Sketch Thursday

A communiqué from Monkeylord- oo, oo, ah ah ooh ah eeh oh a eh eeh, eh eh. Oh a ee aeh.-How eloquent.

Toyboy-talkie

Work hard, talk hard, relax hard. With pizza.

One-sided Conversation

Oh what fabulous hair, what divine, ambrosia fed hair. Seriously though, chuffed with the hair, chuffed with the expressions. Don't you just want to be part of that conversation?

My Favourite's the Musketeer

The keys to pencilling and then inking such a large array of repetitive figures. For me. Patience, almost goes without saying, and background music of the kind you'll find yourself humming, singing or generally da-da-da-ing along to at random points.

Toyboy's Dungeon

A case of quantity having a quality all of its own. I must count how many toy soldiers are in the picture...........................................73. I need help.

Inked Victory

And so to inking. I love to work with brushes, so for this project I resolved to ink everything organic with a brush and machined objects with a pen and ruler or french curves. Because of my love of brushes I carried the perception that anything inked in brush was inherently better. This is not true. While some things do look better the most important thing is getting the image from your mind onto the page using whatever tools necessary. I learned the tools always service the image, not the other way around.

Victory is Ours

This was a very enjoyable page to draw, moving from close up action shots to widescreen victory stance back to middle distance talking heads. I love the sense of contempt I captured in Pirouette's body language, it showed me the power of the body as the first communicator of emotion and attitude.

Sketch Thursday

An artifact dating from the medieval age that hints at a deeper story behind it.

Pirouette-wheel and Jumbo-squash

Ouchie!

Jumbo Girl Crush

Apologies for the sporadic nature of my recent postings, I have been rushed off my feets by the analogue world getting a book proposal together and other sundry items. So we return to a semblance of normal service with another Formation 7 pencil.

Sketch Thursday

This is the pencil of my submission to the Kapow convention brochure cover competition. It features the millarworld character Superior hovering majestically before stunned onlookers heralding the arrival of the superheroes of the convention.

Netherworld contest Nether-entry

This is a piece for a contest to design a retailer incentive cover for a new Top Cow comic called Netherworld. Unfortunately I had difficulties registering on their forum to post the entry so I missed the deadline. Very glum-making. It's heavily referenced from a photo with some buildings and the figure added in and some details taken away. Quite pleased with it, not least because I managed to do most of it on my daily commute. Check out the entries at topcow.com's barn.