Mousey Girly

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Just a study which I've been tinkering with for the last coupla days before trudging off to my job-job. originally a pencil study from Sucide Girls, interesting shadows around the tummy made me want to paint this up a bit. No colour so sue me.

Mamoulian storms The Sanctuary -- Clive Barker's THE DAMNATION GAME

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Another quick image of Mamoulian, doodled last night and painted this morning before work. I have spent about an hour on this so far. This is Mamoulian storming The Sanctuary, kicking ass along the way. I am eagerly anticipating reading the description of Mamoulian and his powers again so I can refine my design and maybe include some more specific details.

Mamoulian -- Clive Barker's THE DAMNATION GAME

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I am currently re-reading Clive Barker's debut novel The Damnation Game and this is my initial interpretation of the villain of the piece, Mamoulian. I have read this novel twice already, the last time several years ago. In this current reading of the book, I havent yet met Mamoulian, so this drawing has been completed from my recollections and impression of the character from my previous readings. I am looking forward to meeting him again, and am looking forward to having a bit of a draw when I do ;)

Amanda Palmer

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Amanda Palmer has split up from her record label, which means she needs to celebrate her freedom. This is how I would imagine rock stars celebrate things these days, with a rather reserved session of Bubble-me-Do.

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Illustration Friday: "Equipment"

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One of the most defining aspects of Batman (besides the fact he's a fascist sociopath) is his gadgets, or eqipment. One of the most successful elements of the Christopher Nolan rebooted Batman franchise is the logical origins of all Batman's fantastical gear. This is how I imagine the scene would look if Christopher Nolan were to try and reboot this aspect of the Batman mythos in the next Batman film.

In case you have never seen the Adam West Batman movie here is a clip to elucidate the gag in my illo:

Still, I'd prefer the tried to work Shark Repellent spray into the next Batman film than work Robin into it!! ;)

A crop, for crop's sake.

Massive bloke with a bunch of guns...

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My default setting when I want to do a drawing but am not working on a specific project or can't think of anything worthier. Was a bit bored today and stuck in a "I don't know what to draw!" braintrap, so drew a massive geezer covered in guns and had fun doing it.

I suppose in a way I was influenced by Illustration Friday's word of the week "Equipment" in so far as a soldier type guy has lots of it, but I might try and do something a little more focused for IF. I hate it when you see people drawing any old tat (or one of their recurring themes) and show horn it into IF's word. Kinda defeats the purpose of it all in my arrogant opinion.

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Kim Newman's Video Dungeon

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Empire are currently running a contest to design Kim Newman's Video Dungeon. They have provided a few pdf photos of Kim to use. Despite these photographic assets, there's already a couple of other entries which are hand drawn/painted. Here is my entry, not a particularly good likeness but I'm quite happy with the overall image.

Persons Reported: Flame Test

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Thought I'd blog this quick experiment I did today. Was trying to figure out what approach I should take to create flames for my upcoming comic Persons Reported. I don't want them to be photo-real renditions of flame, otherwise I could just use a photograph rather than spend hours painting them. I'm trying to create a graphical, dynamic design element to them whilst still keeping a hand drawn quality to them.

I used a varitety of brush and lots of Liquify and a heavy handed amout of eraser to get the above results. Still not satisfied so any comments/feedback would be appreciated.

The above image is in colour even though the finished comic will be black and white.

Persons Reported: Development Work

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This is something I did today as part of the process I am working through before I begin work on the art for my next comic book, Persons Reported.

I thought it would be fun to submit to Illustration Friday too, this week's theme being 'Brave'. Smith certainly fits this description! ;)

'Persons Reported' finally back on track!

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After a lengthy re-write of the script, I have finally got stuck in on the artwork for my next comic, Persons Reported. Here's a sample of the design work I am going through, developing the look of the final comic as I am laboriously ploughing my way through the page layouts and thumbnailing stage of the process.