B-Movie\Exploitation Movie Posters (Part 4.)

OK. End of the month, which seems like a good point to wrap up these movie poster posts. Hope you’ve been enjoying them.Probably one of the best posters I’ve come across lately. In fact if I were to do a top ten posters of all time this would very likely be in it. I love the fact it black and white but the plasters are the only things in colour. Or the fact that under the title of the film it got “Obviously” in brackets. Or just that it got classic Hammer Horror cleavage in it as well. Also it kind of goes well with a previous post I’ve made about Dracula and sticky plasters.This poster is worth a look if only for the top tagline aloneFirst saw this poster on the back cover of the collected edition of Vol 2 of Cinema Sewer that FAB Press have been putting out lately. Again not to sound like a broken record but it all about the design in this montage scene. As the viewer looking at this poster you’re about to get a kick to the face, clubbed with a gun and a quick panty shot all at once.

Blink And Your Miss It.

My latest effort from B.O.B.

I’d say more about this panel but it the end of the week and my brain is running on low. I do like this though. It a very basic but in some ways it works better then some of the more complex shots. Which is a shame, as the complex shots probably take a lot longer to draw. Sods law I guess.

I have noticed in these early pages there’s a lot of gesturing going on. Everyone looks like they’re on a game show showing off the star prize or something. I guess it because as the whole set up is being introduced to the characters it’s also being introduce to the reader. Still I’m looking forward to getting to a point when I can move the body languages on a bit in this story. I should have written a mud fighting scene or something to kick this story off.

You know what new Who is missing these days? Vomiting Cybermen. You really have to look out for it in this clip at the end but that Cyberman blows metallic chunks. I never noticed it while watching the Five Doctors before. It’s very sly.

The full, classic Raston Warrior scene HERE. If there a better massacre in Dr Who history I haven't seen it.

B-Movie\Exploitation Movie Posters (Part 3.)

Going back to good montage images. Above is another poster I think works well. You can’t beat a good Kung Fu montage. Probably a pain in the arse to draw with all the figure work and foreshortening you’d have to do. But great end result.I watched this film the other day again. I think it got a lot going for it. I’ve previously posted a poster for Mudhoney (which they change the title too) but I guess this must be an earlier poster as it called Rope Of Flesh here. Not a bad poster but it does suffer from the very basic problem that it gives away the ending of the film. It like if the poster for Jaws was a shot of the shark exploding as Brody shoots the gas tank in it mouth.Looks like a bit of a Star Wars rip off to me but I still really want to see this film. Reminds me of another Star Wars type movie I saw a few months ago called Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone. Staring a young Molly Ringwald. I can’t find anything on this movie and it doesn’t look like it out on DVD (not region 2 anyway) but it wasn’t a bad movie at all. Not great. But not bad. Worth a watch.

Conner Party?

If this previous frame was the introduction of the men in this story. The above image is the first time you meet the first of the female characters.

This was one of the first shots that came into my head when I was thinking up this story. I thought it was a good image to kick off the story with. Set the tone.

B-Movie\Exploitation Movie Posters (Part 2.)

A quick post tonight. Just so I can move these B-Movie\Exploitation posts along a bit. And just so I get away from the drawing board for a few minutes. Ms. 45 Here one film on the list I have seen. Years ago, but still… A rape revenge movie about a gun-wielding woman who for some reason dresses as a nun. Can’t remember why she does.

Me and a friend would watch a lot of these types of movies when we were teenagers. Clockwork Orange, I Spit On Your Grave, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Those films are now all out on DVD uncut. I don’t remember Ms. 45 being any worse then those films and yet you still can’t get a decent copy of it on DVD.

The poster itself has a nice basic design about it. It goes for shock more like something you’d find in a horror movie poster or something.

Follow the above Wiki link for a better plot summary and an alternative film poster, Which is also pretty cool. I think this is the French poster for the 70’s remake of King Kong. I haven’t seen it for years but I think it’s the 70’s Kong where he fights a giant snake as it a Dinosaur in the original. At no point do I remember him fighting a giant shark however. Now that one deleted scene I’d like to see.

An English Gentlemen.

