One for the road!

Maybe we've got time for one more post... In the immortal words of Noddy Holder "It's CHRISTMAAAAASSSSS"

War of Words.. TRIANGLE (Part 1)

Well.. the end of the year is almost upon us.. I finish work for the holidays today and our internet connection is playing up at home. As a result.. this might be my last post for a short time.. but worry not.. I'll be back!! I'm posting my entry for 'Triangle' now, and I'll add Dave's at a later date. When the word came up this week I instantly thought of 'Where the wild things are' for some reason.. so this is a little homage to the 'wild rumpus'.. can you spot the triangle?

If I don't make any more posts before Christmas and the New Year celebrations, have yourselves a most excellent time, and thanks for checking by my blog this year.. come again won't you!

Shane

Sith Aprentice

Just messing about again.. Here's a Sith Aprentice with some kinda lightsabre-nun-chukky-whippy thing instead of the usual swords!

Black Widow.. finally!

Finally found time to finish off my Black Widow piece... and here it is!! Hope you guys like!

Remix 01 Y'all!

I love the idea of 'remixing' work.. reinterpreting someone else's art.. I thought I'd have a go.. with my own work!!

Many moons ago I did an illustration of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. This piece turned out to be the catalyst in creating 'Horror Business'.. so where better place to start, than at the beginning. I must dig out the original drawings to post at some point, but for now, here is the 2009 remix. It's funny because I can remember doing the original and it taking me blinking hours for some reason.. this little fella took about 15 minutes. Now either I've gotten pretty lazy in my approach to art, or (and I like to think it's this) I've begun to refine my style to a point that I can work much more effectively in a shorter space of time...

but then I might just be talking out my ass!

War of Words.. DANGER

Not a lot of time to think of many things this week... murderous in work at the moment!! Dave (quite rightly) plumped for a Psycho Bunny image to represent the word. I stuck to what I know and worked up 2 sketches that I'd done earlier in the week of The Punisher and Doctor Octopus, then put them together and added some inane drivel! Enjoy!

Yes... more Crimbo pics!

looks like rain... dear.

Getting more christmassy by the minute here!

Izzat you Santy Claus?

Tick Tock Tick Tock... Christmas is coming y'all!

War of Words.. RISE

Another tough one for this week! Although I have to admit, I really like my funky spaceman entry.. it's kinda cute!

Dave (having also struggled with the word) has put another great piece together. It's fun, funny and very well put together, I'm loving the relationship between the image and text.. well done old chum!

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

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.

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!

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!

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!!

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

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..

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.

more sketchy things..

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

Plug time!

Heroes & Villa...

Volume 2

By Shane

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Heroes & Villa...

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By Shane

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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.

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.

Tis the season to be jolly...

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

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!

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!

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!

The Dancing Dead..

Hmmm.. good name for a band that!

Anyways, Here's a little doodle to promote the newly released vinyl only EP from the splendid Ghastly Ones!

War of Words.. SUGAR

Amazing.. we both went for monsters.. and we both went for cereal based characters. My entry this week is based on an American Cereal Brand called 'Chockula'.. the werewolf character is for the 'Fruit Brute' arm of the brand.. I kinda cheated this week as I produced this image for the monstercereal blog and felt it lent itself to the word of the week too.. you could look at this image as a political statement on the effects that sugars in cereals have on the youth of today... if you really wanted too!

Dave has produced another nice piece based on the Honey monster. I remember being a little scared of him on the adverts when I was a kid.. The costume was pretty primitive back then as I remember... Still, Dave's take on the yellow peril is no less frightening... and he got a girl in there too!

something different?

Here's a mock poster I did at work for a ZONE ENTERPRISE WEEK at Glyndwyr University. It was a submission of ideas brief. I'm pretty pleased with it as it was done in a major rush. the idea being that each character represents a different activity going on throughout the week... Robot (Computing) Alan Sugar (Business) Pirate (erm.. sports).. it's for a 'Treasure Hunt' day.. and Pop Wannabe (Open Mic Talent Night).

Heard today that we didn't get the job.. Not that I'm bitter, but they probably went for something pretty lifeless.. Still.. I think there's some mileage in these characters and I liked the colours..

See.. I do real work too!