This is a warm up brush drawing from my sketchbook...yes, this is the sort of image that slithers through my widdle brain on a daily basis.

Here's a spin on the previous cover; I was going for a 1970's Italian horror film poster style with these, I think...channeling a Dario Argento vibe!

Today I am going to be posting a short series of cover roughs for my book BONESAW that used the illustration I put up a couple of days ago...all variations on a theme really; my way of visually thinking out loud.

Pencils for the little girl figure in the cover below.

This was an unused cover illustration for BONESAW but I like the image so much I'm going to use it for another project of mine.

Here's the original black and white art for the cover below.

Continuing with the theme of showing the BLOOD NATION cover designs here is the colour rough for #3 featuriing our villain, THE KHAN. The titles on this cover are misleading as the original artist had left the book and the brilliant JOHN KEANE drew issues 3 and 4.

I'm going to continue posting some older artwork and thought I'd show some of the process of designing a cover...starting with the BLOOD NATION #2 cover I posted a couple of days ago.  This is the first rough version of that cover with a very early version of the WEREAPE.

I tried a version with the WEREAPE in red but thought it was too subtle and decided to keep it black.

I even considered using the series main villain, THE KHAN, instead of the WEREAPE but ultimately chose to go with my little monkey.

This is the black and white art for the cover illo depicting the ferocious WEREAPE!!!

This was my cover design and illustration for #2 of BLOOD NATION a mini-series I created and wrote that came out from Platinum Studios/Image Comics a couple of years ago.

This is an illo I did for the delightful Julia Moreno and Club Batman in Spain for their anniversary...haven't drawn Batman in years so it was an interesting experience to revisit the character.

This is a panel from something I worked on recently...can't show all of it yet but I did like this face so thought I'd share..

This is my favorite page of BONESAW, I think it's because I tried to be a little looser in the inking.

Yet more BONESAW.

First page of the week...more BONESAW.

This one took a while to ink.

More BONESAW.

More BONESAWand more ladies with long hair; there is a school of thought in comic book art that says when drawing a pretty girl one should use as few lines as possible...obviously I don't subscribe to that theory.

Another BONESAW page from early in the book: I love drawing people in general but I really enjoy drawing women with long flowing hair; gives my Gilot nib pen a chance to dance across the page.

This is/was/would have been the first page in the BONESAW graphic novel; I was trying to establish the creepy tone of the story from the start...which I think I pretty much achieved.