Dredd Leggs

Another doodle from my little sesh drawing ol' Stony Face last week.

Sneaky peek 2

Another little tease from my creator owned book. High octane stuff.

Celtic Warrior on FB

By the way Celtic Warrior now has a facebook pg. Feel free to like it to follow all of the art updates as the creation of the book continues. 4 chapters down, 2 to go!
http://www.facebook.com/CelticWarriorLegend

Silver Surfer

Smell my finger

Sorry to double on Wonderous Will Wednesday but I never know when to pop in with a post.

Here is a work in progress all about smelling goo from animal's bums.


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CARNAGE

I don't think I've ever actually drawn this guy before.

Dec.

An Example of Rubbish Drawing

First off, apologies yet again to Dec for missing the end of Monday and posting this on Tuesday morning. I promise this is the last time, next time I forget my day I'll just take it on the chin and not post at all.

This is an example of something I drew being... not all that great. I drew the original pic a few months back when Dec was up working here, and at the time I'm pretty sure he told me the head looked a tad wonky. 'Nonsense!' I cried. Who are you to tell ME what's well-drawn and what isn't, Marvel-boy?

So a few days later I sent the finished pic on to Thompson just for a second opinion. Body fine, head WONKY. Bah.
By this point I was beginning to feel like perhaps they were onto something. I weirdly couldn't see much wrong with the original head though, I had just sketched it straight out like the rest and inked it up without hesitation; seemed fine to me. So I decided I'd do an alternate version using photo-ref of my own bonce to see if I really had strayed that far from actual human anatomy. Well... yeah. It was wonky.

So the plus side was that I had a better version as a result. The downside is it bore a striking resemblance to myself. Also it looked a tad boring and stiff compared to the looser, original drawing, the eyes in particular. Lifeless eyes, cold eyes. Like a doll's eyes.  So I grabbed the eye-region from my original looser drawing and pasted it straight onto the new more clinical version, and that seemed to do the trick. Suddenly, he had personality again.

I just wish I nailed it right out of my head every time, but then I guess we all do. That's not to say that most times I don't draw perfectly well-crafted heads without ref; I do. I just wanted to show this example of me badly getting it wrong, so that maybe some fans of the blog and wannabe artists can see that there are almost as many failures as successes; it's not all gravy. Sometimes it's just brown and water.

Dredd Hedd

Dear Tharg, please let me draw Joe for you. TNX.

Sneaky peek

A little glimpse at my long gestating creator owned book...

Boba Fett

I've been confirmed as a guest at Invasion III in Dublin this May. As a huge Star Wars fan its something I'm quite obviously looking forward to.

Heres a Boba Fett piece I created specifically for the show.

SKAAR

Little prep drawing for my upcoming DARK AVENGERS arc.

Dec.

1000 Posts

Happy Paddys weekend all. Heres a Jam piece feature Eclectic Micks new and old celebration our 1000th art post. I'll let you guys try and figure out which Mick drew which charater.
We even have one more to add to it soon so all the Micks will have featured.

Its been a blast so far. Here is to the next 1000 posts

Nightwing

Here's a detail of my part of the imminent 1000th Micks post. This guy is my favourite Bat-Family character, save maybe for Bats himself. This could be a significant clue as to what the theme of the big Jam-Piece is.... Done with Copic markers and pens.

what happened?

i thought yesterday was gonna be a big 1000th post thingy?
maybe we did'nt make it to 1000? anyway heres some storyboard panels

TANK (Also: Girl)

First ever doodle of Tankie. Hmm.

Monster thing

Training

Ferdia, Cú Chulainn and The Scathach

T-BOLTS process/peek

Here's a T-Bolts process post; from #172, out next month. I guess it's also a sneak peek too. This is a panel of Hyde in all stages of my process from layout, to pencils, to inks and finally colours by Jordie.

Hope ye like.

Dec.

Delicious and Nutricious

 Oop. Forgot to post yesterday what with all the pent up creative juice I returned from Offset (whadda show!) with. Here's a panel from later on in issue 1 of Half Past Danger.

Sorry for horning in on your day Dec. I did consider simply not posting, but where's the sticktoitiveness in that? Besides, then you'd have more posts than me. Not on my watch, sir!

shinto concept

Heres a concept piece I did this week - a bit rushed to be honest but an interesting experiment with inky stuff.

Page Boy

Here's a page from me sketchbook. Feeling a bit Turtle-y. And a bit moppy.

Bored alien

HAWKEYE

The local comic shop The Big Bang had a competition recently where the prize was a sketch of a character of the winner's choosing. The winner chose Hawkeye, obviously.

Dec.

Half Past Danger Cover 2 Inks

Inks to the cover of the second issue. Pop over here to see the coloured version.

More Than Meets The One Large Eye

B&W of the cover for #3 of MTMTE.

Thanks to all who dropped by the IDW Booth at LSCC last week! You guys were ace!

Too many acronyms in this post...

Creator owned

In honour of creator-owned-day here's my awesome creator owned comic. If you want to make this into a movie you're going to have to pay me a lot of money. A lot.