Artist Hour

Hey folks, whilst I'm still working on issue 1 I thought I post this little sketch I did during artist hour.. For those of you who don't know, artist hour is an event held on twitter every Wednesday from 9pm - 10pm, with a random theme as a challenge. Last night there was no theme, so I decided to do an Indiana Jones sketch. 

Happy Valentines Day!

What can I say, this image speaks for itself so Happy Valentines Day y'all!

Chinstrap.

Hello fellow bloggers, Dave here with a selection of concepts for a comic book character that I am co-designing with a Sam from the comic shop. Essentially I am trying to create a 'cowl' like mask for this hero that incorporates the fedora hat. We also want to try and make him distinguished from other comic characters that have a similar design such as The Spirit, Green Hornet, The Shadow etc. At one point I even applied an old fashioned motor cycle cap to be used as part of his disguise. 

So far it has been an engaging exercise to push the boundaries a little on concept and design and I hope I get to see this project through to the end, and maybe illustrate his first outing maybe. Who knows.

One more thing!

Open publication - Free publishing - More adaptation  Remembered that I made some digital comic versions of my previous projects, so thought I post them up just before I head off to Romania. The top one is the 'Jack and Jill' comic which for those who don't know it, is a film noir adaptation to the classic nursery rhyme. Below is a story that was part of a collaborative effort in making three different stories that cross over at specific points. This one is my story of tragic love in the backdrop of 30's Chicago.

Open publication - Free publishing - More 1930s

Mafia Couple

Unsurprisingly I decided to also do another gangster story, though applying the spot colour of blue with just the black and whites or another colour, or tone maybe depending what mood it would convey.

End of Year Show

Here are some photos of my space that I also shared with Onddrej and Benj who collaborated on the Fedora comic project, at the end of year show. The show was a couple of weeks ago and thus concludes my second year at uni but its nice to look upon my work through the year and see a noticeable improvement from my last year at uni, so I'm more psyched for my final year.

End of year show

Quick murder pic

Did this in just 10 minutes, a quick drawing for another blog with my friends from uni in an effort to keep us drawing over the summer holiday. So this is a image featuring a shadowy character committing an act of violence in moonlight aww special...

Page 12

And here is the final page to my short comic story. This is my first attempt at doing a comic book story and to actually draw one out in the same manner I would if I were commissioned to do this. Although there are a few mistakes made, such as not leaving much space for text and so forth, I feel that this has been a successful project. Hopefully we can get this comic as a online pdf or a flash book or something. Anyways hope you have enjoyed reading this short story.

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This page contains the other crossover with Ondrej's story, with his truck just being visible on the last panel in the background, with the use of his brown colour to connect the two stories, in which Ondrej's gang of Sicilian's are bootlegging whiskey and get a spooked when they initially suspect the cops are coming after them.

Page 7

This page has the crossover between mine and Benj's story clearly indicated with the use of an additional colour that runs through Benj's story and the inclusion of his character detective Lawrence Shaw.

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Page 1

And here it is the first page of my comic story within Fedora.

Chapter 3 'RED'

So here it is the title page of the story I did for our uni project on doing a comic book about 30's gangsters in Chicago. My story focuses on two bank robbers who have a Bonnie and Clyde edge to them ie they are romantically involved and have a life of crime together. This story follows the story exploring a small part of the lives of Rick 'Red' Blaine and Anna 'Kitty' Bacall, with their two associates Harvey 'Dint' Egan and Fred 'Big Six' Whalley. This story came from a dream I had awhile back now and of course condensed and made a more refined story that would allow crossovers to occur with the other two stories that occur in the comic book so watch out for those. Anyways I shall be posting one page at a time so tomorrow shall be page 1 so stay tuned as it happens.