Thursday 29 September 2011

Pick of the week No 24

Ok this week and last week has been majorly weird.

Perhaps it's Comet Elenin or the coming of the Age of Aquarius - then again it just might be people making my life weirder than it needs to be! We are a funny lot and we say and do some very odd things. Some of which seemed to pass my way over the last two weeks!

One of the few individuals who doesn't make my life weird is the ever dependable Rusty Gilligan - thanks for the help this week man! Rusty's blog is at http://www.rustygilligan.blogspot.com/.

However I digress - this is an art post not a RANT :)

Been doing some advertising and POS illustration this week waiting for Red Angel issue 4 script from the lovely Erin Pyne.

I now have it in my grubby mits and it's looking great - so on with the artwork for that next week.

In the meantime...

I will in time upload the advertising material and also some book covers I've been asked to do (shout out to Jon Hart there!). But for now here are some panels I did from some submission art I did last year - Judge Dredd!



















Grrrr he's so manly !!




NB: Pick of the week artwork won't always be finished. Sometimes it will be completely reworked. The art that is posted will simply be something that's caught my eye that week from current work or even old stuff I might have pulled out for some obscure reason :)

Friday 16 September 2011

Pick of the week No 23

This week saw the completion of line work on Red Angel #3 - I think it included some of my best work to date to be honest - I'm extremely pleased with the way the series is developing visually. Of course it goes without saying that the story Erin is writing is pumping itself up to a corking conclusion in issue #4 of the mini series and keeping readers gripped and entertained the whole time. This will lead the story into the planned monthly series next year!

If you want to get involved in that you can be part of the production by contributing at http://www.indiegogo.com/Red-Angel-Comic-Book-Series

Something special that will be happening for issue #3, after the collectors cards on isse#2, is a VERY special guest inker has worked on a cover variant for us.

Along with the standard fare from myself...

























... we have also had the honour of having Rusty Gilligan (comic veteran, talented inker and all round great guy!) inking the cover variant below.

So this weeks pick is Rustys inks on my pencils and a wonderfull cover variant!


























To find out more about Rusty you can visit his blog at http://rustygilligan.blogspot.com/. You can also get to know some detail about his upcoming title Mac & Trouble there, which will be published by What The Flux Comics.


Both covers have been fantastically coloured by the very talented Andrea Celestini.




NB: Pick of the week artwork won't always be finished. Sometimes it will be completely reworked. The art that is posted will simply be something that's caught my eye that week from current work or even old stuff I might have pulled out for some obscure reason :)

Friday 9 September 2011

Pick of the week No 22

Great week :)

Been working with BBblackDog on their second album cover and finishing off Red Angel 3.

Thought I'd post up something different this week. So instead of a panel here is a Judge Dredd poster I did for fun!


























Ooo best not upset him!


NB: Pick of the week artwork won't always be finished. Sometimes it will be completely reworked. The art that is posted will simply be something that's caught my eye that week from current work or even old stuff I might have pulled out for some obscure reason :)

Friday 2 September 2011

Pick of the week No 21

So this week Red Angel #2 has gone to print and Red Angel #3 is only 5 pages away from finished line work.

Realy enjoying the work on Red angel and the book is getting great reviews.!!!

I'm going to be a bit more restrictive on showing unpublished panels from now on - especialy if we get to turn the book in to a monthly.

So a little preview in this weeks pic. It won't give away any story but it was fun to draw





















ooooh.... isn't everyone excited. Perhaps England have scored! More likely to be a penny off petrol though.



Red Angel is on sale at http://whatthefluxcomics.com/webstore.php as well as multiple outlets and comic shops. You can also find out more at facebook page The-Red-Angel-Comic-Series and facebook page Red-Angel-Flight-Crew.


NB: Pick of the week artwork won't always be finished. Sometimes it will be completely reworked. The art that is posted will simply be something that's caught my eye that week from current work or even old stuff I might have pulled out for some obscure reason :)



Thursday 1 September 2011

Red Angel issue 2 gets 5 out of 5

Invest comics' Robert McClelland has written a glowing review of Red Angel 2 saying...

"And we’re off with the second issue of the beautiful comic Red Angel! Featuring an excellent cover with our Lady and the Firebrand’s Captain surrounded by menacing Robots! Can’t get a better cover then that! Russ Leach’s art and Miss Pyne’s writing both continue to be pretty amazing in the second issue."

Praise indeed!

Read the full review at http://investcomics.com/features/investcomics-comic-book-reviews-8-31-11