Runaways Ink/Colour

This has been in my fave's on DeviantArt for three years finally got around to inking and colouring it, on my lunch breaks in work, mostly. I'm happy with it, the roughness is due to being A4 and on photocopier paper, usually use bristol but it was just for fun/practice had fun with the coloring of Karolina, the light trail in pastel rainbow shades was a joy to do.

Pencils by Mark A. Robinson link to his blog and link to his DeviantArt

Stoker Poster

First things first Park Chan Wook is one of the best directors around at present in my opinion. His vengeance trilogy is a rare thing in trilogies, it starts well, has an excellent middle chapter, and manages to finish with a visually stunning final chapter, his other movies I've also liked, was a bit hesitant about his english language debut, but after watching 'Stoker' that hesitation is a memory.

So i wanted to make this poster in a Saul Bass style, which i felt was appropriate due to the many nods to Hitchcock throughout the movie, from swinging lights in a cellar to a shower scene to a room with a collection of stuffed birds, it felt right to do this poster as a homage.

Colour Swatches

Got asked how i create colour swatches for photoshop so thought I'd post about it. I keep a folder on my desktop of images I like the colours of, also on instagram and deviant i like/fave images i like the colour scheme of and use them to create the swatches, using the eyedropper tool and clicking into the colour swatch window on the side of photoshop and saving the aco file when happy with the selection. Here's an example of the swatches made from pics from instagram.

And here's a link to download a zip of those colour swatches.

Webcomic

This launched just before Christmas a webcomic in collaboration with Dylan Collins launched, poking fun at tech companies. Link to the site it's on.

Webcomic Submission

This was a submission for an Irish Webcomic to poke fun at tech companies and geeky stuff. I was sent the script which is mostly the text at the top and the narration boxes, and enjoyed working on this and coming up with what i hope is funny dialogue for the panels.

A First and Some Overlooked Design Work

This is a First for me, getting to see a design on an actual finished product, a good feeling, and it's a DVD ROM of African fairytales as audio plays, done for a Dublin based African Charity.
And here's a couple of pieces of design I like and had fun building but were either only visible for a second or barely visible in the final illustration.
First is a recreation of the Winkies logo, from David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' which was for a poster for a fictional Spider-Man movie directed by David Lynch, it was for one of the old Whitechapel Remake/Remodels, I took care to get it as accurate as possible but in the ned it was barely visible.

And finally from my first animation which was a cut out animation, street fighter themed soviet fight, the Capcom logo got modified.

Portfolio Colours and Inks

Attended the D.I.C.E. comic con in Dublin and decided to bring my portfolio for the portfolio critique. After being out of practice with a pencil and not wanting to rush something and have it not turn out well decided to put the focus on inking and colours, here's some of what i brought along.

Colour Work
I had trouble finding examples to colour that interested me so decided to scan some black and white comics that I had, first up a page from Punk Rock Jesus, which I consider to be the best comic on the shelves at present, followed by two pages from Nextwave, by Stuart Immonen, and luckyily I have the crayon butchery variant, also one of my favourite series of all time.

Ink Work
For Inks i chose a mix of artists I admire and like the style of and one that looked very traditional in it's execution, these are by Greg Capullo ( been a big fan of Mr. Capullo since Spawn, and his batman is stunning, and posts a lot of pencils/process on his deviantart page), Kenneth Rocafort ( an artist whose style i love, first caught my attention with Madame Mirage) and Ken Lashley (loved how traditional/old school this piece looked, instant classic and iconic with a great layout ).

DJ Goldy Timeline

A friend was very opposed to changing to timeline so to help them embrace it, I did this cover photo/profile pic combo. And you can catch DJ Goldy saturday nights upstairs at 4 Dame Lane.

Comic Quiz Preview

Some preview screens from the comic book game i was working on, this is how i wanted the final game to look.

A Background Image

Just a quick little post of a new background image had in mind a darwyn cook catwoman sketch, mixed with audrey from twin peaks.