Whitechapel - The Artists Thread (July 2011)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-06-30T22:32:55-07:00

@ Aurora Borealis; Your growth with sequential art has been very exciting to watch.

Last month had some really stunning pieces. These art threads are always daily drugs for me.

Recent doodles:

I have also made some head way with my own personal project:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T00:13:18-07:00

Rachel Rouge organises Wellingtons Doctor Sketchy.

And Venus Star is a local show girl.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T00:53:05-07:00

I feel like I'm having breakthroughs each week now. I started using soft haired paintbrushes with my chalk last week. These are the drawings I've done with them so far.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T02:11:34-07:00

MMM ladies :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T03:55:46-07:00

Done for Gnomon forum's monthly challenge, forest's edge.
Executed in PhotoChop, Using the default chalk brush with the texture turned off, and the default round brush with settings altered on the fly.

Original image is 5000 px across.

detail:

some wip. There was no reference used for this, just flipped through stills from Baraka before i began.
(huge gif, so give it some time)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T04:21:06-07:00

@used_bandaid, @oddbill, and @harris-ejaz, great stuff. Great start for a new month! Thanks for the little view into process harris.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T05:54:08-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T10:16:48-07:00

@jackcrowder- your personal project looks interesting can't wait to see more
@kyle-latino- love the weird image is it part of a comic?
@everyone else- nice naked/ half naked ladies. its a good start to the month

heres a ink version of van gogh's starry night. not sure how i am gonna colour it yet

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T11:32:13-07:00

Lots of great stuff last month, been busy working on a bunch of shit I can't show.

Django inks as a warm-up over a sketch i penciled a few weeks ago.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T11:52:06-07:00

That Django piece is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T11:55:05-07:00

@emonster Thank you!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T13:43:35-07:00

Good start to the month all.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T18:18:05-07:00

Just saw this thread and thought I'd try it out, here's a couple pieces I recently did up. Just because. Also, great work on here! Love the beautiful ladies, wonderful figures.

@kevinmellon: that is an awesome pose, I love the tombstones in the background.

Amazing pieces on this thread that I could only dream of creating. Awesome, very awesome!

(this one is based on a 50's ad for spaghetti)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T18:34:31-07:00

That tooth stuff creeps me out no cuddle time, well done.

Kyle that piece has such atmosphere, I love seeing that done without the use of color.

So much good stuff from everyone and it is only the 1st of the month.

Playing around with shading in photoshop. Inspired by my favorite Chapelle sketch, with Wayne Brady.

"Space Pimp"

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-01T22:47:55-07:00

Harray for web comics <3

Also I downloaded some new brushes for photoshop in the weekend.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T03:42:53-07:00

Great Start!
@jackcrowder Love your color use and shapes
@Used Bandaid I like your stuff. It has a very 'curio-cabinet-burlesque-medicine show' vibe for me.
@oddbill Just absolutely lovely. Excellent.
@Harris if Thomas Kinkade had imagination and a libido. Nice.
@Kyle- Fantastic and cleanly executed Kubrick Homage.
@Kevinmellon Franco Nero Lookin' Good.

I've been gearing up for a new project called Sine Wave and did some character designs for two of my main players tonight.

Service Industry Victorious.

Really looking forward to the rest of the month. it's a treat every time.
DBK

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T04:56:43-07:00

Second take, entirely from scratch over the original pencils, In this weeks episode, I learned how not to accidentally delete rulers and remember which layer I was on.

Oh, and Harris-Ejaz that picture is a beauty.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T05:06:01-07:00

@VertigoJones that turned out nicely, makes me wonder what he's up to.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T07:08:00-07:00

@used…cute ladies..especially the latest redhead.
@oddbill….simply beautiful. Love the expression of the sitting woman.
@harris-ejaz…speachless…
@kyle-latino…nice scene.
@imaginary…digging your lines as usual.
@kevin…that's not a gun, this is a gun.
@no cuddle time…living up to your name. Creepy.
@initiatezao…cool caricature.
@dirtbag…gordon looks good.

excellent start to the month, folks.
my contribution…

saturday ipad sketches..

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T07:22:14-07:00

@mojokingbee when I see you style while scrolling I tend do so much slower. Thank you.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T10:05:27-07:00

I'm part of a group comic art show in Paris, starting July 7, sponsored by Geek-Art.net and Artoyz

And because I love and trust you guys, here's a sneak peek at my piece, a new take on the SPIDER MAN 2 movie poster.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T11:02:24-07:00

Thanks for the comments, kids.

@paul - That's really great!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T12:36:47-07:00

@oddbill: wow, dude... really, wow...
@mojokingbee: the roller girl makes me think of whip it, which is good because whip it makes me think of Ellen Page, which is good because Ellen Page makes me tingle all over...
...Which is good... I'll stop talking now... You're good is what I'm trying to say...

@ sizer: damn, that's some good design.

Started something new myself after weeks of procrastinating. Don't know where it's going or if It'll be any good. I wanted to do something (don't know yet what) framed in a JH Williams III kinda way.
So not entirely original, but I need this kind of starting point.

I'm working on the frame now, it's gonna take time.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-02T14:19:42-07:00

Did this one up for SPITBALLIN', hope you guys enjoy it!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-03T15:56:37-07:00

looking good everyone
@mojokingbee- i like your brain-fu character

this took me awhile to color

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-03T17:35:18-07:00

@m.e. walsh - Very nice! I like the slight blueing of the line art. Really sells it.

@imaginary - ha, wow. I don't envy the aneurysm you gave yourself coloring that. Nice work.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-03T18:30:23-07:00

@imaginary - Holy poop, that is beautiful and crazy.

@Kevinmellon - thanks dude, it's a subtle detail that adds a lot!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T01:17:11-07:00

As always, amazing work from all.

I have a Photoshop question that I am hoping someone may know the answer to.

I frequently use the magic wand tool to make selections on my black and white ink art when colouring. For some reason when I click on a white area it will select all the white instead of the closed section. I can go to a colour layer and select the colour but I can't seem to make a simple closed selection on the B & W original. Any ideas?

It is Photoshop 7 I am using and this is a task I used to do all the time. I'm thinking something in the settings, that I cannot seem to find, was changed.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T04:51:45-07:00

Photomagex: it may be the 'contiguous' option of the wand tool 'cos when that's checked, the wand selects only adjacent areas of the same colors. hence all the white areas being selected even though isolated. Same thing happened to me a while ago and that turned out to be it.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T05:25:03-07:00

An illustration of 'Doctor Mormeck', a strange character created by Jeff Vandermeer - the art is featured on his blog also here

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T06:32:18-07:00

@donnie…ah, she was character I designed for a kids book. Just revisiting.
@M.e.walsh….nice Ms Martian.
@imaginary…looks great with colours though I shudder to think about the colouring process.
@moali…beautiful piece.

