BI MON SCIFI CON!!

Well, not really, but kinda. We're closing in on the Birmingham Comic con, we visited last year. a low profile was kept and much sneaking about was done, this year we are planning to go properly and actually attempt to flog some art work. I've applied for a table and am in the process of getting some of the comics printed, what should be available to anyone willing to spend a small amount will hopefully be, a full colour print of Candlemans first adventure, 'the legend of darkness falls' and a never before printed black and white comic produced specifically for the comic con. Ill keep u guys up to date on developments as they unfold, right here on CANDLEMANS blog page. For information on the comic con, like were it is and how best to get there and who else will be there, if my unprofessional presence isnt enough go here, http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk/

THE FUHRIDAY CANDLEMAN

Yay, here he is, its looking like you people are locing him these days, which is nice, more than nice infact, its great, so heres some picks of the man himself. I feel I must make some appologies, first off for the horrid copyright thang splashed over the picks, but, a friend of mine advised me to do it, specially as we have had cock heads liberating our images in the past and giving no credit, He is copy righted as in, being held by shark like lawyers, that will be used if they have to be. Theres that horidness out of the way, on two appology 2: I got pissed at the apparent death of my comic page www.candlemania.co.uk, its still there just not doing much, and promised that I would keep the comic going here, which, i have so far NOT done, but I will HONEST, Im just waiting on dell to get my laptop to me and I can actually get this shit rolling again.

Here's a pick I did for a friend of mine who's feeling a bit under the weather at the mo. Now, Ive talked to a few folks and they've said that I should put a colouring tutorial up, I shall indeed do this next week some time, so keep yer eyes furmly locked to the sight with the Candleman on it, and Ill give out my secrets...

As for now... LATERS possy :)

I are the SCORBIAN

Check this weirdo out, all new bad guy for Candleman universe, oooh, better get excited, the creation story is in the works...

FARG

I did this last night with felt pens, the drawing any way and coloured it in PS, turned out pretty well I feel, unlike the print out, god alive, will i ever find a printer that prints whats on the screen?
Anyway, never mind, Hope my possy likes it, he's a scary monster nemesis for Candleman YAY

Hello there, I have been pottering with some colour stuff, so, see what you think, I'm quite pleased with this un :)











And here is a pen design for a lorry I did for a CG project a friend of mine is working on, I struggled to get it the way i wanted, doodling with pencil so i just said, to hell with it, and whacked it out in pen and it looked exactly the way I wanted. :)

Thanks for the comments you all left, yer great artists and im honoured, its also reasuring to know that folks out there are visiting and enjoying my stuff

Another picture of an early butgoning concept for a new character, Rivet, not much to say











And there is this, a sketch of Candleman I did entirely in pen WOW, how chuffed am I , strait off in felt tip and i dont hate it

Yay, more colour stuff, This again was drawn strait off in felt tip and turned out quite well, I then scanned it in and used PS to colour it, looks pretty good, if i do say so myself, god how arogant am i , but why not, it looks the way i want it to and arnt we all a bit tired of the artist who hates all his own work, what a cleshe, I dont nesiserily hate all my stuff, just a large pertion of it and most of the time i like everone elses better than mine :)

Holy dingos. More were wolves? I'm affriad so, it looks like the future holds more of the fiendish undead for our hero Candleman, although, these guys are more like your classic were wolf than the wierd dog monster from darkness falls, one day all will be revealed.





And here is their leader, the evil and twisted Wormina, her past is complicated and intwined dramatically with Wilhelmina, our heroine








And this is Rivet, a new character I'm developing, Ive no back story worked out for her yet, although I know she is a government agent :)

lots of shtuff and doowdilin

Here's a random selection of doodles from the past week or so.
Here is a quick sketch i did of the Green Goblin from Spiderman, yay, such a class vilain, why oh why did he suck so much in the film, ho hum, hollywood, u are the bane of our world, sorry, rant territory there, um were was I oh, yes, this was knocked out fast in pen, I am using pens these days to tryan and boost confidence in my line work, see, u cant really do construction and once u have put a line down thats it, thats why his pumpkin holding arm looks a little loke a snake, a bit formeles and a tad too long, try not to look at it, I dont.



