In with The New, Out With The Old

Hello,

Things have been a mixture of busy and messy these past two weeks, so only getting to blog now.

First off, here's the final version of the Fred's Got Slacks cover. Differences between this and the last WIP are the paints on her back, some hue changes and obviously font and background changes.

If you feel like adding some new tunes to your playlist check em out they're pretty class band! Here's a Link to their stuff, all the songs that are on this EP are here and there's a few more as well!  Give em a listen you'll be happy you did.

Before I go any further is should say a BIG congrats to my friend Miki who has just finished his book The Jolly Roger and it looks AMAZING! Be expecting some fan art here of his book The Jolly Roger soon, check out his work here . And another BIG congrats to Darrin & Shawn for getting Earthruler sorted over on Kickstarter anything you pledge from this point goes towards an extra special stretch award! Check that out!

And here's the next thing. This is something I've been toying around with for a while now and since well, what seems like ALL my friends are doing comics of their own now, I'm going to bite the bullet and get a comic of my own on the go.

 That's right John you'll no longer have to ask me when I'm going to bring out my own comic, it's happening.  I haven't chosen a name for the series yet but it's 8 issues of short stories about Carrie (the character above who you might remember from an earlier post ), and Rufus, the fox below.

It's early days yet, still writing the majority of it and still working on the designs. Rufus's design is essentially finished but I'm still playing with and trying different things with Carrie's design. But here it is, I've said here now and I will finish it.

Because I love post apocalyptic EVERYTHING! That's the kind of story this is going to be, where these two survivors happen upon each other by chance and grow to be a formidable duo against the dangers of the post apocalyptic world they now live in.  Yes, there will be zombies. I like zombies.

I'll post up my progress with it as I go along. I'm also working on two other comic related gig's at the moment. With two awesome writers and all around really sound blokes! Aaaand if I get their permission I'll hopefully have some character designs posted here next Friday. I'll also have some samples from a Northlanders sample script I'm working on at the mo.

So there it is, many irons in the fire, at least one's gotta come out with some kind of notice right? ... right? RIGHT?

so Sin é as we say here in Ireland. More to come really soon. Laters!

Mix media & a new studio space

 I've been 'Kinging' it with the mixed media lately.

Above is a man named Eric.  Eric used to live the high-life. Never paid taxes, he was a wealthy and dangerous man, he had money to blow on mansions and fancy cars.  Then one day he was taking a stroll through Stephens Green shopping centre and suddenly Eric was bursting for a piss.  So he ran up to the front of the que to use the toilets and he refused to pay to get in, ( I hear yeh buddy)so he barged right into the toilets and got a stall.  The attendant then rang the Gards who were only looking for an excuse to catch Eric as Eric had avoided them for years.  Eric was then caught with his pants down.

Eric was drawn on a crunched up bit of yellow A4 paper, and drawn with (anything I had lying around) a couple of black markers, coloring pencils and the white was drawn with a tippex mouse, the eyes tinted with a paint pen.  it was a good bit o fun!

Here's my pumpkin this year, not as good as the Gears of War, one i did last year, maybe as good as the Jack Skellington one i did the year before that, nonetheless i decided to post it up.  Its Sally from the nightmare b4 christmas, ( or atleast its meant to be). Must give props to the internet for the design.


And... Here's my new Home studio.

 Here's the lot, new desk, new chair, lots o space, its the business

 Still using some traditional media, n if u look closely u can see my herobear coaster and  books im referencing at the mo.  I think I have actually had that animation disc for 7 years now, its a trooper.

 

And here's my bread and butter, Laptop, a simple but brilliant Dell Precision with L intuos 4 wacom tablet. Should have a nice big Imac soon for working at home.The wire from my iphone hanging from the laptop there as i was using the iphone to take the photo. My handy Epson printer that never seems to have ink on the right.

 And right at the side here is my big telly that I can now hook up to my laptop and draw from. hmmm on 2nd thoughts prob would have been a better idea to show me using it, ah ill do it another time.

apologies for the shody photo's all were taken using my iphone and my shakey hands.  I'm gonna hav a few more posts soon ( b4 the end of the month), all will be digital pieces.

G'luck!

concept piece

It wud appear that i havn't finished studying the area of shadows, i still have loads of ideas based on shadows and mirrored images. I'm revisiting one concept i came up with about a year ago and I've really started developing it in the last few weeks. It's about a boy who in the middle of a game of cowboys and indians shoots and accidently kills his shadow. The rest of the story focuses on the boy and we see how he continues his life without his shadow. Storyboards to come soon


heres a concept piece that I tru sum text on to help get the punchline across.

Aplomb Sketches 2

And here's Apomb. He's a really interesting character. He's got his own version of justice, that police like Jim and Staunton have to take a stand against. Aplomb has taken a lot o study n trying to make the story and characters adhere to our own world a lil easier he's "uniform" is a variety of numerous available and practical items of clothing. Body armour similar to the canterbury stuff, "Gi", Tabi boots, Balaclava, and MMA gloves( sumwhat inspired by Ryu).

He's extremely intelligent, extremely interesting, excells in MMA, u'll also see him with Kali knives.



Considerin' hes a vigilante (and all the things he's goin to do) he's got to be pretty buff. But at the mo im favouring him being more toned than buff. I like this one here, this flat rectangular shape, im oin to explore this a lil more. But at the same time he's got to be big. he HAS to be incredibly intimidating.

My m8 Eamon wants him to move like a dancer, quite elegantly so im getin stuck into that idea and trying to incorporate it in the Kali knife system

Aplomb Sketches

Aliright heres sum long over due post. I did these sketches around the summer, its a great script that my m8 Eamon has written and I really hope to finish these designs soon and get stuck into this comic. Its a great collaboration and theres sum really great ideas in it.

Heres Jim. he's tons of fun to draw and he's one o those guys that i almost got completely right on the first draft. He takes a lil after Donald Sutherland.

This next guy is Staunton. He's Jims partner, he's an all around nice guy, just trying to get by and live as gud a life as he can. He's the only person Jim gets on with. Stauntons design still needs a lot o work.


May and Nancy, well... May and Jim have a fairly disturbing and strange history, thats all i say on that for the time being. as for her design im still not sure where to go, ive got a millon sketches ranging from her looking similar as she does her to being asian. i got to sort out a finished design for her soon.

Nancy is Stauntons wife, whos been very sick ever since herself and Staunton have had triplets, which kinda leaves Staunton a lot to deal with.

The Washing Machine Junkie

Hey guys heres sum pieces i put together a while back. I was putting together a pitch for a short traditionally animated film. I found Rufuss to be loads o fun to draw. The film itself would have been a load of fun too, but another film of mine was chosen instead. Im gonna come back to this guy some day soon tho