This a panel from another page of Bonesaw;  I always liked the lighting on this one.

This is a page from my graphic novel Bonesaw that I created, wrote and was in the process of drawing when publisher Platinum went belly up at the beginning of 2009.  I'm putting this up alongside the inked page to show how my pencils often change in the inking.

 

And here's the inked page!

Back to pencils for last in the sequence.

Big splashy, superhero goodness!

And the next; this is one of my rare forays into superherodom.

Next page.

Next page in the sequence...this one inked.

I haven't updated this blog in yonks but I will try to do so regulary from now on.  In light of that here is the first of a six page sequential sequence I will be posting; this is a very detailed pencil page, which is unusual for me because I normally do not draw such detailed pencils...however, the editor wanted to see pencils as well as finished inks so this is what he got. 

My great friend and brilliant artist John Keane and I have a little fun competition running between us where we pick a comic book character and each of us draws their version of said character; I, being one of the biggest Hugo Pratt fans in the world, chose to do the immortal Corto Maltese…and here, for my sins, it is.It pales into insignificance beside the work of Mr. Pratt I know but I kinda like it. Why not hop on over to John's Blog to see his brilliant Corto, too.

Another preparatory sketch; with this one I was experimenting with the use of negative space and trying to illustrate a figure with as little visual infornmation as possible. Some of the artists I admire like Sergio Toppi or Dino Bataglia are masters of this.

Did this one yesterday and am quite pleased with it. Getting used to breaking in the new pen nibs; have to tame the little beggars.

More warm-up sketching.

A promo illo drawn last year for a possible sequel to the BLOOD NATION series I created and wrote that came out from Image a while back.

Warm up sketches for a graphic novel project I'm writing/drawing; it's set during the First World War so I'm trying to capture the faces and costume of that era. These are done with a dip pen holding a Gilot 303 nib and a Pentel watercolour brush pen filled with Sentelier black ink.