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Well... finally got the new Zombina CD... BLOODY MARVELOUS! So to celebrate, here is a sketch of the Bass noodler. I've still not finished the drummer picture off yet (I'm so damn lazy!)..

However.. I do have some 'sneak preview' news... my second book (and follow up to my first book!) is shaping up quite nicely... thanks for asking!

a man on fire!!

Damn.. I'm on a roll.. This pic of Zombina Drummer 'Ben Digo - The beat with 1000 eyes' is so hot off the doodle board it'll make your eyes steam up!

Who knows if I'll get through the entire band.. I'm liking this though, and looking forward to colouring him up!

Arse about face

For your viewing pleasure.. here's the sketch for 'Doc' complete with notes to self.

Return to the Island of the Skeletones

Well.. it's not really an island at all... more like another Manga inspired sketch.. This time it's Zombina's cohort in crime 'Doc Horror'.. really pleased with this one too!

In the words of the Addams Family song.. it's creepy and it's kooky... but definitely not ookie!

What could have been

I've pulled my t-shirt design at Threadless, and I won't be submitting any more. This is mainly because the scoring system is undertaken by (largely) brain dead monkey bums who are so anally retarded that it makes me swear and call them names in the forums on the site.

Quite frankly, life's too short to spend my time shouting obscenities at a monitor... when I spend most of my day at work doing it!

Feast your peepers on what could have been... the greatest t-shirt never made!

Harley Quinn

Finally!

Here's the worked up version of the Harley sketch. As suspected, she doesn't work so well in black and white... and she deserves to be in colour anyway!

There's a tenuous link in style to Mike Mignola somewhere in the design, but I can't put my finger on it!

Perhaps I'll try and enjoy it for what it is instead of analyzing it any more?

zombina...manga style!

To celebrate the release of the elusive new Zombina and the Skeletones album (and as mentioned earlier in this blog) here is my poster to honour the new music. I took a slightly different approach for this one, in that I was doodling away and created a little 'manga' style zombina.. it's kinda reminiscent of the 'taste the blood' era artwork from Art Balthazar, but with my twisted spin on things.. Really please with this, right down to the cuetsy colours and layout (which I built up by messing about in Illustrator).

If you spot the album anywhere, let me know... it's a shy little bugger!!

The T Shirt

Regarding my T-shirt submission at Threadless.com - 

go to: http://threadless.com/critique/395198/Horror Business Workers Union

and leave some feedback.

Thanks

T shirt idea

This is my tshirt submission at Threadless.com.. I could do with as much support as possible to get this off the ground.. It's a cool design (if I do say so myself) and needs to be worn by any self respecting Fiend.

Many thanks

Harley

Continuing the trend.. here's a 'sneak peek' EXCLUSIVE!! This is the sketch for Harley Quinn.. my favourite batman character. Not sure how this is going to work out as a duo-tone image.. but I'm going to have fun working it out!

I'm really pleased with the pose, and I'll refine the face in Illustrator later!

Beware the BAT!

Here's the next one in the series of my batman character interpretations for your viewing pleasure!!.. Pretty pleased with this one too!

beware the black cat!

Here's something that popped into my head on the way to work this morning.. I put a sketch of Catwoman together during lunch at work and worked it up in Illustrator. It kinda reminds me of some cover work that Shane Glines did on the 'Gotham Girls' comic for DC a few years back, but this pretty much has my stamp on it I think.. I really like it, definitely going to look into this a bit more.. She looks good in colour too.. but you'll have to take my word for that!

PARTY TIME!... in HELL!!!

It's almost that time of year again.. All Hallows Eve is soon to be upon us.. Here is my flyer design for the most happening zombie hop in all of the land.. It's for the CD release party for my buddies 'The Dead Pleasures'.. with artwork by yours truly!! YAY!!.. If you're looking for something to do that night (other than get fat eating treats)... get your glad rags on and slink over to Ironbridge and support the band.. I can't make it unfortunately as I will be hiding under my bed until the morning!!

