Superhero Dance Party!

Recent commission for a local comic convention!

More commission fun, mon ami!

I never get fed up of drawing the X-Men! (hint hint)

Princess Peach and Tinkerbell commissions!

I've been inundated with some very awesome commissions the last week. Hada lot of fun drawing these two! :D

Brave Clarice. You will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won’t you?

The Endless!

I had a very fun commission a few weeks back to draw the Endless from Sandman. I had a great time with these - especially Delirium!

Monster Family!

This was a commission for a lovely lady to celebrate her nephew being born and wanted her family drawn as monsters! :D

I Heart Awesome Commissions!

A commission for a 6 year old girl's birthday. She loves Optimus Prime.

Postcard Commission

Before the madness of the LFCC started, I got a rather nice commission from a lovely couple in Australia for their online business. They wanted a fun postcard/thank you card to put in all of their mail orders and this was the result:

There are a couple of things I would tweak now looking at it, but it was fun commission to do and they were very happy with it. Good enough for me! :D

Starman and Stargate!

Here are two new commissions I recently worked on: JSA Starman and Teal'c from Stargate. In a move of extreme idiocy on my part, I totally forgot to scan them in before sending them off so these are the best pics I have! I really really enjoy making these characters for people for a couple of reasons: I'm always surprised by what people want as most of the time as they're characters I would never really think to do and so are all the more challenging and fun; the people I get these commissions from are always extremely nice and a pleasure to work with. A lot of them are comic fans I've met at cons or friends of comic fans who have had commissions from me and passed on the word. Having worked in a comic shop for nearly four years (I left in 2007 just before I went to Japan) I always get a pang of sadness when I get commissions like this as I realise how much I sometimes do miss working in the environment. It's still great to go to cons though and I think I've opened up a whole new market for myself in making these. I really need to get pimping on some comic related sites!

Dyb and Dob pictures!

A little while back I did a commission for these guys, which was a lot of fun. In addition to making pics for the website (with more to come) the Leaders held a small colouring competition for the Beavers and Cubs (and some of the leaders!) which I got to judge! Here are the awesome entries; it was very hard to choose the winners :D

I'm looking forward to doing some more pics for them as well as a couple of website headers and hopefully some more pics for the kids to colour!

Character Commissions!

Commissions finished!

Dr Strange and The Shadow are done and done! I had a blast painting them; so much so that I've begun to sketch out a ton of other characters for future paintings. I'm expanding to video game characters too (more for my own amusement but I know people will like them!) and some '80's cartoon characters which will be a lot of fun. Some sketches so far include Usagi Yojimbo, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, Phoenix and Havok. Any suggestions for more would be welcome!

Workin' on Commissions!

I've been working on the 4 commissions I received from peeps at Bics the last couple of days and it's been really fun. Belldandy and Thanos are pretty much done minus some small tweakage and The Shadow and Dr Strange are in the flatting stage. Belldandy has been my first female character and was frustrating yet satisfying at the same time! I'm also very fond of Thano's chin!

A Mixed Bag of...Nuts? Paintings?

I've had my first commissions for superhero paintings from a few people who were at Bics and I have to say, I'm pretty excited about doing them! I was hoping to get commissions from people for characters I haven't done/wouldn't have thought of doing and the batch of requests I've received from one chap (for him and three friends!) have come up trumps! I'll be doing paintings of Thanos, Dr Strange, The Shadow and Belldandy from Oh! My Goddess. I think that's a rather good mix of characters; I've yet to do a female character so Belldandy will be an interesting challenge! Looking forward to drawing The Shadow; I might even paint a Rocketeer for my own amusement too!

Dyb and Dob!

I just finished a really fun commission for a Cub Scout Leader to make cartoon charcters of their mascots for their website. Dyb and Dob are the little owl mascots who will be popping up on this website: http://www.wsmscouts.org.uk/

The Cubs and Beavers will also have black and white versions to colour themselves and there will be a prize for the best one! Can't wait to see what they come up with; I'll be posting my favourite ones!

Mr Miracle Work in Progress

I've been pretty mush working flat out on my Mr Miracle commission and it's finally taken some kind of postable shape! I haven't had as much fun with this one as I did with Batman purely because everything seemed to go wrong on this one. I managed to persist and get past the "Argh, this is terrible! I'm rubbish!" phase to a (hopefully) not-too-bad painting. I'm particularly pleased with the explosion which was a complete accident!