Showing posts with label comic style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic style. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 July 2015

I Want My Heart Back

I Want My Heart Back by Hard Work.
Nice project to be involved with. I drew the pictures, while Rob Chandler worked his magic and brought them to life! See the whole music video HERE






Big thanks to Mike Haralambos of Hard Work

Saturday, 10 January 2015

POW! Scomis Superheroes!

A great project to work on for Devon County Council. 
Scomis, leading the way in schools ICT development with... The Enabler! The Resolver and The Improver!










Big thanks to Debbie and Rob at Devon County Council.

Thursday, 31 July 2014

The Bug!


Giant apocalyptic bass bug for Mojo this month - out now!
Big thanks to Wag  

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Post Art posted 2014


My 3 entries to this year's PostArt exhibition at The Horsebridge. The first 3 in a series of one page graphic novel shorts, entitled Strip.
In the post now.

Monday, 27 January 2014

Comic Art Workshop


As part of the recent Epic Adventures season at The Horsebridge, I dipped my toe in the water of teaching. My workshop was on comic art, and 19 of Whitstable's talented under 18 year olds came along. They didn't need much help - I just offered a few suggestions and stepped back. Their resulting work was fantastic, and I feel very proud of them.
The students picked an excerpt from a classic story (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Dracula, Life of Pi, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), and their task was to create a short comic strip based on the text of one of these epic adventures. 

The process was to sketch out the thumbnails, thinking about "camera angles", establishing shots, narrative pacing, how to portray drama, and action. Then work on the tighter pencils, and onto doing the inks. I tried to keep it open to allow their own ideas to come to the fore.

I used "Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work" (see below) to show how the framing of a scene can be used to communicate what the story needs. I love this side of comic art. Its very much like storyboarding for TV and film, and essential to telling a story.

It was a wonderful experience to witness the students bring these stories alive on the page in their own individual ways. I hope they were inspired and continue to do brilliant art in the future.

Heres a photo of some of the finished pieces:


And heres Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work:




Friday, 11 October 2013

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Gammatime!

Raaarrgh! Hulk smash! - click to see bigger! 
Challenged by the mighty Wellington Drawe in an Avengers frenzy, how could I refuse? I don't think I've drawn him since I was about 8.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Strontium Tom


A belated birthday present for my good buddy Tom in a 2000AD Strontium Dog style, complete with old-skool letratone shading effects and "time-bomb" to turn back the effects of aging. Drawn digitally using Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet. Zarjaz!