Monday, 21 March 2016

Self Fartrait.

New avatar picture. Fact: The pencil I use to work with is actually larger than the one shown. By five centimetres.

Friday, 18 March 2016

Be careful of the Murdock boys. They've got the devil in them.

Happy Daredevil-Day everyone! I can't wait to watch the new season, it looks like its going to be amazing. This picture of The Devil of Hell's Kitchen was expertly coloured by the Kingpin of the graphics tablet, John-Paul Bove, and will be available as a mini-print on his table at a con near you soon!

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

The Making of "Donuts R My Life"...

Here are some process pics from my Donut Cafe picture I posted last week:

First, my reproduction of "Tennis Is My Life" Alf, which is an important factor to visualise and also a good coda to live by.

Second is the rough thumbnail. I drew this about 4 inches high, I always get a better composition if I start small and blow it up to work from.

Next is the actual artwork, mid-way through inking. Inking tends to be my favourite part of the whole job, I treat the page like a little zen garden and work through it carefully, until I muck something up and curse myself for my foolhardy pursuit of a faultless piece of artwork. I am nature's fool.

Finally the finished picture. The colours took a while because of the little details n' donuts but I'm really happy with the end result. Hopefully I'll do more silly picture like this soon.

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Mario Day!

Happy Mario Day! Wear dungarees, stamp on turtles and eat every mushroom you can find!

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Donuts R My Life.

There's a story behind this silly nonsense. Back in the extreme 90's I had a small Alf (Alien Life Form) toy, holding a tennis racket and wearing a red waistcoat, emblazoned with the legend "Tennis Is My Life". Whether or not tennis was that important to Alf is a discussion for another day, but the phrase always made me laugh and I kept it snug in my back pocket to use later in the perfect context.

That context obviously is a tree frog that runs a small donut cafe (obviously).

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Donuts.

Had fun this afternoon, inking all the donuts in Gordon Bennett's Donut Emporium.

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Creepy Freak!?!

The Tamarin Monkey brothers are momentarily distracted from their arcade game. But by what???

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Storm Force!

The RNLI have just published issue 124 of Storm Force, the 25th issue that I've worked on! I've been drawing comics and games for the magazine since 2009 and it's one of the most rewarding parts of my job. I'm very grateful to Jon & Steve for giving so many amazing things to draw. This issue featured a "Where's Stormy Stan?" spread that almost melted my brain but came out great.

I'm already hard at work on issue 125. Fingers crossed that I'll be blogging about my 50th issue of Storm Force on the internet of the future!

Friday, 5 February 2016

Thats NOT how the Force works!

I've collaborated again with my dear, dear friend, John-Paul Bove on a brand new Star Wars The Force Awakens print, based on the classic New Hope poster! It will be available at our tables tomorrow at True Believers Comic Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse.

JP will be at table H-3, he'll have a metric ton of amazing prints, including new Transformers, Ninja Turtles and Batman Animated stuff.

I'll be at table H-10 with all 3 issues of Big Jimmy as well as some other awesome prints!

Come down and say hello why not?

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

FACE FRONT TRUE BELIEVERS!!

I'm going to have a table at True Believers Comic Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse on the 6th of February. Come and visit me on table H-10. I'll have all 3 issues of my comic, Big Jimmy and loads of other prints and stuff!

Monday, 4 January 2016

BIG PUNCH MAGAZINE #4 OUT NOW!!

The latest issue of Big Punch Magazine is out now, featuring stories by Nich Angel, Jon Lock, Alice White, Lucy Brown, Verity Glass and myself.

In this issue you can read the final chapter of 99 SWORDS first epic storyline. Elsie finally duels with the dangerous sword hunter, August Von Karva. Will he take the Man Sword and her hand with it? FIND OUT!!

Answer: No, he gets a kick to the spuds.

You can grab the first four issues of BPM from the website here and start your subscription, or pick them up at one of the many cons that Big Punch Studios will be attending over the country this year, starting with True Believers Festival Cheltenham in February! (I'll be there too!)

(Psst, you can read chapter 0 of 99 Swords here for free!)

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Remember... The Force will be with you, always.

Done! 52 weeks (sort of), 52 Star Wars characters (sort of)! Here they all are, in the order I forced them out of my pencil. Thank you to everyone who has checked them out, commented and shared them on the various social medias. I really enjoyed drawing all these awesome characters. Now let us never speak of Star Wars again...