Second Chance In Hell

Been working on some Criminal pages over the weekend...

Another Hour...

Went to brave the weather in Morecambe today with some old friends. Didn't get much painting done...

Back To Work

Started another Criminal cover today.
One hour in so far...

Merry Christmas

Again nothing worth showing of my work today, I'm winding down for the holidays. Instead here's a detail of what I bought myself for an early Christmas present...It's a page of original art by one of my favourite artists, the late Jorge Zaffino.

Finished!

Just finished another issue of Marvel Zombies. I'd quite like to stop work now until January, but I've still got two covers to paint before Christmas and then straight back to drawing comics pages as usual. I hear real jobs have paid holidays, wonder what that's like? (I'm not complaining though, I'll be desperate to get back to work after Christmas, I love my job!)

Zombies Vs Zombies!

Why can't they all just get along?

Kaos

I'm finding it harder to post up non spoiler Marvel Zombies pics, so I thought I'd show some old stuff instead...
Here's the first two episodes of a terrible comic strip I did for a competition back when I was 17. Unsurprisingly, I didn't get anywhere in the competition as my entry was derivative tripe. I was really into Conan at the time and this is full of Buscema and Kane swipes. Actually, probably every figure and background was copied from somewhere. Obviously nowadays I don't do that, apart from the occasional 'homage'...
By the time I drew this I'd already been getting published for two years, pencilling for Ken Houghton who kindly lettered this strip for me. I don't remember him giving an opinion of it except to get me to redraw one particulary bad panel. If I can face it, I'll put the remaining episodes up this week...

Tasty!

Blast Of Silence

Boot!

Lawless

Out today in the US and Canada. Titan will be publishing a UK edition next month, and there will be French, German, Italian and Spanish editions available soon.

My Dead Girlfriend

No work today, I'm off to Edinburgh to meet Eric Wight for a drink...

Spot the Difference...

Time Magazine Top Ten Graphic Novels 2007

And in at #4 Marvel Zombies!

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1692128,00.html

College

Haven't done any work today, went to my local art college to talk to some students about comics. The class is doing a graphic novel for their project so I went to tell what little I know on the subject. Thanks to Dan and Annie for the invitation, I really enjoyed it.
Here's a painting I did back in the mists of time when I was a similar age to the students who had to sit through my talk. I must have done it when I was around 17...

And More...

More Zombies...

Lawless preview

Nice plug here...

Halloween

Finished the cover for a Halloween comic out from Devil's Due in a month or two...

Ouch!

I'd love to show you the rest of this page but I think my editor would kill me...

Zombies!

Back to work on Marvel Zombies today...

Sketches

Some warm up sketches for a little job outside of comics. They don't come along very often so I'd better not jinx it by blabbing..

Bit More Painting...

Interview

An audio interview Duncan Fegredo and I did last month goes out at 5pm GMT today over at http://www.resonancefm.com/
Come listen to us ramble and talk over each other...

UPDATE: The interview is now available as a podcast here...

http://readyformycloseup.blogspot.com/

Luckily I don't sound too much of a tit!

Halloween

Started another painted cover today...

Tweaked...

Just tweaked his fag a bit...
Then I had to scan the thing! Even with an A3 scanner it took a few passes and a lot of Photoshop.

Finished!

Another couple of hours....

Another half an hour...

Criminal Vol 2 #2 cover

Started on the next Criminal cover...

A quick rough and then about two hours so far in oils..

VU 6 final stage

Nintendo DS

Just had a quick doodle on a paint program for the DS...

VU 6

First couple of hours into the cover painting...

Vinyl Underground #6 cover rough

Started a cover painting today. Here's the approved rough. I'm scanning the painting as I go along so I'll post the stages next week.

Oh the horror!

Censored!

Finishing up an issue of Marvel Zombies this week. Most pages have big spoilers so just a tease today...

More Zombies...

Vinyl Underground #6 cover rough

Rejected rough...

Robot Rowdiness

Lurgy!

I and the rest of my family have had the lurgy the last few days so haven't got hardly any work done. I'm feeling better today although the rest of them are still ill. Done a bit of work...
Some more zombies and a cover sketch...

Today's zombies...

Thumbnails

Thumbnails to those previous Zombies pages...

That's all for today, as I'm making my way to Leeds later for tomorrow's Thought Bubble Comic Festival at Leeds Town Hall. I'll be signing along with Duncan Fegredo, Bryan Talbot and a host of others.

Halloween

Only a week late...

Final inks

Outlines

Zombie Pencils

Zombie Wolverine!

Did this as the first prize in a competition my art dealer at www.splashpageart.com had at his comic shop.