Ah, now, back onto my own shtuff... This is a doodle of Wilhelmina, again a revisit to the current comic on CANDLEMANIA, it will be a while till u get to see this, as my colegue decided he couldnt hack doing any more to it, just as the shit was kickin off, nicelly timed there, oh well, what you gonna do, he is after all extremely busy. Sorry, very bitchy of me, and this is not a forum for my personal issues, ah who am I kiddin...
Willis sportin a fantabulous black eye here, not that I in anyway promote smackin women about, but in this case it surves well to make my baddy into a total bastard, hay, worked in Back to the future.

Oh, K, here's a page of scribbles and cack, mainly, the picture of Willi sitting looking a bit down, its kinda sweet, I like it, hope u do too :)

pics and how too's

Hello there, sorry for the lag of updates and the blatent lack of Comic book pages. On the comic book note, It will most likelly be several weeks before I continue posting them as, things here in work are getting hecktic and I am waiting for a lap top to arrive so I can colour away to my hearts content.

So, leaving excuses aside, here is a scribble of mega priest i did tuther day.

And here is a pick of Wilhelmina getting her dander up, Ive been drawing her in her fancy gown alot latelly, mainly cos of working on INFERNO, its reminded me of all the fun design eliments there were within it.

And here is were a few more things started to make sence, about how to actually draw well, or at least creat the look I want

Really testing myself today by doing some stuff in marker pen, no room for error, I have actually surprised myself by doing some drawigs that weren't shit

both these pics drawn in pen, Candleman was coloured in photo shop

HOGWARTY

Been reading the new Harry Potter, soo, I drew this :) Hope u like it

Here's a little test Ive done for the later parts of INFERNO, the building was modled roughly in computers and then inked and coloured and detailed by hand

INFERNO PAGE 21

Carrying on from last week, Wilhelmina and Claude finally come face to face with the vilain of the piece...

INFERNO... its still going honest

Hello there. Yes. To be honest, I've no idea what is going on with the CANDLEMANIA site at the moment, I am both annoyed and upset by its apparent desertion. I feel it is a great shame that having spent 3 years setting up a fan base the site has evidently died. The comic has not. My work continues. Ideally I would like to continue the Cmania site as we know it, but that looks like it is not going to happen, I plan one last ditch attempt to revive my friend and get the comic moving again, but, if that fails, then I intend to continue it here as it has been for the last 2 weeks.

Candleman is something I beleave in and a story that needs to be told, and its unfortunate that the first attempt to actually tell the saga seems to have met with resistance from within. Ho hum, never mind, I just jope that I can drum up viewers.

On with the art, the pic is a promo image I created for the comic using a grab of the inks from a page I was working on, the image is designed to be 2 pannels, but I thought that the image of Candleman and Lucifer looked so cool it desurved to be reworked as a stand alone image.

NEW PAGE

page 20 nuff said...

COLOU RED

MOOOOHAHAHAHAHA, clearly goes with these two. These are inked up versions of some doowidles I did tuther day, I decided to refresh myself with some colour, Ide forgotten loads of how to actually do comic style colours, as theres not much call for it on my current stuff, I actually had to dig out a few old PSD's and go through the layers to try and nember how I did it., any way. Im guite pleased with the right hand picture, the buildings are a bit cack, but their there just as a test really.

Theres no perticular reason I did the green goblin, other than I love him, specially the Humberto Ramos version, cos he looks totally brutal. If any one has any questions about the techniques in the pictures please ask using the comment box below :)

I think I'm getting it.

Ive been doing alot of design stuff for 3d characters latelly and its really forced me to analyse my stuff and strive to get more 3 dimentions into things and really try to create some volume. Over the lat day or so I think I've started getting it too. Why things work and how to build volume into things

Here are a collection of some doodles over the last day or so, were i started working out how to keep volume in my drawings.

let me fix your reality...

here's a little sketch i did of scarlet whitch, a character I love the design of, I armored her up a bit here. Hope u like. At some point i may colour it

X BABE ON

No pussying about here, with 'do i want my powers? or not? I dont know, maybe I'll get in line and get cured cos I'm kinda spineless' and such related bull that made its way into the last film, instead of her getting miss marvels powers and seriously kicking ass. So I've done my own little bad ass Rogue pick, im quite pleased with this, and I hope u like it :)

OMG ITS PAGE 19

As it looks more and more likelly that my companion into the world of the Candleman comic is no longer willing to aid in the forwarding of the web site I have decided to start colouring and posting them here, so come all ye candleman fans if your interested in knowing what the hell happens next. This is the place to be, have a lookat the shiny page 19 :) hope u like it.

