Wolfmen in progress...

Had a day off work yesterday - all to myself! - and managed to ink virtually two full pages... my hand started hurting after a while, guess I'm not used to all that drawing! From one of those pages is this image, shown here as pencils/inks/tones. Only a few tweaks in this one, some I mess around with more in the inking phase. Then it goes into photoshop for more tweaks :-)

MCM Expo Guide

Accent UK will be at the MCM Expo this coming weekend, and Diamond UK gave us a whopping 4 pages in their Expo guide which you can view online here:

MCM Expo Guide

Basically it's a 3 page preview of 'Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man?' and an ad (but not an ad) page, highlighting the fact that both Wolfmen and Robots are offered again in the UK section of Novembers Previews catalogue (alongside Fastest Man which is in the USA section).

I had to come up with something that was basically an advert, but wasn't too obvious... very happy with how it turned out. There's an intentional Apple/iTunes vibe to it but works well I think.

Everybody in...

Well, another week, another page inked. This is the last panel from the most recently completed page, but I wasn't happy with the original version of this, which was to be a quick 'reused background' and just some simple figures placed over the top to try and speed things up. I tried to get it to work but didn't look right so I drew this new panel from scratch this week and am pretty happy with the results.

Sadly, I doubt this will be the last time I have to do this either!

More BICS Pix

This time something I did for Jon Rennie... he had a very novel idea of everyone doing sketches the same size so he can run an animated banner on his website. You can check them out here:

Clickity Click!

Could have drawn the wolfman a little better but doesn't look too bad compared to the others.

BICS Pix

Colin sneakily took this pic at BICS as I'd just finished that punk sketch and no sooner as I'd put my pens down then this queue formed!!

Was great fun - if a little terrifying - hopefully they all liked what they ended up with :-)

Got my Predators script today, a fantastically dark take by the talented Mo Ali that should be a fun challenge, hope to start that soon but need to crack on with the Wolfmen inks. No rest for the wicked!

In the dark...

Can't really show much more on the sequence I'm working on so this moody panel will have to do. Finished this page off fairly quickly despite being quite detailed in places. Still on a high from BICS so hoping to use some of that energy to get pages done quicker. Pretty happy with the results so far... time will tell if everyone else agrees.

In other news the mighty talented Gary Crutchley will be lending his talents to a Wolfmen gallery image for book 2. Some great images in so far, at this rate they're gonna be better than the main feature!

Batman BICS 2009

Here's a sketch of Batman done this weekend at BICS... after someone saw this they asked for another Batman too (as long as they bought a copy of Wolfmen :-) ... love the character, could draw him all day.