Quick doodle!

Sandman fan art

The Pen Tool is definitely the best to ink a drawing in Photoshop and give it that comic book feel.
Also available in my DeviantArt gallery (http://minamzi.deviantart.com)

This is the start of another panel trying a different style this time round as your can see!!! just want you to tell me what you think.

Script Frenzy

Hi there! I know I haven't posted in a while - my moving out of NI and back to France has taken most of my time. Now that I've pretty much settled down, I'd like to talk to you about the Script Frenzy.

The Script Frenzy is a sister event of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which I posted about much earlier on this blog (read here). The lowdown is similar: you are challenged to write a 100-page script in 30 days.

The challenge starts on April 1st at midnight and ends on April 30th at 23:59. The script can be for anything that needs one : film, TV, radio, documentary, stage play, stand-up comedy and - of course - comics. And it can be about anything you want to write about - serious or funny, realistic or imaginary, etc, etc...

The Frenzy starts in around a week, so you will have time to sign up and figure out a story and - if you have never done that before - learn how to type a comic script. We have pretty much covered that in the CADI course at the Verbal Arts Centre but there are still some useful resources on the web. The websites of publishing houses like Marvel or Dark Horse have some help pages or templates and the SF site provides also help about how to format a comic script. The forums are here to help you too.

So, if you have a comic project you have been entertaining for a while, it's the right opportunity to get it started. As for me, I intend to adapt my novel Red Hot Moon - more exactly, start the script anew as a lot of things have changed in my head and the pages I've drawn for the course aren't right anymore.

If you want to take part and sign up, send me your username so I add you to my buddy list. I intend to write about my progress in my LiveJournal here.

The website : http://www.scriptfrenzy.org

On a different note: I drew a lot of stuff on the road (mostly character design) and hope to post them here soon :)

Its been awhile!!

What up people, its been a god few weeks since anythings been posted on here, by anyone- well thats cause were all busy working away on our new project! So ive set up a blog to follow the creation of the book, hopefully without giving away too many spoilers! So if your a contributor, you should be getting an email shortly to join, and if your a follower why not pop on over and see what we've got going on.

(just at the side there--> "if stones could speak")

i liked the black and white more than the colour so i thought id jazz it up a bit then post it tell me what u thinks better i think in the colour i shouldnt have put in the eyes

i was going throught and few old things and came across the image that i done to post but never did it was going to be the character for my vilgilanti story

digging through the old files for something to post and found this, its from another of danny's potential stories, but this time it involves pre existing characters from the dc universe. Can you tell who this might be??

cohen strikes again.

definately the most recurring character ive posted up here, but ive just always liked that detective look. Nearing the hundredth post now boys,-whose gonna get there??? After doing the lobo versus papa smurf i liked the idea of cartoons vs comics, so stay tuned for a follow up- the flash versus run roader, but who will take the lead i hear you ask, you have to wait and see.

Character No.21

This is my character Warhawk.He's my Batman-type characterwith atwist.Instead of being a playboy millionaire in his secret identity he's really the butler.This will be my last post for a while as I now have a project to work on.

papa frag!!

I must say, I was originally going to spend a whole lot more time on this and do it by hand, but i sorta set it at a bad time. Getting this new project im dying to just get stuck in so I just done a quick digital sketch up. I will get round to doing it properly once i have made a start on this project. You know what im like lads!!

This is my take on ghost rider never draw him before so i thought i would give him a go and i like it lol let me know what u think is it ok the way it is or should i have done full colour...?

Im back this is my frist blog in a long time so i thought i would make it a bit of fun hope u like

A challenge!!!

why not, lets start pushing each other guys, if you's are up for it. Like for example we set each other drawings to do then we have a certain amount of time to do them, then when we post them we can critique them. what ya say, come on, bring it bitches!!!!

post in the comments if your up for it, and this is for anyone reading it, go on - what you think i could never draw?

best challenge will be the sorta winner- and feck it- best challenge gets original art work if they want it!!

Attack Of The Bloodravens

Just messin' around with this one,not really finished as my computer is acting up. I got fed up so this is as far as I got before I threw the computer out the window(well almost).

BBrrraaaainnns!....

.....well not really, i never really liked the whole zombie eat brain things, was never that into zombies neither until i read 'i am legended', buzz of that book read it at least four times, the films about 1% if even of the content of the book. It puts a bit of believable science behind the myth, rocking.
But anyway this will be the last thing i show of this reseige/zombie themed stuff - what started out as me just trying to figure out manga studio, has taken upon itself to be become a full on story, that was nice of it wasn't it. So this is the pencilled page, done digitally and took a heck of a long time, without a doubt the most people ive tried to draw in one scene.
When i was doing it i just kept thinking about the avengers breakout, cause ever single panel is a full on crowd scene, how the hell your man (its bendis or finch cant remember which one draws) can do that shit!!