Tonight's stuff…

This is me struggling and at the limit of my current skills...Must level up. Hmm...leveling up in rpg's and art require the same thing...grinding..funny that.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T07:08:44-07:00

First off, I'm always amazed by all of the excellent work when I look through these threads. Not to bring the quality down, but here's a commission I did for someone on the forum over on the Thomas Dolby Floating City game. She wanted a new avatar and being that the game has a nautical theme she wanted an image of herself riding a seagull. This is what I came up with;

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T08:58:14-07:00

M.E.Walsh - Really like that sense of innocent wonder in Ms. Martians eyes.
Sizer & MojoKingBee - Awesome as always

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T14:36:55-07:00

What I would imagine a female Hulk to look like...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T15:44:10-07:00

Last one (That'll I'll post here) I swear! As Mojokingbee said, I think grinding is the key. Try, try again.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T19:35:48-07:00

i've been working on an application form (it's for a place on a program for six weeks of working with design companies) that included a brief to do some self focused work it was a change of pace, darwing myself as me instaed of just using myself as reference for characters, here's two of what i came up with, first is two portraits seperating me and the artist persona from each other, i tend to wear odd hats/goggles while i draw it started while i was alone in a small room alone for six months working on an animation.

and then i wanted to try to do a typography self portrait, i'm a bit shy and drew a blank on what words to use so i enlisted the help of my friends and these are the words they think descibe me.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T21:00:53-07:00

Sizer you Pimp, go on with your bad self.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T21:01:44-07:00

Ooooooooo that's great!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T21:38:05-07:00

@vandal - nice portrait!

@ALE - wow, that's interesting as hell.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T22:29:29-07:00

Very nice start of the month, you guys!
Mojo - love the Brain-fu-; JAck, Used-bandaid, Anthony, cuddle time -incredible, as always-, Kevin, Harris -that's incredible-, Oddbill, ...

Here's a little commisioned piece I've almost finished. Don Quijote -or Quixote for you, gringos- ^_^

Horrible picture, actually. My chamera is pretty modest aND kinda low-res. Though, not my best work, yet. But, you know, practice...

Keep it comming, guys!!!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T23:13:46-07:00

nice work everyone, I dig that @JP !!

been lazy and only scanned 1 of my drawings over the past few days because I'm getting down to crunch time on the weekend exhibition and don't have the spare time or energy. Here's my contribution ( I post the rest of the stuff next week)

the hero has been sitting shizuka under a tree with mother nature only to realize it's about time he returned to the big city...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T23:16:35-07:00

@JP Stargazer- i really like that Don Quijote pic, great detail and love the color. did you use pastels or colored pencil?

i made this for a contest on this website http://creativeallies.com/. i may regret showing some of you this website. competition wise and everything

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T23:18:44-07:00

@ imaginary- !!! I love it

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-04T23:18:44-07:00

@heyapathy love your crazy city pics. i always thought you should do one were you can see crazy people in all the windows.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T00:47:48-07:00

Imaginarypeople: what HEY APATHY said. ;) also <3 for the link. and no worries it's hammer-time deadline for me.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T01:21:01-07:00

some recent b.s.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T07:19:16-07:00

@kevin and Oddbill: thanks guys.
@imaginarypeople: I really, really like that, good luck!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T07:53:00-07:00

@JP Stargazer - those are some beautiful colors! did you use oil or chalk pastels?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T08:39:57-07:00

My god, what is it with you people. WHY ARE YOU ALL SO AWESOME!!! WHYY???

(sorry I don't have the time to comment on all the pieces separately...)

Here's one more b/w piece (don't think I posted it in the last thread)

Basically another practice drawing for the new project... Aaand I'm seeing this one as a kind of a benchmark. Every page will have to be at least this good or better. Hopefully better!

Also, conclusion of The Consequences of Sowing Fire

Also, I have a couple of IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO PEOPLE USING MANGA STUDIO!
so if anyone could answer me I'd be very grateful...

This is technically what I want to do: pencil the characters/backgrounds on paper, scan and "threshold" it so it's stark b/w, do some cleanup (stray lines, leftover pixels from badly erased lines, gaps etc), then add panel borders, lettering and (if applicable) speedlines/focus lines etc... also, some kind of either flat greys (one or two shades) or more texturey toned bits.

Since the thing will be later printed through a POD service (and also displayed as a webcomic), I'd like to avoid "hard" tones (moire patterns and such). Art would be printed at 300dpi but drawn at a higher res to get smoother lines after resizing (they'll retain some pencil roughness but won't have jagged square pixels poking through).

So the questions are:
Is all of the above possible? Are there any good tools for that? Will any of the parts become problematic? I'm mostly concerned about the greys rather than tones issue (last thing I want is to make a 200 page book only to find out I have to re-tone every page cause it prints like crap, heh).

Edit: I don't have the program yet but a friend is feeling generous... so I want to make sure Manga Studio will do what I need it to do before I throw the financial burden on his back.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T11:27:20-07:00

just finished the line-work for this, colors to follow soon (bigger on flickr here)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T11:42:32-07:00

@photomagex from last page
When you select the magic wand tool, it's options appear in the toolbar.
please check the box next to 'contigious'

also, some advise, freely given:
scan in your linework, clean it up, then convert it into a multiply layer. (when a layer's mode is on multiply, the whiter a pixel is, the more transparent it will be, so this is ideal for lines etc).
after this, make a layer underneath, call it flats. here you will have base colours only.
in your linework layer, select an area (e.g. mickey mouse's button), and then expand the selection a pixel or two by going into select>modify>expand. this is to compensate for the unwanted white edges you sometimes get in this process, and for the linework over your colours.
once you have this selection, go to the flats layer underneath and fill it in. repeat for all of mickey.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T11:43:23-07:00

@everyone else who appreciated my post on page 1, thank you. i'm having breakthroughs lately.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T11:54:29-07:00

@aurora borealis Your comic really benifits from a vertical scroll-down readthrough.

RE: your questions, are you offering bnw printed or colour printed?
use the threshold thing only if you're scanning in at 600dpi or higher.
i;ve only a cursory acquaintanceship with manga studio but what you seek seems doable.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T13:05:02-07:00

@harris-ejaz: Am I offering what? Umm, the book I'll be working on will be b/w (Ka-blam requires files in greyscale for that) ...unless you mean the color comic I posted above, that of course is printed in color.

I'm scanning either 300 or 600dpi. But then again the artwork is about a third larger than the final print size so I'm assuming that helps a little?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T13:33:45-07:00

JP love the Quixote style piece! Is that REAL paint wtf?!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T15:27:17-07:00

A lawsuit perverted my holiday so I haven't had the time to properly thank and be overwhelmed by all the awesome pieces coming out this month.

