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.

Sketching and another commission

Some more sketches and a Black Canary commission. email me if you want one £25 plus p+p for something similar it's A4 size.

Another Page Step by Step

Here's page 3 from Meat. Same process as the earlier pages. On this job I really tried to leave as much as possible to the colours. Usually I like to use a lot of black in my stuff, it can hide a load of mistakes :) I'd like to get back to using more black at some point though, hope I haven't forgotten how.

Sketchbook stuff + a con sketch

Here's the usual random sketchbook stuff and a con sketch that I didn't have time to do at Bristol for Paul Trimble. There's also a little Manga Studio doodle there too.

Really enjoyed Bristol con this year was very relaxed and the weather was great. The Megazine was out there and it was great to see Rob Williams see it in print, especially as he seemed quite pleased with it :) When the Meg's been out a bit longer I'll do some more process posts on the other pages, going to milk that strip for all it's worth!