Ger-night!

Tomorrow's another day, etc.

Buscemi-Pelé-Smalls Mash-up!

Another little experiment working with multiple images for the purpose of more advanced and involved compositions. I liked how the colours worked so I decided to upload it...

Pelè

The great Pelè!

Günther Takes The High Mountain Pass...

Günther's taking the high mountain pass to visit his girlfriend Heidi in the next valley over. Today, as always, he'll be late, due to him stopping to appreciate the fairy lights, a phenomenon of high altitude and bad grog.

A totally organic experiment hence there being no sense to this whatsoever other than the mangled narrative I've suggested above. If he's got ginger hair, how come he's got a 5 o'clock shadow? Oh well...

Pete

Peter Cook

The great comic actor, writer and comedian in digital pencil.

Discovered this in the vaults, about 9/10ths done - so I dusted it down, tarted it up and shoved it out the front door.

We Love Skullzzzzzzz!

Skulls are always great fun to draw/paint/spray/doodle. I never tire of finding different ways of drawing a skull with a pair of crossed bones...not since that first school exercise book, all them years ago...

Waiting for...what?

What are you waiting for?

Sergio Toppi - remembered

A quickish sketch of the great Italian artist and comic illustrator who died yesterday, and is surely deserving of a more involved study at some point. That's three legends gone this year - very sad. I haven't discovered one definitive web site dedicated to him but if you want to see this master's work (and you really do want to see his work) then your best move would be to image search his name on google - do it now!

Angry Avian

I'm experimenting here. Used Sketchbook Pro, or rather a free trial package, to do all the rough sketching as well as the inking. It's really proving to be a more powerful tool for drawing than Photoshop...well, more powerful than the CS2 version that I'm still using. Maybe the latest version of Creative Suite has addressed this. The inked stage was still taken into Photoshop for all the colour work as it's still got all the advantages in that department. Do any of you guys use Creative Suite 6? Have they improved the settings for intuitive sketching, drawing and inking or does Sketchbook Pro still hold the high ground?

Judge Death sez "Fools!"

Photoshop +PC

More fan art: this time Judge Death, one of Dredd's apocalyptic antagonists. Good fun to do, this.

Anthony Burgess

in Photoshop on PC

Changed the brush settings and went for a more dip pen approach with this one. Why? Anthony Burgess had a wild head. 

Pussy Dredd

"There's a riot goin' on..."

Dr. Tennant

David Tennant

Drawn in Photoshop

Po'verine

What do you get if you cross a flexible panda with a mutant? Answer: Po'verine, of course. Just my little cross-character pollination silliness. I was surprised how much I liked Kung Fu Panda. Great set designs, environments and animation - very inspiring.

...and not leaving it there, I had to go and and make a little logo for him.

Bowie!

The thin white duke in full ghoulish glory. Shame he went and got his teeth fixed. He'll keep getting drawn by me, I'm sure, as I've never quite nailed him as I'd like...

Old-Style Future Frontiersmen

Some crazy coots I drew a couple of months back as a bit of a fun exercise. Var-mint!

Miles of Jazz...

Due to other important non-art based distractions, it's been a long time since any posts. While I get round to finding time to remedy this, you may want to read a little online interview I had with Jeffrey Hyatt who writes and curates a Blog/site dedicated to Miles Davis. As well as Jeff's knowledgeable and comprehensive input, his site is a great resource for interviews with writers, musicians, artists and others, all linked to Miles Davis in some way. So if you're interested in Miles, Jazz or just want to find out a little about the caricature of Miles Davis I recently drew then take a look here. Some answers I've given before elsewhere on the web but I'm hoping it still makes for a good read...

Howard Stern

Shock Jock Howard.

David Lynch

I've sketched the great film maker and painter a few times but I'm gonna try to make time at some point to create a great full-colour, full weird-out portrait - as befitting his unique work. His hair deserves a separate painting all for itself...

Miles Davis

Sketched in Photoshop with Cintiq...

Wild Thing

 Maurice Sendak

Creator of 'Where The Wild Things Are' and another exiting artist...

MCA

What's all this? Another of the great and the good has passed the mic for the last time. Sad to hear of Adam Yauch's premature departure. Painted the above to the soundtrack of Paul's Boutique, which along with Check Your Head are my fav' Beastie albums. Funky farewell, MCA...

Levon Helm

Twanged on 6music this evening to hear the great live version of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' by The Band - not just a great version of this particlular song but a great live performance and recording of any song. On finishing, Gideon Coe remarked that it had been played as part of a tribute to The Band's singing drummer who'd died after a long battle with cancer, which I was unaware of. I'm a late convert to The Band and am still catching up, but this quick post is for Mr Helm. If you're interested in watching Levon & The Band performing the song live then click here (link good at time of post).

Coloured Judgement

Always worth doing the time painting Dredd...

old blog header 2009

Back in the day when I started up this blog, the above image was my header. Doesn't do justice to the baby blues that the owner normally peered through, but they're still the coolest...Original image - acrylic paint on canvas board