Comics
Kaboom! sticks
17/04/14 14:30
Had fun creating a few pages in something that is not my usual style.
I pretty much developed these guys on the fly with a little help and advice from my kids- and a whole world of characters and adventures started to grow.
Maybe given time I'll get to show more of this strange land. Time to go buy some lottery tickets.
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Judge Dredd
03/11/11 10:59
When I was nine years old I picked up the second issue of a British comic called 2000ad.
It was and continues to be a creative influence on me.
Judge Dredd is the “mascot” character and has been beautifully rendered by many amazing artists.
From a young age I was inspired by the bold inking styles of Mike McMahon and Carlos Ezquerra.
These days I continue to be in awe of there work as well as other “heavy inkers” such as Mike Mignola & Frank Miller.
I wanted to do some B&W test pages and take a stab at “Dredd”. I sketched and inked them in SBP.
I hope you like them, and hope to get the chance to do more comic stuff in the future.
Noodle Gary
12/07/11 11:22
A golf company asked me to develop a comic character for a series that would end up on some of their accessories.
I had fun doing a traditional four frame comic strip.
I had so much fun that I decided to do some four frame strips for “The Point”.
I developed the characters in this strip using a blue pencil and paper.
The strips fabrication was done in PS and the inking done in SBP.
The Point!
12/07/11 11:19
I’ve been playing around with this duo for years.
I always considered it to be a traditional comic size & 20+ pages long. After working on the “Golfer” series I started attempting to tell the fiction in traditional comic strip four frame bursts.
So far I’m enjoying developing it this way- maybe it will morph into something larger or die on the vine.
Either way I’m sure I’ll still be drawing these guys one way or another in twenty years (hopefully getting paid for it).
The character development and situations were drawn with blue pencil on paper. I then inked them in SBP and fabricated the strip in PS.
Badbatch
11/06/10 09:35
I had too much fun putting the first seven pages together.
I have been working on the story for a while, I finished the script and thumb-nailed out the pages so I had a pretty good idea of how I wanted things to look.
Even so, once I started to illustrate things began to evolve. I moved stuff around and changed some wording added sounds.
The biggest leap was the colouring. I initially planned on the whole thing being black and white; but after continuing to be inspired by my favorite comics I just had to add colour.
I enjoy colouring that’s as bold as black & white. Colour’s that compliment the graphical style of comics- hence the liberal use of orange.
I hope I get the opportunity to work on Bad batch some more one day.