Mermaids are Freaky

I did a doodle of a weird scaly haired mermaid a while back and was itching to draw a short comic so I pulled that doodle out and made this little tale.

I always thought mermaid mythology was weird enough but this is my take on it.

This is my favourite use of pattern that I have done in a while.

Also check out the new header I put together.

SUPER BATTLE TANK CAT!!??!!

The hard toil of finally having a day job is stopping me from posting here regularly but I will not let that stop me. I am still working hard at building my body of work. I've been using Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook alot more because they make it so easy to post simultaneously on all platforms.  

Well enough rambling here's one of the pieces that I have created since last I posted.

It is a design for a Threadless competition that opened up this month. The theme was Super Cats and I could think of nothing more super than a cyberneticly enhanced feline battle tank. He is a lean mean purring machine.

Monkey Mayhem

I did this for Ellenstration's new blog The Illustrated Iguana. It's an animal themed illustration blog where she hopes to showcase loads of awesome animal art. Check it out and submit your stuff, she's running a competition at the moment so go there soon.

Long Time No Post

It's been a while between updates but you know how life gets in the way. But it is time to start showing off what I am working on. I am making a short 8 page comic about the Elf character that I made up last year. I've been wanting to do a mini comic for a while now and I've wanted to do a story about the hopeless elf for even longer so I am killing 2 birds with one stone. I hope you like this first page I hope to post snippets of my progress more regularly. I have still been working hard and I may post some of it soon but time got away from me.

I've been trying out all the new stuff I figured out on the previous project I completed. I love learning new techniques and I always do when I start a new project.

Hope you enjoy.

Robot Dance Party

A Robot Dance Party. 

Trying to use everything I've been learning from doing my work to make everything more interesting.

Hope you like it.

What can you do in five minutes?

I have recently started taking part in mini projects run by The Sketchbook Project they are really fun challenges and I recommend them. I did this portrait of Lincoln for the most recent one.

The challenge was to draw a portrait in five minutes.

Self-Portrait

A little self-portrait animation that came from trying to draw myself. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 28

Kid Briton from Avengers Arena, The Flaming Douche with the Flaming Sword.

Draw-A-Day February Day 27

Rocket Raccoon

Draw-A-Day February Day 26

Part of a Project with Arthouse Co-Op called Infinite Scroll: Space.

''The Infinite Scroll series is inspired by the surrealist drawing exercise known as exquisite corpse, in which a group of people work collaboratively on a drawing without seeing the other parts that come before and after. Sign up and we'll email you the template and instructions for creating your design, drawing, or illustration of a journey through outer space. We're expecting aliens, nebulas, orbiting objects, and anything else you can invent!''

Hope You like it. 

Draw-A-Day February Day 25 BONUS... last one I promise.

I ain't afraid of no ghosts...

Draw-A-Day February Day 25 BONUS... AGAIN!

CAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAVEMAN!

Draw-A-Day February Day 25 BONUS... Yes Another One!

Jab was always my Favourite.

Draw-A-Day February Day 25 BONUS TOOOOOOOO!!!!

Smurfing smurf it's a smurf. Oh smurf not again.

Draw-A-Day February Day 25 BONUS!!!!

DARKWING DUCK.... Let's get dangerous!

Draw-A-Day February Day 25

Matt Tracker from MASK. 

Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand, yes command with a K.

Draw-A-Day February Day 24

Panthro is the wierdest of all the Thundercats.

 I think his mother had an affair with a Bat person cause those or the most batty ears I've ever seen.

Draw-A-Day February Day 23

More nostalgia with Skeletor

Draw-A-Day February Day 22

Don't You Know There's no such thing as a Gruffalo.

With Apologies to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

My girlfriend wouldn't stop suggesting this so I had to draw it. Tried something new with the background cause white wasn't doing it any favours.

Draw-A-Day February Day 21

One more week :) Almost made it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 20

A King and his throne.

Been working on an idea I've got and felt like doodling down this idea. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 19

Went to see 'Wreck-It Ralph' today and loved it, Disney does it again. So I decided to have a stab at drawing the wrecker himself.

Draw-A-Day February Day 18

Draw-A-Day February Day 17

A fully coloured short comic about a scared elf with a dream.

Draw-A-Day February Day 16

The little comic to practice fully composed images. I'm gonna ink and colour this sucker up tomorrow. Hope you like.

Draw-A-Day February Day 15

What started as a doodle ended as a gif hope you like.

Draw-A-Day February Day 14

A strange Patchwork creature for no good reason than I felt like it. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 13 Bonus Character Design

I wanted to try something a bit different so I decided to create a quirky female character. I like how some artists use patterns to colour flats and decided to create my own patterns to do that with. I am really please with how it worked out and will definitely try it again.

Draw-A-Day February Day 13

I had fun drawing licensed characters with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from a couple of days ago so I asked my girlfriend (check out her blog) for a suggestion and you can see above what she suggested.

Draw-A-Day February Day 12

A new character design for my ongoing struggle with the Sketchbook Project graphic novel I am working on. His name is 'Hipster Dawg'.

Draw-A-Day February Day 11

Just a few of my favourite Teenage Mutrant Ninja Turtles characters (80's costumes obviously cause nothing beats the original) 

Hope you like them.

Draw-A-Day February Day 10

I have no idea what I drew today but I drew something so I'm happy.

Even I'm a bit confused at this picture.

Draw-A-Day February Day 9

Another watercolour experiment and finally a good scan of watercolour. This time I drew the pencil lines and  watercoloured onto a separate piece of paper on my lightbox and inked ontop of the watercolour.

Draw-A-Day February Day 8 BONUS TIME!!!!

I enjoyed doing my watercolour superhero so much that I decided to do another one hope you like it.

Really need to work on scanning watercolours, but practice makes perfect right.

Draw-A-Day February Day 8

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay got past the first week without a hiccup... let's keep going.

Today I decided to do a water colour superhero.

Draw-A-Day February Day 7

Over at a forum I joined they have a Sketchbook challenge and this months was to recreate a page of comics by one of your favourite artists. I chose Casanova by Gabriel Ba.

His Page

 My Page

Draw-A-Day February Day 6

Just a quick one today have been busy but I made it :)

Draw-A-Day February Day 5

A few random Character drawings I did today for Draw-A-Day February. I really like how some of the characters look so I hope I can use some of them again.

Draw-A-Day February Day 4

A little experiment with minor animation in a comic and one page narratives. Hope to try some more when I have the ideas for them. It was inspired by Zac Gorman and his MGT comics so check them out they are awesome. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 3

The first panel of a single page comic I have started today hope to finish it over the next few days and try something new on it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 2

Day 2 and I feel better about what I managed today. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February- Day 1

A quick one for the first day. I was a bit busy today so didn't have a proper chance to get into it. I decided to go the random word route and it came up with chronicler. Hopefully I can do something better tomorrow.

Fan Art Thor

A piece of Thor fan art that I did for Project Rooftops Fan Art Friday for February

The Sketchbook Project

Before the new year started I finally received my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. I have signed up for the tour which is going to be a collection of graphic novels. I have completely thumbnailed one idea which was... baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. It was derivative and trying way to had to feign that it was interesting, it really wasn't. I have wiped the slate clean and started again trying to do something more interesting and I think I have it.

A quick character design for my Sketchbook Project Graphic Novel

Empousa

This is an illustration of the greek mythical creature called an Empousa. An early vampiric creature who sucked the blood and ate the flesh of young men.