I just wanted to throw in that you are blowing me away each time I sneak a peak at this thread. Amazing work. Amazing.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T17:05:49-07:00

The first of these is a character sketch for a post-apocalyptic witch comic I've written. The second was just messing around working on inking:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T17:34:38-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T19:17:45-07:00

Heh he, it's kinda funny that you seem somehow baffled, but, anyway, many thanks for the comments. The piece is plain acrylics on canson sheet. :-S And it took me a long time to finish it and I don't think it's my best of bests effort, or whatever. But, thnx, @heyapathy, imaginary, walsh, cuddle time!! @hey: that's beautiful, as always
@imaginary, incredible piece. Incredible piece.
@Aurora, you're great,as always.
@Neil, rocking the place.
@mercurial, I love those colours.
@jackcorder: you OK , man? Mind if I ask what happened? If it's to personal, I'm sorry for meddling, and I hope everything get's better so we can see your stuff once again.
@michaelshea, can't wait to see the colours on that, it's an AWESOME one!

These are some stuff I've been working on, couple of illos that'll be illustrating the up-comming "Airship Pirates" RPG manual. From Abney Park. Those of you who can afford it, buy it and tell me about it. I recommend it especially because of the many artists that volunteered to make this book look awesome, and because Abney Park is a great band and has some cool stuff in their songs and stuff. Chek their website (www.abneypark.com). I think it's going to be a great work.

Fuck me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, the characters are all purple as an hyperkink and I don't know how to undo it. Fuck it.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T20:59:53-07:00

oh god NeilFord captain lobsterclaw is so stupetardedly wonderfully WRONG

Ssssooo the past couple of months I've been working on this comic. It's about the Simulation Hypothesis.

More at my website, I've got thirteen pages up so far and page fourteen in progress in Illustrator. I'm doing this by the seat of my pants and it's really a blast.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T21:30:57-07:00

@ Egypt Urnash Woooo, I like it :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T21:44:14-07:00

Egypt -- I love the colour palette and line style. Intrigued enough by the story to continue reading it. (For the record: There's only 2 webcomics that I consistently read, so take this as a pretty big compliment from me.)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-05T23:41:01-07:00

Love it Egypt.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T05:07:49-07:00

Love it Egypt, been reading it right along.
JP Stargazer, that is some really fucking awesome work there.
Mr. no cuddles, I can't wait to see this thing finished.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T05:11:09-07:00

Thats giving me finger fear no cuddle time, nice and creepy.

Love that one by Michael Shea, and great stuff by Egypt Urnash and JP Stargazer.

The perils of buying an accursed hat:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T05:44:32-07:00

Great stuff this month, as always!
@Amalgamated Biscuit - I've been considering buying an accursed hat, but I think I'll leave it now, thanks for the warning!

Heres my latest

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T06:11:33-07:00

Love the style on the strip, Egypt Umash, great colors and forms.
And now "CLUNT" is my new favorite sound effect.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T07:12:43-07:00

@vertigo…looking good. His in a mood.
@vandal…like the type portrait.
@Ale…cool energy.
@JP…sweet painting. Steampunk stuff looks lovely. Love the hatching on the second one.
@hey apathy…sitting hero is great…That cityscape is strangely hypnotic..draws the eyes in.
@imaginary…keep it coming.. :)
@chris…Spider Skirt!! Spidey eyes as boob window?
@aurora…epic stuff and prolific as well.
@Claw arm Rocks!!
@Egypt…choice colour scheme and stylistic approach.
@no cuddle…love how you drew those hands.
@amalgamated…poor fellow…lol.

Today's stuff.

WIP pages....Damn you, crowd scene...done

oh look...after midnight again...'night.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T08:58:46-07:00

Oh god crowd scenes. I still have nightmares about the last one I did, and it wasn't even a big crowd.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T12:38:11-07:00

thanks mojo, your sketches...man, I love 'em.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T12:43:56-07:00

@ JP Stargazer; Just a pinch of debt and property that once was owned by my grandfather... which I hold 2 percent of and the rest don't wish to buy me out. Now the taxes have faulted and it's just a big mess. A no-claim sort of deal and the Tax Man Cometh. It has ate up a lot my free time lately. My daughter now talks, in the meanwhile, and points out my tats as "triangle" or "circle." So that's been a good distraction.

@ Egypt Urnash; Those are some serious pages. Stellar.

A warm-up piece of Twilight and True Blood:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T12:56:43-07:00

thanks, dudes! here's the color version (bigger on flickr here)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T13:06:29-07:00

@Jack, is that illustrator?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T13:08:55-07:00

@ VertigoJones;

Illustrator + Photoshop, yes'um.

I'm making the transition to Sketchpad Pro/Wacom for my lines... but for now, I'm still using Illustrator lining/Photoshop finger-painting with my laptop touchpad.

@ no cuddle time; The atmosphere of your worlds are so intense. Fantastic work.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T14:27:53-07:00

nice one Michael Shea!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T17:29:27-07:00

Not new in the least, I drew it back in 2008.

Back then, Casey and Octomom were in all the headlines. It was a satire piece.

Not really opening or meaning to bring up this discussion since the America media have flogged the dead-horse to death... and in 2010, the Octomom was doing fetish porn so the concept is way-lost. The general idea being that Octomom would have had to attack Casey to gain popular opinion back.

Hopefully one or two of you will get a laugh at it.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T19:28:12-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T20:00:26-07:00

@Neil Holy shit. That.... is friggin awesome!

Here's a page sans colours that I'll be self publishing via my newly formed @Enemy1ne outfit.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T21:24:05-07:00

The result of a brainstorm in the Turntable.fm room.

Brit, Roo, and EbuillentSoul all suggest T-shirts.

UPDATE: After Roo and I (mostly Roo - thank her for the color and awesome scuzzy textures) tinkered with it a bit, here's a colored and upgraded version.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T23:24:51-07:00

Yet another one on it's way:

I know these all are pretty much figure study drawings of women, and that seems to be all I do. At present it more or less is. I've gone back and forth over whether or not to start pushing outside of my simple inclinations. I don't think I will, yet. Just doing iterations on basically the same subject has been leading to technical skill advances that are really measurable. I can really see how much better things are emerging than the kinds of things I was doing years ago.

For example, here is a comparable pose from 2007:

And this is one of the better rendered studies I managed from that same year:

They both look rough and unspecific, compared to what I've been managing this year. Back then I was trying as hard as I could to do what I'm doing now, but those were as close as I could get. I'm so much closer now.

I don't really know how to explain why I only draw nude women these days. I guess that sounds absurd, because, well - nude women! Who doesn't want to look at them? But it really isn't that. There's just serenity and tension and weight and bone and balance in these bodies, and I don't understand it yet, so I just have to keep trying to model it in ink and chalk. Now I'm just trusting that, at some point, soon I think, something more meaningful will coalesce. A few of the drawings lately are going that way, they'll be more complete.

But I don't want to steer it. I want it to just happen, I want it to surprise me, so I'm going to just do what I feel like doing, and trust it.

