Wishing You All A

Hope you have a good one.

Warming Up For Halloween.

Getting in the mood for Halloween by taking the Friday the 13th quiz. Spent way too much time as a teenager and in college watching Friday the 13th movies so I can live with 9 out of 13 or 69% on my first try. The website says the average score is 46% so my teenage and college years weren’t a complete waste of time…well…kind of…but anyway. Feel free to try and bet my score.

Friday the 13th Score: 69% (9 out of 13)

Stop And Go.

Not a lot of artwork to post at the moment because lately I seem to be doing all those much needed to be done jobs that don’t seem to leave much to post on the visual side. Stuff like re-lettering an older strip and trying to write and thumbnail new story’s. Plus the one bit of art I have done lately, I can’t post until the end of the month (hint, hint as to what that is) but will be well worth waiting for I hope.

Yeah I start to feel a bit weird if I haven’t drawn anything for a while so I really need to dig my heels in and get some thumbnail’s sorted. What happens is you tend to have several ideas at a time and you have to chose which one you want to put time and effort into developing. It a bit like picking which horse you want to back in a race and hoping it doesn’t need shooting in the face before the finishing line.

Hate to leave a post all words and no action so here something to brighten up your cold, wet Sunday. If you’re not impressed by these then you just can’t be impressed full stop.

Doc Tease.

God knows I love the Internet but the one thing I’ll never get use to is this modern thing that gossip is news. Seems like you can type anything nowadays just to make a good story and it doesn’t even have to be remotely true. I’m not saying a seven Doctors reunion is 100% impossible but it all just sounds a little to good to be true.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3183974/Seven-Dr-Whos-set-for-reunion.html

Speaking of cult TV. A friend and me are trying to work our way through the Twin Peaks box set at the moment. I know I’m a little late on this one (by about twenty years) but Sherilyn Fenn is smoking hot. I never envied a cherry stroke so much in my life.

{Note} for some reason the first ten seconds of this clip is just black, but hang in there.

Day Out At The Beach.

Well I did put up a smaller copy late yesterday on Myspace but here a nice proper copy.

Don’t think I added anything that wasn’t in my roughs with this shot. Pretty happy with the way this turned out but I’m sure after I’ve looked at it a bit longer I’ll find bits to be unhappy with. I was pleased with how the creature turned out in the end. Oh and the poor guy loosing an arm. Think I’m going to quit while I’m ahead on dissecting this one.

More Thumbnails.

Some thumbnails of an image I’m just finishing. Unlike my previous Pin up last week the design for this one were a lot more detailed as there was more that needed to be sorted out before I started. Unlike the other two this image actually has some background detail for a start.

This is my first very rough idea that I just scribbled down in my sketchbook. It was just literally a few seconds, very quick doodle (and looks like it to). Just a scene in my head that I tried to get down quickly before I forgot it.

This second set of roughs was just for fleshing out the little details. Trying to make the creature in the centre less goofy looking for a start. Sorting out the placement of figures in the fore\background. Also trying to figure out good body languages for people being thrown and running around. Also with the second set of roughs I start to play about with tilting the image.

Will post finished image at some point over the weekend.

Thinking Of Buying A New Car?

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/10/the_ecto1_is_on_ebay.php

Next thing you know they’ll be selling Millennium Falcons and Back To The Future flying skateboards on ebay soon.

Noir…ish.

Well my hands are covered in ink stains and white out which can only mean one thing. I’ve finished another images.

This pin up also came together pretty quickly from when I first did the thumbnail below. I only did one rough thumbnail for this and then pretty much moved on to the drawing itself, as the lay out and idea of the shot were very basic.



I was trying to play around with using black\shadows on the character in the foreground in this image. The guy in the background was a bit tricky. Tried to be careful so as to get him just right. Some mean fore shorting going on, on that figure.

Untitled.

Because I can’t think of a title for this piece so untitled seemed like the way to go.

This picture came together pretty quickly for me and I had a lot of fun drawing this over the weekend. Really want to do a couple more pin ups in the next couple of weeks. Make up for not doing any for a long time. Just playing about in my sketchbook at the moment trying to come up with a few ideas.