KA-BOOM!!!

To buy myself some breathing space before posting anything from my latest story (which thankfully I was able to start earlier in the week) I thought I’d post a panel from a previous story to fill the gap.

Nothing kicks off the weekend like Zombies (including a Zombie Baby in carrier) and an exploding cooling tower.

I reckon Zombies will probably be out of fashion by 2010. They’re everywhere at the moment and for the last few years. I don’t know if it’ll be as bad as the 90’s when they’re just didn’t seem to be any good, new Zombie movies or comics about but I reckon they’ll be a lot less of them around. Saying that I still really want to see Zombieland. If only because I heard Bill Murray had a cameo as a Zombie.

Not half as much as I wanna see this movie though.

It All About The Little Plastic Grips.

Been using these new Maped Rubbers recently. They cost a bit more then normal Rubbers and you only get two in a pack. They have this weird plastic centre which to be honest looks nice but I’m pretty sure you could get through life without little tiny plastic grips on your rubber. They do have a couple of other things however going for them. Firstly they’re pretty tough. The Erasers I usually use are cheaper but tend to crumble and come apart when you start rubbing out with them. Which is why in College I could never get in to using Putty Rubbers. I prefer hardier Rubbers that you can press down on and won’t snap. Secondly, one of the Rubbers is teardrop shaped which is by far the best shape for rubbing out little details on artwork. The other one is round and better for rubbing out large areas. You can buy packs of other Rubbers in four for cheaper but one of the four is always a coloured rubber like pink or green and when you use them on Bristol Board they always leave a coloured skid mark across the page that you can never really get rid of, so upon opening the pack I usually just have to bin the coloured one right away and then one of the Rubbers will always be one of those 50% Pencil Rubber 50% Ink Rubbers which means 50% of that Rubber is no good.

I’m going to stop there as writing a Blog post on what Rubber you use is a bit iffy, but writing a long Blog post on what Rubber you use is unforgivable. I’m not sure who reads this Blog but it seems to get hits and I’m guessing some of them are from other artist. But in case that post was a little lost on you here a humorous Gif as well.


Gifs at Giftube.com

The Shape Of Things To Come (The Third.)

That’s seven characters now and all male so hopefully the above character sheet will even things out a bit.

I’m hopefully very close to starting this project now. Thumbnails are being double-checked, references is being collected and pencils are being sharpened. I’ve also found a couple of new sites to download Podcasts off (Podcasts are the best thing to listen to when you draw) and with any luck I should be able to make a start this week.

Fingers crossed.

Wikipedia Is Kind Of Sexy.

Cut to the chase HERE.

Personally I think all porn should be turned into Vector Art. It just so bloody classy.

The Shape Of Things To Come (Part Deux.)

A group character sheet of some of the cast of a story I’m trying to flesh out at the moment. I think of all the story’s I’ve worked on so far this story probably has the largest amount of characters in it to date. It one of my favourite parts of the process making up designs and personality for characters.

This new project is going by the codename ‘BOB’ at the moment. I’m in the very early plotting and very rough thumbnails stage. Turns out it going to be a bit longer then I’d originally planned at first. How it will all pan out I don’t know but I’m going to try to keep the plot to a reasonable size hopefully. Partly because I don’t know if this is one of those projects I’ll be doing little by little over the years or if I’ll get lucky and able to dedicate some serious time towards it. I’d love to have a proper crack at doing this story as I think it could be something a bit special but I’ll just have to see how it all plays out over the coming months.

An Important Question.

The Shape Of Things To Come… Maybe.

These last couple of months I’ve been doing the odd pin up for my portfolio and bit and bobs, but what I’ve really been doing mostly is trying to develop some ideas a bit further. Getting some prep work together for future stories. Making a lot of notes and drawing up a lot of design and character sheets. Below are a couple of recent character sheets I’ve been working on for one story. Two led characters and a Mr Magoo looking supporting character.

I maybe don’t always feel I do as many design and character sheets as I should before starting a story but I’ve certainly made up for that these past couple of months. I can’t really post some of the tastier design sheets as I’m not one of those people who thinks just because you post something online someone going to steal it however I also maybe don’t think it would be the smartest idea to post up ideas and designs before you had a chance to do anything with them. But hopefully I’ll have the chance to post them up one day a bit further down the line. But I’m happy for now to post some of the recent character sheets I’ve been working on.

TV Party.

Errrr, if that above title reference is a little lost on you click HERE.

Was shopping late night a couple of nights ago for DVD boxsets of good TV shows online when I saw they where putting out an early Avengers boxset later in the year. It wasn’t so much the boxset itself that caught my eye as the tagline they’d put under the review section-

“Extraordinary crimes against the people and the state must be avenged by agents extraordinary.”

Now that a tagline. That line was so great it made me wish they had a decent Emma Peel period boxset I could buy. I can't remember too much of The Avenger while growing up and to be honest I’m pretty sure they mostly just showed The New Avengers rather then the classic series.

My telly watching habits tend to be all over the place at the moment. Partly because I don’t really get much free time and it just easier to watch things at odd times online or on DVD instead. I catch odd episodes on late night TV of shows and then wonder if it worth risking buying the boxset of that show if I’ve liked one episode (lately I’ve been wondering if it worth shelling out for Deadwood or the US version of the Office after seeing bits of them on late night telly.) I’m a big fan of boxsets but they cost a lot and I hate to splash out on one only to find it a bit shit. I bought Firefly a month or two back because I’d heard so many people say it was so good and I was worried it wouldn’t live up to the hype. Which to be honest it didn’t. I’m only half way through it saying that so I might fall in love with it fully by the end. Not that I’m not enjoying what I’ve watch so far. It a lot better then most modern Sci-Fi shows. Some times hype helps a show sometimes it maybe raises the bar to high to begin with.

Finally caved and bought Wonder Woman on DVD. If only so I could watch the Wonder Woman Vs Gargantua fight in context.

I also see they’ve remade V. I only saw a little of V when I was young but didn’t it take place in the future? I remember it being like a horror version of Star Trek or something. Maybe I’m remembering that wrong. Or maybe I’m remembering the later series. I’ll have to see if there’s a decent boxset of the 80’s series about I can get.