Dark and Dangerous

Questions of scale and atmosphere. You'll notice a difference on the bottom tier between the ink and the pencil version of this page, the script called for Baby Jane to dress herself and I tried hard for an elegant solution.

Spy Doll

Introduction of Baby Jane, a doll possessed by an 18th century ghost. Actually the first Formation 7 page I tackled, it seemed the hardest of the pages I was first given, containing a lot of information to communicate.

Ink-arceration

Pencil Prison

So character introduced, but who is he, where has he come from? Why, military prison of course and he's quite miffed about it.

Introducing Lockdown

Page one of Formation 7, my first published comic book, a ten page comic for Free Comic Day 2010 written by Robert Curley and published by his company Atomic Diner. This page introduces Lockdown, the main character. Ever since I'd decided to draw comics I'd wanted to draw a page like this, one with a full page background beneath the main panels, using every bit of the page to tell the story while trying not overdo it. So when I read the script I thought to myself, here's my chance, I could give it a go here, and I jumped at the challenge.

Brown Paper Bag Drawing No.7

Best yet? Blackest Night Firestorm.

Sketch Thursday

It's my pomegranate.

Six Cover Spread Coloured

It was very satisfying when I got the colouring and lighting right on some of the pieces. And frustrating when it didn't look like it did in my head. So the piece as a whole was made of successes and failures. I reach a point where I feel I'm finished with a piece and I have to stop no matter what, if I think I've achieved what I set out to or not, I have to stop because I know at that point I've done all I can what with time pressures, my skill levels and knowledge. That's not to say I always listen to that feeling though. All characters copyright Atomic Diner.

Six Cover Spread Inked

If I were to do them all again I would change the size relationships. I feel I may have focused too much on each individual cover in the hope that the connecting perspective line would be strong enough to override the scale differences. Don't get me wrong, I'm still chuffed with them, it was pure fun. I mean I'd only begun drawing comics and here I was attempting a 6 page fold-out! All characters copyright Atomic Diner.

Six Cover Spread in Pencil

The full spread of the Atomic Diner covers. It was a fabulous learning experience and challenge to draw the six covers and try to achieve cohesion between them. All characters copyright Atomic Diner.

Brown Paper Bag Drawing No.'s 5 and 6

Holy dastardly double, Batman.

Sketch Thursday

A change of pace this time. A concept piece for a picture book series I'm working on, they're about a little boy called Oliver and the adventures that teach him about life. Currently working on a proposal for Bologna and LBF.