Sunday 24 February 2013

Dead End Chapter 2 Update

It's me again! I've now, like I said I probably would, started Chapter 2 of Dead End! Chapter 1: Screw-Loose (because Bella Spanner, the character, is a mechanic) is still in the works and I'm having a bit of trouble with it, but nothing permanent. 
Chapter 2: Frostbite (please note the obvious pun) tells the short story of a Russian farmer and hunter named Sergei Petrov who is defending his land with a humble shotgun in the middle of winter. This one has a more brutal and gritty take on the zombie-pocalypse than Bella's chapter does, so I'm putting a gore warning out there right now.
That's about everything, and I'll probably post the first page as soon as it's done, but that's all you cheeky chaps and chapettes are getting for this one! Bye for now!

Saturday 23 February 2013

Dead End Update and Sneak Peek

Hello once again, shooprecruits (see what I did there?) this is just a lil' update to let you know about a new idea I've had for Dead End.
Basically, it gets a little boring sticking to one character for a long period of time. This is also my first graphic novel or anything like this that I've ever done, so I'm not as committed as I could be (I'm not saying that I'm not committed to this, because believe me, I am, but I'm just new to this kind of thing).
So, to make a long story short, I've decided to release Dead End as a series of chapters of varying length, each chapter for a different character. I'll most likely be drawing them at the same time as one another to stop myself from becoming disinterested, and I'll upload each one as soon as the chapter for that character is finished. I'll update you guys on different characters and chapters that I start and stuff, but I might not upload the chapters in the order that I announce them, if that makes sense to y'all.
Alright, I think that's everything, and here's the promised sneak peek, a piece of Dead End Volume 1 Page 3! Enjoy!




Zombie Head 1


Here's another design for Dead End, this time it's the head of a zombie who has been a zombie for a very long time (note the decomposing head with skull showing through it). I'm still working on Dead End and it's coming along nicely. I've decided to change it a little bit, and I'll do a post about that in a minute. But for now, enjoy this!

Wanderer


Hey guys, I've started to draw some fantasy characters for no particular reason other than they're fun to draw and I had a few ideas that I wanted to get down on paper. This is the first one, he's called Wanderer. No one knows his actual name or that much about him, apart from the fact that he roams the wastelands and avoids violence (but will not hesitate to fight off anything that picks a fight with him). Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Sunday 17 February 2013

Zombie Hand 1


This actually started out as a drawing from life that I thought I'd turn into a zombie hand design for my graphic novel. I think that It turned out really awesome and it might be one of my favourite drawings that I've done this year, but let me know what you think!

Zombie Character Design (Female) 1


Here's a quick character design for a female zombie. I'm not sure if this is definitely what the zombies are gonna look like, this is just a concept. These things take time! But for the moment, enjoy this one and let me know what you think!

3 Stylised Video Game Characters


Here are some stylised little video characters, that took me like an hour to draw. Really, they did. An English lesson, to be exact. Enjoy them!

Dead End Volume 1, Page 2


Here's the second page for my new zombie graphic novel, "Dead End". Enjoy!

Dead End Volume 1, Page 1


Here's the first page, in full colour! I'll be keeping this hand-drawn style and using as little computer editing as possible to complete this graphic novel. This will be one of only a few pages that I'm going to upload, so make the most of them. Enjoy!

Dead End Cover 1


Here's a potential cover for my new graphic novel, "Dead end". If you're not familiar with that, read the post below, but if you are, let me know what you think of this!

Dead End Announcement

What's up guys, this is an announcement for something BIG. And I know, in the past, I've been pretty shitty at putting out big projects and actually sticking to them. But now, after a long time and lots of trial and error (mostly error) I've finally found something that I truly enjoy doing.
For the next few months I will be working on a graphic novel entitled "Dead End". It's a zombie-pocalypse novel but it's not like any others that I've ever seen before. There are many different main characters who all have either medium or short length survivals on this zombie infested planet. For instance, Bella Spanner, a mechanic from Dorset, England, will have a relatively long chapter in the novel. But for another character, Corey Wade from New York, America, the chapter will be very short. In the end, I think I'll kill everyone off. You have to understand that this is because it is more of an art book than one with an actual meaningful storyline. Alright, I think that's everything!

I won't be uploading many full pages from the novel as I want to reveal as little as possible about it until I've finished it, but I will be uploading some artwork, character and weapon designs, and maybe (if you're lucky) some finished pages.

That's just about it, see ya!

Pokemon: Ash Ketchum


This is just a little something I did when I was ill a few weeks ago. The "Pokemon" in the speech bubble is really dodgy-looking because I was shaking (I had a fever) so sorry about that! But it still turned out pretty well, and although it's not one of my best, I've learnt not to draw when I'm ill or it'll turn out crappy. Hope you enjoy!