Kid Tiger roughs

Quick roughs for a sketch of the teen vigilante, Kid Tiger. James Corcoran - who is currently drawing the strip - very kindly let me have a copy of The Long Tomorrow by Moebius as well as Prisoner of The Stars by Alfonso Font. This (once it's inked) is a little thank you for that generosity.

Kid Tiger continues

Another ongoing colouring project. This is my favourite panel from page 4. To see the full page and catch up with the strip itself, head over to James Corcoran's blog.

Kid Tiger pin-up (colours)

Pages 3 and 4 of Kid Tiger are imminent, currently being finished off by the rather excellent James Corcoran. When they wing their way to me, I'll be adding colour again. In the meantime, here's a superbly drawn pin-up drawn by James and coloured by me.

Kid Tiger - colours

My good friend and ex-Fractal Friction compadre James Corcoran is producing this excellent Boys' Own adventure style strip for Starscape comics online, and he asked me if I'd be interested in colouring it. I couldn't resist, there's something wonderfully old-school and earnest about James' drawing, and the premise of the strip is pure costumed-hero goodness. These first two pages show our Kid getting into a spot of bother with the rather nasty teddy boy villain Vincent Vyle. 

Beyond making the tiger costume orange (obviously) James allowed me complete freedom, citing only the muted palettes of Daves Stewart and McCaig. Funnily enough, I've been idolising these two for some time now, and this was just another reason to say yes and experiment with a simpler approach. More pages to follow soon.

It's nearly Friday folks

And you know what that means - yep, time for another slice of Fractal Friction.

Artwork for this page was provided by that erstwhile gentleman James Corcoran who sadly now  is on an FF hiatus until November, but we'll be keeping his seat warm and look forward to his return.

I've coloured this page, and in record time (for me), so it might look like something of a departure, but anyway I'm quite pleased with the results.

Make sure you check in with the FF blog tomorrow to get your weekly fix.

James' blog, if you haven't see it already is here: http://james-corcoran.blogspot.com/

And Fractal Friction is here: http://fractalfriction.blogspot.com/

But you knew that already, right?

Art swap

Me and a few of my artist buddies are exchanging original sketches, to spread the love and all that. James Corcoran has produced a fantastic portrait of Edgar Allen Poe for me (see it here: http://james-corcoran.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-swap.html ). In return, he requested a cosmonaut from me.

I initially did some very rough pencils for this, then decided to tighten them up much more than I usually do, The final piece was inked with my pentel brush pen, which forces me to draw more slowly and controlled. The end result is a lot tighter than a lot of my usual stuff, but I enjoyed the process and it's fun to mix it up now and again.

Chris Askham asked for 'something Lovecraftian', and this was what I came up with:

I bloody Love Lovecraft. I could draw this sort of stuff all day, every day.

I'd like to colour these too, so watch this space for those.