Besides, @Dorkmuffin told me I should.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-06T23:42:36-07:00

@ Oddbill =- I second ~~nude women~~, er I mean Dorkmuffin's comment and understand everything you are saying there in that post. You have come along way, the work is looking incredible !!! hues, colors, textures. sculpting, knowing what to add/leave out, these peices are beautiful (and not just because it's nude women)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T03:38:11-07:00

Jesus @NeilFord: that should be a print, so I could buy it.
Nice work @oddbill, love the colors you're using.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T04:44:40-07:00

Stunning work everyone. I am amazed.

@ Yskaya & harris-ejaz - thanks for the feedback

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T06:24:24-07:00

You're doing such amazing work guys - blown away by:

@mojokingbee's crowd pages and WIP frames.

@no cuddle time's beautifully visceral frames. I'm really liking the last few pages.

@Amalgamated Biscuit's various portly characters, you've got a fun mind, friend.

@NeilFord's crazy-good paintings of late! You do great mouths. I like your mouths.

@oddbill's strong figures.

@michaelshea's stunning line work.

Thats just the last page, there was loads more I can remember from the last 3 weeks but, ya know... this thing moves on so fast.

I love the dose of style envy you guys give me, every time I come in here. I've been to Tha Shtates and rediscovered video games in the past few weeks. I'm still recovering and should have some work soon to share.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T06:46:25-07:00

That big green guy is now available as a print at my Etsy store if you wanna check it out HERE!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T06:59:01-07:00

@jack…nice colours. Could benefit a little thicker lines to make it pop.
@michael…Love how it looks with colours.
@neil…omfg!!!!
@alan…me like.
@Oddbill…keep 'em coming. Nothing wrong with nude femmes…they are annoyingly hard to draw. I agree with you on the grinding to suddenly have something click in your head. Level-up!

Earlier tonight…what's with me wanting to include swear words tonight? Gah, need a social life and/or GF. Ok, can I sleep now, stupid brain?!?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T10:25:42-07:00

@neilford - Holy crap that is amazing. The coloring is off the chain

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T20:03:40-07:00

Another one for Spitballin' I actually like the plain inked version quite a bit more.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T20:09:31-07:00

Jesus, Bill - - those nudes rock.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T21:25:37-07:00

from the draw each other thread. my first time doin it.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-07T23:05:02-07:00

nice one @imaginary I always new whitechaplains were creepy ...

@ mojo - oh sh--! I know where you're coming from.

EDIT wow that whole tree + the robots lips lost all the detailed cross hatch scribbling , I'm going to have to rescan this one but not tonight my dear .

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-08T00:48:14-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-08T16:45:25-07:00

Thank you for all the kind comments gang!

@no cuddle time : Wow, that last piece is extraordinary, the air of menace and the visible passage of time as he moves accross the floor... wonderful.

Got my first bit of comic work published this week, a cover for UK small press comic, FutureQuake:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-08T18:29:35-07:00

@neil Ohhh, shit.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-08T23:19:06-07:00

Neil: Published! Awesome. :) Is it a cool cover or do these three have a backstory too? (the robot is creeping me out in a good way)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-08T23:33:08-07:00

and the sketch of it, which I think looks cool, too:

Hadn't done any digital art an a few months, I guess, but have been hitting a wall with painting, lately. Want to do something different, but can't quite seem to force it. Takin' some time off from the real world to let it happen naturally...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T00:15:05-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T00:18:23-07:00

@neil: nice! congrats.
@no cuddle time: minimum palette, maximum detail, I like.
@bill: boobies!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T08:30:36-07:00

Up and at them Boys and Gals! It's Redesign Spiderman time over at project rooftop. (File this message under stuff you might like to know. ;)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T10:34:33-07:00

Here's an album cover I just finished for this local band called Gas. Album title is "Survival of the Fetus".

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T12:54:32-07:00

@NeilFord - it frankly boggles my mind that this is your first published comics work... from the consistent amazing quality of the pictures you've been posting the past year I guess I just assumed you were already long down that road. Have you been selling pieces as illustrations in any other markets?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T13:14:35-07:00

@oddbill - nah, not really. I'm a web designer by trade, so often get to flex the old illustration muscles with that. I've only been drawing again seriously for 2 or 3 years, had a bewildering decade + long layoff previous to that.

I'm feeling better now. :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T14:39:17-07:00

Well thank god for that, keep at it sir!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T15:06:02-07:00

@Yskaya - It's an anthology tilte, these fellows belong to one of the stories.

@ALE - oh yes, it makes me happy - took me a while to understand that simple truth.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T16:54:27-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T17:25:51-07:00

@Neil

Are you looking to do more work? I have writer friends always on the lookout for more artists.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T18:22:32-07:00

@adam - not right now thanks mate, I'm over committed as it is currently! Do appreciate the offer though, so many thanks! :) Time is the problem, I run my own business, takes up most of my time and makes a shit load more cash than comics ever will. My poor tattered soul though... le sigh.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T18:41:54-07:00

Great work everybody, so many talented people around here :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T21:59:47-07:00

@usedbandaid I am so reblogging this on tumblr.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-09T22:27:58-07:00

I saw that!
Cheers :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T02:20:58-07:00

Just a fun dirty doodle, yay!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T05:37:02-07:00

@m.e.walsh….killer Josie piece.
@hey…sweet as usual.
@no cuddle…nice how you suggested space and perspective.
@Neil…cool pic and congrats.
@frequent…awesome.
@spike…nice texture.
@ale…nice composition. Is that computer modelled?
@used…strip's hilarious. Love the second one as well.

Yesterday's field work...combo of moleskine and ipad sketches. I forgot how I missed drawing to live music.

random scribbles...

band sketches...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T06:24:20-07:00

@m.e.walsh - That's an awesome Josie piece.

This is an image I just finished yesterday for my cousin. She wanted an image of her weenier dogs roasting weeniers for a summer party she's having.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T06:33:22-07:00

@wombat..awww, so cute.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T07:36:30-07:00

You should switch the dogs and weenies, so the weenies are roasting the dogs.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T09:11:22-07:00

Love hot dog!

also... holy fuck Mojokingbee, love your stuff man - you must draw so fast!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T09:28:31-07:00

niiiiice.

@mojo: yes, I start in 3d and then do my best to sexify it in photoshop.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T13:04:26-07:00

@used_bandaid- love your comic its hilarious
@mojokingbee- nice sketches. i can see the action/ emotion in them
@neilford- jesus christ you trying to scare the life out of me!! thats one creepy pic love it!

i am currently working on a comic with a writer for the 215 ink anthology
here is a panel

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T13:37:31-07:00

@used_bandaid - lovely work! Digging yer dirty doodle too! :)

@imaginarypeople - Cheers! Love that serious looking molar on the loose - ouch!

