Will Sliney

Studio Tour

2012-01-27T15:40:00.001Z

I've been threatening doing this for quite a while now!

Phantom Menace Panel Reveal!

2012-01-27T10:19:00.002Z

Im amazed at how good the 3D effect on this turned out. Even when looking at it on the screen

Star Wars, Duel of the Fates

2012-01-25T11:13:00.000Z

I can finally announce that a few months back I got to work on a prequel comic for the Phantom menace. It stars Darth Maul before he is revealed to Qui-Gonn and Anakin before the Jedi find him.

It is released on Feb 2nd in Ireland and the UK.
I really enjoyed this one. Think it is some of my best work. Bit of a dream project and I loved drawing the characters in my own style. (Even though I love the clone wars books too of course)
Head on over to www.irishcomicnews.com on Feb 2nd for a reveal of some of the black and white art.

Todays drawings

2012-01-24T14:51:00.002Z

Heres a headshot from todays pgs

Little Peek at last nights drawing

2012-01-23T11:37:00.001Z

Last night was great for me. Why? Because I finally set up a second workspace. I now have my regular one in my dedicated studio with the Cintiq 24HD, and now I have the 12WX downstairs in the TV room. A lot of times I feel like doodling away while being sociable, and normally, come 6pm, the urge to hang out with the guys takes over. So now, I can do so while drawing away, hopefully upping my productivity to 2 1/2 maybe even 3pgs a day.

Screengrab Final

2012-01-20T13:13:00.002Z

Screengrab 4

2012-01-20T12:49:00.002Z

Screengrab 3

2012-01-20T12:24:00.002Z

Screengrab 2

2012-01-20T12:03:00.002Z

I've decided to make this a bit of a WIP.

Screengrab

2012-01-20T11:24:00.002Z

From this mornings drawing

Young Cú Chulainn and His Hounds

2012-01-16T10:15:00.000Z

Heres a sneak peak from todays drawings. Im well underway on Cú Chulainn and enjoying it so much. Hopefully the passion I have for it will shine through in the work.

One Month Away

2012-01-11T08:48:00.001Z

Why am I posting this? Besides the fact that I'm a bit of a Star Wars nut? Stay tuned for more news on this soon

MacGyver

2012-01-09T14:06:00.000Z

Quick sketch of the Richard Dean Anderson Version for an online fanpage

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #29 Winston Zeddemore

2011-12-31T14:13:00.002Z

Happy New Year everyone.
Next year is going to be a great one. I'll have 14 issues out over the year, and I'll be looking to add more to that total aswell as write the follow up to Cú Chulainn

MacGyver

2011-12-23T12:01:00.001Z

The news broke last night. I'm joining the creative team of Tony Lee, Ciaran Lucas and original creator Lee David Zlotoff on Image comics relaunch of MacGyver.
Becky Cloonan is on board for covers too.

This is going to be a blast to draw. MacGyver was huuuuge in Ireland, all of my buddies watched it when it was on here.

2012 is going to be a bumper year for me. As for Cú Chulainn, well the great news on that front is that I'm well ahead of schedule on that. Expect a big announcement on that in the New Year, as well as a Stephen Mooney inspired website to be set up to chronicle its development.

And then of course there is PIGS.. You maaay just hear a lot about this when issue 6 hits the stands.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #28 Gizmo

2011-12-22T11:04:00.001Z

Heres a christmas story for you. Gremlins was on one Christmas day, it reveals that Santa Claus isn't real. I knew the part was coming up, so I dived infront of the TV, started screaming to drown out this little reveal so my little brother and sister wouldn't hear it. They hated me all christmas day for ruining the movie. Ahh the sacrifices an older brother must make.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #27 Hans Gruber

2011-12-21T14:45:00.000Z

Happy Christmas!

Superman Batman

2011-12-21T11:27:00.002Z

Superman Batman Years

2011-12-20T16:13:00.001Z

My favourite christmas tradition.

Every year, Declan and I draw up a Superman/Batman piece. Weve been doing it long before we were pros and it always makes me realise how lucky I am to be doing the job that I do.
This years piece will go online tomorrow. You can check out Decs piece on the Micks blog already.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #26 Dillon

2011-12-11T15:52:00.001Z

By the time I reach 80, dont be surprised if a few more characters from Predator pop up

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #25 MacGyver

2011-12-11T15:51:00.001Z

Evvvverybody in Ireland loved MacGyver, across all ages.

