Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Scribble on the TV feat Angelina Jolie

Sat in front of the telly, a pack of postcards, 4b pencil and a marker.

Hackers, still a great teen movie, a great intro to the sheer hotness of Angelina Jolie.
The computer effects do date it terribly. More than the 3.5" floppy discs and dial up modems. But hey, Angelina Jolie...


























Bad Day at Black Rock. Not seen it for years, and for the first time in widescreen. It is something spectacular. Really. Its a short film but so perfectly realised. A solid start, middle and finish. A powerful mix of Noir, western, what would now be called Lynchian take on small town values, exploitation and of course, the first western hero to use martial arts in a film.
Very, very cool and highly recommended


























and finally, a cross between Mickey Mouse and Batman for no reason.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Zombie Villa

Not comment on David Villa the man or the player. I'm a fan and wished he had come to Liverpool in 08.
Its just that when I was adding colour to the skin, a colleague said he looked like a zombie so
I started messing about and here he is...Zombie Villa


And heres a side by side comparison. Zombie all the way?

David Villa

More World cup art. Tried for a more Frank Quitely style for the Spanish maestro.
(Shame Torres isn't scoring)

And here it is in grey, before the colourising started

Sunday, June 27, 2010

KAKA (AKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKA)

Another day, another go at a possibly great footballer. Well no. Kaka is amazing. Nice guy too. Very little of the theatrics you'd associate with S American football.
Below is the line work. This was all done in Photoshop. The inking style was initially going to be ALex Maleev style but ended up going for more of a Lark or Epting. Something that really doesn't come out once the colour is done underneath.
After the success my portrait of Landon Donovan gave the US, I'm sorry if its an early exit for you Brazil.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

JimmyZilla, Jimmy With the Dragon Tattoo

More of my favourite muse for bookmarks for the missus' library

Take a wild guess which book the first one was for...

ALIAS merchandise?

Rewatching JJ Abrams excellent Alias at the moment, but won't venture into season 5 because it utterly superfluous to requirement*.
Anyway, my favourie character is Jack Bristow, the nice guy more than willing to kill, maim or whatever in cold blood. My girlfriend asked for a bookmark, something with a bear just as I was scribbling a cartoon of Jack.
She didn't like it. Ah well.

*I have always held a theory that They set everything to wrap up for S4, being told after low ratings for the slower S3, 4 would be it.
But then S4 put the jets back on, more people watched and they found themselves lumped with an extra season, no story left to tell, and the two leads having messily broken up after a romance, plus Jennifer Garner pregnant and unable to do much. In all, an inglorious mess, and a poor way to end.

Doctor Who birthday card

Just did this for my brother. Been meaning to draw the excellent Matt Smith as the Doctor for ages. Just scribbled in pencil, then a dash of colourishness in pshop

Oh yeah. Finale tonight
Here's the B/W version

Landon Calling

Have to confess, it's more of a work thing than a hope the USA go through. When the profiles were being chosen, had to choose Donovan because of the uniform. Just had this idea to play with the sash and make him into some superbeing.
































Here it is in full without text

Saturday, June 19, 2010

World Cup Bouncers

A quickie illustration that was published today. The story was something about how the South American teams were being less strict about wives, girlfriends and booze than the European teams.
From the evidence of the match against Algeria, England need to get hammered and laid ASAP

Friday, June 18, 2010

World Cup Torres

Part of an exclusive poster for The World Cup
. This was joined by many other better illustrations by my colleagues

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Glorious return of Dr Sketchy


Dr Sketchy's was back on after I missed a session and they took abreak for Chrimbo. A good session. I need to break into other styles but realised that I need to get loose before getting sharper.
The model was great and provided the odd suprise. Especially when the bra came off. The other Dr SKetchy's around the world mmay be used to the full on nudity buit usually Dr Sketchy sg doesn't get past the underwear. Not that it's about the leering. There's still nothing better than coming back from a session with a bit of scribble you're proud to display.






Thursday, December 17, 2009

Space skellington

Skeletons in spacesuits are strangely popular these days. Very cool look. Doctor Who had some, various comics have done it. After brooding vampires, werewolves and zombies, this is the next big thing i Tells ya.
Here's my scribble...

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Authors: Samuel Beckett

Hands down, the coolest looking old bloke ever. The face was sharp, craggy but capped with that shock of hair. A look to aspire to.

Authors: Ian Fleming

I tried one of his books for the first time ever on my recent holiday to Hawaii.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD

The only ever episode. Mignola whimsical brilliance

Scribble a scribble: Roo mouse and Busty Hammer Hyde

Two bits of scribble. The one below was going to be a mouse, but then it turned into an elizabethan Kangaroo, obviously.

But then there's my take on Mr Hyde featured a prominent busty buxom maiden straight our the classic Hammer Horror films. I based Hyde on the Russian boxing behemoth, Valuev.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Guide to Surviving Zombies (Directors cut)

Just some more stuff from FiRST. A tie-in for Zombieland.
Used some but not all Zombie knowledge, including some new stuff I picked up from the ever brilliant The Walking Dead