours by Chris Blythe.

Castro

Another FHM explainer.

Street Scene