1st Panel Prelim Sketch

This is the first panel from my short story.This is a glimpse of Bastion City U.S.A. 1940 with my character Speedbolt running toward it.

going back to doing comic book characters for a bit of practice so heres the joker.

never done daredevil before so i thought i would give it a go and here it is i hope u like it.

Sorry Gio...

The gauntlet has been thrown so I'm going to take it up. I was planning to start my larger story but I'm going to do a short strip showcasing one character but having the rest cameo . It will be a stand alone story with a glimpse into their universe.. oh and set in the 1940's.

Sketchy Green Arrrow...

Picture of a quick sketch, had to do something to break the mc cay invasion!! Only joking, keep it up Darren.

Super Fonz

My character Speedbolt

The Silver Sceptre

Max Turbo

Not Hawkeye

Somebody on facebook said that he looked like Hawkeye so I changed the colour scheme

The Marksman

The Mighty All-Star

Revamp

Refining my characters

Don't mean to turn this into the "Darren Mc Cay" Blog but I'm refining my characters at the moment. This is a redesign. The brief for these characters is that they exist in the 1940s and that their costumes should reflect that. I've tried to keep the designs simple yet familiar. Any feedback on the designs of the characters would be more than welcome.

http://www.uproarcomics.co.uk/

Uncle Paddy Wants You!

St. Paddy's Day Flyer

Design for a characters vehicle coloured green for Paddy's day

Resevoir Heroes

From left to right: Guardstar , The Crimson Fury , Capt. Thunderbolt , Eterno and
Liberty Angel. All out for a brisk walk.

Just messing about here lads. This is an old drawing i found that i did the frist nite we did the comic course ( COME A LONG WAY!!!!)so i thought i would jazz it up a bit then thought it should go up on the 2d blog since that where the 2d collective started.

Eterno V Captain Thunderbolt

Two of my characters as if they were in Mortal Kombat.

MORTAL KOMBAT VS, BEN 10

My youngfella says Fourarms would win.

Tale of the...

..gets the "if stones could speak" treatment with my story going online on Sunday past, you can see it by clicking here.

Ive been out mouthing again....

Yip done a short blog interview about us for the downthetubes website, check it out by clicking here.

I loved sub zero ( not in that way) i won everything with this dude takes me way back drawing him again i would have drawing him all the time when i was younger so here he is and i hope you like it.

RAIDEN ROUGH...

So I've been doing this alot recently, really quickly digitally roughing out what I want to do. Then ill print it out and either make it blue then ink over it or light box., of course fixing up and dodgyness like anatomy tweaks. Well heres the rough I'll be working from, call back during the week for the finished product....

On other news,check this out lads, we got a mention on the downthetubes website.

Yes lads....

....I think we've gotten a little lazy on the postings here, so we should kick abit a life back into it. I like the themed ideas and would like to continue on with it, does anyone have any suggestions. Im thinking-Mortal Kombat.... anyone  else?

Creative Suicide

Hey guys, I just wanted to post here and see if any of you would be up for contributing towards a charity book. Its being put together by Stephen Coffey in aid of Suicide, Ive already contributed one peiece and am intending on doing another. Basically do a piece showing someone Killing themselves in the most creative way you can. If yous are interested contact him by email, chrestfelt@hotmail.com or contact him through facebook, http://www.facebook.com/stephen.coffey.
Please consider it lads, its a good cause. You can see some examples of the peices already contributed on his facebook page.

Just in time for more snow!

Was busy over Christmas so didnt get time do something christmasish and childhoody but started a quick one the other night! I was going to have the caption along the lines of "Tigger always was a bit of a c**t" but thought it best to keep it pc!


As for the new year, best to do something completely fresh, I really need to go for more dramatic perspective! trying to draw Bambi was interesting as I had'nt drawn animals in a while! Love the christmas pics lads!

S.

Yes lads...

....Hope yous all had a good crimbo and will have a good new year. I just wanted to stick up a wee post here to see what our plans are for the new year. Any suggestions stick them in the comments plz.

Quick work doodle

Check this out......

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Frank, a mysterious bounty hunter gets more than he bargained for in his latest assignment. Becoming mixed up in the beginnings of a gang war, he has to contend with a team of hit-men, who are not like your
usual guns-for-hire!
It’s a story about a a bounty hunter, a dead-but-alive hitman partnered with an alive-but-should-be-dead criminal, an escort girl, a man who has a taste for something bad… and the Devil!

Check out the promo by clicking here

For all 7 parts go to his site at http://neilcolquhoun.com/ and don't forget to comment and let him know what you think.

Under-construction

I wanted to get this done yesterday and up, but I caught a terrible morgan spice flu! Its un-finished but ill fix that in the next day. My third story for 'talesofthe' went online yesterday, it's a 10 page christmas horror-as thats the theme this month called "May all your wishes come true" You can check it out by clicking here.