Figured the best way to see what i could do with this manga studio was to try a panelled page. Done all aspects of it digitally, and quite pleased, just relising this one isnt actually the finished one but its near enough.

Ive finished off the pic I put up yesterday and added some colour. Im probably going on abit about this graphics tablet, but today was the first time I properly enjoyed colouring anything. It just makes it seem so much more natural, especially comparing it to a mouse. But anything, here you go.....

Cohen headshot, I was funking around with some of the cross hatching brushes and stuff there earlier so thought id put it up.

pre-new years resolutions!!

I've been meaning to get back to posting stuff here, I just got into a bit of rut there recently, being a lazy that is. Well no excuses now, for christmas the wonderful holly got me a graphics tablet which is-saahhhhwwweeettt!!! So now that alot of my work will be on the computer ive no reason to not put stuff up.

I really expected the change to graphics tablet to be a long tidious one, but its not!! You can be rough, it doesnt matter, easier to tidying up, it just, rocking. I in no way have have mastered it, but after only four days of using it I'm feeling pretty comfortable with it. The first drawing here was the last one i done out of about 6 or 7, just trying to get used to using the tablet with photoshop, was quiet pleased with it.
This one I done today on manga studio- what a program!!- if your drawing on the computer get the free 30 day trial of manga studio, the difference is unreal. I only got it what, about 9 hours ago, and this is one of the things i got done.

A friend and viewer of ze bloggski sent us an email with this guys blog in it, its pretty cool, check it out- http://chiustream.blogspot.com

More of Red Hot Moon (in SD, this time)

Hi there! I know - long time no post, but I still follow you ;)

After one month of noveling frenzy, I got back to digital drawing and have just completed my first effort with Adobe Illustrator.


These two guys are Rory and Callum Madden, the main characters from my werewolf story Red Hot Moon. I did them in SD and in vibrant colours as I wanted a bit of fun with them (and fight winter blues), yet their world is actually much much darker. I'll post more serious chara designs later... :)

My Character No.20

This is my character "The Cometeer".

My Character No.19

This is my character Watchdog

(A bit late for Halloween)

My Character No.18

This is my character The Mighty All-Star

My Character No.17

This is my character Crackshot

My Character No.16

This is my character Bulldog

He's a black one eyed little person,good luck trying to have a secret identity.

My Character No.15

This my character Kid Thunderbolt

My Character No.14

This is my character Miss Thunderbolt

My character No.13

This is my character Virago.

Thats most of my main characters,though I will be posting more.So far I've just been doing this to get the hang of photoshop and to see my characters coloured the way I want. I wasn't too worried about the finish of the artwork as these 13 drawings were all done in pencil with the blacks boosted in photoshop.

My character No.12

This is my character The Red Wraith.

My character No.11

This is my character Captain Thunderbolt

Randoms

Ive been reading some of the new avengers and remembered that i used to love drawing the art in comic when i was younger so I gave it a go here, straight up copying but it reminded me of the simpler times!!

These two pages where from mithic again, just done them as a way of locking the idea down, they must be two years old at this stage but it seems that the inking i was originally doing is actually what ive resorted back these days.
page 2 wasnt completly finished but you'll get the idea.

I'm completely cheating with these posts, this stuff here is again about 2 years old. When i get an idea of something whether it be a character or a story i tend to do a collage effect of images, i guess it just helps me get to grips with it more.

My character No.10

This is my character Hellfighter

My Character No.9

This is my character The Silver Sceptre

My character No.8

Half assed!!!

havent had anything up in ages and ive been working every so slowly on this in what time i have spare, it isnt even finished colouring yet but had to put something up. Hopefully be making more regular posts over next few days.

Character No.7

This is my character Eterno

Character No.6

This is my character Doc Dynamo

Character No.5

This is my character American Angel

Character No.4

This is my character Hydronaut.

My Character: No.3

This is my character "War-Buster".

Now We're Suckin' Diesel!

This is my character Diablo,The Crimson Fury.

I'm starting to get the hang of this Photoshop melarkey.

My First Post

This is my character "Guardsman" who I created for the Fear anthology.This is my first attempt at colouring using photoshop without needing help from somebody every step.More characters to follow...