Gorilla bookmark

A quick 10min bookmark for my girlfriend.

More of that Marvel/Disney nonsense

This one was for work. Get ready to laugh wonder where the joke is

Pitt, Jonze, Sumo and Department of Eagles

These are some kind of wonderful.
Japanese only commercials for Softbank, directed by Spike Jonze

Softbank Dining from We Love You So on Vimeo.

Softbank Sumo from We Love You So on Vimeo.

If you want the music, its called In Ear Park by Department Of Eagles, and available for legit download here

Little harvester

Marvel Disney

Big news of the week. This was for a little bite in the excellent FiRST pullout. Spur of the moment idea. One of my favourite things I've created.

Dr Sketchy Session 5

Oh yes. Very nice venue, lots of air, and two models.
Angel & Devil theme, one of my favourite Sketchy's so far.
In no particular order...

Parker competition

A rushed entry for the Parker comp over at http://darwyncooke.blogspot.com/. More thought should have gone into it but just felt I should try.
Its to win a copy of Parker: The Hunter, but thanks to the maginficent namesake Parka and Rocketraygun (to get it to me) I have the best version of Darwyn Cookes Parker ....EVER

Oh yeah. This take on Parker is based on John Garfield

'Ver Stafe scribble

just somfin for sumfin i'm workin on

Dr Sketchy Singapore - Session#4 Peer & Laeticia

An usual time at this session of Dr Sketchy. 'Two' models, Peer, who isn't canadian, gradualyy lost his business suit. Then he was replaced by the striking Laeticia. Lots of Iggy Pop on the stereo though.

Horse wallpaperishness

Using some of the recent horses I created heres some wallpaperishnessnous. Thats a real word you know

Evolution of a cover. Part 2: A, B and C

The horse folk are pretty good though. They have been welcoming to the work I've done. They are traditional though and the all white horse and rider didnt really do it for them. Frankly I think I should have sold it better, but time was a factor here. They liked the more natural coloured steeds, with the colourful riders.

Heres the evolution

Evolution of a cover. Part 1: initial sketch

Did another Horse cover this year.
Took some doing too. So here's the first sketch

I ditched this for two reasons. Time was tight give fully painted a proper go PLUS the similarity to last years illusHERE

Gorillaz doc

If you like the Gorillaz then Babelgum has a lovely doc on the world's greatest bandBANANAZ

From the Dusty Files: Spider-Man 3 unwarped

Not posted in a while and I come back, as ever with old stuff.
But it might be new to you, and it won an award so *TTTHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRp!!!!* to ya.
We did a big giveaway-4-part poster for Spidey 3. I took venom and had the idea of no regular run-on blocks of text being on it. Only text on background items - namely newspapers telling the story. Then taking on one of The New Paper's specialities - the story board - explain the sequence of how Venom tranferred from Peter Parker to Eddie Brock.
Really liked the story board. Thats why the unwarped version is here.
See you next month.

Dr Sketchy Singapore - Session#3 Chun Li

Another Dr Sketchy, more art joy. Such a cool event. This month the wonderful Madame K pulled some impressive action poses in full Chun Li style.









Here is the link to Dr S SG'sorganiser Audran's life drawing blog. Lucky fella gets to do it every week
http://audranguerard.blogspot.com/

Paul Pope + Star Trek = JOY

Excellent prequel comic to the new film ( I might have missed the press screening. not good for me)
It Paul Pope who makes it all look effortless
http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/whenWorldsCollide

From the dusty files: Paranoid kitty

From the dusty files: War-torn baboon

with a scarf

Dr Sketchy Singapore

I can't believe I haven't put this up already.
A random spotting on Facebook pointed me to the dream group.
Now seeing as the Drink And Draw society died off because of it being impossible to organise around work (other than the odd spontaneous sesh).
Anyway, found this Dr Sketchy club. Genius idea. Get a model to pose. Evryone does lots of drawing. Drinks and games.
So along I went, late, as ever. It was brilliant. This was the second Dr Sketchy, my first, the model was Tami, who was just WOW. Especially when she did the upside down pose for 10 MINUTES.
Oh yeah. I won one of the competitions and got sent to pose with Tami. Yeah lifes tough. Though I realise how tough sitting still for 5 mins so I have no idea how Tami held her poses for so long.
Here's the reults:






And here's a link to the Dr Sketchy blog and footage of my brief moment in the limelight http://drsketchysingapore.blogspot.com/2009/03/session-2-28-03-2009.html

DC comics don't want you if you're not local

Brilliant insight from Marc-Oliver Frisch at The Beat as to why so many comics suck

DC Comics is simply not interested in selling its comics to people who don’t already read them.

I’m not making this up. DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio says so, all the time and on the record. Asked in a recent Newsarama piece why his DC Universe imprint doesn’t publish more low-priced entry-level comics, DiDio says:

“When we’re working with pre-existing characters and properties as we do in the DC Universe, people are mostly predisposed and understand who our characters are, so the idea of a wider sampling at a lower price isn’t nearly as necessary as it is with Vertigo.”

The logical conclusion, evidently, is to sometimes publish low-priced comics, but make absolutely sure that they are impenetrable to the general public, lest anyone not among the predisposed might be accidentally seduced into buying a Superman comic.

Full listing of DC's sales here http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/04/10/dc-month-to-month-sales-febroary-2009/

You wonder how these people stay in business

From the dusty files: random botak

Dunno where the quote is from. If its something I came up with I'm impressed with my old self.
Very old mac font there I see.

From the dusty files: Bing Bong

Mucking around during the King Kong project. Shot on my desk at work.

From the dusty files: Straight Outta Buckingham

This is a long forgotten Mother's Day gem from 2004/5. Around then. Sort of.

Shearer returns to Newcastle

SuperGeordietrystoriskitbuthisstrikersareatrocious

Wolverelmo

Inspired by part of a post on Millarworld about Wolverine's 35th anniversary