Monday, 29 August 2011

Monkey Man: Part 2!



Week 2 of The New Adventures of Monkey Man is now online at Film Threat!

Written by the comedy genius what is Brian Lynch and drawn totally with a pencil by me! This week: STREET GANGS!

If you like it, leave us a message and share the comic with your friends. DO IT! (thanks!)

Part 1 is still up here...

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Monkey Man Begins!



Part one of The New Adventures of Monkey Man is now online at Film Threat! Monkey Man is the brainchimp of writer Brian Lynch (IDW's Angel, Spike and forthcoming Ninja Turtles: Raphael micro series). He's written an awesomely hilarious strip and I couldn't be happier to be adding my dumb doodles into the mix! New stories are up every week so check it out and laugh until you cough up delicious blue furballs of comedy!

Hello, Hauser. Still bulging, I see...



Total Recall was one of those classic ultra-gore masterpieces I got to see when I was slightly too young. Along with Robocop and Predator, all the exploding heads and liberal F-bombs shaped me into a fully functioning adult (who spends his time drawing fan-art).

Also I once saw the guy who played Quato! (the man, not the little stomach-gremlin, that would be weird)

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Spoiler Goose!



This is probably the most important picture of a goose bursting out of someone's stomach that I'll ever draw...

This was a comic done for Party Truck USA, an awesomely funny podcast by Brian Lynch, Rich Monahan, Brian Sadecki and Jordy Bogguss (as well as many guest stars) that races down the pop culture highway firing bullets of sweet comedy at all the movies, comics and tv shows along the way, much like that game, Chase HQ I had on the Commodore 64 when I was 8. I urge you to check it out and LOL your :( away.

After sending this picture to PTUSA I got a response from Brian Lynch which convinced me to send him a copy of my comic, that then lead to Brian offering me the chance to draw his webcomic Monkey Man and the rest is the future!

So the moral of this story is.... uh, draw geese? I guess... also listen to funny stuff. I dunno.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

This is too much madness to fit into one text!



Attack The Block is an awesome film and I urge everyblud to go see it. I've been a big fan of Joe Cornish since The Adam & Joe show and his radio shows with Adam Buxton are part of the small group of podcasts that keep me sane while I scribble away at my desk. I can't wait to see what he does next.

Heres to you Torpedo Commander Cornish!

Friday, 29 July 2011

Monkey Man Returns!



Good Monkey related news everybody! I'm proud to announce I'm going to be the new artist for the awesome web-comic Monkey Man. Its written by Brian Lynch (IDW's Angel and Spike books and web cartoon Angry Naked Pat), he's one of them Hollywood funny dudes you're always hearing about so I can't wait. More blue furry news as it happens!

Sunday, 17 July 2011

I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.



When I was 15 I was obsessed with Pulp Fiction and everything Tarantinoesque. Its still one of my favorites, one of those rare movies that tells a story in a way you've NEVER seen before and it blows my tiny mind (all over the back seat of the car).

I enjoyed drawing all the characters in little boxes on my Shaun Of The Dead poster and thought I'd do it again with Pulp Fiction's behemoth cast. You can see them in better detail here...

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Get their kit on!



From the latest issue of RNLI Storm Force. This was really fun to do, feel free to print, cut them out and have a go yourself!

(artwork by me, page design by Laura Wiltshire at RNLI)

Friday, 8 July 2011

Party on Wayne and Party on Garth!



My Wayne's World poster is going to be available this saturday at the Prince Charles Cinema for the always popular 'Schwing Along with Wayne's World' event. This is the first print I've done for the PCC so I'm excited to see how its received. The event is sold out (Way!) but the next showing is on the 27th of August (details here).

Update: The poster is now available for £5 at the PCC bar. Excellent!

Monday, 4 July 2011

Now open for commissions!

I'm now open for commissions!

For $48/£30 you will receive: a full photoshop coloured image of any single character. Movie/comic/video game/cartoon characters, your own creations, portraits of your friends, loved ones, pets, anything! (except anything... y'know, weird...)

