After sharing the excellent fully dressed superheroines of Michael Lee Lunsford, friend, game creator and walking L’Oreal advert Graham Bennett challenged me to sketch a fully dressed Witchblade and apply the reverse to a male superhero. With turnabout being fair play, I picked the wardrobe challenged Witchblade’s counterpart The Darkness.

Enjoy.


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A couple of weeks back, prolific UK manga artist Laura Watton (check out her work at pinkapplejam.com) challenged me to play cover-artist for her popular Squishy-chan character, the lovable miniature octopus from the ongoing Biomecha series.

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With 2013 arriving, I am challenging myself to push my technique, with a challenge every month. For January, this involved stepping away from the use of blending tools, focusing on mark making and stroke placement to convey colour and form.

You can see a few of the practise pieces below.


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Just a little personal piece I’ve been working on, developed from an automatic drawing.


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Sometimes you just need to sit down, put on some music and paint whatever comes to you. Thanks to Evil Housewife, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Static X and some stranger sounds I put this little study together.

Mental palette cleansed and ready to get back to paid work.


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A long delay in posts again despite my previous good intentions, but I have been busy working on various projects. Until the others are ready to show, here are my entries for Inkygoodness fantastic Beermat Character Competition, which judging by the heaps of envelopes showing up at their door has been a huge success.

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A little something different today for another Illustration Friday between thumbnails for an oil commission.


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More updates were promised and so I shall deliver. Returning to Illustration Friday with a quick response to this week’s ‘Secret’


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Having been lucky enough to attend the wedding of a dear friend of mine this weekend, I can now reveal the commission I have been working on for them. With them jetting off on their honeymoon, you should hopefully be seeing more regular updates again.


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Hot on the heels of last week, here’s a much earlier posting of this weeks Illustration Sketch Friday, ‘puzzled’.


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