@ALE - what 3d software are you using? I had a go with z-brush, found it a little [lot] bewildering, sculptris seems a bit easier, but I can't be arsed to learn another bit of software right now frankly.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T20:43:21-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T22:10:09-07:00

chris g: Great Hellboy lighting, and your Madman lady costumes the other day were amazing!

imaginary people: NICE!

mojokingbee: Loving the black, white, and pink sketches!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-10T22:55:43-07:00

thanks =D

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T02:18:31-07:00

@neil: My mainstay is Cinema 4D, but I'm getting into Vue and Modo as well.

ZBrush is a beast, but worth the effort. Sculptris has been lauded in the past as an easier-to-get-into sculpting program. More significantly, the app was bought and its developer hired by the people who make ZBrush, and it seems it's being positioned as a gateway drug to ZBrush. More importantly it's still free.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T06:24:31-07:00

So much great stuff here, but @mojokingbee - holy christ that's absolutely mindblowing. Amazing work.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T06:50:49-07:00

@Neil…thanks. The sketches were a culmination of 4 hours of sketching. Super rusty so not as fast or as accurate as I used to be. I can happily attribute my current speed from years sketching bands. Damn creep tree face..Digging it!
@imaginary…nice panel. Show us more if you can.
@chris…very sweet bellboy.
@frequent…is that a poster design? Love the text design. Is that hand drawn?

Today's warm-ups..Spider-girl

and tonight's WIP page...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T11:38:39-07:00

love the pages @mojo!!!
@Chris G that is awesome, me b & w fetishist!!!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T12:07:26-07:00

Chris G- AWRsome! Beautiful work man.
Mojo- dude, so much energy in drawings- just lovin' it!
Neil- Creepy tree, brotehr! I dig it!

A nice fellow won an Custom Commission eBay auction thing I had running last week, and he requested Tigra! (I love it when they pick awesome characters :)
So here she is in ink and wash.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T13:43:18-07:00

Latest paintings - all done in watercolour & ink.

Cheers,
My Website!
My Tumblr!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T14:04:10-07:00

@Rooth - wow, she's hot! Great work!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T16:09:22-07:00

Thanks Neil! Here's the colored version :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T17:09:20-07:00

Rooth: Oh Wauw! :D

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T17:10:19-07:00

Ghah... Rooth. That... you... it's...

hot DAMN.

@Yskaya: I think you mean "Mrrauw!"

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T18:55:41-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T19:06:26-07:00

More and more excellent art, I love these threads.

Rooth: I love that Yoshi.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T19:16:47-07:00

@imaginarypeople: I gotta say, I see the spirit of Seth Fisher in your work, and that's absolutely meant as a compliment!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T19:21:14-07:00

i am a huge seth fisher fan and i only just discovered him recently. would have to say my main comic influence is mobius. Brandon Graham's work has recently inspired me to do more comics also

@wednesdaywolf those are some awesome paintings reminds me of scary stories to tell in the dark illustrations

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T21:40:55-07:00

my word @imaginary those last two monkey posts are awesome!!! especially love the apes belly button

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-11T22:38:44-07:00

WednesdayWolf@ Love your use of ink!
Rooth@ Your sexy kitty lady is wonderful.

Thanks for all the nice feedback on previous images.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T04:29:18-07:00

@imaginarypeople - If that were on an album cover, I'd buy it for the artwork alone.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T10:41:44-07:00

the last of my trees 2011, in this image they have absorbed both man and machine in order to find a balance amidst these terrifyingly technological times...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T10:44:04-07:00

With all of this DC Reboot talk in the air, I've been drawing some DC superheroes lately... with a little tweaking here and there.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T12:47:06-07:00

Rooth, your work is great either way, but I really prefer the pre-color stuff, sweetness.

@WednesdayWolf: holy shit, attack of the rorschachs!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T12:51:52-07:00

new one:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T14:49:13-07:00

@hey apathy! - crazy pic. i like the hands in the treetop

thanks for all the positive feedback everyone.
anyone know of any comic anthologies that are accepting submissions?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T15:52:15-07:00

@ALE - gorgeous.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T16:06:11-07:00

Many thanks for the kind words folks :)
ALE- Cheers man, I always like it best at the black and white stage too, sometimes I hate to colour them.
Just finished this one of classic duds Electro.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-12T19:38:11-07:00

@mrmcdaniel- nice work!

some sketching I done today

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T01:27:15-07:00

"I love this job!"

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T04:55:11-07:00

HEY APATHY - I really love the first one in that last set, with the flying dogs. Awesome work as always!
Chris G- Killer Thomas Wayne!

Here's some color action on Electro -

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T10:42:55-07:00

Electro was always one of my favorite Spider-Man villians, dude has style, very evident here.

@neil: thanks man

@chris g: that's awesome

@apathy: you amp my desire to be better at 3d, because I think your stuff would be awesome in it, not that it isn't already.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T18:01:49-07:00

Results of the Monday night Toronto Dr. Sketchy session:

~R

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T18:46:50-07:00

@Richard Pace - beautiful drawings man! Really lovely.
It's been so long since I've done any life drawing- I really need to hit one of those Toronto sessions one day soon...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T18:53:01-07:00

@ Rooth nice electro- the pose is silly awesome
@pace -sweet sketchy sketches

this one is called SNIP SNIP the Botanical Revenge

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-13T21:05:04-07:00

Been hella busy, but figured I'd drop this off.

Glad to see you're all kicking ass, as per usual.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T07:00:55-07:00

@rooth… love you latest pieces especially Tigra..love her expression.
@wednesdaywolf….very nice stuff.
@imaginary…nice looking strips. Sweet detail of the gorilla.
@hey apathy…like your last tree pic.
@mrmcdaniel…strong, smooth lines.
@ale…nice design.
@chris… Tom bat-daddy!
@richard…beautiful figure studies.
@kevin…sketchy yet tight.

WIP page..

label design marinade go! for oldhat....not quite there yet.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T07:40:48-07:00

one possible iteration of a tattoo design sketch for a client. (client ok'd posting it on the webz)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T08:01:09-07:00

This is a gift I made for my ex-boyfriend of one of his characters from his webcomic, he found it hilarious. XD

This is a tshirt design I idea I made for Womanthology, I dont think I've posted it here before, if I have I'll take it down:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T08:06:13-07:00

Next step implies inking, which hopefully will correct the uneasiness with the gun :)
There's a bigger version here.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T08:50:11-07:00

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T08:55:25-07:00

That is beautiful Miranda.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T11:56:40-07:00

@Sonny: Thank you very much!!!!

@Valente: The Female Prisoner #701 piece is gorgeous.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T12:14:34-07:00

was unsure whether i should start this in a new thread but i wanted to ask all the other artists; Who are your top three artistic influences

mine are:
-mobius
-katsuhiro otomo
-frank quitely

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T12:31:54-07:00

@ imaginarypeople:

I would have to say that my top three right now would be Arthur Adams, Nathalie Dion and Glen Keane.

