Malego - Page 6

Malego - Page 5

Dredd - Watercolor - Finished!

Finito!

Now, all I got to do is attach the signature and get this sucker framed. I'm really, really happy about how this turned out. Probably one of the best pieces I've done recently.

I loves it!

Dredd - Watercolor ruff #2

Nearly finished this Dredd watercolor. It's for a 'John Wagner' personalised message and signature that Al (Torchsong) Sparrow got for me at the San Diego Comic-Con.

Gonna frame this sucker too.

Inquisitor Vex

Busy, busy, busy!

I've been incredibly busy lately.

So, here's a revamped 'Vex' from 10 years ago. Hard to believe this was from '98.

Spiderman?

I did a kinda portrait for a friend of my wife who works in Washington DC. He's a huge Spiderman fan so I got a reference pic from my wife and...Hey Presto! He's now Spiderman!

I pencilled and inked it on a 10 x 15 Blue Line art board. Not a bad looking piece seeing that I usually draw on 8.5 x 11!

He later sent my wife a jpeg of the drawing framed. Pretty impressed that he'd frame one of my drawings.


Anyhow, I'm posting this because I've gotten really busy over the last few days doing freelance work and don't have anything 'New' to post yet!

I'll post a few 'Golden Oldies' over the next week or so until I manage to get some 'free' time!

Animal Man

Finished this Animal Man comission.

Malego - Page 4

Malego - Page 3

Enjoy!

Animal Man - Ruff pencils!

A rough drawing for an Animal Man commission for DavidD on the CGS Forum.
I thought I'd go the lighthearted route here by having the aliens that gave Buddy his powers talk about Grant Morrisons infamous 'Coyote Gospel' Animal Storyline.

Malego - Page 2

Oh...forgot to mention. This strip was written originally by Geroge O'Shea. George was one of my good friends from back in Ireland. I changed a bit of the dialogue but it's basically 90% George. Geroge was really talented but could never get driven to do much. A shame!

The strip was originally pblished in a fanzine myself and George put together and we sold it in local newsagents. George did the original art...I re-drew it and used Georges art as rough layouts.

Malego - Page 1

Okay.

I'm finally getting around to lettering this. This was another strip that took me forever to finish and when I did finsih it...it was supposed to be colored and lettered by another person....that was over 18 months or so ago.

So...screw it! I decided to letter it myself and who knows...maybe it will eventually be colored.

Giant Robot Attack!!!

I've been a bit busy lately. So, here's an oldie but goodie.

Thugs! - Sketchbook - Page 1

Deb Bonair - Page 7

Done!

At last!
Been nearly two years in the making!!!

Hopefully this will be published in the second CGS B&W Anthology book.

Rory Hensley did an amazing job and he's currently sketching out the second Deb short story!

Woohoo!

Thugs! _ Dark Cowl Case File

Number 1 ina series of hundreds!!!

Deb Bonair - Page 6

Deb Bonair - Page 5

Deb Bonair - Page 4

Deb Bonair - Page 3

Thugs! - Ultramaiden Parody Ad!

Done! This is an added page to Thugs! Issue #1.

Rich did a really bang up job parodying the 'Hostess' ads. I really enjoyed drawing this.

Thugs! - Hostess Parody Ad

Blue pencils for the UltraMaiden 'Hostess' parody ad. Guest script by Rich 'BlueMeanie' MacAuliffe.

I'll ink this beauty up and it'll go into the first issues of 'Thugs!'

Deb Bonair - Page 2

I really love Rorys work. it's a delight to the eyes!

Deb Bonair - Page 1

Originally intended for color. I created, wrote and Inked this strip with amazingly gorgeous pencils by Rory Hensley!

The color thing hasn't worked out so far. it's taken Kevin Volo nearly a year and a half to put color to this. As far as I know there are only two pages colored.

So, I decided to go ahead and publish it in the second CGS Anthology book in black and white. I had to go in and alter the artwork to suit.

Who knows what'll happen. I still want Kevin to finish it...but I don't know when that'll be.

