Flinch Review

Though Flinch is getting on a new review has popped up. Read it here.

Lego porn

Last year I spent a few months with my son making all the lego sets (that I could recognise) in our collection. It comprises of my old collection, the new sets we've bought and several secondhand bulk buys and ebay purchases.

The collection.

The new stuff...

 The secondhand stuff...

The old stuff...

The Bionicles - secondhand and new (plus a creator dragon - new)...

The left overs...

Some More Colour

I've recently been trying to get a hold of this colour thing. I do alright with traditional mediums but using them the way I do to colour line art is a fiddly and annoying process. So I'm having a go with the computer. Here are the latest pieces with line art and variations.

These are entries for the OzComic challenge. First Lobo:

And then Ironman:

With this next one I put a waterfall over the background to add some texture.

And a nice night sky for this one.

I just realised I should extend the blast from his left hand down to the bottom of the page. I'll post an amendment soon but you get the picture.

Some of my other attempts at colour can be found here, here and here.

2000AD Doodles

Fine liners and fat liners, and a bit of brush pen for solid blacks.

Brush pen and Hunt 107 nib.

Hellboy OZComic Sequential Challenge

Just finished this page last night for the Oz Comics sequential fortnightly challenge.

This was a real sod of a page - libraries, skeletons, 10 panels. Actually 10 panels isn't a problem with a well written script and this one was (I've of course deleted all my files and can't find the writer's name. Anthony someone?). It ended up taking much more time than I wanted, working 2 hours a night over 5 days or so.

I didn't think I'd do a post about this one so I didn't do any production scans but my method is pretty much the same for every page I do. Check out this post for more on my methods.

Here are my thumbnails though.

Not very clear but I did change the angle on a couple of panels. Not sure why but there's always a bit of difference between the thumbs and the final page. Especially as I never do the thumbs to scale. these were done on a loose bit of A4 printing paper. You can also see some calculations for splitting the page into 3 panels width ways.

Here my most used tools (minus a Staedtler Mars rubber). So from left to right I have a Hunt 107 (I think) - a nice hard stainless steel nib which does fine lines and can, with pressure, do quite fat lines, a fairly common nib this one but too blackened for me to find out what it is now but it does fatter lines, a pentel water colour brush pen filled with Pebeo ink, trusty, trusty white out and a line tool - this one can adjust its width for very fine to very fat lines, just be sure your straight edge is raised off the page otherwise ink will seep under and make a ink go all over the place.

On this page though, I only used the brush for filling in blacks and a few fine lines.

A Panel

A panel from a little project I'm working on.

Oz Comic Challenge Ironman

Here's an image I did for theOz Comic weekly challenge but didn't get to sending off - a little unfinished perhaps. I was inspired by Moebius' painting of Ironman and Simon Bisley's ABC warriors.

I sketched it up in pencil and coloured it in with the kids' textas.

I then scanned it into photoshop, cleaned it up a bit and added the black.

The original now sits on my daughter's wall next to her bed and keeps the monsters away.