I've also just realized that I haven't put my web address on the bloody thing.... DOH!!!.. what a tit!...

Bum flaps!!!!

Me am Famous!!

Finally.. A little recognition!! I am one of the featured artists in a brand spanking shiny new online magazine called 'New Sugar'.. You can visit it at :

http://www.newsugar.co.uk/newsugar-issue-1.pdf

and revel in the visual delights on offer... of which mine are (of course) some of the smoothest you will ever lay our eyes on...

The theme of the issue is 'No'.. so go check out all of my Star Wars based images (which would make great t-shirt designs by the way) and a few more treats.. There's even a little question and answer with me in there for your noodling pleasure!..

Chuffed to bits to be part of something new like this.. please show your support.

Remember, it's:

http://www.newsugar.co.uk/newsugar-issue-1.pdf

and tell them I sent you!.. then come back and let me know what you think... I'm lonely here all on my own!

GRRR!

This here is a poster I put together for an american bunch of horror punks called 'Calabrese'. I saw on their website that they were running a fan art competition, so I confidently submitted my design... Suffice to say I didn't win... but the artwork that did win was (quite frankly) shit!

That makes me sound really bitter.. and I suppose (deep down) I am a little.. My artwork was far superior to the winning entries and I'm just wondering what I'm supposed to do to get recognition for what I do..

I love the band and I'm really proud of this poster, but damn... they clearly don't know good work when they see it..

Congratulations to the fans that did win!!

With regards to my poster.. the keen eyed among you may notice that I've used the background in a previous poster (for the Postmortem Maniacs)... well done you!.. but because I didn't win a prize for my hard work...  you don't either!!!!  BWWAAAAHHAAAA HAAAAA HAAA HAAAA!

I'm off to sulk for a bit more now.. The Kittie poster is progressing slowly (because I'm working on a Children's book at the same time) and I've also started a celebratory Zombina poster for their new album.... Oh.. and I'm working on a flyer for the Dead Pleasures too and hopefully a sticker for 'Crrerature Feature.. who really liked my poster designs!

BOO!

Go with the flow!

Seeing as I'm feeling generous, here's a sneak peek at a work in progress! If you look hard enough you'll see the sketch lines in the layout in places.. I'll work this one up in Illustrator soon and decide on (and position) the type whilst I'm at it... I may try a different approach and work on colouring it up in photoshop... but I might not!... can you guess who it might be for?

SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE

Here's 4 posters for 2 more bands - Postmortem Maniacs a UK Based Horror Rock act, I created 2 variations for an A3 poster that they intend to sell at their gigs, and the Creature Feature ones happened while I was experimenting with a character design for the Grim Reaper.. when I started to distort the body the idea for the poster(s) was born. 'Creature Feature' are one of the most original bands out there in my opinion.. if you're a fan of Tim Burton/Danny Elfman you should really go give them a listen!

I sent the layouts for the 2 October gigs to the band this morning, and I'll await their feedback!

Next up... KITTIE are playing Central Station in Wrexham in October.... Hello poster design!!

No Turkeys for Christmas here!

Never one to miss an opportunity to support Zombina and the Skeletones.. how's this for recycling? This is the previous post's Santa pt to good use... this is an excellent bill as both Zombina and The She Creatures are 2 of the UK's most exciting bands.. Go on.. put a ticket on your Christmas List!

a more traditional christmas card... not!

Here is another proposed Christmas Card I've submitted to moo.com and perhaps one that's more in keeping with my usual tastes!.. meet the ghost of christmas night.... Merry Corpsemas!!

The Action Design

Here's another poster I put together the other day. This is for a great band called 'the action design'.. their debut album is due out in September (YAY!) and I thought I'd celebrate it by putting a gig poster together for them. I've done 2 versions, of which this is the first. I reworked the type quite a bit on this one before settling for a pretty standard 'baseline' layout.. I think the simplicity of the 2 colours work pretty well and it kinda has the 'feel' of their music somehow... sounds a bit daft.. but give them a listen and see what you think.