Friday, 4 December 2009

War of Words.. MASTER


Loads of ideas for this week's word.. and no time to pursue any of them... bugger! So I stuck to what I know (yawn!) and popped out a Darth Vader pic... after all, you can't go wrong with the big D can you?

Dave's entry is a-fuckin-mazing! and nothing more need be said on the matter!

I'm Batman!

Dinna Dinna Dinna Dinna...

Dinna Dinna Dinna Dinna....

BATMAN

Friday, 27 November 2009

For the devil sends the beast with wrath..

Here's my interpretation of Hellboy via Picasso.. If you really, really like this you can buy a nice big professional print of it over at http://www.society6.com/thisishorrorbiz along with another print... and lots more lovely art thingies from me to follow!

Ta.

War of Words.. WELCOME


For me, this weeks word (which was 'Welcome') could only have been represented by 1 image... Guns & Feckin Roses!!..  Really digging my entry too (if I say so myself) .. it's tipping it's big top hat in the direction of the 'Naughty Naughty Pets' artwork, which suits me fine! Slash was done in about 4 minutes... which is wicked!

Dave is BACK!... and even he's happy with his splendid Arkham Asylum cast.. and so he should be.. it ROCKS!

Next week... MASTER.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Ninja!

Here's a Ninja I posted over on the Art Jumble blog last week! Really pleased with this too, I like the shapes and angles.. it's jarring but still quite graceful looking!

Girl Power


Did a doodle at break.. really liked it too!.. So here it is. Ironically I was going to mark this up as Marvel Comics 'Black Widow'.. but I've just checked my buddy Dave's blog and he's gone and posted a Black Widow sketch (and very good it is too).. so now it looks like I'm copying... so here is a' Kick Ass King Fu Killa' instead!

Chrismus is coming!!!!

Here's some silly doodles I did last night.. even though I'm getting bogged down with Christmas cards and Calendars in work I'm still looking forward to the Holiday season!

It was nice working in green biro... don't know why!

Thursday, 19 November 2009

War of Words.. GOLDEN


Golden wasn't too bad a word this week.. I was toying with producing a Sinbad/Golden Flees related image and then plumped for a crappy old Hammer film 'The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'. I wanted to try my hand at a Mike Mignola inspired piece using lots of black and some muted colours.. it looks okay, except that in retrospect the pose (and hands) make him look more like a malformed Thunderbirds puppet... arse!

Dave's getting back up to speed with his artwork now and this collection of Characters from Lord of the Rings proves the point! Great Stuff!

Friday, 13 November 2009

War of Words.. STATUE


Interesting word this week.. I was trying to run with an idea that involved Medusa.. but I thought that was a bit obvious.. nudie women and all that.. so I did a sketch of one of the 'Easter Island' heads.. and I really liked it!.. then I thought, what if the heads weren't 'just' heads.. but they had giant robot bodies too.. So that was my entry for Statue sorted!

Dave's struggling with 'Illustrator's block' again this week.. it must be the water round here! His Doctor Who sketches look brilliant though and I'm excited to see what he does with the final piece.... and I knew he'd go for the statues from 'Blink' for his entry!!

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

yet more sketches...

...don't know if you're interested in seeing sketch work?... but you're stuck with it! MMMWWWAAAHHHHHHAAAAA HAAAAAAA HHHAAAAA.....   hhhhaaaaaaa!

even more doodles

Here's some more sketchbook pages..

1. Sketch for a mock comic story 'Daredevil's bad day'
2. Chewbacca - School Days!
3. Really rough Spidergirl sketch
4. Nude in a pool.. with crazy hair!
5. Devil/Fetish Girl

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

more doodles

More TV doodling.. I watched Zack Snyder's remake of 'Dawn of the Dead' the other night (possibly for the first time all the way through) and really enjoyed it (apart from the bit with the dog in.. don't like animals in films in case something bad happens to them!) Anyhoo.. I did the zombie sketch on the left to represent the boyfriend from the beginning of the movie.

The goofy looking vampire was just me mucking about with shapes again..

Friday, 6 November 2009

War of Words.. EMPTY


YAY... A finished piece for War of Words!! Hurrah!

I seemed to manage my time much better this week and whilst watching a marathon session of 'Most Haunted' I doodled away in my sketchbook.. and my entry for EMPTY magically found it's way onto the page.. It's tenuous.. but I don't care.. I'm really liking the blue demon harpy girl I did.

Dave struggled with the design this week (not the concept).. head over to davehiggins.wordpress.com and see the frustration unfold. The result is worth it though.. another brilliant idea from Mister H.

Next week... STATUE.

Thursday, 5 November 2009

more sketchy things..

Summat I doodled the other night whilst in the middle of a marathon 'Most Haunted' session.

Monday, 2 November 2009

Plug time!



Illustrations of e...
By Shane

Well.. seeing as I missed a trick when it came to the perfect Halloween gift.. how's about the perfect christmas gift? I have 2 very smart books available at blurb. Click on an icon to view a preview of each, and do your best ever friend a favour and buy them a copy... maybe.

Friday, 30 October 2009

War of Words... SPELL



Another crappy week at work has meant that I failed to get a fresh sketch finalised for the word, so I've submitted an older image I did a few months ago which (witch) fits the bill.. but it still feels like a gyp sorry!.. Mine's the nudie green girl on the bottom.
Dave's work in progress (at the top) is quite frankly AWESOME... and I really want to see the finished item, which (witch) when it's done, I'll post! New word (which/witch hopefully I'll be able to get a finished piece together for) is EMPTY.

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Tis the season to be jolly...


Fa la la la laaaaa. La la la laaaaaaaa!!

Monday, 26 October 2009

War of Words.. BELIEF


Oh God... Sorry for the late posting.. It's been a total turd of a week! Neither Dave or myself got round to producing 'complete' work this week due to other work commitments. Mine is still at the sketch stage and is a character designed to symbolize several 'belief' systems.. see what I did there?

Dave's entry is altogether more clever.. and fun.. click on the close up and read on!

New word of the week... SPELL! in honor of Halloween!

Friday, 23 October 2009

Still alive...



... Only just though! Been super busy at work lately, so not had a lot of time to produce work.. done a few doodles (including the word of the week - which is still not finished!) 

thought I'd post a couple of them to show ya'll that I'm not being lazy.

It's funny, because I've been getting really frustrated at this lack of creativity at the moment, but time is just sooooo tight right now!

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Nosferatu

Here's a close up of a full sketch I did yesterday of the 'classic' looking Nosferatu. I wrestled with the idea of putting the smile on his chops for ages.. put it on, take it off, put it on, take it off... in the end I left it on.. It's probably better for it as it softens his character a little..

I like this image, the shapes are nice and simple, but still pretty strong!