Carpathian Vampire Elder

Started this last Autumn after reading Kim Newman's excellent Anno Dracula. He's one of Vlad Tepes' elite guard - wearing the canines of fallen rivals on a string around his neck to prove it. If there's any justice the book will be adapted into a multi-million dollar HBO miniseries - it totally deserves to be.

Cthulhu-Kraken awakes!

One from last year that I never got round to blogging. Not entirely happy with it, think of it as a colour rough/experiment that went slightly squiffy.

Late night doodles

Christmas round-up

Done as a few xmas pressies for various friends and family. Particularly enjoyed the Lansbury/van Dyke commission.

More Slaine doodles

Shoggey Beast

A few years ago when I decided to rekindle my love affair with all things 2000 AD, my first move was to buy Warrior's Dawn, the first Slaine collection, and leafing through the glorious artwork by Massimo Belardinelli, Angie Kincaid and - most of all - Mike McMahon, well, the nostalgia was immense.

McMahon is undoubtedly my favourite comic artist of all time, and his stint on early Slaine (around the same time he was drawing 'Monkey Business at Charles Darwin Block' & 'Block Mania') etched itself onto my fragile young mind like nothing else (with the possible exception of Cam Kennedy on Rogue Trooper).

Anyway, within this faultless and highly recommended volume is a story entitled 'The Shoggey Beast', and here's my depiction of said beast (based quite closely on McMahon's I must admit).

A work-in-progress

Colour rough character design for a spin-off from the zombie horror novel SIX I illustrated earlier in the year. Author Ryan Henry has been working on a novella that takes place in the same continuity and this time focuses on two more survivors.

Still beset by a multitude of technical problems, and STILL haven't moved house. The latest clusterf*ck involves my wacom's pressure sensitivity refusing to work despite spending hours looking for drivers and restarting and restarting the PC.

Anyway, this is the best I can do at the moment really. 

German soldier

My effort for the weekly themed art blog last week, from the iconic photograph of a German soldier during the Battle of The Bulge. 20 minute pencil sketch.

Ampney Crucis

Last one for now.

Harry Absalom

Another one for today (well, this was actually inked a few days ago). I had the idea to try my hand at some 2000AD characters I've never drawn before. One of the standout strips so far this year has been Caballistics spin-off 'Absalom'. Here's the man himself.

Jack Dancer

I drew something! Life continues to conspire against me at the moment - computer still dead, things packed up for the impending house move (then discover it's been delayed), but I managed to sketch this today. Took a lot longer than I wanted, and it's not great, but what are ya gonna do - I'm rusty! Got a couple more I'm working on too, just to help get back in the swing of things.

Durham Red returns...

...Well, to my blog at least. Drew this a couple of months back, and was going to make some more changes but then my laptop bust (I'm still without a computer, but working on it). So because it's been too long since I posted anything, I thought 'what the hell', and here it is. It was inspired by a Durham pin-up drawn by that erstwhile gentleman and scholar Kev Levell.

Le Marquis

Did this while on holiday in Anglesey last week. Took my laptop but not scanner (obviously), so this started as a quick messy pencil sketch which I then photographed and inked digitally in PS. Recently finished the collected volume, and it's grand.

Hellboy Wormbait

 

Just Hellboy beating the tar out of some over-sized worms. Thanks to Jim Campbell for the SFX.

Gyrocaptain

Another quick one for TWTAB. This week's theme is proving to be great fun.

You're dog-meat, pal!

Drew this today for The Weekly Themed Art Blog. Another character I've been wanting to draw for ages, the current theme (1980s Action Movies) gave me the perfect excuse.

Sadie with cigarette

Cop studies

Last Road to The Backwoods

Second promo piece, evoking the mood of the backwoods...

The Sheriff