Unfinished Business.

So! I'll be away from the joy that is the internet over the Easter weekend. I really wanted to post some WIPs before I went, so you can see that I haven't been shirking since me last update. Just inking lots and lots of teddy bears. Aaargh. These images both need shading and backgrounds and pretty things. Uh, I mean, COOL THINGS. YEAH.

Kingpin, Jet Twins and Gumbo.

Today's sketching suggestion was another from Ian. Kingpin, keeping with the Marvel theme! Struggling with his legs really, hmm.



We got caught up with Transformers Animated series 3 and the urge to deface my sketchbook with drawings of all the new characters is very strong. Jetstorm and Jetfire here with their terrible accents and english, I hope they pop up in more episodes.



I'm overdue a finished piece for last week! It's nearly done but I got a bit carried away. I'm trying to not just resort to cel-shading these days. Though it's a look I generally enjoy I need to practice other styles, the monster in this Gumbo picture has gone a bit over the top. Here's a sneak at Gumbo himself though.

Madman, robots and Gumbo.

Sketches from Wednesday and Thursday. Well, the ones I like. Sortof. It's been one of those weeks where I open my sketchbook and go "bleeeeeuuhhh" and Dave tells me off for being childish.

Olly told me to draw Blitzwing giving Jetstorm and Jetfire a nice hug. Whatever floats your boat mate.



Tom wanted Madman. I haven't read Madman, I hate these sketches! So I'll check out the graphic novels at work today and then have another bash at it.






Otherwise Dave and I have been talking through some final plans for Gumbo. This has been going pretty well and I hope to start drawing the 12 page preview comic this weekend! Here's a little sneak at my famously tidy roughs.

Finished Megatron

Ooo. It's not just a sketch. I am determined to produce more finished pieces over the next few weeks. And critique more than welcome, I know this is 'done' but I really need to push my self more and more at the moment. Any thoughts will be more than helpful for the next illustration.

Final Christmas Sillies

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year! We ended up spending a little too much of it having to do artwork but heck, it was fun.

These are the last main images I did for the Advent Calendar, and only Dave can really do justice to explaining the damn thing at all. It seemed to go down pretty well, with lots of jolly sorts joining in with the fun. Read Dave's post on http://demontomato.blogspot.com/ to get all the details. Although it won't quite explain the Christmas Power Rangers or robots or anything. Just, uhhh, best to just go with the flow and read the thread!

Decepticon Sketches

The Advent Calender is going to be a far bigger project than I realised! But it's massive fun and I'll be posting a couple of our images here once Dave OK's it. Until then I had intended to hold back my robot scrawls a little but what the hell! I never get to draw baddies, so here's Lugnut, Megatron and Starscream.