Nothing to see here

Several projects have fallen by the wayside in the past few weeks, hence no regular posts. Still keeping up the sketchbook but nothing concrete to show at the moment. Here's a sneek sketch of what I'm currently trying to work out. More soon hopefully.

Me and My Arrow

Oblio and Arrow in the Pointless Forest.

Inspired by the characters featured on the Nilsson album - The Point.

George and Glynn

Here's what I've been up to in the sketchbook for the last couple of weeks. These are character designs for a 30-something couple by the name of George and Glynn (terrible pun I know, but it seems to have stuck). Glynn pretty much came fully formed on the page but Georgina's design involved quite a bit of working out. I wasn't happy with the early ‘cute sketches’ as I really wanted to imbue her with a personality. So she eventually became a bit of an ugly duckling. Not sure what I'll be doing with these two yet, maybe some one or three panel gags but they will be popping up here from time to time.

Bat-Finn-Crazy

Doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle - BATMAN! ...and Finn.

Man in Jumpsuit

Salvaged a ropey pencil sketch with the brushpen. Not exactly sure what he's doing though.

Georgina

Coconut

Drawn on this morning’s commute, a little tribute to Nilsson's “Coconut” as featured in his marvelous 1971 BBC television special.

The Bird is the Word

Vector illustration for in-house magazine article about footballers Twitter gaffs.

Last Summer

Inspired by Eleanor Friedberger's Album Last Summer, which is currently on repeat.

Crimson Bolt Kicks Kick-Ass Ass

I got to see James Gunn's Super a few days ago which I enjoyed immensely. It has a similar premise as Kick-Ass - What would really happen if a normal person began dressing up as a superhero and fighting crime? - but whereas Kick-Ass quickly succumb to the fetishism of the genre, Super is grounded in the utter desperation of Rainn Wilson's character Frank AKA The Crimson Bolt.

Frank's misguided conscience and brutal methodology certainly asks more of it's audience than Kick-Ass' never-ending weaponry catalogue. It's a great little film and very funny with it. There are fabulous performances from Wilson and Juno's Ellen Page as the comic shop assistant cum sidekick, Boltie. If you are more Fantagraphics than you are Marvel you may well like it too.

Luther Arkwright

Just re-read The Adventures Of... and now halfway into my first reading of Heart of Empire.

Spider-Man

Commute sketchbook challenge - Draw a comic cover from memory. I was quite pleased with the results but to my bemusement when I tried to track down the original there was none. It seems my addled memory had combined two different sources, Gil Kane's splash page from Amazing Spider-Man #101 and John Romita's cover to issue#87.