The List goes Amazonian

The List is now on Amazon! All of you who haven't bought a copy click here and get one now.

This little comic has been the writer Paul Bedford's baby for many years now. Paul showed me the preview way back in 2006 since then over 150 pages, 3 volumes and a complete GN have hit the stands all over the world! Paul has also just been commissioned to turn it into a screenplay. So say you were there first and get your copy today!

2000AD Submission

I've just sent off my third submission to 2000AD. My first was exactly 10 years ago. I hope that in that time I have improved and addressed the problems they identified and that it will be enough to get me that first contract.

I realise there's a flaw in the submission process in that (as I understand it) editors are looking for reliability as well as talent. You can't prove reliability in a submission and talent... well, that's up to them. The best you can do is as soon as you get rejected is submit again.

Anyway. Quite a while ago now I read through the submission guidelines and it seemed that this time they wanted submissions like the Americans do with pencils, inks etc. I found this strange as 2000AD doesn't often break up the art process with usually just a writer, artist and letterer. Anyway, I had been told previously by Mark Chiarello, in showing him my work, that I was a penciller not an inker. So having had several rejections as an inker I thought I'd try my luck and submit pencils. On completing the pencils (to a script they supplied) I looked up the sub guidelines again and found that they had changed back to completed art. Bummer.

I don't usually do much pencilling because I feel stifled when appling the inks and my work ends up stiff and lifeless. I didn't feel like starting all over again as I had other things to get on with so I inked over the pencils and I'm not displeased with the result. Things definitely would have turned out differently going about things the usual way but one always learns thing doing things differently.

You be the judge.

Holed Up written by Richard McTighe can be found and downloaded here and is a fantastic little script.

And now the inks.

Some More Doodles

A couple of drawings to stop me going crazy whilst working on other projects.

These were done quickly without any penciling just for fun. I may end up reworking them but they are what they are. I used just one nib for each of these drawings.

This one did the top drawing (bad photos I know). and the nib underneath did the Dredd drawing.

Computer Killeroo

Here's a pic I did a while ago of the infamous marsupial Killeroo. He was drawn on the computer in Corbenesque style. I had been thinking about doing my penciling on the computer to maybe streamline my process and not dowse my page in graphite. I then decided I might as well ink it. The result is ok (though I can see lots of faults now. the idea was to be able to see and rectify faults more easily) but I didn't like the detached nature of using the wacom. One day I might be able to afford a cintiq...

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.