Killing Time Page

Here's a random page from Killing Time. Page 8 to be exact. This is taken from my 30 page submission that I am still in the process of sending around to publishers.

To put it simply it's about Ninjas in the future. It's kind of Naruto meets BladeRunner.

The story is set in a large derelict part of a city that has been walled off to house an ever growing population of criminals. Divided into 3 security classes the prison city houses everyone from petty thieves to cannibalistic murderers.

Guarded by a large team of well trained, well armed guards the city remains a relatively safe environment. That is unless you enter the high risk zones.

Inside the city lives the remnants of two ancient ninja clans. Their techniques and appearances are varied. As are their motives for joining with the clans to begin with. Both clans operate separately to the rest of the prison. Staying mostly out of the general population they wage their war from day to day. And night to night of course.

For a good deal of these ninjas, the prison city offers the perfect testing ground. They enjoy more freedom to practice their violent arts than would be available in the outside world.

The young guy in the foreground of panel 1 is the newest recruit to the war.

He has a surprise in store for everyone, including himself.

The Bad Guy

This is the bad guy in my new book. There are numerous bad guys, but all of them will pretty much be incidental aside from this dude.

His name is Vince and as you can probably guess he's a bank robber. But he's a bank robber with a bit of a twist. He's pretty well kitted out here, ready to make some phat stacks.

There's not much to say about Vince at the moment. He's a family man. He has a tattoo sleeve. He's a smoker. He may or not have a beard/goatee. I don't think I've ever really done a character with much facial hair. Suplex has some obviously. I haven't finalised Vince' design yet so we'll see. The book could well become a beard club.

I'll keep putting up designs as they come. I also have about 5 or 6 unfinished sketches of random stuff in my sketchbook. I'll try to muster up the bother to finish them off and post them.

In the meantime as I've said before, please feel free to make sketch suggestions. It helps motivate me to draw more and will hopefully provide some diversity. So suggest away.

Until next post, fare thee well.

My Mate Suplex

I'm still in the process of sending my Killing Time submission around to various publishers. While I'm waiting to hear back, I've started work on another project.

This guy is the hero. His name's Suplex. I won't say too much right now but the book will be a different slant on typical superhero stories. I'm pretty pumped. I've already done the rough copy of the first two issues of the script and it's flowing nicely as far as I can see.

It's going to be 5 - 8 issues worth. All depends on how the characters develop etc. I know the ending so I'm just working toward it.

Stay tuned for more sketches. I'll try make updates more regular (okay I'll try harder).

concept bike

This is a sketch in the rough stages of a bike design I'm working on.

I love motorbikes big time, but I've not drawn many. I like Harley's and wanna own one some day, but when it comes to artwork I'm more keen on sports bikes. Especially concept bikes.

Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira books have been a big influence on my own artwork for a long time now. In particular his environments. However he's an all round legendary artist, and some of his designs such as Kaneda's bike (you know the one... if you don't...tsk tsk...) are personal favourites of mine.

I'm going to do this bike in full colour. At the moment I'm just trying to nail down the definitive design for it. It's much easier to draw things from different angles if you actually know what it looks like in profile etc.

Anyway let me know if you want to see more of this sort of stuff. I do mostly figure drawing, so it's always nice to switch it up a bit.

Rob Multo

Now personally I'm not an Avatar fan. But I AM a Rob Multo fan. And he froths for Avatar. So here he is. As a Na'vi warrior. Ready to make halu with you...

Rob's gold. Be his facebook friend. You won't regret it.

Through Enemy Eyes

I've for a while now been dead keen on Batman. I wanted to do a sketch of Batman without the Bruce Wayne side of him. How does Batman appear through the eyes of a terrified henchman?

'Through Enemy Eyes' was a title I was thinking of as I drew this sketch.

Sketch of Kratos, from God of War.

DRAW!

Welcome to my blog. I'm well behind the times in this digital age, so you'll have to forgive the starting quality of my blog. I assure you it'll only get better.

This blog is for artwork. It's that simple. If you want to see sketches and junk then you're in the right place. If you want to request sketches of your favourite characters/robots/vehicles/anything at all, well then come back a little later and you'll be in the right place. I gotta get this blog started before I take requests, so give me a sec.

In the meantime, I'll be posting sketches from comics I've been reading, shows I've been watching, new stuff, old stuff, whatever.

Enjoy.