Farscape 2

I get to relive "Heartbreak High" this issue with the return of Velorek

Cover for issue two

Did this one in in my makeshift upstairs studio while the city beneath me flooded.

New Farscape Cover

For issue no. 5

Farscape Issue One

Some pages from the upcoming issue

Upcoming Issues

Heres a bunch of issues that will be coming out in the near future that I have drawn the interiors for.

Farscape #1 (Nov 25th)



Farscape #2 (Dec 23rd)


Farscape #3 (Jan 27th)


And heres a cover I drew and coloured for Farscape Dargos Quest

Weapon X Process

Heres another Process piece. For some reason I seem to have lost the 2nd and third steps, but you can kind of see them behind the later pics.

Farscape Hardcover

Wohoo. My first hardcover. I portion gives you 100% of you reccommended daily allowance of Sliney

Gordon Freeman Process Drawing and Colouring

This aint the best drawing in the world or best colouring job either but I figured I'd post up the process of it to show you how I tend to carry out drawing and colouring a piece. It was done for the eclecticmicks blog.

Step One:

For the thumbnail. Usually I turn the Cintiq sideways so its infront of me like a normal page and I really, really roughly throw down some lines to sketch out some sort of incling into the pose I'm gonna draw. Due to the wonders of the undo button I can draw as many lines as I like which helps remove and pen to paper anxieties that a lot of artists can get.


Step Two:

I then go over it a little more tightly, working out the anatomy or clothing or whatever the case may be. These lines are then turned into blueline aswell via the magic of Ctrl B. (These drawing stages are all done in Manga Studio by the way.)


Step Three :

Here I draw the actual line art over the blueline. This stage is always by far the longest as its where the proper construction and refining are done. Notice, there isnt really a pencils stage in all this. Although you could call Step Two the pencils they would be considered highly loose. Again the benefits to digital are that when inking traditional, you have to be quite sure of the lines your putting down. Digitally you can be a lot more experimental at this stage as you are still working things out.
P.S. You can see I got lazy and never drew in the head crabs that were indicated in the background of the sewer pipe


Step four:

Turn off the blue line layers and tidy the line art up


Step Five:

Flats. Move over to Photoshop. Easily the most boring of all the parts, this is just separating the different colour blocks out from each other. I usually come up with a few colour choices at this stage and try to get a bit of a feel for the overall tone of the piece thats gonna be added in later.


Step Six:

Rendering. Here I add in any shadows, highlights, reflections to the individual blocks of colour. Hopefully you can see much more form in the piece now from the last step. On second look I could have popped his arms more from the background here as you can see that after the textures are added they are lost a bit


Step Seven:

Textures. This piece called out for a lot of textures. The Main ones being the Rusty Sewer, The Metal Hazard suit, The Fabric of the suit and the Water. Maybe the water effect isnt subtle enough but usually peoples eyes wont pick up the photographic look of it even when these types of textures are put in starker contrasting images. I do a lot of warps, perspective shifts etc to the textures to put them on the same plane as the objects they are applying too. For example, the rusty texture was pinched out a bit to make it look like its on a cylender.


Step 8: The final step then, which is quite small in this piece. I give the whole piece a colour overlay. In this example I used the green of the water, to give everything a tint of that colour, so the strong oranges of his suit arent too over saturated.

Step 9:

Sleep. For some reason its always late at night when I finish a colour job.

Zuuuda!!

Dave Hendrick and I as you might have heard had a crack off the Zuda competition last month and it was a lot of fun. Now that the competition is over I can post up some of the images from it.

Farscape Hardcover

Just back in from the BICS so ive got a week of hard work ahead of me.
The hardcover of Farscape Strange Detractors is in stores on Wednesday.
God I'm tired

Podcast

Check out this podcast from Irish national radio station 2fm where Gerry Ryan interviews Dave Hendrick about the Symptoms and gives us a right ol plug

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2009/pc/pod-v-300909-1220s-weeklyryan.mp3

Farscape Issue One

Heres the inks for the opening page from the new Ongoing series. Theres already a preview over at io9.com

Robot 6 interview

Check out an interview with Dave Hendrick and I at the robot 6 blog here

http://bit.ly/1kP6Wf

Busy busy busy

So I've been really busy the last month or so. Mainly because I've been formatting the Eclectic Micks sketchbook. So far I'm the only one of the Micks whos seen all the interior pages and its looking class. Cant wait until the first batch are shipped.

Secondly then ofcourse there is Farscape, iv just started Issue 3 of the ongoing today. And then finally ofcourse theres the Zuda entry thats oingoing right now at Zuda.com

All in all its been a fun month. Next up no is BICS in a couple of weeks which will be great craic

Defoe

Finally got my hands on a copy of Defoe and I strongly recommend you guys to pick it up, if just for the guy that gets shot in the face about 40 pages in. But seriously, theres more work gone into the art in this than anything iv ever seen before. Also, 28 days later is out today but im sure you know that already what with Dec being a media whore. Ah im just kidding, pick that up too, its also class.

Farscape #1

Heres a panel from issue one of the upcoming Farscape series

Some Eclectic Micks drawings

Farscape no.1

one of the anouncements at comic con is that Farscape is now going to be a monthly ongoing title debuting in November. I'll be the artist on the book which I couldnt be happier about as I'm a big fan of the series and where the book is going.

Farscape Comic Con Panel

Is starting right now around the other side of the planet in San Diego. A panel on the Farscape comic will be on tomorrow. Stand by for more tales of interest

Violet

Batman

This was gonna be next Wednesdays eclectic micks piece but i ended up redoing the head so many times that i got sick of it and half scrapped it so i thought id out it up here and do a fresh one for Wednesday

Daily Desktop

Anyone San Diego bound?

2:30-3:30 BOOM!: Farscape Comics— BOOM! Studios' best-selling sold-out Farscape line of comics are the surprise hit of 2009! Farscape creator and comics writer Rockne O'Bannon and writer Keith R. A. DeCandido offer for an intensive discussion about the past, present, and future of this enduring sci-fi franchise. If you are a 'scaper don't miss this panel. Big announcements will be made!


The one Frelling year im not gonna be there.. Bah!

Wolverine

Quick Wolvie Headsketch while waiting for an approval email

More Black Cat pics

Spider Man and the Black Cat

Having a blast drawing these days. Im getting to use a lot of techniques that I've learned over the last few years properly for the first time so its giving me a lot of confidence and freedom