If You Were Wondering, This Is The Image The Header Is Taken From. It's A Watercolour Of A Character

If you were wondering, this is the image the header is taken from.  It's a watercolour of a character currently called 'skullgirl' (until I think of a proper name), who's sort of the mascot of my illustration at the moment.

sketches

I've not been up to much recently due to moving home to Gransden and trying to clear out my room (in which I seem to have stored everything I've ever owned since I was about 6) while being racked by hay fever, so here are a couple of sketches to tide you over 'till I've done something more interesting.

That's a quick watercolour sketch I did when Sammy and I were visiting Kingham.

And these are some aliens called Vrega. I think I've mentioned before that I tend to write huge, unnecessary backstories for all my characters, but I don't want to put them here, so if you're interested you can read about their world here. Oh, except I should probably mention that the Pre-Disaster boy is the Devil Boy from the postcards, and not all Post-Disaster Vrega dress in lots of leather and metal like that, that's just a fairly common clothing style for them.

If you insert 4 years of buying Teen Titans comics between childhood and college, this is basically how I got into and out of DC. Except Raven was my favourite.

Oh DC, why do you do these things? You have so many great characters that you write so poorly, it's starting to look like you're trying to alienate potential readers.

Until I get round to scanning some of my work for my final projects at university, I thought you'd like to see some more children's work.  These are Gorse and Hephzibah, who've appeared before, and Skullgirl who you should recognise from the header.  She has a name now, Lamentation Obedience, as in 'people lament your existence and it's your place to be unquestioningly obedient.'

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Jemma Salume

If this were real, it would INSTANTLY reverse my decision to stop buying comics.

journal pictures from spring term

I haven't had much to update this blog with in a while, but there's always more journal pictures. These are really quite old, I forgot I hadn't uploaded the last batch until I scanned the latest ones. You can find the new ones on flickr.

I should have some new pictures soon, I've just been busy doing my anthology submission for Inspired Comics. I never feel comfortable putting up too much information on it ahead of it being printed, since it's a group project and all. You can see some of the character designs and stuff over on the Inspired blog though (not just mine, Gem's are up too).

Thinking of Gem, I don't suppose any of you are in need of commissions? She's having a few money problems and is offering them at very reasonable prices, so it'd be great if some of you have the money to buy one. I can recommend her environment work, she's amazing at backgrounds and environment concepts. You can find all the information on her blog, as well as examples of her work.