On the Drawing Board

Hi!

A sneak peek at what's on my drawing board this week, featuring a snippet of Rally Mark back in action!

I'll post the finished image another day as it's a work in progress and there's a bit more to it.

Enjoy!
Rob

Rally Mark, Rally Hockey?

Howdy!

I had a crazy idea for my newest and latest Rally Mark pic to combine his love of two of his favourite sports, rally driving and Ice Hockey and here's the wacky result, of course everyone would have to play in cars and Brownie is sure to be helping RM too :)

There is indeed more to come of Rally Mark this year too :)

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

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.

Wednesday Pen Sketches

It really seems to be a pen sketch week this week. Here we have a very cartoon scared guy, two drawings of me; one now and one a little while ago, and a staunch looking 'Rally Mark'.

Enjoy!

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

Rally Mark fun

Just a couple more ideas playing around with body shapes and wokring on my anatomy skills with my character Rally Mark.

Why is he jumping off a cliff? I have no idea either it's just the way it came out :)

Enjoy.

Rob

More sketches

I've been working on a few more sketches lately and here's the results.

My character 'Rally Mark' and two more head sketches of Quesada & Palmiotti's 'Ash'.

Cheers,

Rob

(see i am still working on 'Rally Mark')

Racin' Red

A Sketch of my character and Rally Mark's mechanic "Racin' Red".

Rally mark continues apace and i am hoping for release later this year.

Welcome to the New Year and i hope it's fruitful and zany, crazy and fun for you!

Cheers,
Rob

RM is comin!

I've been away for a long long time, mainly due to updating deviantart and not having much PC time when not at work.

I'll hopefully post some Rally Mark stuff as we head towards the conclusion and publication of the first full story. Fingers crossed, pencils sharpened, script finished, DRAW!
:)
Rob

Rally Mark in Progress

Well the next part of Rally mark is in progress with a delivery date around the next Armageddon at Wellington in April, so I thought I drop in a couple of panels to show you how we're looking so far.



Dem Hillbillies are still after Rally mark and his racing MkII Escort in their suped-up nitros powered drag tractor and when we left them last episode things were looking pretty 'dicey' for poor old Rally Mark. But he's a stubborn character and won't go down with out a fight!

Stay tuned and we'll keep you in the know!

Rob.

Rally Mark returns to strip form

Okay that's not how it's supposed to sound.... Welcome to a new year and to celebrate Rally Mark is getting married!

This is the first Rally Mark strip in ages (and yes he looks alot like Calvin - this is because Rally Mark LOVES Calvin and it's where the idea for Rally Mark originally came from).


Hooray for a new year full of drawings and new adventures! Stay tuned faithful reader!
Rob.

ARMAGEEDON is HERE!

And so is a new episode of Rally Mark!!

Here's a wee teaser to get you up on the storyline :D




See you at the Aotea Centre this weekend, pop by the Gotham Comics/DMC stand, pick up a copy of New Ground #8, a sketch and be sure to say "hi!"

Cheers,
Rob