Pigs #6

2011-12-01T15:24:00.001Z

I can announce that I'm back as the flashback artist for PIGS #6 for Image comics, by Nate Cosby and Ben McCool and well it's... it's gonna be a challenging bunch of pages. If you think the cover is disturbing your in for a bit of a shock.

Han Solo

2011-11-18T10:54:00.001Z

Heres that full Star Wars pg now that its in print. Its up online coloured over at Starwars.com too

The Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy

2011-11-16T15:37:00.001Z

Total dream come true getting to draw this

PIGS

2011-11-14T11:46:00.001Z

If you follow @NateCosBOOM 's twitter you may have seen over the weekend that it was announced that I came in to do some interiors for PIGS issue 4.
Was delighted to work with both Nate and Ben. Its a cracking issue having read the script, and its an oversized one.
One of Image comics best at the moment. I would advise picking it up

More Info Next Week

2011-11-08T12:08:00.002Z

Han and Chewie

2011-10-27T11:07:00.000+01:00

Bit of a dream gig here. I got to draw Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Millenium Falcon for the upcoming Haynes Falcon guide. Its not in print yet but it is in the digital sampler over at the Star Wars official blog.

Star Wars

2011-10-21T09:28:00.003+01:00

New Issue of Star Wars the Clone Wars is out today, which means I will have the local kids calling around again looking for tips on how to draw clone troopers (which is really really cool)

Cú Chulainn Whiskey

2011-10-05T15:21:00.000+01:00

The kind folks at The Cú Chulainn Irish Whiskey company sent me on a litre of their brand new whisky, "Cú Chulainn" which will be launching in New York later this month.
I think I am going to reward myself with a glass or two after completing each chapter.

Thor Sample pg

2011-10-04T14:21:00.001+01:00

Cú Chulainn Character Concepts

2011-09-28T12:49:00.002+01:00

Also check out some interviews I did with Cosmic Treadmill and Irish Comicbook News

http://cosmictreadmill.co.uk/?p=450

http://www.irishcomicnews.com/news-talking-cu-chulainn-sliney/

Cú Chulainn by the Micks

2011-09-26T13:02:00.004+01:00

Last week, upon the announcement of the book. The Eclectic Micks and guests took it upon themselves to produce some amazing pin-ups for Celtic Warrior.

John Cullen

Stephen Thompson

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz

Stephen Mooney

Stacey Lee

Len O'Grady

PJ Holden

Tomm Moore

Declan Shalvey

What a great week. Couldn't wait every day to see the new piece going up. Cheers all

Wolverine, Iceman, Captain America, Bucky

2011-09-19T15:31:00.001+01:00

Some art pieces done for friends

Celtic Warrior on RTÉ

2011-09-19T12:23:00.000+01:00

For a month only the footage from RTÉ debuting Celtic Warrior : The Legend of Cú Chulainn will be available online, around the world, at the RTÉ player. You can watch it here. (Its the first half of the show)

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1112645
(Search for Friday 17th Septembers Nationwide)

Huuuge thanks again to Stephen Mooney and of course Jackie for letting me use their studio

For the first time. I can put up the pages seen on the show. Note, this is not approved final art, but it will show a little snippet of how the book may open.

Cú Chulainn

2011-09-17T09:33:00.001+01:00

My phone died last night from the (literally) hundreds of emails and texts. Ill respond to them all asap. For those of you enquiring where to get the books. Stay tuned right here for any news

2011-09-15T09:54:00.001+01:00

Hah, Just got this in from RTE. Check out Stephen Mooneys sexy studio

Book Announcement

2011-09-15T08:05:00.002+01:00

Finally, after such a long build up, the book is going to be announced tomorrow at 7pm on RTE. For those that have been keeping tabs since I started teasing it months ago, I hope that it was worth it all. Im very excited about it and I cant wait to start showing some of the art.
Oh and if you happened to be watching RTE yesterday, they maaaay have already shown what the book is about in a preview segment. (I havent seen it yet, I just got dozens of phonecalls)

