RAIN ROCKETS

Here's an idea about how we can stop drouts in 3rd world nations like parts of Africa. Space launches... no, no hear me out now. Its on the equatore for a start, so this makes it pretty ideal for launching space craft, cos it helps to have the spin of the earth behind your star ship. Now for the good part, the only by product of a rocket launch is RAIN, yeah baby, whenever they launch the shuttle in the US, thirty miles away, it rains. Apparently it wouldnt work, but I live in hope, in the mean time here are some pictures ...
Swing SPIDEEE SWING, did this little spidee dude on the yeaterday just gone, looks kinda cool, I wasnt sure about the bg, then I thought, hang on, the lights are on and its day DOH, so I went and changed it quick, hehehe im dim, hope you likes it.









And here's Robin, YAY, yeah, I know he's gay, think the pick turned out ok though, and he looks a little rugged and less of a but monkey, so thats got to be good, something cool is going on with his arm on the left of the pick, I dont know what but I like it








Right, so I'm off to pitch my idea about rain rockets to the UN, see you on the morro. :-) with Candleman colours ooooh.

Jaffa cakes

Are the smack of the biscuit world, Idare anyone not to eat a whole pack if its there infront of you...
And on that revelation, heres a spiderman i did tother day

Incase your wondering why I keep drawing characters that belong to other stuff then its simple, I like drawing marvel stuff as its a bench mark when practicing, as it exists in comic for already i can guige my drawings against them ans see were i need to improve, then apply those techniques to my own stuff. :)







Oh and here's Ash from Evil dead, no reason other than hes one of the coolest guys alive and the films kick ASS sept the first one thats just plain odd.

Dont worry, ill be gettin up some uber coloured Candleman shizzle soon,
in the mean time, go here for some class stuff that mr G03 has put together http://www.candlemania.co.uk/gallery.html some of its anciant and a little cringe worthy and some of its pretty ace, Geoff has done some sweet ass work :)

VENOM

Hello. I did this yesterday, hope you like him, good ol venom, hes like an old friend, like a tick or some other kind of skin infesting parasite.
I put a bit of a halftone patern thing on it, so i could make believ that one day my stuff might actualy be printed.
Now Q and A, someone had a look at my Spidee yesterday and said that, due to the intensity of the sunlight in the image, surely the shadows would be more intence, and yes, thechnically this is true, but, as one of my mentors is fond of telling me, stuff in the fore ground is darker, so, I perposefully darkened spideys outsretched hand and left the shadows beneath him a fare bit softer, if I darkenned them any more I feel it would of flattened out the image, which is one of my nemisie when colouring. :)

Ok, heres some plugging for you, of other folks stuff for a change.
Do you feel tired of the cookie cutter of chearful hollywood animation farmed out to waige slaves in Korea, being payed by the second (of animation, thats loads by the way) to create mindless shows about how tough it is growing up in a privilaged American town, whilst your pearents are out urning more cash in their million dollar suits, flung against the angst filled drama of fighting aliens at night in a crime infested urban grot den? then fear no more the string of abjectives is over, here,s your pay off, how mint does this look? http://feed.stashmedia.tv/feed/2006/6/2/monster-samurai.html

I tell you bud, hes got radio active blood...

No, not the kgb spy guy, SPIDERMAN, for some crazy reason i went to my online folio, which hasnt been updated in forever, as you know, all the action is HERE, any way, I went to my folio and stumbled over my spiderman from forever back, and here he is


Wow, thats cheap I hear you cry, recycling something from way back when, but bare with me, there is a point, im anglin up for summit here...





Using some techniques past on to me by the art lords I have desovered nestling in a mist shrowded temple on the north face of mount Rare, I did a bit of a spanglified version of SPIDERMAN.
A friend of mine here is really good at critting my stuff and has helped me anilyse some of my own failings, for example, despite the mega perspective in the origonal pick, it still feels flat, something i tend to do in my colouring, however I think ive adressed that in the repaint, hope you all love the shit out of it :)

TODAY

Yes. its the day after yesterday and its most likelly to be the day before tomorrow, but you never know.
In the land of art, things are proceeding nicely. Ive been doing some big scribbles, a daring feet for me, full a 4 draws usually bother me a bit, but, hay, gots to practice. :).
Spent last night working out how my trilogy is going to pan out and mainly how the last episode will run, ive worked them out of order mainly so i can work out how to structure the cnetral stuff, ide share some rough lay outs with you, but the stuff in them would blow the whole plot at this stage and i dont wanna do that.


