Saturday 29 June 2013

Mr Sun.


I dread to think where my head’s at if this is what I’m sketching late at night. Jeez…! This probably ain’t the smartest thing to admit on your blog, but the summer months are my worse creatively. I’m a creature of cold climate. I daydream about living in a cabin out in the woods some where in a chilly part of the world (even though every horror movie I’ve ever watched has taught me that would be a very bad idea.) If I was a character in Game Of Thrones, I’d probably live in Winterfell and wear one of those really cool wolf-capes. I just feel off-my-game when the suns out. If I were a rich man, to be honest, I’d just take late-june, the whole of july, and early august off if I could.

God, I want a wolf-cape soooooooo bad.

Things usually start to pick up big time around august, but I make no promises about the quality of my work over the next few weeks. I’ve gotta do some artwork at some point this weekend, and will try and prove myself wrong by drawing something awesome. Hopefully have some massive announcements in august, too. I don’t wanna give too much away yet, but let’s just say I spent a good deal of this week buying certain domain names.

My internet has been doing some weird things these past few days. So if I suddenly go silent online in the near future, it’s because the gremlins have won. I’m trying to figure out if it’s my service or if my router’s on its deathbed. I really wish I was more technically nerdy minded sometimes.

Tuesday 25 June 2013

War Of The Worldz.

I’m not gonna do a massive review of World War Z, but I thought I’d say a quick few words on this film, since I saw it yesterday.

I had pretty much given up hope on this film months ago. I expected nothing much from this film, and actually got a little bit more in return. It weirdly reminded me of a 70’s disaster movie. A-list star taking on an epic challenge (instead of earthquakes, tower infernos or an overturned cruise-liner, it’s zombies.) Amazing, Hollywood, big scale set-pieces. Also, I love zombie gore as much as the next man (maybe even more than the next man.), but I didn’t miss it so much in this film. Its lack of guts reminded me a little of the remake of Night Of The Living Dead. I can’t put my finger on why I’m ok with the lack of gore in this film though. Maybe because you don’t have to look very far to see zombie gut-munching these days.

I don’t know if ‘it’s not the massive disappointment I was expecting it to be’ is much of a review, but that’s pretty much how I’m summing up this flick. They were probably right to go for a low-key third act. It’s no 28 Days Later, and probably won’t make too many horror fans top-ten zombies movies. If this average zombie movie means Hollywood is more open to big budget zombie epics now, I’m happy enough.

Saturday 22 June 2013

Bath-Time For Yana.


As I round out and finish the extras section for my forthcoming graphic-novel, I thought it would be ok to post a tiny bit, if I cropped out any spoilers. Give a taste, as it were, without giving too much away. I jokingly like to think with this shot, I’m the first creator to ever do slash-fiction\fan-fiction of their own work before the public gets a chance. (I kid, but I do secretly dream of one day writing something that’s successful and spawns perverted fan-fiction of its own… is that a weird ambition?)

I know this isn’t really something you should give yourself a pat-on-the-back for… but I’m quite proud of how the panties on the floor turned out in this shot. If I had known drawing them was gonna go so well, I would have been braver and thrown in a bra, too.

I’ve gotta think about getting a proof copy made of my book very soon… which is a scary thought.

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Don’t Toy With Me, Internet.

Never have I ever so much wanted a rumour on the internet to be true. This urban legend of a mass find has been around for a while now, but I never took it seriously until now. Quit being a Doc tease, BBC.

Sunday 16 June 2013

Eek! Nearly People.


Same deal as last week, sadly. I have been hard at work, but it’s artwork for my forthcoming graphic-novel, and is both spoiler packed and just for the paperback edition. But what you lose in pin-up art, you make up for in Nearly People sketches, and this time they’re coming at you in colour. I think they actually look better in close up. I’ve still got a giant urge to do something with these characters… just not sure what, yet. I also really need to pull my finger out and try and do an en masse shot at some point when I free up some time. I’ve got so much on my plate lately, I can barely see the plate.

I’ve just got some inking and scanning to do in the coming week, and then this graphic-novel is pretty much done. Probably just a month or two shy of four years since I started it. That’s a scary thought.

Saturday 8 June 2013

I Live… Again.


Like most horror artists, I’ve always wanted to depict someone crawling out their own grave with an evil grin on their face. Since I can’t post the pin-up I’ve been working on this week for my forthcoming graphic-novel, as (A) this pin-up kind of blows the ending of the whole book. And (B), I need some more exclusive art just for the graphic-novel. It’s time to scratch that itch with a sketch. At first I wasn’t sure who I was gonna draw doing the coming back from the dead, and as I kept doodling, I decided really it should be a zombie. Trouble is, I had already given this guy muscles by that point, which zombies don’t really have. Never the less, I continued. I then decided he should be Tar-Man looking, but I kept drawing the eyes too goofy, so they become just sockets. Then it was time to bust out the markers, and I had planned to go purple or brown, but then I saw my favourite shade… my pear green maker. So he became green. Looking at him now, I worry he’s a bit too Zombo looking, really. Which I guess is fitting as it’s a doodle, and I’m currently reading Broadcast: the TV doodles of Henry Flint. Maybe I should have gone purple? I just love that pear green marker. It’s the only shade that does justice to fresh fruit and rotting flesh.

Even though I’m not 100% sold on every move I made with this sketch, I do still like it.

Had a weird dream this week that all my chest-hair fell out, and I woke up feeling really freaked out… that’s… that’s normal, right…?

Monday 3 June 2013

Fan Fiction Made Easy.


Feeling bummed out over the current lack of Doctor Who on TV right now? November feel like a long, long way away? I’m currently scratching that Who itch by reading Nemesis Of The Daleks, and playing around with this online, javascript, random plot-generator that writes Doctor Who story outlines. Here’s a bit of fan-fiction I write with just a click of a button posted above. I also just realized through reading Nemesis Of The Daleks that there is a Dalek font you can use when lettering Daleks in comics. How cool is that? Only two problems, though. All my current time is taken up with trying to get this graphic-novel done-and-dusted. And if I was to find some free time to do some Doctor Who\Dalek fan-art… Daleks look really hard and unsatisfying to draw. They’re all straight lines and solid, bulky objects. It’s a design classic, but a nightmare to draw, I bet.