Monday 5 December 2011

Caricature Me



Where have i been? Taking my sweet time with updates and creating quite a bit of art i'll have you know, in between other more important stuff of course ;)

So I was commissioned to create some cariactures for work of the Principals and now they're all done i can start to share them with you. It was a heck of a project but i've very, very proud of the results.



To start with we have Tax Principal Andrew who used to be an airline pilot and has the TDK hi-fi poster on his wall so i wanted to do a riff on that and am pretty pleased with the result.


And they are all being printed on A2 canvas to boot! First time i've ever been printed to canvas woohoo!


Anyhow hope you enjoy them over the coming weeks :)

Cheers,

Rob

Friday 9 September 2011

Go the AB's!



Well the Rugby World Cup has finally arrived so i thought i'd do up a kiwi in support of our awesome team.

Go the AB's!

Have a great World Cup everyone!
Rob.

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Shihad



My all-time favouritie kiwi band is Shihad. So when i had the chance to use some thick cardboard blocks for some artwork the idea to design a Shihad logo just screamed out to be done.



So here she is, it's done pencil, ink and vivd (sharpie) and i'm really happy with how it turned out.



Let me know who you think i should do next, and we'll see what i can come up with. :)



Cheers,

Rob

Saturday 25 June 2011

Happy Smurf Day!


Just found this over at article on the Smurf film and apparently today is 'Global Smurfs day'!

Lets have a Smurfin' day!

Friday 17 June 2011

Sisters of Mercy - Mariah



Back in the late 90's Poison drummer Rikki Rockett teamed up with his good friend Mark Williams and created a set of comics through Rob Liefeld's Maximum Press (an imprint of Image Comics).



Soon after this they launched under their own banner of 'No Mercy Comics'. The titles they produced were a fun, interesting and typically Image-styled comic art. Three titles were produced including "Nightshade", "Coven 13" and my favourite "Sisters of Mercy".


"Sisters of Mercy" was a post-apocolyptic tale of two sisters - Malina & Mariah - living on an ark-like island filled with the last remaining animals on the planet. There are other survivers of whatever has happened to the earth and they live on other islands away from the animals.


The title encapsulated horror, fantasty, animal protection, adventure and a bit of cheesecake. All in all a fun read and a pity they never eleased the next series of the title.

Unfortunately Mark Williams died in 1998 (he did special effects work on Aliens, The Abyss & Terminator 2) - read his bio http://www.answers.com/topic/mark-williams-horror-children-s-family

Here's my sketch of Mariah - martial artist/warrior.
Cheers,
Rob.

Thursday 28 April 2011

Brixton Bricks & Coffee Beans

A few weeks ago i was lucky enough to have my guest-strip run on the Actionman Adam website
http://www.actionmanadam.com/2011/03/brixton-bricks-n-coffee-beans/

I wasn’t sure if I needed to explain the importance of the brick a bit more.

Apparently back in the late 70’s and early 80’s (around the time ‘The Clash’ and ‘The Sex Pistols’ were around) “Margret Thatcher’s Britain was the riot capital of the world. Thatcher may have ruled in Parliament but out on the street it was a different matter. From the first eruption of inner-city rioting in St Paul’s Bristol in 1980 through the July rioting across the country in 1981 to Brixton and Broadwater Farm in 1985 someone some- where was lobbing a brick or petrol bomb at Thatcher.” (IAN BONE). As far as I have been informed carrying a brick around in your pocket was a part of Punk culture as well (but I may be wrong about that).

So the Sniffles & Cough characters love punk music (especially 'The Clash') and always have a brick handy incase of interlopers. In this case the manic dude Greg.

Hopefully that's a little clearer than mud. :)
Enjoy!
Rob

Rally Mark, Brownie (the dog) and Racin' Red



Here's a little pic i did a while ago that i found just recently that i thought was pretty cool, so i thought i'd share it. Pretty happy with the anatomy though Rally Mark is looking more than a little scary. :)


Enjoy!

Rob

Thursday 7 April 2011

Happy Birthday Grant!







Heres a Happy Birthday shoutout to Grant! Hope you're having a great trip in the States and will have to shout you a beer when you're back! Here's a little something for your birthday :)





Have a great Birthday and a safe trip home!


Cheers,

Rob

Friday 4 March 2011

Lady with a Gun.

Howdy,

Here's two versions of a pen sketch done recently from a picture in Buddy Scalera's book "Comics Artists Photo Reference - People and Poses".

As you can see in the first one pen sketching is sometimes not very forgiving and it's taken a little photoshop magic to clean up some of the mistakes and centre the focus of the picture properly.

I've finally got some ink for my fountain pen so i'm gonna be trying it out soon, i'll be posting the results so keep an eye out.

Enjoy!
Rob.

Thursday 17 February 2011

DC Powerhouses & Retro Girl

To practise a bit of variety i've been checking out other peoples work and having a go at their style. These latest two are Shaun 'Cheeks' Galloway (JLA Sketch) and Mike Avon Oeming (Retro-Girl sketch).


I've based my drawing loosely on their sketches and tried to add some of my own style too and i'm pretty happy with the results though i've still got a bit of work to do on anatomy because even cartoon work doesn't carry well if you can't get the proportions right. :)


Once again i'm sticking with the ballpoint pen but this is mainly because i waiting on an order of ink for my new fountain pen.


Ooh and just as a teaser i thought i'd include a snippet from something you'll see online in the very near future and it's something i'm really quite excited about because i've been working on it for a few months now and it features a small cameo of my favourite character and yours, "Rally Mark"!


Like i say it's only a cameo but it was a fun little detail to add. :)


Thanks for reading!
Rob.

Monday 24 January 2011

Happy Dangerous New Year!


It's been a great start to the year, sun, holidays and plenty of watersports to boot!


I've been sketching with my ballpoint pen again lately (yes i need to get some indian ink for my new pen) and also been reading the "Danger Girl Deluxe edition!" So i thought i'd have a go at Abbey Chase and i'm pretty happy with how she turned out.


On the Danger Girl front look for a new Danger Girl Miniseries this time a crossover with Army of Darkness: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30434


Happy New Year!
Rob