Free Spirit

This character looks to me like a free spirited girl. Perhaps she is a traveller, a nomad with no fixed abode, living life one day at a time. Maybe she’s a Yoga teacher or an artist? Definitely something creative about her I can’t put my finger on…

A Darker Side

I drew this last night (early hours of this morning). I wasn’t feeling very happy and it came out in the dark look of this rather androgynous character. It started out with an oval shaped face and I wanted feminine eyes but from there it kind of of felt more like a man, a boy with high cheekbones.  So from that moment I was thinking male.

The black jumper and red background reveal my mood at the time. Rest of the background is very rough but I thought I’d leave it in as it sort of felt like it was fitting to have an unfinished background (and it was easier to leave it!).

Portrait of my daughter while she reads

My daughter has had her head in a book today, here's a sketch I drew of her while she had her head down into a book.

iPhone doodles

I installed an app on the iPhone I got for Christmas and it lets me draw with my fingers on the glass screen, cool! Here is my first drawing.

Adventures of Stan: page 2

Here's another episode of Adventures of Stan. In this episode Stan is at work, he's a junior I.T. guy but his mind isn't always on his job. You also meet two new characters in this episode: his boss and someone who Stan is about to develop a crush on. The first frame is below but you can read the whole page here.

Adventures of Stan: page 1

I've found time to draw the first page of my Adventures of Stan comic. It's going to be a comic full of vignettes which could hold up independently of each other, so don't expect a continuing storyline. The frame below is a taster but the full page can be read here, let me know what you think.

"Lost"

It's a bad sign when none of the streets look familiar when you're trying to go home.

"Classy"

Some anatomy shouldn't me mentioned during a job interview.

A stylized car

Commuter breakfast thoughts

Meet Juliette

Juliette hangs out with Stan and Mike. She's optimistic and happy with her life to the annoyance of those around her.

Meet Mike

Mike is a musician and Stan's best friend. Music is his one and only interest. During the day he is a part time water fountain man and part time dog walker.

Meet Stan

Stan is an IT technician but he wants to be a ROCK STAR in his dreams. But he's torn between an artistic life and paying his rent and trying to get a girlfriend. 

Adventures of Stan

I'm working on developing a few ideas for a comic strip. By way of introduction, I thought I'd share the cast so far.

Ben 10: Waybig

Ben 10: Ghostfreak

My son and I enjoy a cartoon called Ben 10, well he's really into it and I like to watch it with him. The 10 refers to a number of alien lifeforms that Ben can turn into using an alien watch that is permanently attached to his wrist, called the Omnitrix. As a gift to him I subscribed to a Ben 10 magazine that has a lot of stuff about the show, including pictures and puzzles. One section of the magazine that we sort of ignored until now was a section in each issue about how to draw the characters. My boy enjoys picking one of these and asking me to follow the instructions. This one is an alien form called Ghostfreak.

Book cover design

At the weekend

It’s Moider!

A slow start