Newtasty

After sketching Turkish Superman, I couldn’t resist drawing my favourite Superman of all time, the peanut flicking drunk from Superman 3. Come on, we all know this Superman was the best, from shouting at little kids to straightening the leaning tower of Pisa, this sunnuvabitch gets my vote every time. Plus, he inexplicably sprouted an awesome grey flash in his hair, adding 100% extra cool.

It’s warm up the fingers for work time! After being reminded of this gem of a movie last week I decided to do a colour sketch of my second favourite son of Krypton, Turkish Superman. Seriously, if you’ve never never seen it and want a completely natural high, watch Turkish Superman. you’ll believe a toy doll can fly.

What is it with me and zombies? Whatever I am working on, there is always a zombie job somewhere in there… recently I had just finished a fairly high profile zombie job (don’t think I can share it just yet) and I had started working on several non-zombie projects. Before I could ask “why aren’t I drawing someone with their limbs hanging off?” I had a request for a poster/flyer for an event in my hometown called Zombie Prom. I guess zombies are so natural to me now that I went into automatic drawing mode and came up with this before I even knew what hit me. It was a neat, quick project for a no-trouble client… my favourite kind! In Birmingham you are never more that 10 feet away from a rat and I am never more than 10 minutes away from someone who want braaaains….

I just found myself compelled to draw Charlie Sheen as quick as possible from memory. They show 3 and a half men waaaaay too much here in Brazil.

Had to dig out some old character sketches for a client today. I few years ago I decided to go as digital and minimal as possible to suit my fleet footed way of life, seeing some of these makes me think about the thousands of sketches I threw away before I had even scanned them.
In a way, going being modern and going completely digital has made me more antiquated… remember how there was only ever 1 or 2 photographs of your grandparents when they were young? Save the very few things I managed to scan there is almost no record of my younger days. Piles of records, photographs, art, prints, books, ideas, all gone because I decided to just take hand luggage with me on my trip. I definitely don’t regret it, but seeing some of these makes me think there might have been some lost gems somewhere  in the bonfire.

don’t try

Pitched for a job recently involving another comic book, didn’t materialize in the end but I thought I would share some of the pitch samples. Went for a fairly traditional style as per request, not really my style of colouring either but good to try it out and the whole thing was good practice and a chance to blow off those comic book cobwebs. Always helps to be versatile!

I really don’t even remember working on this, i assume it was character design sketches but who knows! I do know it was for Namco’s Moto GP3 and I also know I hate drawing vehicles. And horses.

Yeeeears ago Levi’s comissioned me and my buddy Stef to do an instore painting at the opening of one of their stores. I decided denim, rock n’ roll, so I did a portrait of a girl who wants to be Iggy Pop and we surrounded it with printed confessions from groupies.
Here’s the initial sketch I did and some photos from the event. yeeeears ago and I still have the free jeans they gave me!

More dust bunnies! A ruck of rough concept sketches for the cover of Segas Bayonetta.