Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Caretakers Tales - Cover Ruff!
As the title sez - it's the blue line layout for the 'Caretakers Uncannily Nasty Tales' cover for the Black & White Edition.Myself and Rich decided we'd go ahead and print a black and white version while Rob works on the colors. It'll take Rob a bit of time to color the whole 49 pages. So, in the meantime, people can buy the Black & White version.
This cover is a sort of homage to Al Feldsteins 'Tales of Terror' cover from EC Comics. To check out Mr. Feldsteins cover and compare...go to this link:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=237803&zoom=4
Feldstein was a genius so please...take it easy on me.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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.
Monday, June 30, 2008
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.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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!'
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Thugs! - Page 10
Redrew the top panel on this page...and the lettering, of course. Stuck in a few 'Easter Eggs'.Thursday, May 29, 2008
Thugs! - Page 9
I like the way this re-do turned out. A lot less claustrophobic than the original...especially the word balloon placement.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Babes - Page 14 - Panel 2!
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