Militia Biker Concept
The purpose of this piece is two-fold: 1) to develop a design for a generic character to be included in my (long-time-coming) graphic novel, and 2) to establish a style for it as a whole.
What I want from the style is something simple but with the potential for sincerity in order to lend weight to the topics I intend to address within the book. Whether or not I’ve achieved such versatility cannot be gauged from a single drawing, but I’m fairly confident I’m on the right path if nothing else.
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A Doodle Evolved
This has nothing to do with the graphic novel stuff I said I’d be posting; what we have here is a doodle that I just continued to develop.
Interestingly, the first thing I drew was her bottom.
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A New Avatar
So I recently set up Facebook and Twitter accounts for my art things – which, if you feel so inclined, would love your attention (scroll down, on the right) – and it occurred to me that I didn’t have any sort of avatar. So here we are:
Honestly, you have no idea how accurate those proportions are.
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Some things…
Firstly, here’s another random. Just a little illustration for a friend, inspired by a Deadpool pic I found on my travels.
Secondly, my mind has recently been ablaze with a renewed passion for my graphic novel idea, and so I’m going to be posting sketches and roughs of characters/vehicles/pages very soon. I stopped work on it last time due to certain… creative anxieties, but I feel so compelled to create the world and tell the story that I’m confident this time I’ll overcome them. Obviously, any project of this scale is bound to create concerns; the trick is to take action in spite of them.
Or so I’m told. ¬_¬
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SB – Octopus Attack!
Another page from the sketchbook.
Unfortunately I made a perspective mistake on the submarine’s rear propeller housing and ended up using liquid Tipp-Ex to remove it, knowing full well of the problems it creates with uneven surfaces. As you can see it was a fatal error, and something I strived but failed to take control of.
It’s okay though. It’s only in the sketchbook. And it was just the motivation I needed to order some Tipp-Ex Mouse Correction Tape. That’s where it’s at!
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IF – ‘Vocal’
Illustration Friday – ‘Vocal’
Although, to be honest, it was more of a Photoshop painting exercise than anything.
I’ll make a proper IF illustration soon, I promise! One where I don’t take the topic at face value. It’s all about creative interpretation, after all!
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The Joker
My sketchbook is bound with a huge metal coil so it doesn’t sit properly in my scanner, which is why I always end up with a dark area on the right or left side of the image.
Stupid sketchbook.
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Splatterpunk Zine Illustrations
Here are a couple of illustrations I did for the first issue of Splatterpunk, a new horror fiction magazine.
Each one was designed to illustrate a short story written by Jeff Strand and WD Gagliani respectively, and I was under orders to use only greyscale.
I would’ve done a lot more to the second but the deadline and a crazy concoction of events meant time was limited. Even so, I still learnt a great deal from both.
About the zine:
Printed horror fiction zine including new fiction from JEFF STRAND, TIM CURRAN, WD GAGLIANI & DAVE BENTON and JACK BANTRY. Interviews with JACK KETCHUM, WRATH JAMES WHITE & ANDRE DUZA. Illustrations by ADAM HALL and DAN HENK. Non-fiction by WAYNE SIMMONS. Available from http://splatterpunkzine.wordpress.com
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Illustration Friday – ‘Return’
Honestly? I just wanted to draw a zombie and I wanted to enter Illustration Friday. This week’s topic kind of works even if the message is a little contrived.
Zombies are overdone, yes, but they’re still crazy fun to draw.
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Superman
Just a quick sketch of Superman.
I accidentally made his eyes a little too feminine and the anatomy isn’t perfect, but hey, a sketchbook isn’t about perfection!
