My First Comic

The pages bellow are an unashamed copy of The Melting Pot By Eastman, Talbot and Bisley. Mostly Bisley. It is also the first comic I ever finished. I'd had such great plans before I did this (200 page epics that never got further than 3 pages) so at the end of 1996, after having completed my HSC, I locked myself in my room for 2 weeks and finished my first comic. A terribly teenage comic.

This was painted in oil. I'd tried acrylic but I couldn't get the luminosity that my heros seemed to get. At the end I thought bugger luminosity and went back to acrylic.

The image below is in acrylic and another unmasked Bisley copy but 2 years later. I've got better at form and using paint just not at being original.

Fishman Finished

Are they ever finished?

Crystaline

Some of you may know that I've been doing illustrations for a D&D rpg for the past few years. The descriptive art (images that help you locate your possition) are finished and now I'm onto incidental art. With the incidental I've been given a lot more freedom and can choose the perspective, angle and size of the work. Consequently I'm having a lot of fun with these. Here are the first 5 out 15.

A dead elf.

A gibbering mouther.

A mushroom man

A rat vender.                                                     

A tree man (or ent, though I could get sued for saying such stuff).