Wednesday 24 March 2010

Freak Road

So, I've had a concept for a webcomic germinating in my brain for a while by the name of Freak Road; a meditation on urban legend and lifestyle, within the milieu of a character-driven "cartoon crime drama".

Freak Road is essentially me trying to congeal all my personal influences and secret socio-philosophical theories into a complete concept, with the result hopefully being something that's uniquely me.  I don't wanna give away too much detail, but I'm really excited about where it's going.

Anyway, here's some character doodles.




I've been toying with a new colouring style, and I'm enjoying it so much it's almost obscene.  Easy to learn, difficult to master, and ridiculously versatile.

There'll be a lot more of this, wait and see.

Monday 15 March 2010

Here's a quick warm-up I did today.  From start to finish, it took a hair under 3 hours.



Wouldn't it be awesome if someone made a new TMNT comic series in the vein of the original old-school comix from the eighties?  I'd love to see the turtles act like real Inner-city teenagers with ninja skills, dispensing foul-mouthed vigilante justice in between trying to obtain booze without ID or going to see obscure hardcore bands in dive bars.

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Evil Pixie Commission

Here's a logo I did for start-up photography studio Evil Pixie.  Completely coincidentally, the pixie apparently is the spit of the guy who runs the company, so it worked out pretty well!





Tuesday 9 March 2010

I've been working without ink recently in order to give the lineart a rougher energy that I think works quite well.  I'm still refining the technique but I love the effect to bits and I can't wait to put it to work on a big project.