Off Panel!

I recently got to take part in an awesome little project with a bunch of talented UK small pressers in which we made a card game featuring some of our characters! The game is akin to Top Trumps and also is a nifty way for people to check out work  by all of the artists and check out the cool stuff that small pressers do. I have 2 cards in the deck - see if you can spot them in the pics below! :P

 

The deck was the brainchild of the lovely and talented Nich Angell. Nich rounded us all up and the result will be seen at various cons around the UK this year. I'll be selling some packs at LSCC in a few weeks time - come and check it out! In the meantime, check out the Off Panel Facebook page for more details :D

 

 

Bristol Comic Expo!

This weekend will see me exhibiting at the Bristol Comic Expo along with a barrage of other talented creators. You'll be able to buy goodies from me as well as my arty fiends James Stayte and Mark Pearce - their table will be heaving with goods, much like a salmon heaves with eggs before laying time.

Come and pick up a couple of packs of my trading prints too; there are 10 rare cards to collect like the one above; see if you can get them all!

Trading Prints!

A while ago I made a set of trading cards featuring 50 characters; I will now be selling packs of trading PRINTS at my upcoming cons! The prints are a very cute format of 9cm x 13cm and there are 50 to collect plus 10 rare cards which are very sparse! Each pack contains 6 random prints and will be £1.50 per pack. I'm hoping people will like the idea - they make awesome little pieces of art and I've always loved the blind-packed collect-them-all format of things like this. I'd love to be able to make my own set of toys like M.U.S.C.L.E Men or Battle Beasts! Anyone remember Monster in my Pocket? :P

Trading Cards Printed!

My trading cards arrived in the post today and they look awesome! Each card is printing on high quality card stock, all double-sided.

A selection on my ink-ridden desk.

Card with Squid Bits logo on the back.

Mmm, maybe some Top Trumps?

I'll be ordering some envelopes and bubblegum this week and will hopefully have these to buy on my online shop very soon. Each pack will have 6 cards and a stick of bubblegum and will be about £3 per pack. Don't just think of them as trading cards, but collectible art cards! :D

Trading Cards 5!

Cards 41-50 in my 50 card set! All I have to do now is colour the 10 rare cards and they're all ready to send off to the printers. The rare cards wont be posted so you'll have to buy a pack to see if you've got any! :P

Trading Cards 4!

Cards 31-40 in my 50 card series! If it wasn't apparent already, I'm having a great time making these. I've got 10 more to bring the number to 50 and then there will be 10 rare cards that will be kept secret just to make the whole thing a bit more interesting! I've even been looking into getting sticks of bubblegum for each pack, just like the stickers/trading cards of my youth!

Trading Cards 3!

Cards 21-30 in my 50 card set!

Trading Cards 2

Cards 11-20 in my 50 card set!

Kid's book finished and new stuff!

Well, the kid's book is officially finished! After 2 months of quite intensive work, the finals have been sent to print. Hopefully I'll have PDFs of all the pages soon and can post a couple of spreads although I'm a bit nervous about seeing it as I've been staring at it for so long that I can only see the bad parts of my art. Hopefully I'll change my mind when I see it all in print! Anyway, I promised myself a break after the book was done, which lasted all of 2 minutes before I was in Photoshop and scribbling in my sketchbook. My next personal project is:

Trading Cards!

Series 1 will have 50 designs and will be sold in packs of about 6 cards. Above are the first 10 in the series; I'm hoping the have the first lot of cards ready to print by January. There will also be a few "rare" cards which I wont be posting on the internet or anywhere else so the only way to find them is to collect the cards! Sneaky, but also a bit of fun :P