Na-Na-na-na-na...batman.

Been loooooooooooong time since posted. Hope everyone all goody.
JC

Flying machina

Slowly getting into creating vehicles. This is my first attempt. I roughly sketched out idea bottom right hand corner and then used illustrator to create Flying Machina. I feel Illustrator gives that crisp and precise line that I couldn't readily achieve freehand.
Overall I'm trying to get a steam punk feel to the piece.
I will be eventually adding this to the Character concepts (posted Nov 25th/2009).

Hope to colour up this soon.

:)

2010 1st doodles

Did this sketch whilst on holiday. It wasn't planned in anyway...just started initially drawing the central character and everything kinda flowed from that. It's nice to have moments when you just draw unplanned.

Some more random sketches.
One on left was the result of flicking through a National geographic magazine and reading about this tribe in Africa. Kinda got the imagination running wild.
The guy on right which I've called Rabbit man is just a weird moment of drawing a pose and then putting ears and a tail on him. Kinda looks funny as a contradiction of muscle bound and cute and fluffy all in one.
Happy New year to all....thanks for visiting...JC

Frankenstein & Mad scientists

I'd love to colour this up one day. Frankey is yet to be refined and inked.

I'd imagined this mad scientist with a small army of crazy bots at his service.

I inked up scientist using micro - thicker pen for outside and smaller for interior's. Quite happy with the result.

Happy thanks-giving :) and how many weeks to go till chrissy!!!! Yay for holidays.

Character concepts

I just had to get myself to draw this last week and I'm kickin' around a comic idea. Nuttin' out idea's and trying to tie myself down to just one particular idea has been challenging.

For the above I just started drawing the octopus and the deep sea diver came next.

These two guy's are going to fit in somewhere with the above characters....?? I'm kinda envisioning a steam punk feel. I love steam punk. Mike Mignola has some lovely references in his hellboy series which are visually lovely.

I'm roughly working on a back-ground element for these two guy's and hope to post it up in next few days.

Bye for now and thanks for visiting.

Jack and the Beanstalk character concept

Here's my interpretation of Jack. Thinking that I might rip up the trousers a little to give him that much needed destitute look. Go destitute!!!

I'm working towards submitting 5-6 full colour pages to some publishers. So I thought I'd try Jack and the Beanstalk as a story - I mean how cool would it be to climb up into the clouds on a beanstalk.

Just some doodles at this stage, trying to get a feel of how he would move, some expressions, etc. I really love this stage of the concept as you start to see the character emerge.