I'm back....

Hello! I'm back... Creative stuff had to take a back seat there for a year or so, but it's cleared now, so I'm back at the drawing board.

Worked on this piece this week. It's not great - could feel atrophy in my drawing skills, but I had fun and I kept at it. Following some magazine tutorials for a bit until I suck less.

Also, look. I put a hand in the front. And it almost looks like a hand. A hideous, malformed hand, but a hand none the less. I was pleased that I actually put a hand in the foreground.

Like a sparrow through a brightened room

When a man loves a zombie

I haven't been very productive the last couple of weeks (damn you Dragon Age, being social and/or drunk...although I realise the first two are probably oxymorons), so here's a quick partially finished one. This is based on a really loose two minute jobbie I did on the bus. I was pretty pleased with the expanded version - a bit more detailed but retaining the looseness of the orginial sketch. This pair are looking at something, but I'm not going to tell you what it is.

This history t'aint in natur'

I arrived late at the drawing on location group this week, so I only got one picture drawn, but I was reasonably pleased with it. I didn't quite manage to convey the scale of this (it was an escalator running up into a model of the earth) but I did manage to convey a big slimey tongue coming out of sphere. I *do* wish to return so that I can accomplish my goal of drawing Charles Darwin riding a mammoth prehistoric sloth.

Zombie secretary

Quick one today - a zombie secretary. This was going to be a character in a new story, but that story has morphed into an entirely new story, which I shall tell you about in due course.

Also...

Also, I'm now script editor for Tales of the... and The Sleepless Phoenix.

I should have told you that. I apologise.

Surgical sketching

Good news if you hadn't heard it. Actually, it's pretty good even if you had. Kronos City has found a new home at Time Bomb Comics (you can read about it here, at the Kronos City blog, with a line drawing that I did of all the Kronos City leads, which I', pretty pleased with. I'll be interspersing updating my own blog with the Kronos City one.

But back to my solo stuff, which this week takes the form of my Drawing London on Location biweekly excursion. This weekend was to the Hunterian Museum of Surgery, a lovely place filled with pickled walrus and human face. I enjoyed this one a lot. I took a lot of the different items on display and made a composite sketch. The real place is much cleaner and has no blood stains.

The face on the back wall of the image is a replica of the death mask of Isaac Newton. Nifty.

 

The second piece of the day is from the park across the road from the museum, which, I think, is Lincoln Inn Fields. In this picture you will see a bandstand, a made-up lady (as in from my head, not covered in garish face paint) and lots of squiggles.