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.

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.

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!

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.

Commisherations!

Here's a commission done for Drum-fiend and all-around Welsh person, Sion Hopes.

How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse!

Here's a recently completed pin-up for improv troupe How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse.

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Mm... Photogenic...

I've been doing a fair few of these recently, taking snapshots from various parties and drawing onto them to make some fun little gags.

I've been forcing myself to do these only in Sketchbook Pro, and the interface makes it seem so much more fun than the weird robot art-factory of photoshop.  Although I do love Photoshop.