Tell me what you want me to draw and specify how you want it to look (full body, bust, specific poses etc). If you're looking for multiple characters or something more complex, send me a message and we'll discuss it!

If you want a drawing of your own character or someone you know then make sure to send plenty of good reference images.

The artwork will be 300 dpi, PSD/PDF/JPG. I will send the original line artwork to you if you add the extra for postage.

I except payment through Paypal and will start work on the commission once I have received payment.

If your interested contact me via email: james@stayteoftheart.co.uk

Looking forward to hearing from you!


Plus my comic book "Now We Are Running" is available to buy at my Bigcartel store now!

Sunday, 3 July 2011

OMG I CAN'T WAAAAAaaaaaaaaaiit.



I'm looking forward to going to see Tim and Eric live in London at the end of the month and I've been watching their show a lot lately. Its the perfect blend of awkwardness and insanity. This was fun to do and give it the requisite strangeness that a tribute to them deserves. Great job!

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Hobo... WITH A SHOTGUN!



My poster design for the Prince Charles Cinema's Hobo With A Shotgun gallery. The poster is going to be displayed in the PCC bar during the Exploitation Triple Bill event on the 14th of July as well as being displayed at XOYO in London when the movie plays the midnight movie slot on the 5th of July.

More movie poster fun coming soon!

The Continuing Adventures of To The Rescue!





My latest pieces of artwork for the RNLI magazines 'Storm Force' and 'Offshore'.

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Liz Lemon.



“One time I laughed at a blind guy eating spaghetti! Sometimes I pee in the shower if I’m really tired! I saw my grandparents making love once and I didn’t leave right away!”

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Get Smart.



A sample of some artwork I did for Oxford University Press last year. These were featured in school text books.

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Ronin Dogs!



My tribute to Jennifer and Derek from Mark Pearce's Ronin Dogs, an awesome comic series. I had the pleasure of meeting Mark last week at Bristol comic con and traded my POS comics for issue 1 & 2 of his book. Its seriously funny and full of badass artwork of sexy ladies fighting robots and aliens plus explosions. If you get a chance to pick it up I recommend it. Tell 'em Big Jimmy sent ya!

Check out Mark's blog here!

Friday, 20 May 2011

"Now We Are Running..." On sale NOW!

'Now We Are Running...', my first full comic book with words and pictures by me is now available here at my Big Cartel page!

It's a collection of pop culture spoofs n' goofs with a little bad language and violence thrown in because I think it's big and clever.



Inside!

Meet Steven and George, two young-buck, hot-shot directors with Hollywood dreams in their eyes. Finally, learn the sordid (and almost sort of maybe true) stories behind some of Spielberg's greatest films!



Plus!

Discover the legend of the Vangrooover Brothers, three body-building triplets from a German muscle-family who undergo a heroic metamorphosis and then go on adventures with fighting and explosions and that!



The comic had a great debut at the Bristol Comic and Small Press Expo last weekend, I met loads of awesome artists and got con fever so hopefully we may meet at a future show oh dear reader of my blog! (I'll be wearing a flower in my lapel)

Update: The comic is now available at Excelsior! Comics in Bristol (Near to Cabots Circus). Check them out, they rock.

Friday, 13 May 2011

Betty Draper...



The always cheery ball of sixties sunshine known as Betty Draper (aka January Jones).

Ink and watercolour (and a bit of copic marker)

Saturday, 7 May 2011

I DONE A COMIC!



My first self-published comic "Now We Are Running" will make its debut on Saturday the 14th of May at the Bristol International Comic and Small Press Expo . I've got a table at the con along with fellow Bristol artist extraordinaries Katie Green, Jess Bradley, John Paul Bove and Rhys Reed so come along and say hello.

After the Bristol con my comic will be available via my blog for all youse peoples of the world so stay tuned for more details!

See you at the party Richter!

Friday, 6 May 2011

Movie night.



Just something I did recently for my portfolio.