Showing posts with label character sketches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character sketches. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

I think this will make sense if I get more wine

Other characters from nowhere referencing other characters not seen yet?  I suspect it is time to put cards on table in regards to this turkey.
 You've read the blog so you are well-aware by now that I fly by the seat of my pants on most things, so it will probably surprise you not a jot that barring one or two sketches lost in the big PC switchover of 2013, this is more or less the entirety of my planning for the J6 pitch:

True to form, I have lost the actual pitch I made, too, but it was something along the lines of:

Whereas other superheroes find their way around the globe, working-class Brummie superhero team J6 usually have their hands full just finding their way around the UK to the spots of mythic or historical interest to which their adventures call them - places like Loch Ness, the Williamson Tunnels or Mary King's Close - in a series of family-friendly adventures that emphasise the fun and surreal adventure of superhero tales over grim angst.

I referred to the sketch page occasionally for visual reference because I just have the absolute worst memory, but that's more or less it apart from the outline for the main story (these and the pages I've still to run on the blog are proof-of-concept as the submission guidelines called for an example of the finished artwork and lettering as well as a thumbnailed chapter), but I shan't be putting that up here as I might yet get mileage out of it one way or another.
I've worked with less than the above, though - the current project I'm working on was based on something like two notes I found that read "homeless He-Man" and "don't just make the cat a bear again," but I'll muddle through on that one, too.

Friday, 6 September 2013

When I was his age I was sloshing through the jungle dodging enemy fire with nothing but a necklace of ears to talk to

The blog has lain fallow for a while now, so I thought I'd bung up my "sketchbook" for August - or at least the latter half of August - as I have of late tried to get away from filling physical notebooks with doodles as I believe it makes me lazy not having to refine or follow through on anything I jot down and then throw in a pile and forget about, and I rarely use Manga Studio even though I recalled it being great for sketching (and not freezing up with files over 7mb like Photoshop does), so I've killed a couple of birds with the one stone here and created what I think can best be described as less a sketchbook and more of a digital napkin covered in doodles.
Don't mind the big red blobs on some pages, that's just me redacting things I shall be using in some form elsewhere, and for the most part this was me keeping my hands busy while I watched tv, so I hope you shall forgive me my lack of ability with MS' colouring, lettering, or inking tools, I'm more a Photoshop man (at least for now).






























Saturday, 13 April 2013

I can't talk right now, I'm composing a strongly-worded email to my florist

Okay, so I am probably not drunk enough right now, because this episode of Scooby Doo is basically about the characters attempting to break a cycle of hate and revenge by going to Purgatory so Fred can forgive his dad, there's even a character who comes right out and tells the tormented ghost of a Conquistador that he deserves to be free and "all can be forgiven".  Oh, and it is also a crossover with Twin Peaks.  Because of course it is.

Monday, 18 March 2013

Either he's the Lord Of Winterfell or he's working with a real piece of pipe

I had a dry St Pat's, thangew very much, which took some especial doing seeing as it coincided with the christening of one of my ever-growing army of nieces, but I managed to keep sober and limited myself to a few ginger ales like a gay fellow might enjoy of a warm summer evening.
Hopefully back to some semblance of a work schedule in the next few days, in the meantime, have some vintage Sabbath, you deserve it:

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Cock. And lots of it.


No ABC gubbins seeing as I'm on the last page of it and don't want to be spoilering anything, so instead screen grabs of a seemingly random nature...

Sunday, 25 April 2010


STILL doing the blimmin' robots thing, but sketching away for the inevitable day when I get back into superhero-y stuff.

Watching: Frank Skinner's Opinionated, Dr Who, Smallville, Gravity