Six days till ScareFest!

Less than a week until ScareFest 3: Beyond the Book. I just finished my illustrations in time and now I'm looking forward to seeing them in the souvenir booklet. Here are some of the rough pencils from a couple of my pics.

Grimalkin is ambushed

Drew flees for his life

I've inked all the pictures but I usually like the rough sketches more than the finished illustrations. I'll post the finished ones after the event.

The Boom Boom Booms

Here's a rough sketch for an idea I'm working on for a mates band, The Boom Boom Booms, check them out.

Onion Boy News

I found out this week that I've sold eleven copies of my Onion Boy booklet/poem through the comic shops it was sent to. This is precisely eleven more copies than I thought I'd sell. All five copies sent to Orbital Comics in London sold and Worlds Apart Liverpool sold all six copies. I may have even sold more but I still don't know if the other shops in Manchester or Birmingham ever got them. I must find out. I plan to make some more to send to Orbital Comics as they said they'd happily take them. Orbital have even paid me for the five they sold, the princely sum of £4.

crusader

This is part of the final sketch for my mothers day booklet. I'm now going to start on the final images. I was hoping to finish by mid July but that seems unlikely now.

cernunnos

A preliminary sketch for my booklet concerning 'the gruesome origins of mothers day'.
Little is known about the 'Horned God' Cernunnos, although some believe him to be a god of nature or fertility.
P.S. I've noticed that most of my drawings are from the waist up, I am resolved to draw some legs soon.

Work In Progress

The current project I'm working on, which has stalled a bit, is another small booklet called 'Smother's Day - the gruesome origins of Mothering Sunday'. It will be a kind of 'Is it true or isn't it?' historical thing and have about 8 pages with 4 main illustrations. I've written a finished draft and sketched the first two pictures. I'm hoping that this post will spur me on to finish it off. The picture above (not finished) shows a celtic warrior suffocating an old woman with a sacred cushion. I hope to finish the whole thing probably in January. I've got a few ideas of things to do after that. I'd like to do a comic strip or some more painting maybe?

Tacitus

Tacitus the roman historian - something for a pamphlet I'm doing about the origins of mothers day

The Sad Tale of Onion Boy

These pics are illustrations for a poem I wrote called 'The Sad Tale of Onion Boy'. I've made some little books and I'm going to try to sell them on Etsy.

fame at last! (5 jan 09)

This sketch got printed in ImagineFX #41. (it took up about 1cm x 2cm on page 24 lol)

sketch - 03 Feb 09

sketch - 02 Feb 09

rex

sketch 29 jan. 09

Hee Hee! Hoo Hoo Hoo! Ha Ha Ha! ... The Joker

sketches ....

more daily sketches

daily sketches ...

a selection of daily sketches, one each day since the 5th January 2009.

Some from photo reference, some out of my head, you can probably guess which are which.

sketch #2

The Mighty Boosh - practice drawing faces from photo reference

trying to get back into sketching - sketch #1

I bought myself a new sketchbook and my aim is to do at least one sketch everyday.