Narcissism

Yet another self portrait/caricature, this time sans-hair in order to reflect my current, eh...'look.'

Also, IN OTHER NEWS, I got my 200 Moo mini-cards today and boy howdy, they sure are purdy!

I'm very, very pleased with how these turned out. The print quality is top notch and everything's clean and legible looking. Most expensive but definitely worth it! So, yeah, I'm going to plug Moo, they deserve it.

Someone to watch over me...

After a bit of a hiccup a while back (ie. Zuda stopped taking submissions until the end of the summer), I'm finally putting the finishing touches to Dave and I's Rodney Tentakle pages. I've most of the hard work done on the final three pages and it's just a matter of adding some lighting effects to the pages in order to give them that extra bit of polish. Knowing me, I'll give pages 1 to 5 a once-over and redo a few things I may have missed, otherwise it's plain sailing from here on in.

So, to tide you lot over, here's a panel from page 8. I'm particularly proud of this one as it just looks...nice. I'm sure that in a year's time, I'll look back on it and go 'bleeeurgh,' but for now, I'm quite happy with it.

Page 3.

No boobs though.

The colours for page 3 of Rodney Tentakle are finito. I must say that I surprised myself with this one, I'm looking forward to seeing how the other pages turn out!

Birdbrained

A bit of a treat for you lot today!

I've just finished up the colours on page 2 of Rodney Tentakle and, instead of showing you a snippet of the page, I'm putting up the entire thing. I've yet to add text and crop it down to size but the finished article shouldn't be drastically different to what you see here.

First off, for comparison, here are the original inks:

And here are the (pretty much) final colours:

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that the original inks have been edited down quite a bit. The art was a bit too busy in places so I decided to bite the bullet and edit the flack out (not fun) -- if anything, it's taught me to be far more economic with my linework in future.

Anyways, I feel like I'm about to pass out...so I think I'll do just that. G'night all!

School Daze

While I love how my work looks when coloured it is a very slow, slow process. Well, for me it is anyways.

So far, I've moved on to doing the colours for page 2 of Rodney Tentakle and am about halfway done. Ish. To tide you lot over, here's a little peek at one of the panels (with the original inks included for comparison). Keep in mind that it's not entirely finished just yet, although the stuff I've to do is so subtle that it may not even be noticeable.

Anyways, less talk more pick-shur!

g o n e T r i p p i n

I put together the following for a contest being run by the lovely folks over at Gaijin. If you're at all adept at wielding a pencil or a similar creative device then I suggest you give it a shot.

Anyhoo, here's the piece:

m o d o k

Nuff said!

Blackstarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I am too tired to function right now. Thanks to my crappy computer, the following colours took far, faaaaaar too long. Bah.

Uncle Swifty

Richard J. Smith (AKA Hitlersbrain) kindly asked me a while back to do up a black and white version of his 'Uncle Swifty' character for a colouring book dedicated to said character. The book will be featuring many talented artists, including Dapper Dan and Neilando, so be sure to check it out!

I did up some sketches of the character to begin with, just so I could get comfortable with drawing the guy and also so that I could do the character justice without aping Richard's style...

Once I felt I was comfortable enough with drawing the character, I had to come up with an idea for the image. I was having difficulty with this as I didn't want to simply draw the character standing there like a statue but I couldn't think up of anything interesting for the character to do (I blame a major case of artist's block I was having at that moment). Then, I struck upon the idea of Uncle Swifty being just that...namely, an uncle. And what do all uncles inevitably do when drunk? Why, dance in a horrifically bad fashion is what. So, I did a quick sketch to figure out his pose...

Once that was done, it was simply a matter of laying out the lines and then inking them in. What you see here is pretty much what's going to be in the book (albeit, without the nasty red lines)...
Technically, I could have left it at that but I decided to add a splash of colour to the piece...

Aaaaaand there you go.

I can't believe I stayed up so long working on those colours. I'm mad. Mad, I tell you!

Good Grudd

My brother will be graduating from Garda college (for those of you outside of Ireland, a 'Garda' is an Irish policeman/woman) this coming Thursday, so I whipped together a card for him a whiles back. I'm only uploading the images now because I didn't want to spoil my brother's surprise.

I was worried that my brother wouldn't get the joke but he impressed me as always. Right then, on to the images:

First off, here's the complete image -- all inked up, coloured and with added text.

Here are the original lines.

Here's the image printed out and in card form.

My heartfelt message within.

Obligatory Triangapal.

Amp Her Duck

I coloured up my sketch of Bob Byrne's 'Mr. Amperduke.'


As you can see, I went for more muted tones than I usually do in my pics as I wanted to get across the original book's sombre feel in my pic. I also decided to not clean up the lines as much as I usually do, this helps give the piece a bit more weight and texture than my usual clean lines allow (thanks to Ty for the idea).

"Attack me if you dare - I will crush you."

Finally done with all this cloning business. As you can see, I've done both Akuma and Dan, based on the original Ryu model. The final image is a piece I've put together for the Con, combining all characters into one image.

Whew.

Déjà vu.


A companion piece to yesterday's work. I made a heinous error in giving Ken a bandana (protip: he doesn't wear one) but, oh well, I'm sick of looking at this. I can't help but feel kinda cheap about this one either, seeing as I just rehashed yesterday's piece -- then again, that's part of the joke, anyone that's familiar with Street fighter will get it.

Quarter circle towards, PUNCH.

Arguably the most iconic beat 'em up videogame character of all time, he's always been my character of choice in bouts of Street Fighter.