Heres some stuff from yesterday afternoon, mmm girls










Here's a quick skeych of an up and coming big bad for Candleman 'SPIDER'









Few lickle picks here, including Aquaman, never really a fan, but rescently saw a pick of him by Mike Mignola, and that guy can make anything look cool, so I felt like doing a doodle of him myself









A move away from the comic standars of skinny chicks, here's Claude's lawyer, and trust me, the way the trilogys panning out, he's gonna need one.










A big pencil of Willi, so k, spose, looks a bit too much like Billy Piper though :(











A nice big pencil of Candleman














And a sexi mambo girl mmm, nice marackas

TUESDAY

Sorry, couldnt think of a good title than todays name...
Heres some picks


Lookin at a friends desk this morning and noticed he had a load of those little hero click figures, on of which was Emma Frost, so i did a sketch of Emma, yay the Xmen RULE









Heres a picture of some army guy, can't escape um, poor b*****ds are gettin kicked for six all over the news every day










Did these this morning before I left for work, quite pleased with the up angles on the faces and the girl in her undies looks cool too, bit of red n black 80's ness going on.






And a fat security guy...

Mornin mondaze

Wow, what a weekend. Bin moving into my new house, Im hurtin in all new places :( but on the upside I have drawings for you :)



Did these a few weeks back, every one on the page seems a bit suprised, I really like the doodle of Conner peekin from under his hoody, he's up for his first appearance in the up coming web comic on www.candlemania.co.uk sgonna be a big one this time weighing in at an arm aiching 70 pages...


Heres some doodles I did Friday night, concepts of how Willi may look in the up coming secon 2 chapters of my trilogy I have in mind...

And here, just to tantilize you a little bit more, cos talk of 70 page epics that are only the firts part of a trilogy of Candle fueled madnes isnt enough, heres a sneeky peak at one of the pages in the new saga, this is howI I wright most of the comics, as i mentioned before, I start with a basic structure in mind, then I draw the characters out and they have a conversation, and as weird as it sounds its the conversation between the two that wrights itself, for example, here I start with Candlemans reaction to the weather and his comments trigger Priests reaction and the conversation is pushed in a direction, sometimes it doesnt go were I want and thats when editing is needed :) ALot of the things I wright are done simply by presenting my character with a situation and thinking about and working out on paper how he would deal with it.

Sup folks.
Heres some doodles frpm the last day or so.

Did these yesterday, im really in the zone of pushing my style at the mo, and just trying to nail good facial stuff





This agin is mor expression stuff, i dont feel like enough modern artists realise how expressive and mobile the face is and how much it stretches and moves when its expressing.
This page gives away a bit of how i build up my comics, it usually entales me drawing things that i like at the time, at the mo there are girls in snow and creepy villains and candleman trying not to drown, I usually have a concept for a comic and then just doodle all around the idea and will free style out conversations etc in random orders on pages, and if i like um ill take it all together into the story structure I have in mind.


Heres nore scribbles, got to blow my own horn here and say I LOVE the scribble of Willi in an oversised mans hoody on the left, wonder what she thinks id so rediculous :)







Ooh, nearly forgot this one, did this before i left for work this mornin, it was based on a doodle i did yesterday, I liked it, then got to work and found the doodle and thought the doodle was way more expressive, ho hum

FNARRRRRRRRRRR
Mornin.
Had a good day yesterday of doodlin and scribblin and all round pictoral messin, so without further bush beating...

Ok, I lied, these aint too good, erm, shit... Although I like the bearded guy top right corner :)








I like these ones better. The top right hulk is workin for me, something must be special about the top right corner of pages...








Faces, nuf said










More faces, like the comics guy









and more... Just trying to get good at expressions really.








So, as you know, from reading below, went to see Phantom of the opera in london on tweekend, it was pretty kick ass, Any way, the openning was rad and Carlotta was cool, she comes out singing to this little prop sevred head and its ace, so i did a pick, heres some of the doodles for it...
I had the image in my head from the night of the show really, tried it bottom right, redid it and liked it top left...



Then did a nice big pencil sketch, ive only rescently got into the habbit of drawing stuff big, and i like it, cos i can get so much more in, you'll also notice its the other way round from the sketches above, thats just me, I almost always flip stuff when i copy it, only way it looks as good or in this case better than the orig.