If you draw Comics long enough, you find you end up drawing the same things over and over again. Someone getting punched, Two people shouting at each other, Someone firing a gun, etc, ect, But I think this is the first time I’ve drawn someone kissing someone else’s hand. Just because it was something a bit different I enjoyed drawing this frame a lot.

This shot in some ways was really all about trying to get the body languages right. It fun to introduce new characters to an audience, which is what I’m doing at the moment with these early pages. Trying to make early suggestions about what kind of people they are. ‘First impressions’ I’d guess you’d call it. That’s the fun part of doing the beginning of a story. You don’t know who’s, who yet.

Been jumping on The Walking Dead bandwagon this week. What with everyone raving about it and a TV series in the works I bought and read the first two volumes this week. I have to say the idea of doing a Zombie story as a kind of on going soap opera does work really well in a comic. I read through both Volumes in no time at all. It’s one of those stories’s where you just want to know what’s going to happen next.

B-Movie\Exploitation Movie Posters (Part 1.)

Here my plan. Since I don’t have time recently to sit down and wrote a big post on B-Movie\Exploitation movie posters. I thought I’d do them in shorter posts throughout the rest of September. Hopefully this will work out better in the long run.One thing I’d love to do at some point with my artwork is a decent montage scene. Above is probably one of the best I’ve seen for a while. B-Movie\Exploitation movie posters tend to have the best and worst of them when it comes to montages. This poster is by far one of the best. I guess the secret to a good montage shot is in the design.Nothing says B-Movie like Frankenstein blasting an Alien with a Ray Gun in Outer Space. This poster couldn’t be more B-Movie if it tried. I really want to see this flick. I know it'll probably be god awful but still...I’ve not seen this movie. I heard bits about it. I think it an early Troma movie. I really like the basic set up of this painting. The look on the face in the box is great as well. Looks like something out of an EC Comic. Most horror posters tend to have a dark palette. In some ways this poster is more creepy because it so bright. It cheeky, light heartedness is also one of the darkest things about it.

Meet The Gang.

Been working hard these past couple of weeks and I’m glad to say that I think it about time I started posting artwork from my latest project. This project is still going by the codename ‘BOB’ and it been a lot of fun to see the start of this story coming together over the past two weeks.

Above is the first group shot where you first meet the guys in this story.

This is the first time since college I’ve done a story on U.S. sized board (10” by 15”) and I have to say in many ways I’m enjoying working smaller. I maybe feel I can control the page a bit better in U.S. format. Which appeals to the control freak in me more. Also I always hated the idea of doing fewer panels per page but I have to say now I’m actually doing it I’m enjoying not choking the page with to many frames.

It's A Shame.

I’m glad there seems to be more comics around recently with major bookshop now all having Graphic Novel sections and so on. But I have to say it does suck a little that the only European comics in these sections tend to be Tintin and Asterix. I know with European culture being more open sexually a lot of these books might be a little to hot to handle for a lot of shops but then so can a lot of Manga’s and there all over high street bookshops these days. I don’t know if it the more cartoony style with Manga that lets them off lightly where as European comics are more detail heavy. But not all European comics are erotic and I can’t help but think there got to be room for the odd Moebius Graphic Novel or something in modern bookshops.

One artist I love but can never get a hold of his work is Guido Crepax. His books seem to be like gold dust. The only work I’ve seen of his is artwork on the Internet and a copy of his adaptation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde I got my hands on a couple of years ago. But luckily I’ve read they’re re-releasing his adaptation of The Story Of O at the end of the year just in time for Xmas (unless Amazon are playing bizarre mind games with me).

I also found recently this video about Crepax on Youtube. I don’t know what going on in this video or what being said but I just try and enjoy the pretty pictures… like most times I’m watching something on TV.

Staying On That Theme.

After Fridays post I got curious as to what the poster for The Werewolf Vs The Vampire Woman looked liked so I looked it up on Google. It not a bad poster at all and it nice to see an Ink and Pen drawing being used as a poster. But my favourite bit is the tag line on the left. “See it with someone you hate.”

This poster reminds me I need to do another post on B-Movie\Exploitation poster at some point. I don’t think I’ve done one this year but I have been finding some good ones about online and saving them in a folder.

Just heard the news today that Marvel have been acquired by Disney. WOW! It going to be weird to see how that develops in the coming months.