#INKtober 2014

It was INKtober, i managed a sketch every day, some ok some rubbish. Here are some of the better ones. All straight to paper with a Pentel brush pen, except for Dracula and Tyrion when I used Promarkers.

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.

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.

danu (still no legs)

Another sketch for my 'gruesome origins of mothers day' booklet. Danu, the mother goddess. I'm basing this on some photo reference I searched around for. Wanted to depict her as a pregnant woman but also as a sort of nature spirit hence all the flowers and ivy in her hair.
Update: This pic never made it in to the finished booklet. In the end there was no room and I didnt much like it either.

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?

Post-It Note Fish

post-it note heads

A couple of post-it note head doodles. I used to do loads of these mainly if I needed a break at work or at lunchtime. It became a bit of an obsession after a while. After visiting an artists bookfair recently in Preston I decided I'd collect my favourite ones and put them into a small booklet. I thought I'd do maybe three new ones to include. Some people find them a bit disturbing particularly when there are about forty of them littering your desk. They are done with a ballpoint pen.

Lobster Johnson - work in progress

This is something I'm doing for a monthly challenge, I probably won't finish it in time.

Practice sketching digitally

Eye

More practice with photoshop

Dredd with legs

I quite liked my Dredd so I've added legs - realised he's got no knee pads, i'll have to add some

Dredd's back

old stoney face

zombie

another zombie

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.