The awesome Matt Garvey recently launched KICKSTARTING YOUR FIRST COMIC, a companion book to his previous KS campaign MAKING YOUR FIRST COMIC.
I had a lot of fun working on the cover, adding little details/easter eggs from Matt’s extensive back catalogue.
Check it out here on Kickstarter!
Campaign deadline: Fri, July 25
A bunch of scraps and colour practice from the month of May!
Honestly, any one of these could be a self portrait.
I did some real quick mockups of the latest sketchbooks in Affinity photo and now… well… I kinda wanna get them printed and hold ’em in my grubby lil mitts.
Whaddya think? Let me know in the comments if you’d like a physical copy? I may have already ordered some sample packs.
You can view the sketchbooks in the links below:
Got into drawing flies in a big way this month and filled a few pages in the grid notebook (I found this Etherington brothers tutorial really useful, the proportions are trickier than you’d think).
I produced two sketchbooks using Affinity Publisher and scribbled some rough ideas for covers, layouts, etc. I didn’t end up using the cover ideas but I might do something for the next one. Ideally, I’d like to spend time drawing a new detailed cover illustration as opposed to just using existing art.
Finished off the wee yellow sketchbook with some late night sketches using black and white posca markers. I really like how they came out, the fly head especially looks great on the page.
I started a new A5 sketchbook and decided to just fill the first few pages quickly to break it in. The paper wrinkled really badly with the posca paint markers, makes scanning these a real pain.
Not much in the way of digital work this month apart from a few doodle/scrap pages in procreate.
Finally, couldn’t resist picking up this tiny guy on the weekly grocery shop, such an awesome wee fig.
I’ve put together a collection of drawings and illustrations from 2023-2024, check it out below or download the free pdf.
Darren-Reynolds-2024.pdf (approx 15.1 MB)
A small collection of my favourite spreads and drawings from the wee yellow sketchbook, check it out below or download the free pdf.
Darren-Reynolds-2023.pdf (approx 13.4 MB)
Got aliens on the brain again, gonna have to work up something later in the month at a more reasonable hour…. so very tired.
Not much time for drawing but I’ve been adding to these larger pages of bedtime doodles, sketching some favourites and other stuff.
