Hey, folks!
Still working hard over here, getting everything ready for Thought Bubble! In lieu of a comic page, please enjoy this drawing I did of Blaze Fielding from Streets Of Rage that I did at Drink & Draw last night!
See you all next week!
M.
Hey folks! Another busy week, getting ready for all the convention action coming up – what’s even better is that I just got accepted to another one, at the end of November! It’s all go here, let me tell ya 🙂
Unfortunately, this means there’s no story page today, but please do enjoy in lieu of a page this sketchbook page I drew at tonight’s Drink & Draw meetup! If I have time between the commission I’m working on and preparing more merch to sell, I’d like to produce a mini-comic or two. I’ve been watching a lot of Dragonball Z recently, and so I fancied parodying some Shonen tropes. That’s Tiger Crane up the top there, and his nemesis/best friend Lord Terrifying to the left, and the unholy union of Krillin and Tienshinhan that is Gong, down at the bottom.
Hey folks! The run-up to Thought Bubble 2018 continues unabated! Meet Gordito, the final member of Hot Vinyl Skate Pack #1. Along with Bones and Gem from last week, he’s been sent off to the vinyl supplier. I’m also planning on producing a sheet of paper stickers featuring these characters, and maybe three badges with the characters on them too, as part of Skate Pack #1. All about that value for money!
I also sent Horror Buffet Issue 2 off to the printers, and after correcting a piece of terrible lettering that I did, it should be rolling off the (digital print) presses very shortly! Very excited 🙂 Will also be able to do a table deal with Horror Buffet #1 and #2, which is cool!
Hey folks! Sorry about the Extra page – I’ve decided to use my drawing time to produce more stuff for sale at the next convention I’m attending! Hope you don’t mind! These here are part of a new sticker series – going to bundle three character vinyl stickers with six paper stickers (vinyls will be individually sold, too). I’m almost, ALMOST finished with Horror Buffet #2 as well – just got one more page to do, then the cover, and it’ll be ready for print layout! Very exciting!
Hey folks! Sorry about the Extra page – Unfortunately, my Cintiq is giving up the ghost. On the plus side, it was my birthday week this week, so I’ve managed to purchase a replacement! 8 years this tablet has done me, which is not too bad considering how heavy it’s been used! I think it’s the power supply – maybe if I can furnish it with a replacement, I can donate it to somebody who needs an input device. But the new tablet is MUCH more up to date, and I’m really looking forward to setting it up!
Hey folks! Since today’s a scheduled Extra day (I know, how would you tell the difference?) I thought I’d practice a new technique! I’ve been trying to figure out how the hell to do rendered style shading for YEARS now, and everything’s finally just clicked – the culmination of a lot of reading, studying, and this article in particular.
Still got a LOT of practice to go before I’m happy with it, but damn if it isn’t satisfying for a first try at colouring in this way! Now, I’ll probably still stick with the ‘cel-shaded’ look I’ve been using for years, but for covers and print work – maybe even short comic work – I think this will be very useful for.
Hi everyone. Still incredibly busy, and recovering from injury, plus Small Press Day on Saturday – this is pencils for a print I hope to have on sale there.
Have a great weekend, folks.
M.
Hi folks, sorry for yet more filler – a combination of work, preparation for my friend’s wedding, and a horrendous injury (seriously, do NOT strain your tibiala anterior, that shit HURTS) have meant I’ve had to minimise my time spent at my drawing board and machine.
So I thought I’d colour the ideas I had from last week – going for a bright, almost neon palette. Might do some studies of 90s comics and advertising, actually. The key thing is, though, I really want to keep the key colours associated with each character – can anyone hazard a guess as to what the Bad Gals’ colour schemes are references to? 😀
Hey everyone, sorry for the filler, but it’s been another incredibly busy week, with late nights and tiredness all round and not enough time to do the comic. On the plus side, I did get along to last night’s Drink and Draw session, which was great, got to catch up with a few people there. So I doodled down some ideas I’ve been working on, in this case “Bad Gal Bodega”. Imagine a corner store run by three ladies with badditude, located in a town just teeming with mad scientists, alien invaders, ancient prophecies, etc etc…
Hey folks! It’s been a busy week, and it’s only gonna get busier! I’ve not long packed my trekking backpack full of stuff, and my trolley case full of even more stuff, that’s been freshly run off the press and guillotined and packaged up neatly – and it’s off to the Kingdom of Fife for Glenrothes Comic Con on Saturday!
Here’s the other new print I’ve created, the counterpart to Yue-Tou the moon Rabbit. She is Seung-Ngo (Or Chang’e if you speak Mandarin), the Archer’s wife who became the moon goddess. I’m really pleased with how this turned out!
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