Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Monday, 2 November 2015
ABC Warriors: Red Spice
After last years 'Anderson, Psi Division: The Line of Duty', I've been fortunate to work with writer Lee Robson again for Zarjaz magazine. This time had the luxury of brick-batting with him from the ground up something we'd both enjoy working on and would hopefully play to both our strengths.
Within the strip there is a section that happens on a mystical, spiritual plane (ask Lee to explain, he wrote it!) so to differentiate this section, I brought in ink washes to the background. I'm learning the hard way that ink washes aren't just a gung-ho case of slapping it down, there needs to be a degree of consideration, getting an even wash and gauging the darkness of wash applied (always seems to dry out lighter than it goes down). So not altogether sure how successful this comes through on final pages, but hopefully creates a differentiation between sections happening in the real world (the real world of mercenary robots on Mars) and also brings a bit of hand-applied grime to proceedings.
Really enjoyed working on these pages, hopefully it shows to some degree. The 10 year old me that devoured Best of 2000AD monthlies would be very happy. Found it a really smooth process working from Lee's script. He lays out concise direction, clear and easy to visualize action and he knows when it's fine to step back and let the artist take the wheel and have fun when it comes to defining things. Also, real down to earth guy to have correspondence with, a big help moving things along.
Here's two character sketches I did initially to help me lock in to drawing the lads...
'ABC Warriors: Red Spice' appears in Zarjaz no.25, available now. Spread the word.
Labels:
abc warriors,
comic pages,
deadlock,
ink,
ink wash,
lee robson,
zarjaz
Sunday, 1 November 2015
Inktober 2015
Inktober is something that's grown in the last few years within the creative/illustrative/comic book social media community. A drawing a day for the month of October. This is the first time I jumped in, I started two days in to the month and missed the second last day, mea culpa.
To create an element of surprise, I got my wonderful English teacher wife to do a month long list of words and I'd get a new one every morning. Here they all are...
To create an element of surprise, I got my wonderful English teacher wife to do a month long list of words and I'd get a new one every morning. Here they all are...
Serendipity
Voyager
Ceviche
Blood Moon
Block
Unknown
Hullaballoo
Clash
Frantic
Metamorphosis
Unity
Turtle
Lies
Calm
Pungent
Annoy
Conservative
Lost
Suspend
Spiritual
Pulp
Fern
Ethereal
Eccentric
Loathing
Megalomania
Kinetic
Free
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Rent
I met Rory McConville at Thought Bubble last year and talked about possibly collaborating down the line. Between other projects and life in general couldn't commit to anything longform.
Rory got back to me about doing little single page gag strips. So... we came up with this.
Tis but a page but great to collaborate with Rory, he's got great writing chops and really works hard at self-generating projects and work, commendable. The range of strips over on his Tumbr site are really worth taking in with a really nice diverse range of artists he's collaborated with so far. Hopefully get to work with him again down the line.
Over the last year, I've worked on a few things that were mainly black and white interior work so found myself a bit rusty when it came to colouring this page. The more things going on on the page the more it ends up feeling like you're slapping down random colours that don't work cohesively and at worst it all ends up hectic and garish.
For those that enjoy the layers of the onion, here's the pencils and inks...
Rory got back to me about doing little single page gag strips. So... we came up with this.
Tis but a page but great to collaborate with Rory, he's got great writing chops and really works hard at self-generating projects and work, commendable. The range of strips over on his Tumbr site are really worth taking in with a really nice diverse range of artists he's collaborated with so far. Hopefully get to work with him again down the line.
Over the last year, I've worked on a few things that were mainly black and white interior work so found myself a bit rusty when it came to colouring this page. The more things going on on the page the more it ends up feeling like you're slapping down random colours that don't work cohesively and at worst it all ends up hectic and garish.
For those that enjoy the layers of the onion, here's the pencils and inks...
Labels:
comic page,
digital colouring,
gag,
ink,
london,
pencils,
rent,
Rory McConville
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
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