Project 365: Jan 22nd - 28th 2013

Here is an update for Project 365, which I have been doing since the start of this year. It features at least one illustration, for each day of the year. So boys and girls, here's what I been up to this week.

Jan 22nd: Spidey Sketch... Always like drawing Spider-Man. I try to do different poses each time to keep it interesting.

Jan 23rd: Random Chick 3... Pretty self explanatory. Trying to get better at females figures and not get so embarrassed about doing sexy drawings.  

Jan 24th: Blind Leading The Blind... I love doing drawings based on puns. I've had this idea for a while but never got round to actually putting it down on paper.

Jan 25th: Superman Chibi... Was never a fan of Superman, but I couldn't really do a series of comic book chibi's and not have him appear at some point.

Jan 26th: Tattoo Designs... Not too sure where this idea came from. Started out with the design on the right and just expanded on it.

Jan 27th: Ben Reilly... For those of you who don't know who he is, Ben Reilly is a clone of Peter Parker (the original Spider-Man). After a 5 year absence in the comics, he took on the mantle of the Scarlet Spider and even took over as Spider-Man for a period in the 90's.

Jan 28th: Bats... Just some simple designs I did. Actually find them quite pleasing.

Cheers for looking folks!

Project 365: Jan 15th - 21st 2013

It's a ad late, but here is what  I been up to in the last week or so.

Jan 15th: You coming?

 Jan 16th: Ben Reilly Spider-Man Chibi

Jan 17th: My Neighbour Totoro

Jan 18th: Why So Serious?

Jan 19th: Ultimate Showdown

Jan 20th: Dead Spidey

Jan 21st: Link Chibi

Project 365: Jan 1st - 7th 2013

People close to me know I do a 'Project 365', which is basically taking a photo everyday that sums it up. My mate Izzy is doing a similar project, but with illustrations. So inspired by her I have decided to start one as well.. 

Using the 'at least one illustration a day' rule, I will be uploading an illustration for each new day in the year 2013. An illustration counts as a sketch or a fully coloured masterpiece!

So here's January 1st - 7th.

Jan 1st: BRING ON 2013!

Jan 2nd: Random Rock Chick.

Jan 3rd: Scarlet Spider Chibi.

Jan 4th: Feathers.

Jan 5th: Cute or Hot?

Jan 6th: Lord Zedd.

Jan 7th: Green Candy.

Friendly Spidey Rivalry

As some of you are aware (and if you're not shame on you) I'm apart of a little collective called The Prophets of Illustration. It consists of me, Fuad Ali, Tom Dryland, Lois Dryland and Hannah MacDouall. Now Tom and I have started a little game of one-upsmanship based around 'Spiderman' in which we trying to see who can come up with a better costume. So far I have done two, a black and red alternative and a steampunk version while Tom has done an armoured spider suit. As it stands now I'm waiting for Tom's comeback to my steampunk, so watch this space.

My first attempt at designing a spider suit.

Tom's spider armour in a very cool pose.

My steampunk Spiderman.

Tom's Grinch Spidey (for lack of a better term).

Inspirations: Comics

Incase you couldn't tell by all the chibi drawings I've done, comics play a big part in my life. The stories have kept me sane, the artwork has kept stunned and both combined have always inspired me.

The Amazing Spider-Man #568

 I have been reading comics for as long as I can remember and I've never got sick of them. When I was a kid I bought them just for the images and drool over how good they were as I never really cared for the stories. That soon changed though after I was given a Spider-Man annual featuring the story "The Sins of My Father". I started reading it as it featured the Hobgoblin and I was curious about who this evil looking villian actually was. As it featured the Osborns, Mary-Jane and various other key elements in the Spider-Man universe it made me go back and actually read the stories. So for my family and friends you find it annoying when I start reading and become antisocial, you can blame my nan for buying me the 1994 Spider-Man annual.

Most of my Chibis.

Random Batman sketch.

I started my collection 'Sonic the Hedgehog' comics (don't judge), but soon I developed some sense I started buying Spider-Man (Marvel) and Batman (DC) comics. They originally were the only characters that had any appeal to me, which looking back at it seems odd as you couldn't get two more different characters. One is a teenager with the powers of a spider who sets out to use them with responsiblity and looking to inspire others, is shy and with practically no social life in the beginning (think I just figured out why I was drawn to him). While the other is a dark, disturbing character who is out to strike fear to the corrupt and unlawful in the world.

Hobgoblin Chibi

McFarlane's Spider-Man #1 cover. (Second printing black and gold edition)

Looking at my collection of old stuff, I seemed to have been drawn to Todd McFarlane's work a lot when I was younger, with my first encounter being the cover above which is still to this day my favourate comicbook cover of all time. McFarlane was also one of the people who created Spawn (Dark Horse), which I fell in love with when I was in my teens. The story, the way it's drawn and the characters are so screwed up that I do wonder what they were on when they created it. I had never seen anything like it before and after a few reads I was hooked.

Another random Batman drawing.

This is actually a tattoo design I did.

Comics have always given me fantastic ideas over the years. And with artists and writers pushing the bounderies of what can be done, I'm sure they will keep inspiring me for many years to come.