Very odds and sods.

I found a few odd things while I was tidyin today (a.k.a moving books from one table to another) so thought I's share a few oddities in the next few blogs (if I can keep up the courage to make them available to the public that is).

Here are a few drawings from a night at Dr. Sketchy's in Belfast. I missed last months being away on holiday (was Myths and Legends themed and would have been really good) so these are from the time before.

I had started off using my trusty mechanical pencil for these Dr. Sketchy's but soon realised that they looked really bland when you only have 4 minutes per sketch and fell back on the good old trusty sharpen-by-hand type. I've started using HB pencils in my comic pages again sparingly, especialy when I'm not 100% sure how I want an image to look. It gives that natural degree of variation so you can pick how much of the line you want to use when inking. Makes for a dirty page though.This following drawing isn't mine. It's Kronos City writer Andrew Croskery's portrait of me. Dr. Sketchy's helps you sketch faster because there's no time to think, you only get the length of one song (ocassionaly two) until the models swap round. That said, no one can sketch as fast as Andrew who prob took about 30 seconds to whip out this pic. Anyone who knows me can tell you I actually look like a male supermodel, so this is not an accurate likeness :P

In my pile of stuff I also found the drunken mash up that a lot of us created up in Sandinos bar at the 2D festival this year. I don't know if the general society is ready for it but I'll post it on Sunday and see if anyone's eyes survive the experience.

Strange Q-con sketches

Couple more Q-con photos and Sketches:

Andrew Croskery at the Insomnia table.

A samuri committing Seppuku. This piece was comissioned as the nice loser price for an upcoming card tournament. Drew in the card details after the photo.

A con-goer drawn Arnie-from-Predator style. I added in some camouflage and detail after I took this photo.

Probably my strangest, challenging, yet most fun 'sketch' was the following two page custom Elmo story:

The fellow below wanted the strip drawn for his friend who couldn't make the con, and asked for it to be drawn in her own style of drawing (hence the manga-esch look). We met him on the Friday and he came back Saturday morning with a story. I had to cut it down a bit (the first version had something like 12 panels over two pages) but I think I managed to get everything he wanted in there in some form and I hope his friend enjoys it :)

Here are a few random photographs and sketches from the Q-con on Friday night. Had a really good time and I'll definitely be back next year.

I'll post another few photos on Wednesday when I'm home from Manchester and get them uploaded.

Blog-a-thon!

So much has been happening lately that my bi-weekly blog aint gonna cover it all without clogging the whole thing up with images, so I'm going to be posting everyday until the weekend (Saturday probably being the day off as I'll be up in Derry for the 2D festival and rounding off with Sunday).

Anyway, here's some photos from the Belfast Cancertown launch/signing.

I found the first eager customer waiting just as I came down the stairs.

He requested Crosshair (particularly popular choice on the day)..

Before I had even finished the first sketch a crowd had gathered...

And kept growing..

Who each got a sketch.

As the sketching continued...

...the crowd quickly formed into a queue...

Some people had a bit of a wait for their sketch.


But I think everyone was happy by hometime.

Then there were drinks (and those photographs are not to be realeased to the public).

To be continued tomorrow...

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