Tag: Fanart

venomber 2024

It’s nearly the end of the month so time to clear the old iPad again and free up some precious precious megabytes. Before you ask, no I haven’t seen the new movie… I only just recently saw across the spider-verse, I’m truly on the cutting edge of the zeitgeist… what day is it again? Why are mullets a thing?

Sketched in procreate while watching the **Tyrell Cannon stream** earlier this month

Slight adjustment, not sure if it’s any improvement really

The next page was drawn without ref just goofing around. I do quite like the idea of a slacker spidey going against a gobby with an ill-fitting rubber mask for some reason though.

I recently started a new job at one of the local uni’s that involves a bit more desk work than I’m used to. I’ve been keeping some scraps handy and have been doodling while waiting on queries, etc. I was feeling fishy last week and managed to sketch these lil dudes.

Starting to feel happier with some of my inking lately and the way it scans, here’s a page from the A5 sketchbook that feels like something I can build on.

The urge to create fanart at the moment is strong, the only problem is that every book I’ve read recently I kinda want to do something for, it’s an affliction. This is something in procreate for Remote Space by Cliff Rathburn that I’m hoping to work on a bit further next month if I get the chance.

Had a quick go at the Manero challenge of the month for November. I don’t think I’ll finish it up but I had fun trying out the layer mask technique he explains in the video. I used a photo of a Godzilla toy as ref but it didn’t really feel like I was getting away from just drawing a straight up copy.

I was thinking of drawing up some Gangsters versus Monsters trading card art earlier in the month but didn’t get past the layout stage.

Procreate continues to be a lot of fun and those pencil brushes are so nice, here’s a wee ghostie that hovered onto one of my pages.

Feeling like Christmas is now creeping up pretty fast and it’d be sweet if I could do something for it, let me know in the comments if you have any character suggestions or something you’d like to see. Always welcome some feedback if you feel inclined, take care and look after yourselves!

Absolutely

It’s been a fun exercise just sketching up some layouts of Absolute Batman for this challenge on insta. I won’t be entering but thought I’d post them here just to clear up some thinking space (the deadline is 27th Oct if you’re interested).

I would have probably went with option one or two but they just feel too similar to a few of the covers I’ve seen so far… besides, did you see that Harren variant at the weekend? Holy crap!!

I should exaggerate these proportions even more, this guy should be massive, a brick sh*thouse!

I’ve been sketching in procreate more lately and some of the brushes have a definite Kent Williams/George Pratt/Jason Shawn Alexander vibe.

Probably overdoing it with spatter and rendering on this Batman sketch, have to remind myself to simplify and think in form.

I watched Aliens a few times after not seeing it for a good few years. It was one of the few movies I brought with me to watch while visiting my in-laws for two weeks over the summer (along with Mad Max: Fury Road & Across the Spider-verse).

I’ve been thinking about doing some more Aliens fan-art but I haven’t drawn anything for it. These are some of the first attempts at something (sketched without reference). Hopefully it’ll develop into a final piece/cover/pin-up, I’m pretty sick of just squeezing in sketches lately.

notober

Nope, not doing it, you can’t make me, what’s that?… you’ve made a list of prompts with vague references and obscure characters appealing to my unquenchable nostalgia… ahhhhh, hmmmm… maybe I could… just one a week… or maybe seven at the weekends and post them together in a batch… collect em in a zine… release it on gumroad… that could be fun… I could make it woargghhhhhhhhhhh!!! Damn yooouuuu October!!!! You vile cursed month! Every fraggin year!

Anyway, now that I’ve cleared that up, please enjoy these random drawings.

My old Belfast comics meet-up pal Stephen Downey turned 40 recently and I quickly sketched up some fan art of his latest @outsidergames project Tax-Force. It’s heavily influenced by the X-Men animated series which is basically all you need to know, go wish-list it on your computer.

Wee goblin inspired by @boe_ink latest posts on instagram, goblins are good craic.

Had a go at the new bats and that axe, lotta fun and it got me excited to pick up the first issue this week. Since reading it though I think these henchmen dudes are supposed to be wearing ape skulls, oh well.

Look… it’s been a long week and an even longer weekend, it’s times like these that the Jarbats will emerge in the sketchbook… meesa not sorry.

Batman Day 2024

I was drawing this dumb Batman last night when I realised I’ve missed yet another momentous #batmanday… and no, I didn’t go to bed, Batman’s not the boss of me!

I actually sketched some bat stuff in August when I watched the latest caped crusader series.

Really like the character design choices and the overall German expressionist influence, Clayface in particular was straight outta Caligari (someone should make that t-shirt).

Some more sketchy stuff… I’ll eventually draw an epic aliens masterpiece.

Reproductionist

I’ve been trying to reproduce the work I’ve been doing lately in clip studio paint on paper. The results have been varied but I feel like I’m getting closer with the second page here using a g-pen nib and Pentel aquash brush. Weirdly I much prefer drawing on copier paper for these as opposed to bristol board. The g-pen nib is really chewing up the Daler Rowney bristol board I’ve been using, getting all clumpy.

I got the idea to use the aquash brush recently from Franck Bonnet’s instagram, he dips it and uses it as a brush, genius!

Cara on

Post date 9th June 2024
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Felt like sketching a few more of these goofs and dusted off my Huion light pad earlier in the week. Amazingly it still works, I should really use it more often, this thing is great! Anyway, I had a few roughs left over from my alien day stuff and got to work dividing up some A4 bristol. Really looking forward to inking these traditionally over the next few days when I get a chance.

Like so many others this last week I also joined Cara:

I’ve been generally dissatisfied with my experience on social media for a while now, it’s increasingly more difficult to just see great art without the continual interruption of ads, meaningless video content, etc.

I’m lucky that I don’t depend on these platforms for any kind of income and I’m just on there to post the odd sketch and add a wee comment here and there. So far Cara is a good space just for that and it looks like more and more of my favourite artists are moving to the app.

In other news my web host is closing so I’m gonna have to think about what I do with this place. I enjoy having a web site if for no other reason than to have an online sketchbook/diary of sorts but the visitor numbers don’t really justify it’s existence.

If you’ve any recommendations for affordable shared WP hosting in the UK, let me know in the comments, it’d be real good to hear from ya!

April 2024

Quick fanarts… scribbles, playing with tone

Slapped some quick tone on these scans too

10 Captain Britain

Tried something a bit different for Captain Britain using the symmetry ruler in clip studio paint. In hindsight looking at my initial roughs (below) I probably would have had more fun with a heroic/action pose.

09 Death Metal

Day 09 of #marveluktober is the ever so shiny and somewhat homicidal Death Metal! Believe it or not I attempted a version of this on paper and spent about an hour on it. Needless to say it did not work out so I quickly sketched up something in clip studio paint before going a little OTT with the texture. Some of it works I think… I mean I like the thumb print brush stuff in the background.

04 Baron Blood

Got a little lazy with this one towards the end and relied heavily on the thumb print brush and ink spatter to fill in the bulk of the figure. I’m not entirely sure the composition works but I’m happy with the Mignolaesque background and general horror vibe.