It changes. Sometimes I get really into different aspects of design and obsess there.

Probably a reason why I have a hard time sticking to a single 'that's that guy' style.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T12:33:00-07:00

was unsure whether i should start this in a new thread but i wanted to ask all the other artists; Who are your top three artistic influences

Cool Question. Looking forward to seeing people's answers.

Currently visible influences in a certain light from a certain angle:

Wierengo (tellos)
Carla Speed Mcneil (Finder)
Matt Wagner (grendel)
Gustav Dore (too many to list)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T13:40:12-07:00

@jackcrowder- arthur adams is classic. mine changes alot too. i was gonna put my top 5 but that was too difficult
@yskaya- finder looks interesting i'll have to check that out. i love gustave dore! reminds me of Albrecht Dürer (melencolia)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T13:45:06-07:00

Haven't posted here in awhile. Here's a commission I did for a friend

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T18:11:11-07:00

Apologies for the tall file:

Former roomie and artist told me I needed to rely less on my lines. Decided to give digital painting another try.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T18:36:42-07:00

@ hot damn @Miranda nice to see you again!

@gzapata- awesome weird!

@ Alantyson - nice magicians!

@yskaya- I love Matt Wagner my favorite were issue 16-19 of the old Grendel Comico series

@ imaginary- s'weird but I tend to spend more time getting inspired by film, fiction, & music than comics, my favorite artists are David Cronenberg, Dostoevsky, and Frank Zappa (+manga maniac Masamune Shirow )

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-14T21:51:28-07:00

I was told that I need to try and loosen up with my art so here are a couple attempts. I usually always draw in pencil first then ink with pen but now going at it with a brush right from the start kind of forces you to relinquish some control.

Here's the better half sleeping on the couch (by the way she looks much better than this)

Frankie and Zombie

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T09:26:52-07:00

@Hey Apathy!: Thank you! :)

Here's the inked version of yesterday's piece:

edit: the link to a bigger version.

I had trouble figuring out three artists among those who impacted me...
Without any doubt, the first one would be Yukito Kishiro. There was clearly a "before" and "after" the first time I picked up Gunnm.
Two other keypoints would be Simon Bisley's run on ABC warriors and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein illustrations.

Picking up three artists that have been very meaningful to me in the past and current year would be Kentaro Miura, John Baizley and Neil Ford.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T09:52:55-07:00

@hey apathy - david cronenberg is a good influence. have you seen naked lunch?
@Miranda -love that pic. i really dig your work. Also picked some awesome influences. i think kentaro miura's berserk has influenced me alot

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T10:33:15-07:00

@imaginary NAKED LUNCH? um best movie ever (also wicked monkey art)
@miranda nice inks

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T11:08:07-07:00

Hey Folks!

Here is a bit o' the good old Kirbyism, my friends. A sort of God of Comics, if you will.

Cheers.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T12:26:33-07:00

@hey apathy!- has peter weller ever been in a bad movie?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T13:04:58-07:00

Yeah, Robocop 2 and 3.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T14:26:37-07:00

@Hey Apathy!: Thanks again!
@Imaginary people: Thank you!I've been enjoying your work a lot too! And regarding Berserk: I started by borrowing them at mid-run, read them from the beginning on the net and am slowly buying them back. I developed in the process an almost spiritual relationship with the books (for the whole of it I guess; the art, the story, the characters, the world....) - I think those book have brought me as close as I ever experienced to some kind of epiphany :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T14:47:22-07:00

@miranda- yeah i loved the golden age arc at the beginning of berserk. also have you read any junji ito?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-15T15:44:31-07:00

@neila…hilarious pin-up.
@miranda..good to see you back…very nice.
@valente…love her expression.

last night's sketches...too tired/lazy to do proper work so just scribbled instead.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T01:59:19-07:00

quick one:

aaaand sleep.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T02:59:15-07:00

You all are probably aware of this, but just in case it slipped by: sketchbook pro call for submissions to gallery

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T03:02:02-07:00

@Greasemonkey , Peter Weller wasn't in Robocop 3 just saying. He was filming Naked Lunch at the time (the movie, not actual naked lunches).

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T09:50:10-07:00

Robocop 3 was so bad, my memory must've expunged all traces of it in self defence. I'd forgotten Peter Weller wasn't in it.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T10:43:08-07:00

God I love coming here, rarely am I more inspired to step up my game, all a' you on page 9=on point.

re:Robocop, 2 had its moments, 3...well at least it wasn't the TV show?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T11:59:47-07:00

Wasn't Robocop 2 written by Frank MIller, or was it 3?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T12:45:19-07:00

WOW! missed this thread! its always a pleasure to look at all the talented organisms in here : )

well, summer has come with a little time for drawing, YEEESSSSSSS!!!

............

bigger version

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T13:08:57-07:00

I can't draw, but really... wow! everybody. I can answer the Robocop question. According to imdb, Miller did both 2 and 3. I recall seeing 2 in the theaters, psyched that I was going to see a movie Frank Miller wrote. It was going to be AWESOME! Um... at least it helped me avoid 3, which you all seem to think is worse.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T13:19:30-07:00

@pupato great pic .i like the faces in the flowers. did you color it by hand or on a computer program?

frank miller technically wrote 2 and 3 but he was screwed and they changed it so much he had his name taken off the credits

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T13:38:44-07:00

hey! thanks a lot @imaginary!!! a friend has left me a tablet & i have colored all in digital for the first time... i´ve used "colores planos", don´t know how do you say it in english, google traductor says "spot color" but im not sure. Shadows & lights came from the inking & CG textures...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T16:21:24-07:00

I've been playing catch-up over at the Comic Art Club.
Here's a few that I've done yesterday and I plan on having two more up by tomorrow night.

Paprika

No-Face

Green Lantern

Follow us on twitter @ComicArtClub

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T18:28:50-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T19:51:51-07:00

Very nice, Neil!

DRIVE BY ARTING!!!!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T20:48:50-07:00

I drew Swamp Thing:

It took forever because I think a 005 tip is the only way to go.

P.S.
Moss underpant.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-16T22:02:28-07:00

finished this short comic, have to look for an anthology to submit to, then find another comic project

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T01:00:19-07:00

salvo 2:

go go gadget mellon!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T01:51:31-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T06:51:42-07:00

@pupato…beautiful garden scene.
@neil…different approach to your usual. Digging it.
@kevin..nice solemn look you nailed on Dom.
@sseloske…insane detailed lines.

weekend band & dance sketches..

beer label progress...slowly getting there.

finally I can sleep.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T06:58:01-07:00

Wow! Great art all up and down this page!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T13:30:29-07:00

Enjoying the thread. I like the Swampthing by sseloske, Imaginary people's stuff and I'm impressed by all the sketches your doing Mojokingbee, you must have aching hands.
A couple of recent drawings from me:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T14:15:00-07:00

@ Amalgamated Biscuit; the nonverbals in that bomb piece would make Alex Lovy proud.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T15:13:28-07:00

An online discussion about how Wonder Woman is perceived, written and marketed juxtaposed Xena: Warrior Princess and the Disney Princess line, and I found no-one had done this joke on GIS, and it seemed much funnier before I spent three hours colouring it.

