Friday 12/03/2010

Working list:
Drawing:

The Crusader: Spoonful of Honeywith Chris & Steve Denton.
5 pages pencilled, and page 6 started. This is giving me grief.

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll

Completed this Week!

Publishing:
Walking Wounded 03 Lettering.
Finished and away to the Denton Bros- Looking forward to this, and I’m hoping to be able to take some copies to Hi Ex with me.


Hi-Ex 03 Convention Programme
DONE. At the Printers!

FutureQuake 15
DONE. At the Printers!

FutureQuake 16
Strip Lettering: Bargain hunter- Ready for Print!
Strip Lettering: B.O.O.B.I.E. trap- Art received and prepped for lettering

Something Wicked 06

Dogbreath 22
DONE. At the Printers!

Zarjaz 09
DONE. At the Printers!

Zarjaz 10
Judge Dredd- Red in Tooth & Claw- Awaiting amended art files
Judge Dredd- Xtras- Art received and prepared for lettering.

Average Joe Lettering for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 0 pages.
Unfortunately I can't really show anything from this yet- I don't have permission.

Froday March 05

This was the entry for a comp that I joined in with Matt McLaughin on. We didn't win, but I had a blast drawing it.

Working list:
Drawing:

The Crusader: Spoonful of Honeywith Chris & Steve Denton.
5 pages pencilled, and page 6 started.

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll

Completed this Week!

Publishing:
Walking Wounded 03 Lettering.
Death on the rock part 3. Art & Script arrived- Here we go!

Hi-Ex 03 Convention Programme
Deadline early March.
Nearly there….

FutureQuake 15
At The Printers!

FutureQuake 16
Strip Lettering: Bargain hunter- Awaiting Final Approval from full editorial.

Something Wicked 06

Dogbreath 22
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.
Almost ready- And you will love the result!

Zarjaz 09
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.
Soo close!

Average Joe Lettering for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 0 pages.
Unfortunately I can't really show anything from this yet- I don't have permission.

26/02/2010: Update Time

Three in a row! Hat trick.

Whilst clearing out some old paperwork at home, Mrs Bolt has uncovered this from waay back in the day. Makes me smile now, but at the time I was very disheartened.

Working list:
Drawing:

The Crusader: Spoonful of Honeywith Chris & Steve Denton.
3 pages pencilled, and page 4 started.

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll

Completed this Week!
Harry Potter commission, had the colours back from Mel Cookand all handed over.


Publishing:
Walking Wounded 03 Lettering.
Death on the rock part 2 Lettered and Completed. Absolutely superb work from the Denton Bros.

Hi-Ex 03 Convention Programme
Deadline early March.

FutureQuake 15
Deadline 1st March.
Final strip arrived and being lettered!

FutureQuake 16
Strip Lettering: Bargain hunter- Awaiting Final Approval from full editorial.

Something Wicked 06
Strip Lettered & Completed: Mirage

Dogbreath 22
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.
Strip Lettering: From Below Pt2- 5 Pages Lettered. One page awaiting
Case File 23 Assembled and sent for approval

Preparation underway for possibly the coolest thing we’ve ever done in Dogbreath- and we’ve done some cool stuff!

Zarjaz 09
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.
Review 01 & 02 Completed.

Average Joe Lettering for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 0 pages. 2 new pages available, but I've not been able to get to them.
Unfortunately I can't really show anything from this yet- I don't have permission.

Weekly update: 14/02/2010

Working list:
Drawing:

The Crusader: Spoonful of Honeywith Chris & Steve Denton.
3 pages pencilled, and page 4 started.

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll

Completed this Week!
Harry Potter commission, handed over the original- awaiting the coloured version back from Mel Cook.

Lobster Random- Entry for the 2000ad Art comp. I’ve not entered the last few, so I’m determined to get something good done for this. You be the judge.

Publishing:
Walking Wounded 03 Lettering.
One strip down, more to come apparently. Deadline early March.

Hi-Ex 03 Convention Programme
Deadline early March.

FutureQuake 15
Just waiting for 1 strip. Deadline 1st March.

