PRANG!

I have been lacks in my posts, mainly as I am working on staying in the light and other stuff for the comic con.
So, just for fun I doodled this, i am always fascinated by silly cross over comics and such like, superman vs aliens verses terminator vs robocop vs yada yada, so i drew BUFFY VS ALIENS, cant go wrong with boobs and monsters as the hammer films proved, if only hammer had made aliens...
Ok, so, this is an edit, i just went mental doing some scribbles, some of them were quite nice so I posted um

There are some pics for brumicon in here and some vampire shit, I reall REALLY wanna do a CANDLEMAN vampire story, as kind of an accompanyment to darkness falls, but never seem to get one that works.

STAYING IN THE LIGHT!

Free promo to be goven out with perchases this year!

A SECOND CHANCE!

Brumicomicon is edging closer, I thought I'd remind you guys that we will be there again this year, not only with a new 20 summin page comic, but with a reprint of the origonal, so for those who turned up late or on the second day and where crushed by the fact we'de sold out, then here is a SECOND CHANCE! to enjoy DARKNESS FALLS and more!

Bones in the sink!

Here am more concepts for me two pager for Brumicomicon, people seem attached to their cash at these things so I try to provide a snifter of Candlemaness for a miniscule outgoing!

More mythology

YAY! more monsters and shtuff!

Snakes and ladders

Yay Medusa!

Not much else to say really...

Crumbling angel

Did this little doodle in my sketchy book, thats right, I've started a sketch book, mostly I just use loose paper, but i fell in love with some of the bigger moleskin books and have made myself doodle in them for a bit, just to have a nice collection of pics really.
I liked this and coloured it up, hope u likes too :)

bloody bones!

Here is a prelim doodle for a short Candleman adventure.

As with last years comic con I want to do a short promo comic and this looks like it may well be it. Its based around the Irish folk legend of Rawhead and Bloody bones a kind of child eating monster who likes dark and damp places.

MOOHAHAHAHAHA

Here is Candlemans new nemisis for Staying in the light, in the process of leveling up!
It was my little first stab at inking and colouring the huge epic.

ON HIS WAY TO BRUMICON!

All hail the red monkey!
On his way to this years Birmingham comic show is my contribution to our colaberation comic, here is a sneaky peek of a little corner of a page!

Its so cool to see Monkey finally in a comic, he's been around a character in my sketch books for years and finally he shal see the light of day in RED MONKEY and the BLADES OF TIME!

brrr shnikt!

WOlverine in the snow YAY
Enjoy :)

doodles

Some scribbles of a character for a friends CG project!

Z is for ZATANNA

Here am some inks of Zatanna.
Woot, she's hot, but a bit cack, at least in the DC video game anyway, she just get killed all the time Grrrr!

Girl doodle

Here am a character sketch for a friends comic, hope u like it :)

JANKEY! its a word honest

Hay there, ok, here is what my friend calls a JANKEY model, its masically a scruffy scratch build that acts as a concept for the final build, ilike the turm, it sounds so descriptive. Anyway, i had this idea for a vehicle and I cant draw cars n shit, i find it easier just to build it so i rammed this together last night, its real rough and needs loads more doing to it, but i couldn't resist bunging it up, hope you like :)

To fight crime, you gotsta do the over time!

Knight staff, a character i devised for a Candleman story Charlie and I have been developing based around the legend of Thule and Atlantis and all that madnes.
Hope you like him :)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUFFFF!

Right, rock n roll, here is some happy shiny colourful shit! I been off on another one of my Marvel trips this week, cos their characters are fun to draw, this is Psylocke, she was always one of my faves and she was always so FIHINE. This was a relitivly qick pen sketch that I really liked and took to the next faze, I really like her face, it turned out well.

And this is one of my own little dudes. Knight Staff, he was a hero with the Action Hero League back in the day, this is just the inks, but I will tart it up at some point, I thought I'd ram a bit of me own stuff on there cos I know Mr Jackson gets disappointed in me and my Marvel obsession.

Nice TIT

This is a generic soldier baddy I have conjured up for Candleman, the Action Hero Leagues Tactical Insurgence Team. Big dumb minions with guns and lightening sticks, designed for all that kind of funning about and getting beaten up that is often needed in action scenes, you always need faceless minions

LOGUN STEEERIIIKE!

Did some doodlin' on the weekend, we had a crazy weekend of helping friends move house and late night move festness and beer and pizza, I finally saw TRON, AWESOME! and so didnt do any comic, but i had a bit of time for some chill out sketching, here is one of the sketches all coloured up :) hope you like!

