the last of the preview pages... and i just realized i've gone and uploaded these things just a little backwards. dang-nabit.

anyhoo, once again, you can check out the version with dialogue over at http://renegadeartsentertainment.com/comics/turning-tiger/
or
http://www.myebook.com/ebook_viewer.php?ebookId=17303
you can check out all the other good stuff they've got going on at renegade arts over at http://renegadeartsentertainment.com/

a redicuosly massive thank you goes out to alexander finbow for letting me cut my teeth on this.

and more pages. holy shit is drawing rocket trails fun. unfortunately, the same cannot be said about super massive war bot HUDs.

p.s. note to self. learn how to draw women.

hoy hoy!

exciting news! i think the first issue of turning tiger is going up tomorrow... and by up i mean online and as such that means it's absolutely free so do you really have an excuse not to give it a look?

some of the pages went up in previews a while back so i've been given the okay to post some of it up here. you can check out the version with dialogue by ricmond clements and lettering by Jim Campbell over here -> http://renegadeartsentertainment.com/comics/turning-tiger/

bleh. the lack of motion in the bottom pannle of that first page is paaaaaaainful. it's rediculouse how much i learnt over the course of drawing this issue.

old guff from the mole skin. these were done wwwwwwwaaaaaaaay back in... autumn of last year? anyhoo, every sunday there's a farmer's market up at alexandra palace. it's delightfully middle class. there are also hundreds of dogs. i don't know, bringing your mutt, which is essentially just a bottomless stomach on legs, to a place swarming with meat and cheese seems like something of a cruel practice.

p.s. we didn't go and see 2012. the show sold out so we had to settle with the decent 2. i remember the first one preeeeeeeety intense. this was not. if you like rapid quick cuts to sharp pointy things going into soft gooey things then this is the movie for you. however, if you measure your movies by little things like plot, charaterization and, you know, acting, you'd do well to avoid.

that said, the unintentional hilarity was hilarious. there is nothing quite like watching a pack of women hacking off a man's arm with a pick axe and showering in the GOUTS of blood spraying from the unfortunate appendage like they were in a panten pro v advert.

more cover thumbnails, where in you act like you know something about graphic design!

so very, very tempted by the one of the guy going for a little pavement diving but yeah, not terribly universal. it's an ittsy-bittsy, teeny-weeny part of the book and not all that integral (other than hinting that things are going to hell in a handbag rather sharpish and illustrating the despondency of the high-rise residents). oh well.


in other news, i think we're off to see 2012 tonight. i'm praying for a shit-fest.

gggggoooOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!

more stuff from the current project they've got us working on. since all the interior illustrations are all VERY character-centric, i wanted the cover to have something to do with the setting. besides, something like that seemed more all-encompasing than blah blah blah blah.

that first design is total milk toast. maybe it could have been worked into something a little more interesting.... but we'll never know since it's totally getting blown off in favour of the 'HO SHIT PERSPECTIVE!' idea.

albeit with slightly nicer lettering, obviously.

sketch book work for the current project. mmmm. messy, messy thumbnails.

but yeah, when it came to it, i found the scenes featuring royal were the ones i was itching to jump to right off the bat. i think i might have a thing for drawing snobby, aloof types.

scrapings from the mole skin.

carrying on the spirit of the t in the park doodles, i went to see amanda palmer when she played at union chapel.

my god. it was electric. couldn't quite believe that the keyboard was still standing by the end of it. if she's playing near you, you'd better be there.

i also may have ended up dropping a stupid amount of money on a painting by the totally bitching daniel van nes (http://www.nessed.nl/biography.html) that was auctioned off at the end of the show when the original winning bidder flaked out.

huzzar for impulse buying?

part deux of the jekell and hyde project.

this got real OTT real fast. also, nothing makes you feel like a right sociopath real fast like drawing little girls being squished underfoot on an over crowded train.

best part: hands down those funky, funky lamp posts.

more dicking on starbucks. don't know WHY this seems to be something of a reoccurring theme- those boys and girls in green do a bang up job of keeping the general public all jazzed up on dangerously caffeinated/sugary beverages!

derived from the fact that coffee houses have become the bastion of the wireless office. huzzarr for the wonders of the communication age! also, why does everything look 1000x more pimp on brown paper?