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Dave is HALF WAY!!!
16 pages down, 15 pages to go. Holidays @ home = comics! I’m now officially half way through. Bizarrely (or…
Faora
Fandom’s talking a lot about Man of Steel and I think that’s fully understandable. While you can’t please all of…
100 Bullets
OzComics’ 100th Challenge! Nice choice of topic, though I’d never read the title. It was fun keeping it rough and…
Dave: A meeting of minds (or something like that)
I met up today with Dave: Zombie Hunter creator Stewart Cook (up from Adelaide) and Dave editor Anthony Sherratt. We discussed… well… what happens at the pub stays at the pub. Both are fine, upstanding gentlemen. Take my word for it. I do not have any photographic evidence of said event, but here are some pics I acquired earlier:
This may or may not be true. Like I said, what happens at the pub… 😉
Green Arrow and Black Canary
I read a lot of Green Arrow in the 80s. I loved the relationship he had with his Black Canary….
Backyard
Artwork created for Liff. It was a nice Saturday morning sitting in the backyard sketching our mango tree.
Dave: Zombie mobs
10 pages down, 21 pages to go.
A third of the way through and things are going along smoothly! Stewart’s not showing too many images any more as they contain story spoilers, which is fair enough. So I’ll keep this as spoiler free as possible. 😀
I’m in the middle of drawing a lot of zombie mob stuff now (not spoilery at all – in fact, you’d expect this from a zombie comic, yes?). What I’ve been finding really effective (and a lot of fun) is to use workmates as reference for the images.
Usually, the conversations have gone like this:
Me: Would you like to be a zombie in my comic?
Them: #$%@ yeah!
So I’ve had a few awesome lunch hours taking photos with everyone lurching around in the car park.
Sorry to those art purists who feel that photo pose reference shouldn’t be used (I’m not really) – It’s been great to get some of that random limb placement that you probably wouldn’t think of otherwise. It also made for a lot of fun and a fantastic promo for the comic!
Here is an example of the results:
In this pic I see account managers, programmers, social media coordinators and artists. Great fun!
Ray Harryhausen
Vale Ray Harryhausen. One of my few idols I’ve actually met and had a good long chat with. That say you should never meet your heroes – untrue, in this case. He was a very charming man who seemed genuinely happy to hang out with animator types at the beginning of their careers and talk shop over a beer or two. Brilliance.
Here’s a comic I made about it, way back when for h2g2.com. Forgive the use of Comic Sans. They were simpler times.
