She's a femme fay-tale

Wasn't happy with the first version of this, so I decided to re-draw the femme fatale-type. In an attempt ro try to get away from the scratchy line work I've been producing lately, I've gone with an almost abstract simple black & white image, then worked a minimal amount of colour in. The result is part noir, part Toulouse-Lautrec, part fashion illustration! I didn't see that coming, but had a lot of fun nonetheless.

We'll always have Paris

Might go further with this and add a couple more details...

Something different

Had an idea for a WW2 pic today (inspired by Huzzah! Noir and Jacek Zabawa's wonderful stuff) - here are the rough pencils for the central figure.

Check out Jacek's blog here: http://jacekzabawaart.blogspot.com

And if you haven't already, Huzzah Noir: http://huzzahnoir.blogspot.com

I'd love to make these appear as links, but blogger ain't letting me for some reason, but copy and paste them to find wonderful delights.

NOIR!!

Veda had a sort out today and unearthed a load my old drawings. This is a strip I half-heartedly attempted in either 2001 or 2002. I was reading lots of Raymond Chandler and Sin City collections at the time, I think it shows! These are my favourite panels from about half a dozen pages, cobbled together today in photoshop. It's interesting to look back and think 'actually, it didn't all suck!' but also to review it and see that I've progressed in a lot of ways too (particularly overall layout and panel design). Anyway, I had fun drawing this all those years ago, and I had a lot of fun today re-editing it.