Spooky's Big Tree

Another quickly inked drawing using the same character from the previous picture cos he's easy to draw and I like the look of him. Maybe he's carrying whatever he caught from the swamp in that bag of his. Actually the demonic fairy type thing in this wasn't as hard as I thought, so I guess I actually am learning stuff. Not sure the warped perspective of the trees works too well but I like the colours.

Anyway, I'm really gonna try and hold onto my new mission statement of doing at least one picture every two days if not every day so I can learn new styles and techniques and generally get better at art.

Spooky Fisherman

Yeah, it's a bit late for Halloween but this image popped into my head last night and I had to draw it today or else suffer the wrath of a thousand harpies for eternity.

It's done on paper to start with again and I'm especially proud of the bubblin' swamp, which didn't look right until I went over the ink lines with a dark green colour.

Why there's a partially invisible cyclops fishing in an ominous swamp in the middle of the night is anyone's guess.

I have a freaky mind apparently!

Unholy trio

This is a bit of a first for me - my first inked sketch drawn on paper. I was just doodling away and came up with some half decent pics of the Preacher so I decided to draw the whole gang and attempt inking it.

I don't think it turned out half bad in the end. I thought I'd post the black and white ink from the scan. The colouring was all on computer - no way am I even attempted hand colouring!

I'm pretty pleased with it all to tell you the truth. And even though I did peek at a few proper pictures of the characters on the interweb for reference, I tried to do it in a simplistic style, which still looks pretty close to the characters in the end (apart from Tulip, who I might have drawn a little bit wrong and where is that hand on Preacher's shoulder coming from?)

Anyway, no more Preacher pics from me. Hopefully, I'll do some of my own stuff again soon instead of ripping off established characters like the Preacher and pals, though that involves a lot more work and a little ole' thing called creativity. I'll also attempt to post (kind of) regularly again!

A Starr is born

I've just finished reading all of the Preacher comics and I have to admit that Starr is one of the funniest characters I've read in a long time. So here he is.

Apologies if I got the details wrong but I tried to draw (most of) it from memory for once as well as putting in an attempt at making it all anatomically correct. Ok, not entirely perfect, especially the arms, but getting there... I hope.

oh dear...

I have been a bit slack in posting stuff. I did a couple of pictures ages ago (honest!) but I didn't like them. and then got distracted finishing a short story. Anyway, here's one of them that's been touched up a little so it doesn't quite look so awful.

I've decided to learn more of the basics of figure drawing in the meantime so fingers crossed that some good stuff may work its way here soon...

Give 'em Hell, boy!

The Hellboy movie was on the telly the other day and it inspired me to draw a picture.

Anyway...

Wow!

I'm pretty pleased with this one. It's still not perfect, especially since it makes him look like he's been piling on the pounds, but it looks good enough anyway. I think I'm really starting to improve my drawing skills - after all, I would never have been able to achieve something like this a couple of months ago - but I'll leave the rest of you to decide on that.

Explosions are so pretty!

...Well, they are!

I was reading the collection of Akira graphic novels and decided to practice some pyrotechnics similar to the ones in there.

I'm pretty pleased with this. Managed to get lots of detail out of something so simple. And I finally did a good job at drawing someone running.

Anyway, I've ran out of stuff to post so I'm gonna have to drum up something new soon or else I'm in trouble...

Spider Pig, Spider Pig...

Haha... You were expecting a picture of the awesome Spider Pig and instead you get a picture of some lycra-loving man with a fixation on spiders. Oh well, this'll have to do!

I enjoyed doing this one. Did some web-crawling of my own to look at images of Spidey from the films (let's forget the third one). The image was looking awful until I did the lighting and the reflections on the windows. I'm gonna have to try drawing more superheroes in the future because they're so damned fun to draw!

Won't those ninjabots ever stop chasing me?

I'm pretty pleased with this one. Still have a problem drawing people running, but the man vaulting over the wall came out well - researched lots of images of free running and mixed it all together.

Next post: a friendly neighbourhood something-or-other...

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...

noir wolf

And here's the same image done up in full black and white. I had to adjust some things like shadows etc but it was cool working out how to do some of the effects. Anyway, it all came out better than expected so there you go...

No more wolves for a while, methinks!

Two anniversaries in one

So, it's my twentieth blog and also two months since I started this blog page. Wow! Didn't think I'd still be posting stuff here. But I am. You're not getting rid of me this easily!

Well, to celebrate here's a colour version of that wolf that doesn't really look like a wolf now looking even less like a wolf now that it's in colour. But I think it's a half decent effort anyway. So there. I enjoyed doing the snowy ground and that and the tree look better now they're in colour.
Enjoy!

Who turned out the lights?

Just a quick test at doing something that looked like it had been done in charcoal. Oh, this is also that Heartbright character again, if I ever do that story I was planning.

scary wolf that doesn't really look like a wolf

Here's an attempt at a scene using some decent shading for once.
Not bad, though the wolf looks like some weird Tasmanian Devil type thing. I knew getting a wolf growling would be difficult but I'm most pleased with the shading on the man's clothes, which came out pretty decent in the end.

Danger: Wolf Attack

I wanted to do something that was similar to the blog title picture ,but focusing on the wolf alone. So, here it is and this picture didn't take that long at all.

The good news is that I've actually got a backlog of pictures now, so expect more regular updates... for a while at least!

That's gotta hurt!

Here's a nice piece, with lots going on. And relatively normal for something of mine. Think the lighting came out really well too.

I think that for the next thing I work on I'll revisit the animal that started off this whole shebang - the magnificent wolf.

Nuff said!

They always come in threes

So, here's the last of my Pipe Dream images for now. And if it isn't the evil Prince Gob come to kidnap all of the innocent gnome children and, through years of evil brainwashing, to turn them into his willing servants so that he may wreak havoc upon the world.

I've been searching for the right style for these characters and this is definitely not the style for them. I only picked it as I've started reading the Sin City comics now, so expect more appropriate noir pieces of work in the future. In fact, I think one is in the pipeline as I write this...

As for the Pipe Dream universe... Well, until I've got the right artistic style it's gonna have to wait.

Another Pipe Dream

This was an experiment in watercolours (all digital, of course), as well as a first look at the female of the species in the Pipe Dream universe.

More to come soon...

Something different

No sci-fi or horror this time. These characters just popped into my head and begged me to draw them, so I did.

The characters are from the Pipe Dream universe and are sort of evolved gnomes.

Anyway, that's all you're getting for now. More to come...

Venting Frustration

Better late than never, I say...

Well, here's the latest picture from me. This time an attempt at doing something in colour again, which came out a lot better than my last attempt. I think I succeeded in doing something that looks comic book stylee and tells a story as well.

I'll try not to take so long with the next posting (honest)...