TTFN

Well chums, this will be my last post - I've been blogging here with my fellow micks for 1 year (give or take the odd forgetful moment) and I figured it's time to give the slot over to someone else.

One part of me will forever be an eclectic mick - but that part will no longer be blogging here!

Thanks to all the guys, firstly for inviting me in and secondly for letting me stay - hopefully, they guys won't mind too much if I tag along to cons or wotnot under the micks banner, but, in the meantime, have a great weekend!

(Image is from an unsuccessful proposal project - which is sad, I wanted to draw Yetis fighting ontop of a giant siberian express...)

Mega man

Another quicky from Bobby Digital

Spider-Man

Just realised I've never done a Spider-man for the Mick site so here he is. Not a character I ever particularly liked but his costume is a classic. Such a weird, iconic design. Hats off to Ditko.

Spot the Difference

I liked these drawings before so I wanted to go back and redo them. Working out the anatomy a bit better and even adjusting the poses slightly. The new versions are on the left

TIM SKINNER

Plugging something of my own again this week. Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag, the one-shot story by the Eagle Award winning team of Andy Winter and myself is now available to download for free.

Tim Skinner is a book i drew and coloured myself a year or so ago, from an absolutely hilarious script from Andy Winter. A limited-print run was well received but it was soon forgotten once Diamond decided not to distribute it. Now, through the miracle of the internet, it can now be read by all. So please do so here. It also includes the original short story he was created in, drawn by Natalie Sandells.

Testimonials for Tim Skinner;

"Fucking hilarious!" - Jonathan Hickman, writer, Fantastic Four

“Tim Skinner [is] a very self-referential, up-its-own-arse comic that I was destined to love. Even The Boys gets a good shoeing over with hilarious consequences.” - Rich Johnston, bleedingcool.com

Please give it a read. Ignore the shoddy drawing.

Dec.

Happy Birthday Micks!/Wolverine v Deadpool

Happy first birthday to the Eclectic Micks blog! Today marks one year since our first official post, and dispite overwhelming odds(our combined laziness and indifference), the blog lumbers on like a mildly-narcoleptic behemoth. Huzzah!

This bad-boy is a tad unfinished as i just couldn't free up the time to work on it any more, but I'll stick the completed pencils up on the Moonblog whenever I get 'em done. Number 2 in my 'Marvel types kill Deadpool' series, this one features everybody's favourite 5-foot-furball, Wolverine.

In Brightest Day...TOO Bright...

Hola. I seem to be suffering a hangover today. Which is impossible for all the reasons you can think of. So an as-promised sketch of Green Lantern for my siblet Egg remains incomplete. (Sorry Paulie: hope the RATM tickets make up for it.) So here instead is all I could manage with a bastard behind the eyes: My first ever pic of ol' GL, sketched straight on the page with a Pitt pen and no pencils. Then Photoshopped to make it look like I was capable in someway today.

Away I go, craving the Blackest, Blackest Night. Ouch.

Happy Valley THE END!

Ah, issue three is out at last - that's the final issue of Happy Valley, hope you enjoyed it! And, to celebrate, here's some prelims that haven't been seen before...

As well as some layouts and a sample page I did (unscripted, I just made that shit up...) and a height chart of all the characters (this was the first pass - Masher is too small in relation to the rest - he's a big bloke...)

Normally I don't do this level of detail in pencils and layouts but I offered it to Garth who was happy to see it, and thank god, as I'd picked up what was happening in pages 2-3 completely wrong and Garth caught it at the layout stage...

Oh, and don't forget, if you missed the individual issues, you can pick up the collection at amazon...

Battlefields Volume 4: Happy Valley

Northlander

Yes I know real vikings didn't have horns on their helmets but I like how it looks. This was originally a pencil drawing I did years ago with the intention of painting it, but I never got around to it. I recently got my hands on the first volume of Northlanders by Davide Gienfelice and Brian Wood which inspired me to whip out the drawing and ink it up using real dip pens and brushes.

The Death of the Age of Heroes

Those of you following my blog here will know that a couple of years ago I wrote and drew my own comic. It mainly served as a bit of fun. I got a lot of practice in colouring and writing which I never really had done before and I learnt a fair whack about storytelling too. Looking at it now (The whole first issue is almost fully up now) is quite cringeworthy and I've been itching to go back to it in my spare time and tip away at redoing it.
The first thing I obviously had to do was to rename it now that Marvel are bringing out a new comic called the Age of Heroes, but that name doesnt suit anymore as I have drastically changed the story. As of now I have the first couple of issues rewritten and in my spare time I've been mucking about on some character designs. I did these ones about a month ago.
In other news I've been working hard away on Farscape. The storys are getting really really good and there are a few things coming up that I cant wait to draw

CHOKER

Pimping more friend's stuff today, this time Johnny Jackson, the main character in CHOKER from Image Comics. It's written by a mate of mine and Wills for many years Ben McCool and illustrated by superstar artist Ben Templesmith. I've read the first issue and it's a corker. A real messed up noir-ish, sci-fi-ish mix-up. I had to use a lot of hyphens to describe it, so you *know* it's gotta be good.

It's out next week; pick it up! You can see lots more at Chokercomic.com

[PS. Inked version of this piece is on my own blog]

Dec.

Cordelia Chase, Shower Fresh.

The pretty, curvy brunette I wish I were really married to.
Kidding. In fact, Jackie shares many of Cordy's... attributes.

Major West is a Major Prick

Salut. My offerage to the 28 Days Later theme week: Major West as played by Kristoff Eccles-cake. People, treat yourself and those you love in your life and pick up (paying is optional) the 28 Days Later Hardcover wot Dechnotronic did draw. It's a pretty, pretty thing.

(After that, buy Last Stand of The Wreckers #2, out this week!)

(Sorry.)

28 Seconds later

I've been very remise in paying attention to the boys' emails that fire back and forth, so last week I fired off a full colour sketch too early and this week I didn't have much time to draw much...

So, anyhues... I've always loved films/tv shows revolving about 'last people on earth', bbc's tv 'Survivors' (now much better in its second series) is one example, as is 28 Days Later. And the opening of 28DL is clearly influenced by that great 80s British sci-fi series "Day of the Triffids". So, instead of lots of raging zombie-types, here's our hero from the opening scene, wondering around an empty london. Chilling.