Life drawing 27th May

Yeah, so I missed a week. Actually I missed a couple.

Bafman!

This is what I'm working on like crazy at the moment- a cel drawing from the Bafman animation project. My animation skills are terrible- but a hell of a lot better than when I made The Cloud Factory, my student film.

Self portraits

I was invited to tag along to a free self portrait class the other week. I haven't drawn a self portrait since was a teenager. I was struck by two things.
Firstly, I'm a lot happier, or at least more resigned, about what I look like than I was as a teenager. Secondly: I gurn madly when I draw, which makes it difficult to draw myself accurately.

Where is a crowbar when you need one?

Does this condemned warehouse (it was hosting an art exhibition) look a lot like a Half-Life set or is it just me?

PS: Did I mention I really really really like Half Life 2?

Seals. And people.

I got up early last weekend and went for a walk in the beach. For once in my life I was actually grateful for insomnia, because I saw seals really close up. I was surprised at how noisy they were.
The other sketches: people at work, when I should have been working. And a crazy tramp who hassled me (center middle)

Trust in the Snow pages

This project is a lot more touchy-feely than the green-vamp-woman-with-eyeball-hookah picture a bit further down the page. I'm quite happy with the "magic music" effect on the double page spread.

The Key to the Kingdom character sketches

Some sketches from another comic project: The Key to the Kingdom for Futurequake. It's a short horror story which reminds me somewhat of Steven King.
I'm so glad it's grayscale. I've been working on Trust in the Snow for over nine months now. That's all-singing, all dancing colour and texture but it's only ten pages long.
Gordon's Glasses , on the other hand, took me a weekend and a couple of evenings.

Zelda art

This is a gorgeous Zelda print Nicola Stewart sent me from the UK Comics Thing. I wanted to buy a card of this print (I really enjoyed playing Twilight Princess) and they were sold out by the time I got to her table, so she kindly posted me this. It's A3 and lovely. It's definitely going on my wall.
She has a rather cool sketchblog here

A Wild Free-ranger

These are some semi-feral chickens that live in my local park. They eat the bread that people bring to feed ducks. It's very free-range

Predator anthology pinup

A pin up for the "Predators" Accent UK anthology. I missed out on the "Western" and "Zombie" themed anthologies but am scheduled to draw a comic for the "Victorian" 2011 release.
Also, you can now view "Sophie in the Souk" the TV programme which I worked on on the Travel Channel website here