Slaughterman's Creed: Video Nasties

I got my hands on a few copies of Slaughterman's Creed on the Sunday of last weekend's Bristol Comic Expo, and it's so good to see another year of work held in my hand.

I was suprised that the pages, and Vicky's colours especially, look even better in print than they do on screen. Mr. Green's tattoo's stand out fantasticly well on the glossy paper.

A real life Green: Scott Grandison, who was crazy enough to get his face painted as Mr. Green to host our panel: The Task of Blood: Creating Slaugherman's Creed.

A photo from the panel itself, which went down really well with a healthy audience listening in. You can download the audio, posted under Scott's podcast 'Comicbook Outsiders', here, and if you want to see the presentation slides you can download a PDF here.

I spoke a little about uising reference and models, which included a short 'reference to final pencils' video which you can watch below.

The whole Bristol weekend was a fantastic launch for the book, with lots of people coming by to pick up a long list of pre-orders. Together with sales on the day we shifted over 100 copies which is by far Markosia's highest ever selling convention book.

Next up is the 2D festival in Derry where I'll be on the Creator owned/Piracy panel on Friday 3rd June at 8:30pm, then selling Slaughterman's Creed and sketching at the Comic's open day on the Saturday.

Hopefully see a few of you there.



Ps. Thanks for the photos Vicky

Horsing around

I posted the loose pencils of a horse from a panel in Insomnia Publication's upcoming Layer Zero: Survival (written by Andrew Croskery) a while back. Andy Brown from Berserker comics is grayscale painting over them for the anthology and I got the last bit of art from him the other day, just before he headed off to Wizard World Anaheim.

  

Was messing around and here's a little animated GIF showing the progress from my doodle, to tighter pencils, to Andy's inks/wash.

And another panel crop (don't want too many spoilers) just for show:

Its being lettered by David Withers at the moment, who I met through the Belfast comic creators meetup. I'll post more details when I have a release date.

Carving it out...

UPDATE: Added Andy's inks for this page.

Over own his blog, Cy Dethan is showing off some of my favourite new pencilled pages from the later chapters of Slaughterman's Creed, including this one below for which I've shown the layout, blue line, then pencils:

I've started using blue line again as I find its helpful at differentiating between my scribbles and the tighter pencils, so Andy Brown, who's inks can be seen above, should have an easier time at it.