Departures

Yeah yeah, I know. It’s been like forever. Well I have a good excuse this time. Honest. No really… I do.

Golly!, the new book by Phil Hester and Brook Turner that I’m colouring will be coming out in August. So the rush is on to get issue two and the following issues prepped coloured and ready to go to print. Big rush. So I haven’t been doing shit else. And that’s life. For those interested, here’s a link to an article about the first issue:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16594

So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to. But I was able to squeeze in something for fun. Another link:

http://guglieblog.blogspot.com/

I met this fine man, Simone Guglielmini, on Penciljack and was impressed with his work. His blog is in Italian, so good luck. Anyway, his work has a bit of a Tim Sale/Sean Phillips quality to it. He posted a cover on Penciljack that he had drawn and inked and I asked him if I could slap some colours down on it. He said sure and off I went. This post is called “departures” for two reasons. One, this little picture is a departure from Golly! for a minute just to cleanse the pallet. And two because this is very very different then my normal colouring style. His art reminded me of Long Halloween and so I wanted the colours to reflect that as well. And so here it is….

Very different from my usual fare, but I like it. I thought it turned out nice. So, let me know what you think.

Realism

Wow, it’s been awhile.

So realism is a bitch. This is why I tend to stay away from this area. But here’s a pencil drawing I’m working on. Sorry for the crappy scan, it’s a big pic and hard to scan. It’s from the same photo as used in the one from my sketch book, but this one is aimed more at accuracy and done in pencil instead of pen.

Free Comic Book Day or otherwise known as Hell.

So Saturday, May 3rd, was Free Comic Book Day. I participate every year at the local comic shop and draw for the people. This year was madness. For one, it was 10 hours instead of the normal 8 (yes 2 hours makes a difference). So 10 hours and 35 drawings later (and that’s with 10 other artists drawing as well. It was packed to the gills), something really cool happened. I drank a $20 glass of really really nice scotch and ate a steak dinner with Boba Fett. Yeah, the Fett. Wet your pants Star Wars fags.

Now, normally I could give a shit. It’s the guy who wore a suit in a movie. Whoopity doo. But Jeremy Bulloch (aka and forever here after referred to as Boba Fett) was fucking hi-larious. Oh the stories he told. And not about Star Wars either. Just life stories. Like flying in to Disney World to do some Star Wars promos and getting dicked around at the airport customs office. Funny funny shit. And the coolest thing about him, is that he realizes he was just a dude in a suit. He doesn’t think he’s special or all that. He wore a suit in a movie and for what ever reason he has a rabid fan base. He gets it. And that’s what makes Fett cool.

So needless to say, don’t expect any updates (not that there have been many anyway) for awhile. My hand is all cramped up and I’m kinda sick of drawing for a bit.

Water colour?

This is my first complete water colour. First ever! Wow me!

This is a sketch blog right?

More sketches! All done with a ball point pen. I love me some ball point pens… Click the image for larger sizes.

Clouds

Face 1

Face 2

Random wall

Lords of Awesome!

And Tom

Welcome to the land of the unfinished.

Well, here’s a couple of unfinished paintings. Let’s be honest, i’ll probably never finish these, so here they are anyway. Most of them involved boobies and general nekkedness, so don’t be click’n if you are at work. Unless you have my job. 

Clickly for the boobies

 

Life interupted/Work doodles!

So I won’t bore you with the details of it all, but lets just say it hasn’t been a good past few weeks. I’ve only really had time to doodle bullshit at work. Every thing else are projects for other people. So instead of having blank spots here, I present to you:

Work doodles!

Work doodles are exactly what they sound like. Bull shit sketched down on paper while in boring stupid ass meetings or other such retardedness. Lucky for me, my job gives me plenty of time to sketch and draw so here’s some of what I’ve done and why.

Click the pic for king size!

A rather confused Death. Why confused? Well, probably because what ever was going on in the meeting I was in was presented in an overly complicated way for no real reason.

Eye see you! Quick, easy to draw and simple. Probably didn’t have a lot of time when I was doing this one

Cute face. I was daydreaming for sure.

We talk about movies a lot.

Wishing I was spiderman. So I could be properly warned when stupidity approaches.

Prep work for a tattoo some one is asking for. Gay I know. But hey, fuck you.

You want an update?

Ok so last week my cats fucked my Wacom tablet so I had to get a new one. Joy o’ fucking joy. So it came in the mail on Wed and I’ve been working on some paying gigs due to my lack of having any means to work at all.  But I did manage some time to work on the big red sky pic and here it is.

You’ll now notice that it’s changed size. This is what I like about working digitally. I changed the canvas size to put in my new idea. I was going to just have a castle like thing sitting in the foreground but decided to change that for mountains instead.  I’m going to attempt some textures and things with a brush and  figured the mountains were better suited for the task.  So there it be.  Now back to work.

Clouds

Here’s another in the steps from the picture below. More work on the sky. You can see I’ve started to refine the clouds a bit more. Moved some stuff around. Added some shades in the background. Things are moving along nicely. There will be more this weekend. I should have all the clouds done by then providing I don’t go out and get too drunk.

Learning Curve 101

So on my path to learn more about digital painting, I decided to work on a landscape piece. This way I’m allowed to play as much as I want. A cloud can look like just about anything so I don’t have to be exact about anything. In this piece I’m also playing around with colour. I chose to go with a bright vibrant red/orange. I’ve started with the sky as shown below.

It doesn’t look like much at the moment. Just an orange background with some redish shapes crudely laid out. And that’s fine for now. What I’ve done is made an indication of a sun by spotting out yellow on an orange background. I’ve then created a new layer and made all the red shapes on top of it. I have then taken the smudge tool and moved the clouds around a bit. Like thus…

So now we are getting some shapes and things. I’m going to end up over doing the sky a bit. For one, I’m just fucking around so it really doesn’t matter. And for two, I want to really play with the brush a bit and figure out the best settings and such.

Oh and by the way, next time I decide to do a painting in an intense red, slap me up side the head. I can’t look at the screen for more then 5 min at a time because it’s killing my eyes.

Coming soon.. more sky then on to the castle!