New Year Greetings

Well, returned to work last week and by Friday had 6 art requests, all done except a tattoo design I'm working on. Over Christmas, i managed to clear my home of alot of detritus and made it through my reading pile (though have an art book to peruse). I'm also two stories away from finishing Panini's recent Wolverine pocketbook and really impressed how the Claremont/Miller mini stands up. Mind you, Miller is afar better storyteller than artist as he draws one of the worst Wolverine panels ever (page 2 of #3 is a corker). I usually hate mixed artists but the mini is rounded out by the two-part Paul Smith Uncanny X-Men followup story and the whole thing holds together well, and with the low cost, high production values and compact size I'd heartily recommend this.

I don't know why I mentioned that, I never meant to but there you go...

I hope to focus more on drawing this year. I currently have four pads on the go, creating a list of stuff I want to do and a few older pieces I can save. For instance, a new face and a new backdrop means I can save the old Mucha-inspired pic below. Progress is slow on some of the pencils posted previously, with the JLI being far more difficult than I expected. The Flash is posing a particular problem and I'm also not happy with Fire and Ice (well I am...but this uses a more attractive hairstyle from an Adam Hughes pinup rather than the shorter hairstyle she originally had so I need to strike a better balance), while Ralph and Captain Atom look far too like the Maguire originals (I tried to keep poses as close as accurate to #24's cover but these two are far too close and swipy looking!)

I imagine that all of a sudden, I'll have a handful of updates completed so here's a few more pix until then...