Here are some more girls n notes, basically just exploring how the female form is put together and trying to level up.

Ok, so. Here are some more girls. Ive just got into the stride of improving my female figures at the moment, so expect a few of these over the next couple o days. Here, hope u like these, i resisted putting 69 on the cheerleaders jumper






Aaaaand heres Vallery again. This time with a bit of colour.
I usually avoid the air brush like the plague, as it can look oh so amiture and studenty, but i saw it used really well on something the other day so i gave it a go and i think it looks ok, not sure about the huge bloom on the left of the image, but tough chips, its there now moohahahaha

shmeh

HELLOOO any one there? I know, I said I wasnt posting for popularities sake, but, it would be nice to think that someone looks at this shit.. ho hum

Here's another pick of Vallery, hope u like it whatever, later.

WOW, nice hammer

Heres some dude ills from last week, featuring some designe notes and concepts for Vallery Kri and a sketch of Storm from X men, hope you lie. :) um... don't ask me how the nipple plates stay on, all that matters is that this drawing features the term 'nipple plates'

KUBLAMMO

You can't fault girls with guns... and on that note!!

I did this yesterday afternoon as a lickle doodle and when I got home I looked at it and thought it was actually better than I origonally gave it credit for, so i tarted it up a bit, hope you like it, its a bit cleche but hay, i work in games, what do you expect, big tits, small costumes and massive guns!! I wish, at the moment I'm drawing lots of cuddly animals and such, so i guess this is a bit of a vent!!

tits n guns and vampires and grave robbers n all that jazz...

First off, heres the Tomb Raider influenced Angelina Smallhouse, judging by her face, sh's stumbled accross something salivating and evil in a long lost crypt some were...

Aaaahand here's some jugs and swearing, nothing in particular to say here, its pretty evident... its mainly just me doodling and trying to up my game a bit really and having some fun doing it.

Hello again. Here is some more sheeyat.

Heres a quick CG model I knocked up today as a concept for a writing project I'm doing, it doesnt require illustration, but images are so important to my thought process I found I needed to do a model.

And heres the latest version of Wilhelmina Prize. Im pretty chuffed with this, she looks kinda hot and cartoony with big stylised feet n hair. Pleased with this :)

I dunno whats quite going on here, but I was doing some experimentation with sky's and i started messing with the brightness contrast and eded up with this, which I actually quite like, it has a kind of print ish feel. Hope you find it warm and likeable as I did :)

T n A, well, mainly A

Sorry I been away, Ive just been lazy and doing other stuff. But I promis to be more prolific this week. So, here is a nice picture of Batwomans arse...

Hope you like its curving dynamics mmmmmmmmm spandex, and girls...

see you tomorrow folks :)

OWNED

Heres a new doodle of Candleman. Please remember that he is OWNDED, and I mean properly, proof of ownership by me is in the hands of my selisitors so dont mess, I make this note in the friendliest of intent, I just know that some people out there on the net have used his image in tha past, please dont, it pisses me off, just enjoy him and dont try to do anything seruptisciouse with him.

Any way, all threats of chemical castration aside, I hope you like the pick, aw isnt he all cute and heroic :)

YARRR

More Pirates of the Caribeeeen

Er, dummo why Ive drawn a few picks of Jonny the last few days, I just have, I was struggling to tink of an interesting character to mess about with yesterday and he just popped into my head, I was pretty pleased with the doodles so I did a finished pick. Hope you like it mate YARR HAR HARR, shiver me timbers me harties yo ho!

nuthin like the ride...

Hello there mates!

Ive been on me travels this week, ill fill you in with my diary at some point, so watch this space, in the mean time here's a picky of Captian Jack Sparrow from Pirates! YARR