FutureQuake 16
Strip Lettered & Completed: The Last Laugh
Strip Lettered & Completed: Mr Robinson
Strip Lettering: Bargain hunter- Awaiting Final Approval from full editorial.

Something Wicked 06
Strip Lettering: Mirage- Awaiting Final Approval from full editorial.

Dogbreath 22
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.

Zarjaz 09
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.
Strip Completed: FLESH – Extinctionville. Promo page to appear in Zarjaz 09.

Average Joe Lettering for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 11 pages.
Unfortunately I can't really show anything from this yet- I don't have permission.

Regular Updates begin here!

I am hereby going to get back into the habit of posting weekly updates for the purpose of keeping a record of what I'm doing.

Working list:
Drawing:

Harry Potter commission
Inks completed, and I’ve sorted for it to be coloured as well. Very pleased with this.


The Crusader: Spoonful of Honey with Chris & Steve Denton.
3 pages pencilled, taking a break from this to work on the Potter commission, sorry Chris.


ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll (Links)
Mike has done a lovely template for this.

Completed this Week!
Thing From another planet Comp Entry with Matt McLaughlin
Submission confirmed- so fingers crossed. Matt has posted about it here.


Publishing:
Walking Wounded 03 Lettering.
One strip down, more to come apparently. Deadline early March.

Hi-Ex 03 Convention Programme
Deadline early March.
Approx 5 pages complete, with more to come. The Auction alone is worth the effort!

FutureQuake 15
Just waiting for 1 strip. Deadline 1st March.

Dogbreath 22
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.

Zarjaz 09
Waiting for all sorts! Deadline 1st March.

Average Joe Lettering for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 6 pages.
Unfortunately I can't really show anything from this yet- I don't have permission.

There. A decent update to be sure.

The Bridge!

The BRIDGE is the school magazine for Handsworth Grammar, in Birmingham, which is the school that the mighty Mini-Bolt went to till earlier this year. Why am I posting about this- well it is because for the second year running, I out it together for them. The editor; Mrs Elaine Brown, was one of Mini-Bolts teachers and after she learned about my small-press activities they asked me to help out. I was only too pleased to accept- especially when they offered to pay me!

I'm quite pleased with how the mag looks, though there are things I want to sort for next year- making the interior pages tidier, fixing some nasty formatting shortcuts I got lumbered with due to the school's inexperience (ohh, hark at me!) with print techniques and generally giving it a bit more polish. That's if they ask me, after all...

Oh, and because I did the layout work I was able to push it to my usual printer for comics, which has hopefully given them a lovely x-mas bonus as well.

Friday 4th december.

My Entry for the 2000ad online message board Advent Calendar. Quite pleased with this.

Friday 27 November 2009

This week I have been recovering from Leeds and sorting stuff ready to start on the new Crusader strip. thumbnails are all done, but I've got to put it on the back burner for the Bridge- which is going to need a lot of work to get ready for printers.

I've also done some lettering for another member of the 2000ad message board hive. A strip that is for the board advent calender that starts on Tuesday.

Sam Slade!

This started out as a 'You have 15 minutes to draw Robo-Hunter entry on the 2000ad online message board, but I got carried away.

The pencils took 15 min, inks approx 40 min, then I scanned it and started playing. I really enjoyed this.

Back from the depths- TIME TOURS

Time for a little light pimpery.

A couple of months ago I drew a single page strip for the BACK FROM THE DEPTHS Fan publication headed by Malcolm Kirk.

The full issue is now available to download and I heartily recommend it. There are some cracking strips and some lovely artwork- including pieces by Johnny McMonagle and Matthew Soffe

Really must get back into this...

I can't believe it has been nearly a year since I posted here!

Sheesh!

Okay- Working on:-

Mostly promoting the new comics, getting more Zarjaz made and amending the cover for the latest Dogbreath. Got a lot of ppost to deal with as the comp copies need to be organised.

Drawing wise I'm not up to much. I've a terrible cold at the mo, which is leaving me feeling really fucking horrible, and has majorly affected my concentration. However I have managed to ink the first two pages of the second half of the SD strip I'm working on.

