IF - hatch

I just went for something quick and simple for this week's Illustration Friday. I hope you like it.

More guitars

As promised, here's a colour version of my previous picture. It's nothing to shout about, but an improvement on previous colour piccies.

Guitar girl

I'm very pleased with this one. I reckon this is the best girly picture I've drawn yet. It almost makes me look like a real artist... as if!

Hey, I might even try colouring it in for a later post. It seems to be calling out for me to do it.

What do you think, guys and girls?

Oh, and please excuse the wonky feet. Maybe she's trying to do the splits?

Hungry hippos

Be shocked...

Be afraid...

It's the Were Hippo!!!

Ok, I couldn't think of anything to draw at the time and that was the best I could come up with, given that I had a random discussion about Were Hippos earlier in the day. But despite the crapness of it all, I think I did quite well in the shading. It certainly looks like it is 3D, and was good practice for lighting techniques and doing something a bit anthropomorphic for once.

Anyway, after my first foray into full colour wasn't so bad expect a lot more, and indeed a particularly well known comic book character may be popping up on these pages not so far in the future...

A new character

Being the creative soul that I am, here's a new character I've started to explore for a little 'project' of mine. I've even given him a proper name: William Heartbright, if I stick to it.

I thought I'd explore what he looks like both young and old, for some bizarre reason which I'll leave hidden for now. I've also been playing around with really heavy shading again, trying to be more confident with it. Think I'm starting to get the hang of it and I hope you'll agree that it looks much better with the black than without (plus I just can't paint shades so this is much easier for me!)

Well, there you go. Won't say who Mr Heartbright is or what he'll end up doing just yet, but I'm sure you'll be seeing more of him soon...

Return Of The Pinhead

I told you he'd be back!

I'd recently read Frank Miller's Ronin and was inspired to do my first action drawing (with some Samurai-esque goings on). Being the ambitious fool that I am I ended up doing a full comic strip for him. And I don't think it turned out that bad in the end...Not bad for a day's work, I think.

Last from the Past

And so, here's the last scan from my lazy trio, also taken from one of the animations I did for The Pinhead:
Lots going on in that picture and nobody really has much hair in my Pinhead cartoons, do they? Maybe it's because I was always rubbish at drawing the stuff!
Of course, now that I've run out of old material to recycle I'll have to come up with something new for next time...

Nothing to do with Cenobites...

Here's part 2 of my blast from the past picture posts.
The character is known as the Pinhead and I somehow managed to do 2 whole animations with him as part of a series I was planning but never finished, perhaps due to my lack of artistic know-how. Well, I've always liked the character and the story wasn't half bad either so maybe one day I'll revive him in some form or other, especially since I've been trying to learn how to draw. Watch this space!

old dog old tricks

Because I'm such a slacker, and while I come up with some new material to put on to this blog, I've decided to post some screen shots from a few old Flash animations I did donkey's years ago that I had the good sense to remove from the web. The animations weren't really that good but occasionally I managed to create something that could almost be described as good!

Well, there's 3 on the way and here's numero uno from a dire animation about a superhero I did when I was barely out of my teens...