Crafty Loving

At a loose end this evening so I did another sketch for the ten ton sketch challenge...
Pentel P200 0.5mm pencil on Daler sketchpad..

Mighty Cthulhu

I think the latest version of Mountain Lion is playing games with my scanner. It takes some "rubber chicken" magic to get it working, plug, unplug, press copy button etc.
I must spend a bit of time to work out what the problem is or I'm sure it'll bite me on the bum at a time of urgency.
Annnnnnyway. Here's the scan of the ten ton sketch challenge entry.

The call

This week the 10 ton sketch challenge is lovecraftian monsters... Couldn't let an opportunity to draw Cthulhu pass me by. So pens and water colour inks, ill scan it when it's dry.

Brighton Mini Maker Faire

So tempted to start so many other projects...
So hard to stop myself...

Dredd full

Ten ton sketch challenge this week is Judge Dredd, with whom I grew up back in the 1970's.

quick draw

On a recent "comics are great " podcast Ryan Estrada talked about a pen he'd been using that allowed him to speed up his work. I bought a couple: Pentel Stylo refill MLJ20. There are quite fast, but I'm not sure I like the feel of the fibrous nib... it seems a little fragile, and at the wrong angle it "sprays" Anyway I did a quick sketch for this weeks 10 ton challenge, and have to agree it's quick...

UPDATE- weird as it may seem this one was a 10Ton Sketch Challenge winner. Guess I must have captured something of the shock the little fella would feel as 1 pile of innards plopped on his head...

Followers of the Apocalyp.se

My friend and colleague David Kernohan asked me to scribble a header for his long running blog Followers of the Apocalyp.se ... which is obviously a bit of a gift in terms of illustration, as the amount of imagery surrounding the apocalypse is vast. I immediately scribbled something on a post it note...

I spent a bit of time trying to do something fancy based on a Durer etching, and then went back to this sketch... often the first thing I draw has so much more life and energy.

I inked it up in Photoshop, added a spot of colour and some text and reasonably pleased with the end result.

I think  I've made the image a little longer to prevent the repeat on the site...