I'm going to be getitng some lettering work from Insomnia comics apparently. I need to drop them a line and say sorry for not speaking at BICS last weekend.

Afternthe SD strip I am going to begin work either on a new Dreddheads- or more likely the next Crusader strip- and I'm going to try to ink that digitally. I reckon that I should be able to finally overcome my hand-eye issues with the stylus and hopefully get a greater level of detail into my work. If nothing else it will make for an interesting experiment.

For next time I'm going to try to get a picture to post as well- Surely I can do THAT...

Hi-Ex2 and more

Since I last blogged here all sorts of stuff has been going on. I've done the full graphic design package for a school mag (and sorted the printing) and finished the pencils on the next installment of Whistler for Dogbreath.

Then I did this:

Which I'm pretty pleased about as it is in the current end of year 2000ad. Cue big, silly grin on my mush. Of course I didn't draw it, that was Declan Shalvey who did that bit. I just put the words on.

Next up I'm taking a couple of days before leaping into the inks for Whistler to work on the FQP X-mas card for the year and to do some sketches for a script I'll be starting soon for Mike Carroll that is possibly one of the most bittersweet farewells to a comic character I've ever read.

Strontium Dog vs Iron Man

Strontium dog C Rebellion. Iron Man C Marvel.

Happy Halloween

A larger version of the entry in this months 2000ad message board compo

Harvest!

It’s almost time to start pimping the new comics. Last night saw the final CD burned of the current crop. Phew!

Working on:
The last Whistler story! There is anew episode in the new Dogbreath, and next issue will see the whole thing wrap up an leave the character in… well that would be telling.

Latest from FQP:

FutureQuake
Being Printed!

Something Wicked
Being Printed! Thanks to the efforts of Brett Buckle for getting the last strip in at the last moment.

DogBreath & Zarjaz
Being Printed!

Oh- remember those Kingdom Pics I did earlier this year? Well, Richmond has coloured them and they look lovely.




Dave

Crusader test & more.

I'm FREE! Only joking. I've been drawing the Crusader strip since May this year, and it is only six pages. Mental I know, but It has taken me that long. I'm hoping the next couple of strips are going to be a LOT quicker.

Anyhow- this is a pic I did as a test for Richmond to see what his colouring would look like. Pretty impressive to my eyes is the answer.



These are also the latest crop of sketches I've worked on recently.

Colossus of the X-men.

A rather tired looking mutie.

News & Sketches

Judge Dredd

Not done a proper update for a while, so here goes

Working on:
The Crusader for Massacre for Boys: I’m inking the last page as of today and seeing as I’ve been drawing this since May this year I’m going to be glad to see it finished. It has also opened my eyes as to what I can actually achieve these days. Not flippin’ much is the answer. I used to be able to do 3 pages (Full A3) in two weeks around my job & family, but not anymore.

Latest from FQP:

FutureQuake
The new FQ (11) is almost ready. Just waiting on Neroy and a few bits for the inside cover, then it is good to go.

Something Wicked
A much more perilous publication. Some issues with artists are putting this issue into a bit of doubt. Which is a shame as I really like this title and think this issue would be a corker if it comes together as I want it to. The latest thing here is that the cover art is being coloured by the mighty Mini-Bolt.

DogBreath & Zarjaz
Dogbreath is coming together slowly and Zarjaz is almost ready. The cover has to be seen to be believed and once this issue is done I can reveal the news that… Ah, that ‘would’ be telling. Suffice to say- there has never been an issue of Zarjaz like the issue we have planned for issue 07.

Dave



The Fat Man sings...


Keege's Day off.

Sketches

Strontium Dog Johnny Alpha.



I Don't know what this guy has done, but he's in trouble...



Judge Death.

Sketches!

One of my favourite series ever, the VC's. This may well get some more work done later, adding in a background or some effects.



a Mega-city monkey, out for a rumble!

Sketches...

A rather Iffy Wolverine, though the hair has some nice texture to it.



Hulk SMASH Puny Pencil Monkey!



Judge Anderson.