KABOOM!

I took that rough pencil of Wild Kat looking moody and tarted it up, hope you like it, the print will most likelly be on sale at Brumicon

Mmmm chips with that?

Ah, fish men, you can never go wrong, i've always got a soft spot for these guys as monsters, there is always something mingin about drippin fish creatures. This one appears to be a little bit of a trucker or something, I'm not sure what the deal with the belt buckle is, but hay, never mind eh :)

Also, I have made my first post on http://outofnothingart.blogspot.com/

MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY!

A painting I did yesterday, based on some ideas Mr Jackson (http://curiousravings.blogspot.com/) and I have been chucking back and forth, based around were wolves in the mid west, i do love were wolves so, BEST HORROR BADDY EVA!

Covered!

Here is a digital painting for a cover to a later issue of Candleman, took a couple of hours, i'm quite pleased with it, it turned out well, her name is Philippa Pots!

some doodles...

Wild Kat moodily looking off into the distance and balancing inprobably on a post, always looks cool :)

Candleman doing his best to promote himself

He will punch crime and he has punched crime, how well it works out after he punches crime, is often anyones guess!

Amazing online shopping experience!

Word up Candleman loving peeps, here is your chance to own some truly awesome Candleman related goodies, I have finally got round to setting up an ebay shop, with the help of the Debbie brother, here are some links, this is for the first comic "CANDELMAN WELCOME TO HOPE CITY"








http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CANDLEMAN-Welcome-to-Hope-City_W0QQitemZ250373153720QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Books_comics_Magazines_UK_Comics_ET?hash=item250373153720&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Also there is a signed and framed print available to buy here!










http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Candleman-A4-Framed-Print-Candleman-and-Wilhelmina_W0QQitemZ250373163102QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_art_prints_GL?hash=item250373163102&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

welcome to the acadamy

Inspired by a trip to our wedding venue of all things, on the way out there i saw a roundabout with a monument comemorating an early jet fighter, and being all Treked up at the moment I invisioned a monument sporting a star ship and felt it should be in the grounds of the starfleet acadamy and so i did this quick painting in my lunch break :)

More space stuff...

Here is a rough character sketch for a story that Brian came up with and I've been on and off trying to get a handle on for ages, this guy is an alien criminal left to rot on a deep space prison colony...

and this, is a little PS painting I did based on the tv series Enterprise

And here is a sketch in honour of the snow and the kick ass people who braved it this week! Kurt Russell as R.J.Macready in the thing, probably my favorite move hero, what a stone cold bad ass!

SPACE...

I have been watching massive amounts of star trek latelly and couldn't help myself!

here's a little pic of the classic Enterprise boldly going!

And it keeps going!

The never ending inking!

At Brumicon09...

With luck, hard work and a following wind, it will be likelly that you will see this image wrapped around a hefty full colour tome... Debbie helped me iron out things that i felt weren't working, allot of people liked the cover with Willi's face on, but it just wasnt working, so, with some help from Debz and comments from a few other peeps I think we've found an awesome cover for the first Candleman graphic novel.

And for those people who liked the other image, me included, its not gone, reassigned to a rather natty inner page that I think looks pretty sweet, hope you guys like it too, all comments welcome, positove and negative alike!

OMF my brain is hurting...

Covers... its like some kind of nightmare trying to come up with something that conveys a bit of the contents without giving away all of it and is also visually dynamic, colourful and eye catching, if anyone needs me i'll be laying down in the dark some where...

Aw...

Wilhelmina sheds a tear as more unfortunate animals bite the dudt in Staying in the light WOOT!

It's something Geoff pointed out to me a while back, there always seems to be some poor animal taking one for the team in the name of comedy poor ol Sabastian the weardog got well and truelly forked in Darkness Falls and in SITL... well, you'll have to see, but trust me, there is just enough monster animal mayhem to keep the rspca sweating, obviously Willi got a fair bit attached to this one.

SHADOWY!!

Bin having a stab at the cover for Staying in the light, I want a stylized kinda impacting cover with a similar theme and feel to these!

HOWLEE SHEET! what the heck are these?! they are covers for a mini series i have pencilled out on me drawing board allong with a billion other things for the Cman, anyway, I really like um and think they are effective graphically and would love Staying in the light to have a similar look to its cover, so I had a stab at it over lunch, hmm, skinda there, but I'm not sure if I like it, I may to with the format a bit more, maybe a closer angle on Candles face, but at the moment, I dont think it works, any way, feel free to comment, crit ad advice or just slag it off.

LATERZ!

Push um up and together!

Hay kids, sorry I didnt post yesterday, uh, sure there is a reason, but damned if i know what it is, anyway, in between working and sleeping and the ocasional bit of food, I have managed to continue the epic inking task that is STAYING IN THE LIGHT! here is another little sample featuring Wilhelmina looking a bit dazzled, shocked, excited, or just plain old surprised, you'll have to read it to find out, any ways, hope you like it, its probably one of my fave panels from the whole thing and I didn't manage to kill it by inking it, theres still the colouring yet though... fingers crossed.

stuff and things

Hello there.
As some of you have commented, the lay outs changed, and not for the better, poor blogger, they do their best, no, there is a reason for it, the other layout, as awesome as it was, provided by my bud GO3, was indeed fantastic but i needed to add some contacts the other day and the HTML had changed the point where i had no idea how to do that, so, i stripped it back to a generic template to allow for the connection to other people and networking madness



On the art front, I dont have allot to show you, so i slammed up some pencils from the madness that is CANDLEMAN STAYING IN THE LIGHT!

On the corner of a page...

seems to be where i work best, i did these quickly this morning, they are pretty tiny but they had charm, so i posted um, the female marine looks pretty sweet, i shall see if i can do a more impressive version later.
The little dude with the pistols is based on a character i did for my university film way back in the mists of time

Over dinner I took the sketch and drew it up larger and inked it, like a madman I inked it over the origonal pencils MOOHAHAHA, i might well post a stage by stage on this image

mmm nice rings

Finally finished the massive chunk of inking i took home to do over Christmas, now its on with the rest of it... here is a little grab of one of the inks, i cropped out a section and had a go at some other colouring techniques.

Zombie swat

Here am a zombie i did, only a quick 20 minute sketch, but he turned out quite well.
In the art world, one of the guys I work with threw some links my way, check it out, its sweet stuff http://firecrows.blogspot.com/
and here too http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:firecrow78/3014077&section=

one day I wont suck!