The Cigar That Fell In Love With a Pipe

THE CIGAR THAT FELL IN A LOVE WITH A PIPE, Is new graphic novel coming from the minds and hands of writer David Camus & writer/artist Nick Abadzis with the flat colour work being done by me. It was a great pleasure to work alongside Nick to get this done. This book was forged in the hellish heat of summer in two countries and i can say without a shadow of doubt that it was 'Completely' worth it.


If you looking for more regular updates head on over to the CIGAR blog where you'll be able to get  sketches, drawings, sneak previews and many other little insights into the making of the book, leading up to its publication by SelfMade Hero / Abrams in Spring 2014.
 

Happy Halloween

Hope you've had a great one this year. Spent mine on a non-stop Evil Dead marathon, a few brews, some friends and a sketch book and some new inks! Gripping. ^_^

Dip Pen / Sumi Ink - Digital Colour

SoMe: Film short work

 
SoMe Trailer from MotionGasm on Vimeo.

Here's SoMe a short film work that i helped do some work for. ^_^

More great News

Really happy to hear in the last couple of weeks that The graphic Novel adaptation of Robert Muchamores first book in the Cherub series ' The Recruit '. Drawn by John Aggs, scripted by Ian Edginton. With me working as a colourist doing the flat colours.

Has just sold out of it's first Print run in France! Woo! It's due out for release this year in the uk so look forward to it.

National star wars day

 

Wow this is a late post... Yep it has come and gone, but non the less forgotten. 

Yep this is my May the 4th tribute, even bro's fight. Too much Star wars and Johnny 5 and 

this is the mash-up. Enjoy!

All digital / Manga Studio / photoshop

Good News!

Right! Been a bit quite over the summer regarding posts and new work mostly because i've been helping out on an epic monster, namely.. If you haven't guessed it.

The graphic Novel adaptation of Robert Muchamores first book in the Cherub series
' The Recruit '. Drawn by John Aggs, scripted by Ian Edginton. With me working as a colourist doing the  flat colours. ^_^

For more information you can visit the main website for the cherub series cherubcampus.com
were you'll be able to get updates and release scheduals for forthcoming titles.

It was great experiance and one that if i had the chance to do i would do again.  Johns done a really great job with the artwork and Ian's script makes for a great read.

Alternate Book Cover

 

Finalised Book Cover for the Alternate book cover exhibition Taking place during crawleys Wordfest. I really like how this turned out, sureal but bold.

Enjoy

Process

I generally don't explain to most how i actually make a peice of work as most if not 100% of the time the main work is already processed and polished in my head before i even start to drawn on a page. But it goes a little something like this..
 

 

Quick thumbnail gets sketched out on a handy pad.

 

I've Ruled out the dimensions for the page im working on as it's a book cover with just a spine. both are st out before sketching. I've added guides to help get the layout right for the wells brick work.

A bit of refrance comes in handy ^_^ i usually take a picture with the camera and then have it in one hand on the screen as i sketch with the right.

Then i'll add in the text as im doing hand written type for the cover it needs to be in place before i start inking. The right hand pic is the final inked version, it's a mix of brush and indian inks and sharpies.


Pretty fun project. It'll be on display at Crawleys Wordfest for an exhibition on alternative book covers. Around 30 artists were asked to contribute to the show and each of the covers will be on books as part of the show. ^_^

Wordfest Crawley!

HELLOOO! it's been a while ^_^
New post for the new year, This poster here is for the upcoming Sussex Wordfest being held in Crawley happening between the 2nd and 9th of April! A week long extravagansa so if your around come along and enjoy our festival of words as there a ton of things going on that week!

Hope you enjoy this little tribute!
Brush inked and lettraset toned coloured on photoshop ^_^
Wordfest - It's going be out of this world! ( sorry that was a little cheesy  )

www.wordfestcrawley.org for more info

Whores of Mensa!

I recently had the opportunity ( thanks to a savy purchase this summer of a 4 colour carousel for a steal of a price!! ) to print some t-shirts designs for a friend, none other than whores of mensa's Ellen Lindner. The shirt featuring a design by Cliodhna Lyons, Maartje Schalkx and Ellen Lindner  and can be found and purchased here Etsy store!;

I Love doing projects like this as it's a great to work with someone throwing back and forth ideas and refining it down to it's finalised form. Plus i really love screen printing!
I've screen printed work for people/companies before as one off for fashion houses and clients looking for something really different but hand tailored.

Screen printing your own work from start to finish is awesome, I never really seem to get tired of seeing the whole process unfold even if it's a drawing i've already seen a hundred times. Once you start printing positives and burning screens, it just takes a on a whole new perspective.

So it's a nice break to set a design down and just go with it but on a mini (mass) production scale. As you see..  ^_^

Dear Blog..

Sorry for not keeping you upto date. Life has a funny way of pulling you about everywhere but where your wanted. But luckily there is now alot more work to post up on you ^_^

So i promise to update date you weekly on the who's whats and where's and whys from now on.

New comic goodness

okay this is for an up comming comic im finishing up for the london expo at mcm on the 23-24th of may. it's a little taster of things to come as well as one of the first titles to be printed on our new label (more details coming soon)



well

Enjoy and let me know what you think

A bit of random..

Another midnight excursion into the weird world of random sketching

Character Designs

More t-shirt isms

Moo-isms with ronald styled wig ^_^

T-shirt ism's

mmm..tastey murder

IT'S ALIVE!!!

Often the death of a character or individual can be distressing. Not so in a t-shirt or character design, as more often than not they just tend to take on a new lease of life. Which is a bit of a contradiction really.

I have to say the zombie version of mickey, is one of my all time faves that just warrants, seeing more versions of Disney style characters in half dead mode...

mmm zombies





zombie queen was a lot of fun to do, and really quick in terms of brush work that went into it, much looser way of working than i normally ink stuff.

Phobias...

This image is for a project im working on with Yee ting-kuit. Its for a book on phobias, projects been in the pipeline for a while you can check for regular updates over on the blog for it here



Ah the fear of getting amnesia - Amnesia phobia.

zero trooper

Coming again from a galaxy far far away to a t-shirt new you.....

Websites..

Oh did i mention i make websites as well? lol sorry couldn't resist.




The new online store will be up in the next month or so. So look out for a bargain coming soooooon.