SOTW: COWABUNGA!

never get enough of drawing these fellas. childhood favourite. not the cartoon although it was fun. more the original kevin eastman and peter laird homage. dark, gritty, serious turtles.

POTD: BUBBLE BUBBLE TOIL & TROUBLE

well, they're not exactly witches. but they are conjuring up some kind of super duper magic stuff. from the realm of exalted. i might have posted this up before? not sure. it's been a while anyways and since i hardly post any exalted stuff up, thought this would be one of my better pieces to start.

POTD: MUTANT NINJA

a sketch from a while back. psylocke, one of my favourite x-men to draw.

POTD: SWING & DODGE

an interior page from the harpercollins spiderman versus rhino children's book. colours by jeremy roberts.

SOTD: GROWL

apologies. late upload. had internet access while i was at leeds thought bubble festival on friday, but it failed so many times as the connection was slow. good old logan. with bloody claws. this piece was for a mate's son as a pressie. i contemplated hard whether or not to add all that blood on the piece since it was for a yougling. but i remembered my friend mentioning he lets his kid read the wolverine comics so i figured he's probably already accustomed to the violence and wreckage that wolverine embarks on his adventures. so what would wolverine be without his bloody claws. worse case scenario, my mate can explain that wolverine really really likes tomato juice.

POTD: YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY

two pieces today. sequential pages from spec spidey UK 170. inks by kris justice, colours by james offredi.

POTD: GAMBIT FEST

two pieces today. gambitmania. some old pieces from convention sketches. the first one is from the mind of john bamber, turning marvel heroes into good ol' westerns. white queen in the background. second piece inspired by the x-men origins: wolverine scene when gambit floats the card with energy. there were SOME good concepts out of the movie.

POTD: BREAKING NEWS

twas a typical day in, watching some TV soap, peter's complaining about the show, everyone having a good ol jolly day, then suddenly... bloody hulk and his rampaging raging rage! a sequential page from spectacular spider-man UK issue #170. inks by kris justice. colours by james offredi.

POTD: JOENESS

YO JOE! He'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble, g.i.joe is there! g.i.joe... a real american hero g.i.joe is there. its g.i.joe against cobra and destro, fighting to save the day. he never gives up, he's always there, fighting for freedom over land and air. g.i.joe... a real american hero g.i.joe is there. he never gives up, he'll stay till the fights won g.i.joe will dare. g.i.joe... a real american Hero g.i.jooooooe!

SOTW: COWBOYFUSION

i hadn't drawn a western piece in a long while. so thought i'd try it with this piece and it all started off well. but suddenly, as i was inking this, it started metamorphosing into a futuristic apocalyptic final fantasy-ish cowboy character with big guns and swords. ah well. anyways, here's my first sketch of the week.

POTD: HULK SMASH

a cover piece from spidey UK issue #170. this was done just before but was on the shelves when the edward norton hulk movie came out. to cross promote with the movie. it was fun to draw debries. like drawing them. but i'm sure inker kris and colourist jason/kat hated working on them. muchos headache. it's my way of disguising chaos and confusion for detailing.

POTD: MINUTE

as in small. ant-man small. ahh, the english language. anyways, a completely different type of style for this sequential page from an issue of the marvel heroes UK comic. written by the talented al ewing, i just felt it needed a bit more of a light hearted approach. so i adopted an animated type style for all the macho posturing ant-man will be doing in the story. lucky for me i had already previously worked on batman strikes which i had to adapt my style to suit the book and character designs of jeff matsuda. so the style change was a cinch.

POTD: GREEN GLOW

a sequential page for a smallville tv series tie in i did about two christmas ago. all about kryptonite laced stride branded chewing gum. ahhh sponsors.

POTD: DYNAMO

a pinup piece i did awhile back for jay faerber's dynamo 5. inked by kris justice. coloured by jeremy roberts. thinking about it now. quite a static piece. wish i had gone for a more of action dynamic layout.

SOTD EPIC FAIL: ENTER POTD & SOTW

so. uhm. yea. my over ambitious attempt to upload a sketch of the day everyday failed completely. ended up being a sketch every other day and even sometimes, a sketch every other week. in the end, work, deadlines and a little bit of life caught me in a bind. as much as i would have loved to do a sketch everyday, time just became a crucial factor. so i'm now introducting PIECE OF THE DAY(POTD) and SKETCH OF THE WEEK(SOTW) just to take the pressure off a bit.

the beauty of POTD is that the work is done. just showcasing stuff i've been up to for these so called deadlines i'm always talking about. i will try my bestest to upload at least one piece a day. included will also be sketches i've done back in the day or at conventions but just simply haven't had the opportunity to show. and with SOTW, i will upload a sketch towards the end of every week, mainly friday.

so to kick things off, here is a piece commissioned by my mate, michael finn. he's infamous '1 minute later' collection whereby i take an original cover, in this particular instance, x-men #19, and turn it into another cover of what happens one minute after.

original cover...


a minute later...

SOTD: 1 POSE 3 HEROES

the spider, the bats and the iron. didn't realise 3 of my first few sketches in my new sketch book all literally had the same pose. so i've put 'em together here. must have been going through a slouching, trying to look menacing, mysterious phase. :)