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

Dennis Hopper

I hadn't even realised he had died but i've always thought that Dennis Hopper was a great actor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10223051.stm

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')

Noh Love

"Noh Love : Leave it all behind" - Tattoo design inspired by David Mack's 'Kabuki'

and Angelique Houtkamp.

One of my favourite pieces i've drawn this year.

Two Tattoo's and a Sketch

After reading a book in alocal bokstore about Angelique Houtkamp (http://www.salonserpent.com/Home.html) i had a couple of ideas for tattoo designs and the following snippets are from these works in progress.

One is related to David Mack's Kabuki and the other is a flight of fancy based around the singer P!nk. More will be revealed as i get them closer to the finished pieces. :)

And then there's this fella, a character created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti back in the mid-late 90's. An awesome fire-fighting hero called 'Ash'. Though i'd try my hand at him by copying a character design sheet that Joe Quesada produced, and for once he's turned out quite well.

Thanks for reading!
Rob

ActionMan Adam

Action Man Adam

by Marc Streeter

ActionMan Adam is a entertaining introduction to a crazy Canadian character - based in Christchurch, New Zealand - trying to fall in love with every good-looking female within eyeshot. And lets face it who doesn’t want good-looking girls to fall in love with them?

Marc’s knack for witty dialogue and often cringe-worthy situations brings Adam’s personality off the page and with the introduction of a supporting cast (Adam’s flatmate Munter) starts to bring some real dimension to the character. Fluid layouts, great toning, consistent artwork and great story-telling make the Adams adventures a pleasure to read.

You can see the development in Marc’s art from story to story within the book and I can envision Marc doing a Spiderman story in the future with the way the character tumbles across a tree branch in the first story and Adam slightly geek-ish nature puts him in a similar realm to Peter Parker.

Marc’s writing endears the character of Adam to the reader through laughing at his outrageous attempts at gaining the affections of any good-looking female within eyeshot and sympathising with him when it ultimately doesn’t work out. Adam has a good heart just a misguided sense of affection.

Unfortunately most of the stories in the book are a bit short, which makes it a quick read. Though the last story ‘Cold’ rounds out the book quite nicely and leaves you wanting to know more about the character it’ll be interesting to see where Marc will take Adam in his next adventures and how he will develop his character further.

By the look of the new pages being posted online (www.actionmanadam.com) Marc is definitely pushing it to the next level in terms of story, layout and artwork.

Keep up the good work Marc, great things await.


Review by Robin Hotter