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Finished Pencils.

Concept Pencils.

I have just finished inking a 7 page comic strip for Mavel Heroes the new monthly comic published by Panini.
As I can't show you the pages just yet, here are a couple of pages of my pencils I did several years ago.
This was for the Disney & Me magazine which included illustrations and a comic strip which this page is from.
We had to do 2 stages of pencils, the concept pencils, and the finished pencils.
First the concept pencils were sent to sent to Disney for approval, when we received the comments back, we would then move on to the finished pencils, which mainly was for putting the characters on model, and any further changes.
Once these were approved it would then be coloured which was all done by hand, as there was not much being coloured by computer then.
Sometimes characters and backgrounds would be airbrushed, which included masking out areas, for the characters.
We mostly used goauche, and acrylic for the colour work.

Sketch #13: Glenn Fabry

This sketch here is by the very talented Mr Glenn Fabry, which he did for me at one of the UKCA'S, must have been around 94 I guess, drawn straight with a blue biro!
Please check out his website, which is in my artist links section!

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas,
and all the best for 2009!
Thanks to everyone who has visitied the site throughout the year.

Wildstorm

Here is the cover to World Of Warcraft #14, which I inked 6 interior pages for, on sale from the 24th December!

Sketch #12: Carlos Ezquerra

Here is another sketch from my convention book.

First Work For Wildstorm...

I am pleased to announce I have just finished inking 6 pages for Wildstorm!
It was for a title called "World Of Warcraft" which is on sale from the 24th December from all good comic shops.
I will show some pages from the issue at a later date.

Marvel Heroes #3

The above 3 pages are from Marvel Heroes #3, available to buy now from all good newsagents!
Story: Al Ewing, Pencils: Kev Hopgood, Inks: Lee Townsend, Colours: John Charles.

Cards

Nothing new to show at the moment, so here are some business cards I did for myself a while back.

Spider-Man in London

This pic of Spider-Man was taken last year at one of the London MCM Expo's.

More Family Dynamic Pages...

Here are 4 more pages from my most recent inking for DC Comics, these pages are from #3 of The Family Dynamic.
Pencils: Tim Levins.

Marvel Heroes: Iron Man

Please check out Marvel Heroes the new monthly comic from Panini (Marvel UK) available from all good newsagents!
There are 2 original 7 page comic strips in each issue, #2 is out at the moment, and #3 should be out in about 3 weeks time.
Here are some panels of my inks from a Iron Man story for #3.
Story: Al Ewing.
Pencils: Kev Hopgood.
Colours: John Charles.

Review

Please click on the link below to check out a review of The Family Dynamic #3.
Comic Book Resources > Reviews: Family Dynamic #3

Sketch #11: Liam Sharp

Death's Head by Liam Sharp.

More DC Inking...

Recent DC inkiing sample pages.

Dynamic Inks

Here are some pages of my inking, which I did recently for DC!
from The family Dynamic #3, the pencils are by the very talented Tim Levins.
Did I mention in my previous post that it is available from all good comic shops now?

The Family Dynamic #3

Here is my latest publication that I have worked on, I inked 10 pages for this issue of The Family Dynamic, which is available from tomorrow in the UK!
I will post up some interior pages soon.
Story: J.Torres.
Pencils: Tim Levins.

Sketch #10: Bryan Talbot

Top Cow Pages

I while ago I got the chance to ink one of my favorite pencillers Gary Frank on a comic called Kin.
These inking samples here are some of the pages that I showed to Top Cow, which later led on to me getting my first inking work with them.

2D Animation

This is some rough animation I did for a TV comercial, must be about 10 years ago now!

New Marvel Inking/Sample Page

Old Life Drawing

Empire

As I can't really show what I am currently working on, here is a blast from the past!
I inked this sample page probably about 5-6 years ago, and was one of the first blue line pages I worked on.
The pencils were kindly sent to me by Barry Kitson, this page was from a comic called Empire which he was working on for DC at the time.

Sketch #9: John Bolton

Inside Pages

Here are some interior pages from this isssue.

Sketch #8: Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh's website: http://www.stevepugh.com/

Avengers

Nothing new to show at the moment, so here is a page of my inks I did a while ago, this is from a 6 page comic strip from a comic called Rampage, published by Panini.
The pencils are by the talented Staz Johnson!

Blueline Page

Here is the page I mentioned in my previous post, pencils of Spectacular Spider-Man, turned into blue line using photoshop, printed out onto bristol board at A3.
I would then ink straight onto the board.

Sketch #7: Dougie Braithwaite

Another sketch from my covention book, this one by the very talented, and friend of mine, Dougie Braithwaite.
He did this for me at UKCAC some years back, and I remember he was a bit taken back that I asked him, as I was one of his students at the London Cartoon Centre at the time!

Spider-Man/From Pencil To Colour

Pencils:

When I worked on this issue of Spec Spider-Man (#166) the pencils were emailed to me as JPG'S, which were drawn by John Royle. I then enlarged the pencils up to A3, turned the pencil line into a non print blue line in photoshop, and then printed out the page onto bristol board.
I will post up a blue line version of one of the pages in my next post.

Inks:

I then inked directly onto the blue line pages, once this was complete the pages were sent to Panini.
I would say about 50% of my current inking work is now done this way.

Colour & Lettering:

Panini then scanned the pages to the colourist James Offredi, and then onto the final stage the lettering.

Judge Dredd/From Pencil To Colour

Pencils:

Here are the various stages that go into putting a comic strip page together, from pencil to colour.
The first stage-the pencils, which were drawn by Patrick Goddard, at A3 size, he then posted these direct to me.

Inks: (My Part)

In this case I inked directly onto the original pages, when this was done I sent the original pages to 2000ad.

Colour & Lettering:

2000ad then sent my inked pages over to the colourist Chris Blythe, which are scanned in and coloured up, before being passed on to the final stages to be lettered by Annie Parkhouse.