Gio i did have a peace to put up this was it...... just didnt have time to put it up till now. I was going of a coimic book character and something funny to do with christmans because shaun asked me to do somthing christmasy lol so this is what i came up with and it can work aswell bacause i always liked the joker when i was younger to birds with one stone happyday lol

B.A.S

Had to be, and still is in my opinion the greatest cartoon ever. I remember being really young and jumping around the sofa at around 5.30 to the sound, you know the one- baaaa-daaaa-dat-da-dad-a-da- except much better than that collection of vowels and consonants, then bang the bank would blow up! aaahhh good times, good times.
Well anyways, heres my really quick colour sketch. This started out with the intention of being my first digital painting, but I found it quite a bit harder than I expected so it became more graphical. I wouldnt be surprised if theres more animated series pieces from me...

New theme....

I was hoping John would have left a new theme for us but saying he hasn't I shall decide,....and it is...........childhood cartoon characters!

Found this parasite one very hard HOW THE F**K!!!!!! do u draw a parasite lol so here's my go at it dont even think its rite but this is what i came up with and this is all im doing no more parasite plz only joken this 1 tested me i likey ha .......

Parasites yuck!

Didnt get much time to work on this weeks so its a bit sketchy, got as far as roughing in the colours but instead just block shaded it and blended in the rough sketch for a little extra form.


S.

Parasite 1...

..better known by his intestinal friends as Gary. Parasite is a bit a of a strange one as googling it will get you nothing but worms. So I just decided to do a weird thingy ma bob that you can imagine is microscopic and eating your liver!

konichiwaaaa!

My first wee submission for the 2d collective so I wanted to try something a little outa my comfort zone! I had intended to have a 2nd character in frame but manga men are hard to do without making them look like 12yr girls! the only thing I cant take credit for is the nose art decal which I pinched off the net :-) Hope you like!


Oh Gio mentioned about choosing a theme for this week, what are peoples thoughts on parasites? haha!

S.

My Character Manga-nised

Been snowed under finishing my story for If Stones Could Speak.Did this in work today.Just a quick sketch to keep my hand in.

Done with manga!!!

Thats all your getting, cause thats all I'm ever going to do again!! Ever time I tried to sit down to do something manga styled I felt like I was having some sorta dirty afffair, ewwh, I feel dirty!.....

...and just to prove I can actually draw- check it!

Welcome welcome....

We have a new member- Shaun Whoriskey. A Derry man and a hell of an artist in both 2d and 3d forms. I'm quite pleased to have Shaun join us as it almost feels like we started drawing together, way back in primary one- he drew dinosaurs and I drew guys with weapons. Ahh good times. You can check out some of his stuff over on his own blog by clicking here. 

We'll keep these theme weeks going, from monday to monday, we'll let manga run until the 7th then Shaun can pick the next theme and we'll rotate it about, coolio?

If there's any other Northern Irish artist out there and would like to contribute shout us an email, address at the side there.  

Another manga sketch...attempt...

This craic is no craic at all!! I feel like me drawing ability has reset to that of 7 year old! Looking at stuff online and some advise from Sir Neville of Chamberlain, the thing that I liked about the style was everything more angular, so with that in mind I attempted this very dodgy sketch using only the line tool. Well mostly the line tool theres about 5% pen tool. I dont like this sketch but thought I'd throw it up anyway, all greif in the comments below thank you.

Manga sketch's

Found it quite hard trying to do something manga styled, its a way of drawing I've never tried before so all I could come up with in the time being is some sketches. Hopefully I'll get a proper piece up when I get the hang of how to draw them. Until then..........

Trying to keep this theme weeks going with manga this week went into one here abit!!!! But i was looking online and seen that manga uses alot of fantasy background with singal figures soooo heres my go at it.

why's gothic girl orientated?

Really like, just type Gothic into google and nearly everything you get up is girl with loads of eye makeup. Ok i get that thats the look but for me gothic darker, seedier,.. so I came up with this... yes there is a girl in it but with a little more sinister shit going on too. Really enjoying doing this as it something I wouldn't normally try to do. Done this again using manga studio, its rough round the edges but I was going for atmosphere over prettiness.

Went a bit mad here lol dont know where it came from thinking i might have a little bit of goth in me HA!!!! Well its just keeping with the theme me know what u think.

gothic, eh.........

...when you said gothic John the only person I wanted to draw was, Death. She's from 'Sandman' if you don't know her already. Done this in manga studio then threw in some greys with photoshop. I really like the theme idea, we should do a different character each week give us good practice for when 2D rolls round again.

went a bit cothic here but think it turned out cool. Think we should get this site up and going again lads 1 or 2 drawings a week what do u think ill start it with this peice make it GOTHIC week.

Havent put anything up in abit !!!!.. seen gio's robots and thought ill give it a go and this is what i came up with really like the way this ended up so let me know what u think.......

update

just letting yous know i got me own blog now, just click on the pic above.......

Eterno