Announcement

2011-09-09T11:06:00.002+01:00

Gambit

2011-09-07T09:19:00.002+01:00

Check out more over at the eclecticmicks.blogspot.com

Side Project

2011-09-02T16:54:00.000+01:00

A little bit of art from the Comiccast teased project with Dave Hendrick

Kill Shakespeare

2011-09-02T12:25:00.001+01:00

Did you listen to yesterdays announcements over at the Comiccast??
http://thecomiccast.com/2011/09/01/will-sliney-update-interview-part-1/

If not then head on over to hear about my first IDW project which is a story for the excellent Kill Shakespeare. This was a lot of fun specifically because I got to work on a book that is full of great Andy Belanger art. Aswell as a great short story by Jason Bone, both of whom put up with me when I lived in there city of Toronto.

The story is written by Tom Waltz who also wrote Stephen Mooney's A-Team book.

Go pick up the first trade, its a great book. Props to Conor and Anthony for setting up the whole thing themselves

Batman

2011-08-31T17:05:00.001+01:00

Kinda on a DC buzz today with the launch. Really looking forward to reading Justice League #1

Go for Papa Palpatine

2011-08-24T10:29:00.000+01:00

Mooney Hard at Work

2011-08-02T15:19:00.000+01:00

RTÉ

2011-08-02T09:20:00.000+01:00

Im up in Studio Stephen Mooney today where RTÉ are going to be filming a mini segment for the announcement of my new book

IDW

2011-07-30T08:49:00.000+01:00

Incase you missed the slew of announcements over on my twitter yesterday. One of them is that I have started my first gig for IDW (and can finally join the IDW Micks gang).

Heres a teaser Image from the book. I cant say what it is yet only that its a book thats damn fun to draw and that I'm following in the footsteps of one of the rare comic book artists who can last beside me at a bar (Well, he kind of can)

Star Wars in North America

2011-07-13T09:40:00.000+01:00

The latest issue of Star Wars : The Clone Wars magazine now released in the States contains my first Star Wars story (Dug Out) that was released in the UK a few months back

New Project

2011-07-11T17:08:00.000+01:00

I can announce that my new Comic Book project will be announced on RTÉ this August. They will be filming me in the Studio documentary style aswell as following me around Ireland to historic locations where the book takes place.
Expect guest appearances from some of the other Eclectic Micks

Star Wars the Clone Wars

2011-07-07T16:30:00.000+01:00

Started drawing a new Star Wars Issue today for Titan. A very dark one it must be said. Plus, I get to design two new characters. Happy days

The Gutters

2011-07-04T11:38:00.000+01:00

I was asked to do a pg for The Gutters today which is online now.
Unfortunately its kinda squished down a bit on the site so you can see the original here.
You should check out the site. There are some funny pages on it

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #24 He-Man

2011-06-29T08:18:00.002+01:00

The first, but not the last Dolph

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #23 Frank Dux

2011-06-27T19:17:00.000+01:00

Last Memorial Day I watched Universal Soldier, followed by Bloodsport, followed by Tango & Cash, followed by Rambo.
True Story

IceMan

2011-06-27T14:07:00.000+01:00

Warmup Sketch

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #22 Captain Freedom

2011-06-27T10:54:00.002+01:00

Are you Ready for Pain!!

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #21 Ben Richards

2011-06-23T10:16:00.000+01:00

Back after a break with a Running man double whammy. This is easily one of my favourite 80s movies. I love the ones with concepts like "Oh well keep the rebellion quelled by putting on amazing TV shows to keep the public in their seats. See thats where those Egyptians went wrong. They just needed Arnie in a yellow suit

Spider-Man Nuff Said

2011-06-01T17:04:00.000+01:00

Heroes Con

2011-05-25T23:13:00.002+01:00

Im officially down for Heroes Con. I loved this show last year. So much fun.

Big Apple Con. This weekend

2011-05-17T20:07:00.000+01:00

Ill be at booth 247 in Artist Alley. Beside that gobshite Declan Shalvey

Spidey Doodle

2011-05-09T15:20:00.000+01:00

To warm up this Monday Morning.

The Battle of One

2011-05-04T15:50:00.002+01:00

Sneak Peak

2011-05-03T14:49:00.002+01:00

Heres a WIP of something I'm drawing and colouring right now

Ultimate Spiderman

2011-04-29T14:08:00.003+01:00

This was a test of two things, the first was having a bash at the new Ultimate Spiderman costume, which is a blast to draw. The second is that I've expanded my StudioMax Model of Manhattan as finally I have a computer than can handle the complex models.

