Jim Mahfood and his excellent blog (Best thing I've read in ages)

I've been following Jim Mahfood's stuff for some time now. His style is a semi-graffiti, has a hell of an energy to it and just keeps developing into something better. He produces huge swathes of graf/scribble style comics and artwork. 

But it all looks so effortless. Like there isnt a mis-placed stroke. Its random but a skilled random.
I read his blog on a regular basis, but his latest entry really struck a cord.
His diary strip Los Angeles Ink Stains #6 shows just how good the comics medium can be. Too often comics are fantastical stories about fantasy beings. This is just about his friend that he grew up with.
Read it. Its pretty affecting stuff for a cartoon and the 5th panel on the second page hit me like a brick to the face.
Yeah. Go read it now. Put it this way... A B/W two page free comic on the internet has proved a better read than most paper comics over the past two or so years.

Angry bear

Me, today. Just couldn't get the growl out of my head.

At the Gorilla... Gorilla Cabana

Another quick draw off in the office. Instant draw off this time. The theme was "themed apes"
Mine asked the question, "Was Manilow descended from the Ape?"
Results here

drawn straight with ink onto the page and little forethought

Watchmen, Benjamin Button and Frost and Nixon

Art from a feature for the paper. A bit whimsical this one and quite happy with the likenesses. Still not as stylised as I'd have hoped and not sure it really comes off as a whole. Because of the text around it, not featured here, I just couldnt get Frost Nixon to link with the rest. I initially had Nixon calling for the comedian to burn Frost (Nixon is featured in Watchmen) But size limited the posture I wanted.

Rough Doc Manhatten (Watchmen)

Yep. Just a rough for a more polished thing I need to finish soon.

Another quick Kenobi (with added Vader)

Just straight into a brown paper sketchbook using a cheap chinese calligraphy brush
Took the length of Vic and Bobs Food and Drink sketch available on Youtube.

and here's the Vic and Bob sketch


Added bonus: Brown Paper Vader
Thats a band name if ever there was one

TASTY NEW HEADER

Look above ye. S'about time, right?

WHAT DATE IS IT?

Recently, work had a calendar competition. They gace out a bit of prose and you had too illustrate it. No big prizes, just for the doing of it.
Mine was used but not after a few drafts. Here's the never to be published original.
All I wanted was to feature a viking in some way. Is that so bad....?
Apparently yes.

I tried to make it better by changing the horns to wings, but still no. Ah well.
Vikings ain't for everyone I guess.

Old Man Hawkeye & Daughter

BIG Millarworld jam going on.
The idea is take a character written by Mark Millar a draw them. Black n white only.
Check out the Old Man Wolverine. Its draw by a modern maestro - Steve McNiven. It's bound to be a huge seller when it gets the TPB treatment.
Anyway, Here's my lame gag at Hawkeye's expense.

Star Wars Draw Off

And here's them all together.
Teoh's Han Solo cutting his toenails is a work of inspired brilliance. Can't wait to see what he does for the next one:
The Dark Side of Hanna-Barbera

KENOBI!

We had the Star Wars draw-off in the office. Just like the Street Fighter one here but with Star Wars.
I chose Obi Wan, or Obi Wankanobby as he's known to no-one.
Here he is in from blue pencil to Glorious Black And White. And then the coloured version.

A very Christmas Jimmy

The slight return of Jimmy Chumfatty for a Yuletide greeting.
Very drawable is Jimmy.

Best...Scribble...Ever

Another discovery from the same sketch drawer I hate You Star Wars was pulled from.
Just pushing the pen around while reading about the Aviator, the most un-Scorcese Scorcese pic ever.
I'm just impressed that theres no under-pencil. Its straight on there and it looks like Hughes and a starlet, though that may have meant to be Kate Beckinsale.
Oddly accurate scribble.

I HATE YOU STAR WARS

Odd bunch this lot. Find a bunch of sketches that I figure must date back to 2005.
I figure that because Return Of The Sith came out and we were put to work doing a huge Star Wars special.
I'm not sure why, but I started sticking the words 'I HATE YOU STAR WARS' on various sketches. Very unrelated in most cases, hence Luis Garcia appearing (one of my favourite Liverpool players at the time).
No reason, it just trips off the tongue in my mind at a pleasant clip.
Anyway, here's the whole set, plus some extra Star Wars scribble.

Merry Christmas

Explicitworks

Follow this link to photography blog http://explicitworks.blogspot.com/

Theres only one pic up at the momentbut there is a link to his Flikr site.

Well worth a look. Hell, its well worth taking time out from your day to go through the whole set.
These are some of the best, most striking images I've seen taken of Singapore, an island that sees too much concentration on its neon.

These shots are taken with a sharpness and clarity that borders on hyper-reality. I can't fathom the technique used but it works. It really bloody works. Gaze upon them and desire them on your wall.

Here's a review of the Spirit...

at a new film and DVD review blog
My Cinema Screams

Bond Bear

A doodle for my girlfriends new notebook.
Bearbear in Bond mode.

Especially for Christmas

Nothing says "yuletide festivities" like zombies.
Cut and keep. You might find it useful

Never let it be said this blog isn't up to date, relevant and topical

I forgot to put this up when it was relevant to the news. The microphones real. Guess what, the guitar ain't. Handy thing having access to newswires.
But just like Simon and Garfunkel, its the guitarist who went onto greater things

Disturbinator

The new Terminator Salvation trailer looks pretty awesome.
Someone on the millerworld message board suggested Terminator Deliverance be the next sequel.
My brain being what it is was put in mind of images of a robotic Ned Beatty scene.

If thats not disturbing enough, that image put me in mind of Terminator LOLcats

ArgH WHYYOUKIDS pt1

We had a Street Fighter 4 draw-off in the ofice last week. I chose my favourite E(ddie) Honda - sumo of a thousand slaps and his often misheard battle cry :Argh Why You Kids!! (maybe he just wanted them off his lawn) Anyway. Two versions. BW and glorious technicolour. Linestyle seems to be influenced by Frank Miller's Spirit book that I was reading before hand. Good book. You should check it out.

Graffiti for a friend

ARGH WHYYOUKIDS pt2

The combined load with all my colleagues

Super Jimmy Chumfatty

5th anniversary card for my better half of her favourite monkey.
Just a photo this time

iScribble

the joy of a crappy pencil and some scrap paper and half an idea

Captain Obama

Those banners for real

Following on from this post Some of my favourite work to date

unused art Bromance

Shock horror

bad science

lil red scribble

Been a long while... Mr Bond

Not posted for AGES.
Ah well. Just not been feeling that my drawings have been up to much.
Planning something on Quantum Of Solace. Heres a work in progress.