Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Quinch


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

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

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.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Robots


Trying to come up with some robot designs

Thursday, September 16, 2010

SJS Judge Quincy


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

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Johnny Alpha


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

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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.

Friday, September 10, 2010

A Couple More...


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

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Commissions


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

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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.

Monday, August 16, 2010

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.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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.