Gambit

2011-04-28T17:29:00.002+01:00

Morning Warmup sketch

2011-04-28T15:21:00.000+01:00

Cap

Sketching

2011-04-25T01:45:00.002+01:00

Samples

2011-04-21T08:47:00.001+01:00

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #20 Henry Jones Sr.

2011-04-18T15:59:00.003+01:00

Ewww, he hooked up with the same Irish Nazi girl as his Son.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #19 Peter Venkman

2011-04-18T12:53:00.000+01:00

Easily one of my favourite characters from the 80. Those movies have so many great one-liners

Superman Doodle

2011-04-14T15:16:00.002+01:00

Messing around with line weights while practicing my dinking... yeah I said dinking!

Spider-Man and Spider-Woman

2011-04-12T20:57:00.001+01:00

This was fun to draw. Love doing these guys

Sketchin'

2011-04-12T20:55:00.000+01:00

Star Wars Interview

2011-04-11T21:48:00.000+01:00

Head on over to Starwars.com to see an interview I did last week for the launch of the Clone Wars comic

The Greeks and the Irish

2011-04-11T15:48:00.000+01:00

Memoir

2011-04-05T16:04:00.000+01:00

Written by the immensly Talented Ben McCool and featuring some fantastic and creepy art by Nikki Cook, Memoir #3 hits stands tomorrow and I was lucky enough to get to do a cover for it. If your not picking this up then I can only assume you dont want to spoil the inevitable movie/tv series that this is going to turn into.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #18 The Predator

2011-03-31T16:43:00.002+01:00

There are going to be quite a few characters from this movie going to appear in the 80. This is only the third bad guy I've drawn. Time to do a few more I think.

More Star Wars, more Vader

2011-03-30T19:52:00.001+01:00

Vader

2011-03-29T21:42:00.000+01:00

My first Star Wars issue will be out in just over a week (This art is not from it by the way.) Its the first part of a two parter. Ill post up more once its out.

Monday Morning Warm up

2011-03-28T14:33:00.000+01:00

Taskmaster

C-3P0

2011-03-25T18:31:00.000Z

Im like a magpie. I love drawing shiny things

Batman Pages

2011-03-24T19:22:00.000Z

I finished up these two Batman Pages. It was fun to experiment with zipatone. Ill probobly be toning it back a bit in the future but I do like elements of it

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #17 Jack Burton

2011-03-23T16:52:00.001Z

This movie freaked me out as a kid. I watched it again recently. We need another Jack Burton movie. The guy is an idiot

Jimmy and Bruce

2011-03-22T14:55:00.000Z

Batman and Gordon

2011-03-21T19:26:00.000Z

Two buddies just hanging out on the rooftop

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #16 Leia Organa

2011-03-21T00:49:00.000Z

Really enjoyed drawing the Leia Pin-Up a few weeks back.

Darth Vader

2011-03-09T13:29:00.000Z

A Vader sketch before lunchtime

Slave Leia Star Wars

2011-02-25T15:23:00.000Z

Really enjoyed doing this one. I think purple may well be my favourite colour to use.

Cap Pages

2011-02-15T20:34:00.000Z

These were for a bit of practice in between Scripts. I've had a seriously productive month. I've drawn about 40 pages aswell as a ton of pinups

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #15 Bond

2011-02-01T14:43:00.000Z

The final of three today and the one I'm most happy with

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #14 Maverick

2011-02-01T13:16:00.000Z

The Second of Three images today. Tom Cruise, what a knob.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #13 Rambo

2011-02-01T12:13:00.000Z

I think its actually impossible to draw Sly's face without going into some sort of cartoonish slug like form. Im pretty sure I had a Rambo toy as a kid. I can remember those scars not knowing what they were

Star Wars Borders

2011-01-31T12:04:00.000Z

I've been thinking about printing off a few of the Star Wars pics so Ive made up a border (which took way longer than it should have.) Hopefully this will motivate me to do up a few more

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #12 Batman

2011-01-29T18:58:00.000Z

This is an example of really minimal need for drawing and colouring detail as the design of this costume is so iconic. I searched hard for proper Batman fonts but I could only find the Batman Forever one. I liked that font a lot as a kid though so I dont really mind.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #11 Ray Stanz

