All Star Western #33 sneak peek

Here's a look at a few panels from All Star Western #33 (out in just under a month, I believe), which will be my last foray into the world of Jonah Hex for the time being. The series will have one issue to go after this one, but that is drawn by Darwyn Cooke.

These art the art in it's 'raw state', before it's been cleaned up, & before I've added panel orders, which these days I do digitally in 'post production' to borrow a movie making term. All these are done over blueline printouts of my pencils, & inked with Uni-pin fineliners & my trusty Pentel brush-pen.

I've been careful not to choose images which contain any spoilers, so hopefully this should only enhance your enjoyment of the issue, not ruin it!!

All Star Western #32 teaser.

Out in a couple of weeks, here's the layouts & inks for a page from All Star Western #32.

Pandora:Trinity Of Sin, art dump.

Last year I was tasked with helping out on the book Pandora; Trinity Of Sin for DC comics. Initially this just entailed providing thumbnails/layouts for regular penciller Francis Portella, however, eventually this progressed to doing full art on a few pages of a couple of issues.

Presented here are a scans of some of the work I did. I have decided to do full colour scans so you can see how I have utilised my blueline print out technique. Those of you have followed this blog for a while will be no doubt familiar with my process, for those who aren't, take a look here, which explains it in detail. The scans are shown in no particular order, other than I have grouped the layouts, the pencils & the inks together. Any questions/comments are welcome.

More old stuff.

Everything I've worked on recently is covered by one embargo or another (either official, or self imposed), so as a result there's not been anything I can post. To stop this blog grinding to a complete halt, here's some scans of old pencils that I had on my hard drive. When I say 'old' I mean scarily old.. as in over a decade old... jeez.

Iceberg Art Dump

Iceberg??? Yep! The body of work that most illustrators produce is like an iceberg, in that the bit most people see (the tip of the iceberg) is only a minor part of what actually gets done. To put it simply, that core goal of this blog from day one was to show that portion of the iceberg which usually stays below the water line.

So presented here, is a bunch of stuff I found in a box kicking around my studio. I almost never throw any sketches & prep work away, but by the same token, I don't keep it all nice & neat & in some kind of order.. they just get thrown in a drawer, or a box or something. So in this particular box was sketches from work I did fairly recently, alongside material from almost 30 year ago.It's presented here without individual explanations, if anyone sees something that they'd like to know more about, then ask in the comments section & I'll do my best to answer. Not that I'm expecting too many questions judging by the pitifully few comments this blog attracts on the whole.. ya bunch of ingrates!!.

Here's the art..