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Tag Archives: Art

Angry!

17 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Art, Drawing, Drawing Challenge, Inktober, Inktober2018, Squirrel

This is the final panel of my one page comic strip. As you can see, we have one angry squirrel.

When I get the chance, I’ll put the four together. It may not be until the weekend now as I’m busy over the next couple of days.

Now onto the writing!

I have an ending that I’m struggling with. Bloody dogs!

Adios Amigo

01 Monday Oct 2018

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Art, Carlos Ezquerra, Ink, Inktober, Judge Dredd

If like me, British comics, and especially 2000AD, have a special place in your heart then today is a sad day. Today we lost Carlos Ezquerra. Ezquerra was a huge talent who co-created one of the most iconic characters ever, Judge Dredd. Carlos’s work had a huge impact on me as a child, and I would often try to copy his drawings. Therefore, it seems only fitting that my first offering for Inktober should be in honour of him.

I loved Ezquerra’s early vision of Dredd, a lean, mean justice machine. In more recent times Dredd has grown older and beefier, but it’s these early visions of a youthful Joe Dredd that still resonate with me all these years later.

If you look closely, you can see my initial pencil marks – I haven’t bothered to rub them out yet. This was inked with fibre-tipped pens and a sharpie.

Farewell Carlos.

Millenium Gorilla

30 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, Charcoal pencil, Drawing, Millenium Gorilla, Sketchtember

For some unknown reason, I always called this toy Space Monkey, but it quite clearly says Millenium Gorilla on his round badge – in reality, not in my sketch.

I’m feeling even rougher than when I last posted so ten minutes or so was all I could manage with this. It’s drawn with charcoal pencil from Tiger. They’re quite lovely to draw with, and you can get a decent black out of them. I’m not sure how well Millenium Gorilla gets on with those massive feet. It must be a bugger getting in and out of airlocks.

Heads Down

27 Thursday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Exam conditions, pen, Sketchtember

I had a stinking cold yesterday which has now transformed into a head full of sludge leaving me with the need to be curled up in a ball, not at work. Nothing was happening yesterday, so no sketch, but today I managed to scratch something out.

These were all done really quick and in pen. They’re not that accurate, but you get a feeling of their intense concentration.

Comic Biog #2

24 Monday Sep 2018

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Art, comic books, Drawing, Music, Sketchtember

I’m going to be busy this evening so I’ll post the second page of my biographical comic strip. It’s not great, but you gett the idea.

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Squeak Sqeak

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, Drawing, Sketchtember, Toys

Whoops. I missed a couple of days due to being very busy and very tired.

I was tidying up yesterday and I found some charcoal pencils I’d forgotten I’d bought. I thought I’d give them a go today. Desperate for ideas of what to draw I asked my daughter to pick out some toys I could sketch and here they are.

This first one isn’t great – the ears are way too short. The second one is much better.

Comic Sketch

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Art, Biographic, comic book, Drawing, Sketchtember

This is a bit of a cheat, but it’s been a long day, and I’m pooped. This is a biographical comic I knocked out a while ago.

I remember being quite chuffed with this when I first did it, but with hindsight, it’s not that great.

Graham.

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Graham Coxon, Ink, Music, Sketchtember

I missed yesterday’s sketch because I was at a gig in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Swoon, how exotic. I went to see the incredibly talented Graham Coxon. It was one of those gigs that you know will stay with you a long time. Coxon is moving, evocative, at ease, awkward, brave, nervous, challenging, innovative and most of all mesmerising. His guitar playing leaves me speechless. Such a huge talent.

Anyway, after all that build up, here’s my average sketch of the great man in action.

GC

This is Staedtler pigment liner straight onto paper – that’s fibre-tip pen to you and me. It’s not too bad considering – guitars are always a bastard to draw. There’s lots wrong with this, shush, but I think the hair’s okay.

Speedy Pen

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, pen, Robot, Sketchtember

A quick robo sketch for yesterday.

Biro on paper.

There And Back Again

16 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Sketchtember, Train

An art filled day in London lead to trying to sketch on the train – not great. The sketch below is from a photo I took on the train.

The one below was abandoned due to the ricketiness of the train.

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