Another page preview

Here is another preview page from the infamous graphic novel Mobius Strip. I've been working on the graphic novel quite a lot recently to actually feel like I'm getting somewhere with it, but behind the scenes I am actually working very hard on children's books as well...ARGH, busy, busy! I actually really enjoyed doing this page, all the previous pages have pretty much taken place indoors somewhere, so it was nice to get a bit of rain involved. The character actually makes a comment about British weather here, but looking out of my window right now, it's absolutely amazing weather and couldn't be more different to our typical 'rain, warm, rain, rain, rain' pattern us Brits are so lovingly used to.

I am already sporting some tasteful extreme tan lines. Check me out.

Children's Book Ideas in Progress.

Poor, poor wolf. An 'in the making' illustration from a children's book idea I am working on. It involves a wolf. And snow. And a moon.

Tobacco Road Album Cover

The above is a cover I have recently done for a rockin' band called Tobacco Road. The one below is a variant I did...slightly more abstract I feel, but the one at the top was the chosen, final design. It was very weird for me to do, I don't usually do portraits so I was a bit scared to draw the band (I love drawing people, but as soon as they want a likeness to an existing person I begin to tremble) but hey, it worked out much better than I thought it would and it was a great experience to give it a go!

I'm gunna be doing the ol' rite of passage travel around Europe for a month in two weeks time, so I'm gunna try and post quite a few things before I go, just to give you something to digest whilst I'm away (don't worry, I'll have my sketchbook and will be brimming with art and ideas when I get back!).

Mobius Strip Coloured Page.

Aaaand without further ado, here is the finished page! Minus the text. TADDUUUUMM! It's actually looking quite a lot different to how I imagined it in my head, but hey, that goes for pretty much every single illustration i do. Ahhh...the mind's eye, what a fine canvas...

Graphic Novel in Development.

Here is a page from my graphic novel, which is going to be titled 'Mobius Strip' (it makes sense in the story, you'll have to trust me, I haven't titled it with a 'crazy' name to try and be cool...i hope...), in development. It looks pretty bare and boring, but I thought it might be interesting to show how I go about doing comics. Perhaps I should have scanned in my pencils before i inked it up, but that would have been me thinking ahead, and unlikely situation.

These are my inked drawings, awaiting my wacom tablet to colour them up, but I'm gunna go get some ice cream before that happens. There will eventually be a forest in the background, but at the moment my characters will have to just enjoy floating about in space. I know I would.

Giant Squid has his Apologies

Goodness, it's been a long time. Sorry about that. I did want to post some things more regularily, but I've been at that annoying stage that I don't want to post too many of the images i've been doing for 1) I''m worried I wouldn't be allowed and 2) I've been doing a lot of storyboarding, which would look better posted together with sketches and the final pieces for comparrison etc etc. There's some of my excuses over...I'll try and upload some character designs and general doodles I have been doing, but for the time being, here's a giant squid.

I don't know how well this works, the idea is that the sailors are mistaking the tip of the tentacle for a giant shark, ala the Jaws quote, but little do they realise they have a much LARGER problem. A bit like the MASSIVE cat watching me outside my window. Visious, cat stare. Whenever I show this piccy, people seem to miss the fin element, but hey, squids are waaaay up there on things I would be terrified to be 'got' by in the sea, so i enjoyed drawing it. BAM.

Wolf Cub. Man Cub.

Ideas and such like. I'm currently swimming up the waterfall that is the initial stages of story and character ideas.