Walken On Eggshells

So I came down with a bastard of a bug over Christmas which pretty much wiped me out for two weeks. I'm mostly ok now apart from a lingering hacking cough but it was all enough to throw my plans of drawing during that Festive period out the window.

Today, I pottered about and think I'll be safe to get back on track next weekend. The results below are nothing special but at least it means I can work again...

Inspired by the line experiments done for the draped dress pic in the last post, I pencilled Christopher Walken ages ago but inked it today. Not impressed with the results and couldn't even be bothered to do the hair as a result...

A TAB thread recently revolved around childhood heroes and that gave me the idea to do cartoony versions of my childhood heroes from TV but I soon gave up on that idea and went for headshots instead. I decided against adding the Tomorrow People (which I loved but can't remember at all now) and Buck Rogers (as it was really Wilma I liked, not Buck, even at that young age!)

Finally, I drew a pic of Cheryl Cole yonks ago just as a quick pic as I intended to experiment colouring in a proper "comic" style (you can just about see the lingering touches in the dress). Other stuff overtook me and this fell to the wayside, I just finished the hair and did some colour hold effects today. Crap likeness and not what I'd intended but not terrible overall...

Drape Suzette UPDATED

Finished this up the other day and am quite happy with it (not perfect but was only an experiment with hatching anyway)...but I'm not sure which works best, black and white, the blue or the pink...hmmm...

Worx In Progress

Planning on a fair bit of inking in my lunch breaks...a recent TAB thread has made me think about doodling favourite TV characters from my childhood but I started with a Luke Skywalker: Han Solo may be the cooler option but Luke was the main hero and had a bloody LIGHTSABRE! Until the prequels arrived with some proper lightsabre action, Luke was my favourite Star Wars character as a kid (followed by Boba Fett).

Here are also some other bits and bobs in various stages: Phyllis Spector figures to drop into my next batch of TMSAV pages (#4 was laborious with all the greytones but worked great for Phyllis, so will be keeping some of that greytone effect, though maybe not so much, something else with Rol, a business card caricature and a Frank Cho-inspired piece...I really like the old school illustrations he does whilst "breaking in new pens". I fancied a go so had to google something to get ref for the dress (have changed the head and feet but it's essentially an inking exercise so I wasn't too concerned about using refs). I'm not as good as him so this won't be as good (I'm figuring out where to lay the lines as I go along) but hopefully this could be a nice image...

Ticking By

Not posted for a while, been busy at home and at work. Have quite a few projects on the go in various stages, think I'll be inking stuff on my lunch breaks to get ahead as Xmas is around the corner and that inevitably wipes out alot of time.

I've got 4 and a half pages of comic stuff pencilled: when I have another three done, then I'll hit the inks before pencilling the final two pages and then inking them up.

Hopefully that will get me back in the groove of comic art as I've a bunch of stuff I want to do, but as ever, plans and windows don't often agree...