More Jag-Wah's

Here is a bigger more polished pic of my latest villan :)

Steaming hot...

Jungle!
Go3 and I have been hammering together the outline for Candlemans creation, so that when I eventually finish Staying in the light, we will be hot to trot with the prequel.
This is Jag-Wah, she is gonna be a minor villain in the creation story, I doodled this head shot and thought it deurved colouring, hope you like :)

Taste my Colt!

In a direct response to big meaty guys with huge guns running about slowly and grunting expletives.
I whittled out of pencil and paper and a slice of Photoshop Colt Forteskque, devil hunter! windswept and poetic, he enjoys fishing reading Keats and hunting down rogue monsters with his modified revolver in a world turned upside down by the armies of darkness :)
Hope you like him!

super trooper!

Lets hope this guys beams dont find you! he looks a bit scary, i dont really know where he came from, i just felt like doodling a scary looking minion type guy, he's in the rain, he's got a face like a dead cylone, none of these things can be good!

SMAAASH!

In light of the up coming Hulk film I did a little doodle.

I'm gonna stir controversy and say I actually really liked the Ang Lee Hulk film, the high brow attempt at story telling balanced the savage simplicity of the titular Hulk, and I thought it was a great movie. Due to its poor reception I am worried that the sequil will be foar simpler, dwelling less on Banners termoil and psychology and turning into a brawl between two huge crappy cg creatures, I'm not conviced by the new look of hulk or Abomination.

On the subject of whome, why do we have to have a villain who is basically a mirror of the Hulk, making the conflict into a slug fest, I'm sure someone like MODOK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.O.D.O.K.)would be a far more interesting villain for the big green to pit himself agains, oh well, we shal see, i just hope its a valid sequel to a film that raised my opinion of one of the Marvel greats.

Four eyed and fangy!

Here is a little section from a new post on http://igetthepicture.blogspot.com/
Charley and me are about to beguin a new chalenge MONSTER drawing!

WILD KAT reviewed!

Revised and redesigned!
Me and a friend are messing with some ideas for a mahusive Candleman story, that wont be on the cards for a few years yet, but I couldn't resist redesigning Wild Kat, her costume colours are due to the fact that this is gonna be mainly set in snow, so I thought a snow tiger influence made sence, as for the crazy gold watch band style utility belts all over her, I love that whole Jack Kirby, shiny metal and wild ass costume design and thought it could be fun to go to town with tones of little storage belts, hell she's even got one round her sweed, I'm CAZY!
Hope you like!
LATERZ!

Am I just all scew wiff here?

Everytime I do something that I am margenally proud of it never gets a single comment, but if I pump out some random turd of a drawing, it always seems to get nice coments 'well done! good job!' wtf, am I taking crazy pills!
Aaany way, aside from my moment of madness, here is a shiny pic I did the other night, I was origonally going to use the characters in this for the colab comic I am doing, KUNG FU nun is a comic character from Candlemans universe, a rival studios attempt to rival Mega Priest! As i said, I quite like how this turned out, so i expect no coments!

Here am another pic I did tuther day, again, trying to get me a cholour technique thats fast and filled with pop, this is a achracter my company did a few years ago, Jo Dark, this is my crazy version of her :)

Just call us Shield!

More colouring ins! Hello there, I am trying to make sure that my colour work am good enough to do the upcoming Candleman, I keep waving this infront of you I know, and I've already had folks going, WHERE IS IT!, well thing is, it really is a mega opus and I'm still in the pencils stage I'm affraid, so yer just gonna have to wait as is up to 80 pages so far and still romping along its gonna be a massive amount of work.
But please, stick close, as it goes along, I'll keep you updated and I promis it will be worth it.
In other comic news, the latest printed Candleman is done ( CANDLEMAN VS CHRISTMAS) and will be on sale at Birmingham comic con this year, for info, go here; http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk/
I hope to see you all there and giving me money in exchange for sequential art :)

HI!

Here is a panel from the new Candleman, got to admit, ots probably one of my favourites so far, I just love this guy, he's a complete background character, but he just looks soo funny, it turned out great, its funny, its one of the parts of the comic I really had no idea what to do with, I started doodling it last night and it just kicks ass, cant help looking at this page and grinning.

Hopefully the readers will too.

Laterz peeps

COLOUR

toying around with what to do for the colour in Candleman, as a test I did this work up of a sketch of Emma frost I did a while back, kinda looks pretty sweet.

