Thursday, 4 July 2013
Monday, 24 June 2013
Testing...
Inking is torture. I'm heavy handed with a brushpen and stiff and twitchy with a fine liner. So in an effort to combat my dissatisfaction I've been experimenting with scanning my pencils and then filtering them through Photoshop. These new character sketches were drawn in coloured lead then re-drawn in carbon with a mechanical pencil. The results are pleasing enough so I intend to tackle some dormant sketchbook pages in the near future.
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Whatever happened to...?
Despite promising to "...post more tracks over the coming weeks..." it's been over 3 months since my last blogpost. The reason behind this inactivity has been the decision to go back to the drawing board with the Drunk Beatles project. I was brimming with the enthusiasm of posting two finished pieces over the Christmas holiday when I started drawing track two, but I was very unhappy with the results. It was just dull and lifeless and lacked that spark of spontaneity that had inhabited the original concept sketches. So since then I've gone back and redesigned the characters and overhauled the composition of the "tracks" and I'm relatively happy with the results. Below are just a sample of some of the 'new' concept sketches. Hopefully, I'll now be able to attack the finished artwork when my free time allows and post the results here with an improved regularity.
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Drunk Beatles - Track One
It's been a long and winding road since I posted the first concept work back in May of 2012. I've since abandoned the decision to produce the series as vector artwork and have re-worked the composition of each track several times. After experimenting with various pens and paper stocks I'm finally happy with the look of my linework and have started to put together the finished artwork. I'll be posting more tracks over the coming weeks with the goal to produce a couple of mini-comics sometime in the summer.
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Christmas Time is Beer again
A Yuletide greeting from The Drunk Beatles.
A very merry Christmas to all the readers of the Between Clark and Hilldale. I've got a few projects on the boil at the moment which are planned see the light of day in 2013. I'll be posting my progress over the next few months which will include a lot more from these guys. Have a good one.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012
Little Monsters
These character designs were fun to draw but don't have any plans to expand on them.
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Rooftop Moptops
Remember that Beatles project I was farting on about earlier this year? Well it's back. So to celebrate here's a drawing from earlier this year...?
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012
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