New story

This is really just fiddling about. It's being fit in and around other things and, as usual, I'm hoping rather than expecting to be able to bring it to some sort of conclusion.

At the moment, I'm thinking that the final work won't be much more polished than this, in an attempt to get away from the tightness of my work. I may add a wash to it once the background's working in, but I may also wait until more pages are done so I can see if it's needed.

New software, Booo

I hate new software, it never does what I want it to do, and forces me to learn.

I brought a copy of MangaStudio, mostly for it's inking properties, but have started to play with penciling directly in. It's tricky, and certainly it's The Future, but I suspect I'll stick to unsing dead trees for a good while yet.

Steampunk Commission

I don't often do commissions - mostly as no bugger is daft enough to want one, but this piece started out as one. I got stiffed on the fee, so it ended up as being just for fun.

More Idiot Wind

A couple more pages from Idiot Wind. It's about relationships, sex and mistakes really, and is non-linear, so will make sod-all sense until more pages are up (and the text is dropped in).

Progression

It's been a couple of years since I started drawing again with anything approaching seriousness, and I thought I'd re-visit something I'd played with back then to see how I'd progressed. I think the realism went up, if the soul went down.

More Champions Villains

These character designs are from Hero Games' Champions Villains Book III.

By this third book I feel I was actually getting the illustrations right. It seems I may take a while but I get there in the end.

These three are 'The Monster', a supernatural movie-monster type. 'Lamplighter', a sinister fella who is supposed to have some resemblence to Patrick Stewart. 'Bulldozer', a vain and somewhat stupid villain, but one I remember from actually playing the game over 20 years ago!

All the characters are ©2010 Hero Games, and Champions Villains III, together with many other fine Hero products can be found at http://www.herogames.com/home.htm;jsessionid=an1Twjw2kHy7

Idiot Wind

These are just a couple of pages from a self written piece called Idiot Wind.


I haven't included any dialogue here, as the pages were really just a style test.