Should you for some reason wish to see a larger version,click here.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T19:26:19-07:00

I'm really enjoying this thread the more I check in on it! Amazing works every day!
@jackcrowder: wow, very nice!
@mojokingbee: your work is always impressive, always!
@amalgamated biscuit: I love your style!
@neilford: your work is beautiful! Awesome, awesome stuff!
@sseloske: Love swamp thing! Great drawing of him!
And everyone else, my god the work on here is great, I wish I could keep up with this level of cool! Great works all around!

Here's some of my recent sketches, some of them inked, in their "ruff" stages, not cleaned up. Sort of a random bunch of undead things I drew on my night shift at work. Again, great art thread here!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-17T21:45:38-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T06:54:40-07:00

@amalgamated…great manic expression on the bomb guy.
@jack…nice colours.
@oxbrow..nice one.
@anthonyofkazoo…nice rough sketches.
@chris..kicking boy wonder.

today's bits...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T15:19:14-07:00

Camp sparkly thing. 30 mins or so. Harmony and P.shop. I used maps to colour as I can't colour for toffee.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T15:46:29-07:00

lookin good everyone

wolverine vs. raphael. who would win?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T19:11:01-07:00

My money's on The Best at What He Does.
@mojo: really digging that first one

Some designerly fun:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T22:57:02-07:00

heres the first page of the new comic i am working on

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-18T23:27:08-07:00

imaginary people: Cool versus drawing. Wolverine would win solo against Raph, but not against all four turtles!

Here's this thing:

These become what everyone wants from me as wedding season rolls around and people are looking for good gifts to give. I assume I'll do a few more in the next month or so. They seem to be taking me longer (I used to be able to bang them out in four hours... Did two in a day, once.), and I really don't like doing them. Also, somehow, because of how long they're taking, I've only made $4 per hour for the last two of these that I did... Not great. I wanted to paint another dog in a golf cart in the background, but only had two days to get this done, and ran out of time...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T00:36:59-07:00

@frequentcontributor -this is why the illustrator/artists of out grandfathers' days had studios (as in people they hired to assist them) - so they could train hungry young kids to crank out exactly this sort of commission for them in their recognized style, while they focused on the parts of their work that interested them. Then everyone was happy and the spice flowed. Sadly, the industry doesn't really support that model anymore.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T01:43:26-07:00

Sadly, the industry doesn't really support that model anymore.

The classical master-apprenticeship still exists, only for a shorter amount of time and trust is a bit harder to come by.

I'm trying to obtain an apprenticeship in the netherlands, it's slow going since everyone has timeframe issues amongst others. But I'll keep at it.

edited for punctuation

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T08:41:27-07:00

Results from last night's Toronto Sketchys -- bigger pics and barely-lucid commentary at der blog.

~R

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T09:09:49-07:00

@ imaginarypeople; My childhood squeed when I saw that match-up.
@ Richard Pace; Those are some killer roughs!
@ mojokingbee; I'm anxious to see where your pages are taking us. I'm loving the sequentials so far.
@ Anthonyofkazoo; That strangling scene is awesome.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T17:09:28-07:00

Some quick Sketchbook Pro doodles to test out the Copic sets update (desktop):

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-19T23:02:16-07:00

@vertigo..what's harmony? interesting shapes.
@imaginary….nice versus piece. like the tones on the second one.
@ale….designerly, indeed.
@frequent…beat painting. he's too cute.
@richard…keep 'em coming. More, please.
@kevin…awesome…Love the lighting on the girl….will have to update my mac version on SBP.

today's stuff so far...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-20T13:35:56-07:00

Here's an acrylic painting from one of my photographs. The black was done with a granular texture so I really had to blow out the contrast to make this scan look anywhere near decent.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-20T14:05:17-07:00

@Mojokingbee

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-20T18:23:45-07:00

pew pew

@mellon and mojo: nice. nice, niiiice.
@vertigo: I knew there was some Harmony involved, but it took me a minute to realize that was Battlecat, rock on.
@Richard Pace: interesting sketchwork.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-20T21:05:01-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-21T12:44:54-07:00

@Ale, it wasn't actually meant to be Battlecat, just wound up that way inclined. Though it looks more like the other one, EvilSkellocat, or whatever it was called.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-21T14:01:36-07:00

Panthor, yeah I can see it now, the armor throws it off, too shiny to be evil, hehe.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-21T22:35:39-07:00

I found this picture I started in December and inked it today to test out a new pen nib.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-21T23:57:44-07:00

@imaginary…scary looking thing.
@neil…Tailspin fanart…sweet.
finally done...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-22T06:41:21-07:00

Made these this week:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-22T08:28:06-07:00

@MercurialBlonde, may I be the first to say that I want to read that entire book, and would pay serious money to do so.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-22T15:32:05-07:00

I drew up a mock movie poster for a friend of mine. We were talking the other day about how great it would be to work together on making a zany B horror/sci fi film, we ended up settling on the name "Planet of the Poodles". That inspired me to make this. My other tagline ideas were "It's a dog eat HUMAN world!" and "Man's WORST friend".

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-22T21:06:30-07:00

My latest parody painting. First of a series, I am replicating the Sistine Chapel ceiling on ceiling tiles for a client. Kinda a history of the DC Universe (and any other company that falls under DC)

And as always you can check out any of the other parodies here

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-22T21:24:51-07:00

New cover for my comic :D yay!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-23T04:41:40-07:00

Based on that cover alone I would buy your book @used_bandaid

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-23T06:10:34-07:00

Yeah I love that cover, Bandaid

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-23T14:23:36-07:00

@mercurialblonde- your comic is lookin good

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T00:00:16-07:00

jesserubenfeld: That's one of the best ones you've shown. They're all good fun, but Shazam as God with the seven deadly sins around his is brilliant. And the lighting striking where their fingertips meet... too good.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T01:39:43-07:00

SHINY!!!

These are from a series of pinuppy prints I'm doing for a local comic con, later this year. I think I might add a similar tagline to the "Game Of Thrones" image as well.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T01:43:58-07:00

Oh, and I'm also responsible for this piece of geekwank... ;)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T01:44:36-07:00

so much awesomeness around...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T02:17:23-07:00

Hey Yo Pupato! interesting!
@grafunkel: that's some mighty fine fanwankery.

triple kapow(!):

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T04:50:49-07:00

@ALE: Playing Borderlands? Regardless, those are some nice images.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T06:45:26-07:00

@mercurial…like the minimalist colours.
@anthony..doom poodles!!!
@jesse…digging your parodies as usual.
@used….damn sweet cover…the bloody strokes look great.
@imaginary…keep those panels coming…lovely.
@art…lovely style….awesome exaggerations.
@pupato…oh, the lines! love the extra textures.
@ale…nice graphics.

weekend stuff of band sketches and spotlight indexing crap...stupid computer..