Hope you all am like it :)

LOOK AT THE SIZE...

Of that sword, here is a pencil drawing i did the other day when i was bored. I decided it rocked so I coloured it up, hope u am likes :)

CRUISADE FOR THE LOST CRYSTAL SKULZ OF DOOM

The new Indi film's on its way like a big fat rolling bolder tumbling toward us and the hype threatens to crush us all.
Despite the fact that I kind of live in terror of Indi 4, what with the whole star wars shambles, yeh, I remember thinking, its star wars, how can u screw it up... and we all know how that turned out, and this has lucas involved too, so, it could go either way.
That said, i couldn't help myself, I started doodling Dr Jones and it just went from there... wonder if he drinks rolling rock?
sorry.
Laterz BUY!

I'm a ninja... you can't see me

As I have started work on my sword wielding monkey project, I thought I'd go mental on ninjas and stuff for a bit, you know, get in the zone.
So here is a snow ninja, unlike common ninja, the snow ninja is clad predominantly in white, unlike its black or dark blue clad counterpart.
The snow ninja is often found at high altitudes or in tundra reagons, they are recognised by their pentient for hunting monkeys with swords!

here is summin from a while ago...

This is a rough colour test for Willi from way back, looks pretty sweet, so, I'll probably revive this technique for SITL, hope u like :)

RED MONKEY

Working on a project with some other super duper artists

including this guy http://zudacomics.com/node/278, this guy http://www.transformationsequence.com/ and this guy http://www.monkeyzombierobot.com/artists.php?showme=rstevenson.

My comic is sillyness on a stick, and involves Monkeys and zombie samurai!

Here is a prelim sketch!

Its above you...

Been trying out some sky pictures for Candleman, even though the whole thing is pretty much set indoors there seems to be alot of dramatic sky stuff in this, so I thought I'de up my game a bit, here is a practice picture

Big assed golden doors

Yo... here is a lickle colour test from a panel of the up coming Candleman! who will be staying in the light!

Again, this is set at Halloween, I dont know why, I just like that time of year and it recurres through out this story and others

New peeks, arnt you lucky!

Hay, here you go, smore in the way of a sneaky peek at the next Candleman issue, there was

gonna be a third page, but Blogger decided it didnt want to post it.
Any way, this is a bit from Claude and Willi's romantic weekend, dont worry there's lots of monsters and stuff to spice it up, we dont want it all going fluffy now do we :)

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silly space crafty type shenanigens

Ok, here we go with more silly geekness
This is the computer model i built for the aliens show reel thing I have been messin with for years, me and my buds are gonna run this thing through the paper making programme and use it to build a usable prop. I'll keep u lot posted as it builds :)... weather u like it or not

PRIEST in duh HOOD!

Aw, goodol priest... I'm affraid though, he will be missing form the next saga of Candlemanitude, ubless i find a need for him.
The script was written before he was created and there isnt really a need for him in the dynamic, aside from the fact that he RULES and people seem to like him. :(
Anyway, i did this little sketch of him, hope u like :) wow, way too many smileys.
Laters, remember, clunk click every trip, look both ways when crossing the street and never eat yellow snow. LATERZ

more sketches!

Girls in nighties! hammer horror tastic!

Wilhemina gets alarmed by discoveries she makes in the new Candleman!

Candleman 'inadvertantly' cops a feel!

(sketchbook page 2008)

flaming mummies and other tripe

Here am some workings out for my STAYING IN THE LIGHT!

There is an extensive chunk o dialogue in it as its mainly word gags and such, one scene in particular relies on a big character interaction scene were the bad guy starts to show his interest in the mcguffin and sew seeds as to whats coming, and Candleman annoys him a bit.

This is me figuring out what certain scenes later on are gonna look like. Non of this stuff was really tackled much as in the origonal script it was intended to be a low budget film and there for we tried to avoid complex effects, but as all i gots to do here is draw it i can go to town, mummies with fire for hair that kinda thing

moving forward

I've really started to push the boat out with the pencils for the next Candleman comic, here is a sneaky peek!
I'm setting myself the task of 2 pages a night, and so far have managed to stick to it.
Hope you like it

CANDLMAN-STAYING IN THE LIGHT copyright Chris Phillips 2008

And the ALIEN thing moves forward slowly... here is a drop ship i built, low polly, mainly cos i want to run it through a paper craft programme to make it into real word parts and use it to construct a prop. Building it from scratch was for too much of a head fuc :)