2011-01-27T16:51:00.000Z

This is a redrawing of a picture I did a couple of years back. I took the old drawing and re-inked it. Its funny to see the little changes that I've picked up in my linework over the past couple of years. I noticed a big difference in the way I draw facial features aswell, I pretty much ignored the old face drawing. All four of the guys will make it into the 80. Winston was always my favourite as a kid but now its probobly Ray

Gambit and Rogue Re-Coloured

2011-01-27T14:30:00.000Z

Got some helpful advice on the colours for this piece, So I went in and retouched it

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #10 John McClane

2011-01-25T13:03:00.000Z

Ah the best Christmas movie of them all. I have elements of all the first three Die Hards in here. Im quite happy with how the like ness came out, It looked horrible for a while until I moved his eys down a tad, its crazy how much a few millimetres can affect a look.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #9 Robocop

2011-01-24T20:12:00.000Z

Between Robocop and C3PO I've learned that I like drawing shiney things. I had many a sleepless night as a kid after seeing Murphy being blown to bits at the start of the movie. I have some vague recollection of some Commodore 64 game too.

Lord Vader

2011-01-19T20:58:00.000Z

I've got a bad feeling about this.

2011-01-19T10:36:00.000Z

Big news in Will land today as I've just signed on to do a Star Wars comic. Something I have always wanted to do. Ill still be drawing Farscape fulltime as always, infact, issue 17 which I have just finished was my favourite so far.
The comic will be set in the Clone wars and I will be pulling from the wealth of referance that I have whichfellow Irish men Killian Plunkett and Dermot Power have worked on

Farscape Preview

2011-01-17T14:14:00.000Z

Up on Major Spoilers. Just finished up issue 17 which was a ton of fun to do
http://www.majorspoilers.com/boom-studios-sneak-peek-of-the-week-73

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #8 Boba Fett

2011-01-07T15:46:00.000Z

Badass Boba Fett. Great character whos best moments come in the Clone wars series where as a young fella he goes on a vendetta against Mace Windu for killing his father.
I could probobly happily do the rest of the 80 with just Star Wars characters so I will have to keep reigning myself in.

Will Sliney

Studio Tour

Phantom Menace Panel Reveal!

Star Wars, Duel of the Fates

Todays drawings

Little Peek at last nights drawing

Screengrab Final

Screengrab 4

Screengrab 3

Screengrab 2

Screengrab

Young Cú Chulainn and His Hounds

One Month Away

MacGyver

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #29 Winston Zeddemore

MacGyver

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #28 Gizmo

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #27 Hans Gruber

Superman Batman

Superman Batman Years

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #26 Dillon

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #25 MacGyver

Pigs #6

Han Solo

The Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy

PIGS

More Info Next Week

Han and Chewie

Star Wars

Cú Chulainn Whiskey

Thor Sample pg

Cú Chulainn Character Concepts

http://cosmictreadmill.co.uk/?p=450 http://www.irishcomicnews.com/news-talking-cu-chulainn-sliney/

Cú Chulainn by the Micks

Wolverine, Iceman, Captain America, Bucky

Celtic Warrior on RTÉ

Cú Chulainn

Book Announcement

Announcement

Gambit

Side Project

Kill Shakespeare

Batman

Go for Papa Palpatine

Mooney Hard at Work

RTÉ

IDW

Star Wars in North America

New Project

Star Wars the Clone Wars

The Gutters

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #24 He-Man

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #23 Frank Dux

IceMan

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #22 Captain Freedom

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #21 Ben Richards

Spider-Man Nuff Said

Heroes Con

Big Apple Con. This weekend

Spidey Doodle

The Battle of One

Sneak Peak

Ultimate Spiderman

Gambit

Morning Warmup sketch

Sketching

Samples

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #20 Henry Jones Sr.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #19 Peter Venkman

Superman Doodle

Spider-Man and Spider-Woman

Sketchin'

Star Wars Interview

The Greeks and the Irish

Memoir

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #18 The Predator

More Star Wars, more Vader

Vader

Monday Morning Warm up

C-3P0

http://cosmictreadmill.co.uk/?p=450

http://www.irishcomicnews.com/news-talking-cu-chulainn-sliney/