Thugs! - Page 14

UltraMaiden is miffed!

That's it for Issue One! Gotta to get some 'back matter' done and the inside front cover. BlueMeanie is writing a 'Hostess' parody ad. I might color it too and have it as the back cover.

We'll see.

Thugs! - Page 13

Changed the layout a bit and added small logos to each character as they're introduced into the strip. Really happy with the facial expressions on this page.

Thugs! - Page 12

Aah!

My favorite 'Thugs!' character, Ultramaiden, makes her first appearance.

Thugs! - Page 11

Thugs! - Page 10

Redrew the top panel on this page...and the lettering, of course. Stuck in a few 'Easter Eggs'.

Thugs! - Page 9

I like the way this re-do turned out. A lot less claustrophobic than the original...especially the word balloon placement.

Thugs! - Page 8

Thugs! - Page 7

Here's another re-mastered page.

Thugs! - Page 6

It's been really interesting resizing the artwork to fit comic book specs.

What to move closer together...what to leave out. Re-doing the lettering, making sure it becomes part of the page and not seperate...y'know, stuff like that.

Still have around 8 more pages to go for the first issue.

Dredd - Watercolor ruff!

Here's the rough blue pencils for a 15 x 20 inch watercolor piece.

Thugs! - Page 5

Another re-mastered page.

Thugs! - Page 4

Cleaned -up! Added some little touches like the Dark Cowl and Finch logos.

Slumber Party! Page 2 - Inks

Ta-Da!
Another 'short' done.

Slumber Party! Page 1 - Inks

Slumber Party! pencils - page 2

More pencils!
I should have the inked and lettered page 1 posted tomorrow.

Slumber Party! pencils - page 1

Page one blue pencils on a two page 'gory' story for Angry Gnome comics. (http://www.angrygnomecomics.com/)

It's been a bit of a challenge to layout. Shawn (the writer) has written 12 panels for the two pages. When I thumbnailed it out it was tough to pick what should be the focus, what should take up more space...etc!

It's fun though.

Caretakers Tales! - Endpiece - Page 2 - Panel 3!

It's complete!

The interior art for Caretakers Tales is finished!
All 49 pages!!!!!
Now all that's left is the cover...which I'll probably leave for a while until Rob catches a bit up on adding color to the pages.

Spicy Space Tales - Page 9!

Well...after all the trials and tribulations of dealing with a broken scanner and reformatting the computer...I finally got it done. Completed right on deadline day!

Phew!

I hope someone calls 'dibs'...I'm getting po'ed at the lack of commitment.

Caretakers Tales! - Endpiece - Page 1!

Here's page one of the 'bookend' or 'endpiece'.

Caretakers Tales! - Endpiece - Page 1!

Here's page one of the 'bookend' or 'endpiece

Babes - Page 14 - Panel 2!

TA-DA!

That's the final page of the last 'Caretakers' story done. Now I have two pages of an 'endpiece' to do and the cover of course!

Babes - Page 13 - Panel 1!

Great!
Got a new scanner last night! I have lots to do today.

Thugs! - Page 3

My scanner is STILL broken!

I'm off to fry's electronics tonight to get me a new one!

In the meantime here's page 3 of Thugs! Again, I had to resize and reletter it to fit the print format. It's a pain ...but it gives me the opportunity to fine tune everything...so, it's not all bad.

Scanner Problems!

Aaargh!

My scanner is on the fritz!
For some strange reason it's scanning 'Blank'. I reinstalled drivers etc, and did everything possible to fix it!

No dice!

I was cruising through pages today until the scanner issue. Wasted half my day trying every sort of solution.

If I can't get it sorted in the next couple of days...I'll have to buy a new one. What a bummer!

I have two pages to scan. One of 'Caretakers' and the other is the next page of 'Spicy Space Tales!'

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Babes - Page 12 - Panel 1!

Another page down!

Babes - Page 10 - Panel 1!

Another snippet! Only a few more pages to go.