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.

Another Blackstar Page

So, got most of the pencils done for another page of Blackstar today. I must admit that this page was quite difficult to figure out but once I got some niggles sorted out in thumb sketches it was plain sailing. Also, you'll notice that I've posted an updated version of page 4, I made an absolute disaster in trying to ink the original panel 1 (which wasn't that well drawn to begin with). I decided that redoing the panel was better than causing myself more frustration -- I'm sure you'll agree that it melds much better than the original version did.

Also, I finally got my business cards today. Unfortunately, I forgot to add a link to this very blog on the bloody thing so I now have to hand-write those details on the back of every card. All 250 of them.

Oh well. We make mistakes so we can learn.