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T09:04:15-07:00

@mojo: thanks, that classic DD should be up on a wall. I turned Spotlight off ages ago, major pain in the ass.
@Jamie: Not currently no, the idea had been simmering in my brain for some time now.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T13:24:13-07:00

@ale..I'd turn it off too if it didn't muck my time machine back-ups.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T13:44:23-07:00

So. Much. Awesome...

@mercurialblonde - make more please! I love those pages... but I need more! :)

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-24T18:04:00-07:00

I been workin' on my comic pretty regularly.

Those are pages 10 and 11, where I started doing the parallel-narrative thing I pretty much did the comic to play with. I'm actually up to page 18 online with 19/20 in progress; I've been doing this thing where I stick the gif of the previous page to the left of the artboard so there's a lot of chances for flow between pages when viewed all in a line. It's kind of infinite canvas but kind of not, since I'm still definitely composing each page to work as a single, regularly-sized image. I just built archive templates to present each chapter that way.

Also I've started doing a silly little animation with the main character from my comic versus the Dubstep Mime, I dunno, it made me laugh for a couple nights. But it's kind of been put aside for a few weeks because I need to spend time working on choreographing a reverse striptease to 'Still Alive' that I'll be performing next month. Busy busy busy.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T07:26:22-07:00

I was working on a JH Williams style frame last time I posted here. It's been done for a while, but I didn't know what to do with it.

While I was looking around on this thread I saw a conversation on sculptris and decided to check that out. It didn't quite do what I wanted it to do, but I liked sculpting.
Installed zbrush on my computer about a week and a half ago and got an idea about what to do with the frame I made.

I'm not done yet with the sculpting, but I wanted to show off some quick comps. You won't see the detail on the finished thing and the colors will be different. Hope you like it.

Giger Sperm!!!!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T15:41:07-07:00

Here's a few recent entries I drew for the Comic Art Club.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T15:47:06-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T16:16:44-07:00

Bloody hell Neil.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T17:31:35-07:00

Indeed, you need a print store my man.
@egypt: I really need to check that out, the first bit you posted a ways back was damned intrigeuing.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T18:46:23-07:00

ALE, Neil, ArtGrafunkel: you guys are still my heroes!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T20:22:30-07:00

well damn, what do I say to that? Thanks man, it means a lot to me.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-25T21:35:16-07:00

I made a 50cal to practice my 3d

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-26T02:56:30-07:00

@kperkins , mercurialblonde and mojokingbee : Thanks for the lovely feedback.

@mojokingbee: Fuck-damn! You're prolific as hell. Its great :)
@Egypt Urnash : Amazing comic style, you are very clever. I must remember to put a link up to your comic tomorrow night. Great stuff.

This is the latest update to my comic. I'm excited about this chapter because it will soon have medical gore in it. *Happy face*

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-26T08:57:35-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-26T23:21:57-07:00

Wonderful mood inducing art as usual NeilFord!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T02:44:09-07:00

Thanks chaps, much appreciated! :)

@eightser: Impressive! What you making that with, zbrush?

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T06:20:21-07:00

@egypt…is this strip online?
@Neil…never a dull moment with your stuff.

Designs for this week's R/R. I was attempting to go digi-paint mode but my skills aren't there yet and it comes and goes. Needs more grinding.
cute tom-boys+punk+urban+speed....Don't know how to draw dreamy lads.
Lady Steed and Doctor Augustus...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T14:23:31-07:00

Latest wee thing.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T19:44:34-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T22:07:43-07:00

That's brilliant, Neil... always awesome!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-27T23:06:22-07:00

Mural design for a place in my city taking submissions to pretty up the outside of their building (a gay bar...):

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T04:40:04-07:00

@neilford some great stuff on this page

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T07:47:46-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T10:02:38-07:00

Mojo, I needed a new background for my phone.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T11:02:08-07:00

I have the curse. A block. And general restlessness and stress that makes me want to draw but failing to do so each time. Argh. Amazing pieces on here, puts me to shame :p

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T13:25:28-07:00

Working on a big batch of comic strips right now in hopes of putting out another issue of Neil's Bargain Comix. I did this one today which is 100% true:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-28T22:17:44-07:00

@beamish...no worries.
@jurgan...fight the block. I get it regularly but keep drawing until something decent comes through. Grinding + weathering.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-29T07:14:36-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-29T08:47:55-07:00

today's bits...

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-29T10:44:27-07:00

i really wanted to do a remake remodel but i have been working on two comics so i have not had the time (plus i am not really into the avengers)
heres a preview from one of my comics. its written by the same guy that did the blue cassette comic i was working on before.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-29T13:19:49-07:00

imaginarypeople,
Can I repost your ninja pic on lioncorn.com?
We are going to have ninja week, the first week of October.
Anyone else with ninja pics please send them my way.
monster_95018@yahoo.com
THANKS PANKS!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-29T22:11:41-07:00

Hey emonster, just thought i'd chime in here. i'm the writer on the comic that imaginary peoples panel is from. Feel free to use the panel, but if your going to be sure to run a plug for me an JM's web /print comic which the panel is taken from : "POPTRASH", debuting soon online.

thanks

Curt

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-30T09:39:13-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-30T10:00:20-07:00

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-30T15:03:20-07:00

A character sketch I did today for one of the projects I have in mind for when A Wicked Little Town ends.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-30T20:45:38-07:00

@m.e.walsh- nice modok

heres a panel from my other comic i am working on.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-31T00:22:26-07:00

Just finished this piece for an ASGARD Meets FOURTH WORLD art gallery created by Mr. Travis Ellisor.
Forager vs Ulik the Rock Troll. I don't know much about Forager, but I've always been a big fan of Ulik from the olds days of reading The Mighty Thor.
It was a real pleasure to work on. Ink and wash, and a touch of gouache.

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-31T03:12:00-07:00

Nice one Mike!
Holy shit M. E. Walsh Great stuff
All the rest of you too. Great work this month!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-31T05:12:58-07:00

Just dropping by to say that I've looked through the thread and everyone's goddamn awesome and sorry I didn't post anything myself but all I had done was a bunch of random doodles and sketches that are not worthy of this thread (maybe next month?).

@Neil Ofsteel: There was a photo of that "Metallcia rules" floating around the web some time ago!

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-31T06:22:27-07:00

This is a birthday card I made for my Mother-In-Law's birthday:

The Artists Thread (July 2011)

2011-07-31T09:18:44-07:00

@Rooth - goddamn that's good!
@mercurialblonde - think I've said it before, but it bears repeating - love your colouring so much.