Hope you like it.

YO.
Havnt got too much rescent to show, you, bin busy ,but ive tried to piece some bits together, just to keep posts up really.


Heres some doodles from today, messin with expressions, trying to get better at um.








These are from a while back and are another exploration, this time of a different way of doing girls heads, my fave is the girl with the dreads and glasses, top left





And the Hulk, yet again, dont worry thats it from him now, Im quite pleased with this.
I rescently got a few tips from one of the legends of art that I work with and i put them to good use on this, i think it looks way better now :)


Ill keep posting and it wond be the Hulk over and over I promis.
Later folks

NOT HERE... THERE

Sorry about there not being anything yesterday, but I was travelling the globe well, went to London at any rate. Went to see Phantom of the opera, wich was ace, sept the girl playing Christine couldnt sing, which really sucked.

All in all, good trip, and we saw Jonny Depp walking down the street which was cool. AAAny way, on with the pictures. As you may guess, i havnt done much over the last few days so heres a teeny but nice bit of shtuff

Heres a doodle scribble thing of a new character for Candleman, that may be on his way oooh










And heres a colour version, I like the coulours on it and the way he looks kinda slippery, which works well. Im not too happy with how the lines work this time though, the origonal ink looked cool, but i vectorised it in illustrator and that seems to of bummed it a bit, strange cos usually it makes it look amazing, ill probably redo it at some point, as usual, i prefure the pencils.

the day TENEACIOUS D PICK OF DESTINY came out

Yes todays the day, that possably the coolest film of all time comes out, and im in work and not in a cinema, which sucks...
Any way, we're here for art and nout else, so here is some.


Heres a page from my sketch book, hope u like it, not much to say about it really, just like some of the poses, like Willi jumping and Claude falling and landing, on his head hahahah.







Heres a really rescent sketch of Mega Priest, thought u peeps might like to see how hes changed and become a more develped character, I think he looks like DU-MAN







This was done for two reasons, one, I needed to test some colour and effect ideas I'd had over the past few weeks, and i rescently baught the new films and the lego games and to be honest am a bit Star Wars'ed up at the mo. :)








Because its Tenacios D day, heres a picture of my friend Loui, hes like an uber D fan and i did this pick of him to celibrate











And finally, I finished off the Hulk sketch i did on monday, sgot a few new colour techniques Ive been messin with, and I think its come out ok. :)

HAY ART FAN, LISTEN UP... or look... at this new stuff, ooh, look he is updating it daily OMG!!
Any way, thats enough caps lock for today, heres some stuff I done today and here also, is some stuff i have done over the past few weeks, during my teaching myself to draw phase :)


This is one of the aforementioned 'learning to draw agin things', see I go through these stages were I like to mess about with my style, and i think its improving, till I look back at things I did, like 2 months before and realize, I stink, and actually what I was doing back then was ace, and then I have to remind myself how I was doing it, these scribbles are from one of those times, me trying to find my feet AGAIN, ooh dang, more caps...




The only way to get good is to draw ALL the time, one day I hope to get good, but in the mean time, I keep scribbling, new poses new positions different ways of using the line, over and over and over and sometime, just occasionally I do a drawing I really like, Like the one here with Willi sitting on a box in huge jeans and oversized basket ball boots, I just like it and thought you might :)



SOOOO, this is from this morning, Me warming up I guess, sometimes thats all I do, its not often i get a pick I actually like...








And finally, erm, liked the last sketch on the page before so did a more detailed pencil of it.
I'm in limbo at the mo, trying to move house, but when I do, I'm hoping to colour some of these up :)
But you'll just have to come back to see if I really like any of my pencils enough to try :)
Later Holmes

Hi there.
Sorry its been SOOO long, but alot's bin happening.
Mainly Geoff and I have bin gearing up for the next action packed fest of Candleman madnes, which has involved no end of inking and teaching myself to draw again.
so, in the mean time heres some shtuff to keep your eyeballs smiling.

Heres a lickle picture i did of the hulk the other day cos i was bored :)


I started my day today with some warm up scribbles, exploring some poses and stuff, man, I miss life drawing, and not cos of the T and A








And the scribbling led into this, which I'm quite pleased with, but not as much as...









This, inspired by a shot taken from some of the footage of the mighty Tom Cherril as Candleman, in action, can be seen now, on the web site...

www.candlemania.co.uk

go now, if you havent already


Better get on with some work I spose...