Amazing Joy Buzzards - Stevo

I've been wanting to do some Amazing Joy Buzzards sketches for a while now and this one popped into my head recently. This fella's name is Stevo and he's the bad-ass sword weilding, bass playing, martial arts expert, some also say he may be half Yeti!

Amazing Joy Buzzards is an awesome Rock n' Roll advetnure comic book about a band that battle supernatural forces along with their mythical Mexican wrestler El Champeon. AJB is created by the masterminds Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp (http://www.mrhipp.blogspot.com/)

I'm hoping the new volume Amazing Joy Buzzardss : Monster Love might be out before Christmas but we'll just have to wait and see!

Let me know what you think.

Rob

Instant Inspiration

Have you ever done anything on a spur of the moment inspiriation?


Well this is where this next sketch i did came from. I met up with Action Man Adam (http:/www.actionmanadam.com) created Marc Streeter at the pub the other week and am always impressed by his enthusiasm for comics art and his character.


So a few days after on the bus home i had an inspirational moment and ripping my sketchbook from my back pack I scribbled furiously on the page. It felt great, such a free and easy drawing and the pure joy of creating it was totally magic. No constraints, no expectations and viola! on the page it appeared.


I still can't get over how great it felt to have an idea and blast it out on the page with such enthusiasm. So i hope you like it, i know i sure do.

Cheers,

Rob

Following your heroes - Imitation for inspiration

I'd been looking at a way to kickstart my drawing again as i've felt like i'd been slacking. It's not often that i try to draw like other artists that i really like but it struck me the other day what would my character 'Rally Mark' look like if i was able to ask another artist to draw him for me?

With this thought in mind (and little financial backing to pursue asking real artists to do their take on 'Rally Mark') i decided to have a go at other peoples styles myself. First up is the remarkable Dan Hipp (mrhipp.blogspot.com) of 'Amazing Joy Buzzards' & 'Gyakushu' fame.

Dan Hipp has been doing some rad drawings of late on his blog and amazingly can use the colour pink to make his drawings look really, really cool! Anyway here's my attempt at his style.

Cheers,
Rob

GYAKUSHU!

Dan Hipp, co-creator of 'The Amazing Joy Buzzards' (with Mark Andrew Smith) has created and published through TokyoPop! part 1 of 3 issues of Gyakushu!

Which i believe in Japanese loosley means 'REVENGE!'

The book is an awesome romp through blood n' guts with a cunningly twisted storyline that will entertain you all the way through. I am looking forward to parts two and three, with Part two due sometime late this/early next year.

Here's a piece of fan art i created with the main character, his wife and their child.
Cheers,
Rob