Drink and Draw 14

Spent this evening out at Sandbar with the lovely fellas of the Manchester Comix Collective. The theme was edible drawings and our good friend Tom made a wonderful assortment of muffins and cakey things for us to draw on with icing and then eat. Add to those the massive cookies Adam Cadwell brought...well it was a sad sight of bloated, tipsy indie artists and cartoonists found around that table at the end. Everyone just wanted to curl up and sleep, the atmosphere was so pleasant.

When the photos are sorted out I will post up my edible doodles. But while the cakes were going around I also did a few sketches in my book. First some character design scribbles that degenerated into drawing the Power Rangers. Hmm.





Working a little on posing characters:



Gumbo background work. Possibly the entrance hall (well, one of them) for the castle in the evil tree I posted earlier in the blog.



Gumbo stands off against some dragony, alien buggy thing. This one is definitely getting inked and finished at some point.

Some wise dudes said FOCUS.

I admit I am a little topsy turvy at the start of this new year. I'd love to be doing more proffessional work, colouring or drawing and I'd love to be working on my own comic ideas. I really need to sort out my portfolio too. But I always end up getting a bit lost and frustrated over what should be my priority. Before work I always have a mild panic. "I have an hour to work on something, BUT WHAT?!"

I've decided to plan my weeks between any art jobs I get. Each day I'll focus on one project. Today Dave and I started reworking some character designs for one of our comic book ideas. Here's one of them!