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Cattywampus 10: THE BOSUN REVEALED!

If the rumours in this episode of Cattywampus are true, things are going to get a lot more interesting in Tredregyn! Whether Des will be around to see them is another matter altogether.

2020-10-24 11:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Mrs Clovis' sitting room

More 3D modelling for Mrs Clovis' house in Steeple. Her house is a traditional Cornish cottage, I've been in a few and the key thing to remember is that after you concuss yourself the first time on...

Quick Lottie sketches

A few quick sketches from this week. I'm contemplating a little fill-in Charlotte Grote story for the new year. It has to be right though, it may collapse in the writing. I'm not sure what website ...

The Clovis kitchen

Upcoming pages require me to draw Mrs Clovis' kitchen over and over again, sometimes from mad angles. So I modelled it in Sketchup from photo reference. It's taken me a long time to get to grips wi...

Steeple: Secret Sentai pages 34-44

Here's the final batch of Secret Sentai pages. I hope you've enjoyed this story. There's one more 22-page Steeple story to go this year, then it's back to the drawing board to work out what comes n...

>A few orbs and a squiggle

I don't often share full pencils ahead of time but these give little away and feature a lot of fun faces that can never be quite as zesty in the final inks. As you can see, my pencils are still rel...

Cattywampus 9

All right shag! Don't ask me what spurred this week's bout of extra-curricular creativity. But here's a third comic in as many days that puts a lie to the notion that one needs to think carefully b...

Cattywampus 8

The title of this post reminds me of Japanese football club, Grampus 8. The comic itself has little to do with the pride of Nagoya but they could be used together in a piece of rhyming verse. One t...

Cattywampus 7

I started this comic in mid-August and something went wrong, don't ask me what, I have no idea. I threw away the failed drawing on the file and redid it today, it's now 100% perfect. No one could f...

Wicked Things #6 sneak preview

Some previews are sneakier than others. With 25 days until the final issue of Wicked Things comes out, this one qualifies as "upper-medium sneaky". 

And with issue 6, the first arc comes...

Inking the greats 3: John Byrne's "X-Men Elsewhen"

John Byrne is another one of my childhood favourites - Alpha Flight, She-Hulk, X-Men (I think I read those issues in Classic X-Men). I asked my friend 2020-09-30 07:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Inking the greats 2: Marc Silvestri

Marc Silvestri's art on Uncanny X-Men was so exciting when I was 11. The costume designs in Inferno were racy and doubtless damaged me and many other pre-teen boys forever. These were lurid comics ...

Inking John Romita Jr

I'm taking a few weeks off drawing Steeple (and other projects) to rest and also do something I almost never do - practice. I've been inking some of my favourite artists to try to improve my lines,...

Sketch dump

Sketches have been thin on the ground of late, hopefully once I get my new glasses this week, I'll be able to resume sketchbook fun. But here are some digital warmups from the last couple of months...

Steeple: Secret Sentai pages 23-33

Here's the third quarter of Steeple: Secret Sentai, exclusively for Patreon members.

Wicked Things #5 preview

Here's a 6-page preview of issue 5 of Wicked Things, out on Wednesday.  Written by me, art by MAX SARIN, colours by WHITNEY COGAR, letters by JIM CAMPBELL.

Lottie attempts to solve a ser...

Millionaire

Desmond Fishman is desperate to go on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but he won't go on with Jeremy Clarkson, he says it "has to be Chris Tarrant, the original millionaire".

2020-09-17 14:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Dust Bowl Desmond

Few are aware of Desmond Fishman's vanity film projects, designed to paint him in the best possible light as a working classic hero. The one that came closest to general release until its eventual ...

Sketch trash/treasure

Sorry about the lack of new sketches on Patreon. I do most of my sketching watching TV, but due to the onset of short-sightedness as I enter middle age, I can't look at the TV and my sketchbook at ...

2011 pencil-only recreations

Nine years ago I was very well-drilled with my sketchbook work and had a go at redrawing old comics with no inks, just pencil, in my looser sketchbook style. 

I managed these five wild l...

Steeple: Secret Sentai pages 12-22

Here's the second quarter of Steeple: Secret Sentai, exclusively for Patreon members.

Gardt

I have a special place in my heart for my "awful" characters. Desmond Fishman is the king of...

Wicked Things issue 4 preview

Wicked Things issue 4 is available in comic shops (2020-08-22 07:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Steeple: Secret Sentai pages 1-11

Here's the first quarter of Secret Sentai exclusively for Patreon subscribers.

Golden 2017

At various points I've redrawn really old comics, often to see if I could get more out of that format in the present day. For a period around 2001 I worked in a strict 4-panel A4 grid which gave yo...

Spectrum

A couple of years ago I made a series called By Night - all three volumes are currently available. By Night was produced under pressure, and remains the weirdest thing I've ever made. It featured a...

Cattywampus 6

Des gets deeper into the world of sea shanties, and Billie is drawn in with him. But who... is the BOSUN?

2020-07-31 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Giant Days 49: John pencils, Max inks

I filled in on art for Giant Days #48 alongside writing it (one of two issues of the Boom run that I drew, along with the 2018 holiday special). But my chores extended into issue 49, where I pencil...

Hulk memories

Here are two comics I made about the Hulk in 2015. What you should take from these comics is that I was very upset about not being asked to be in Marvel's 'Strange Tales' anthology. They're two of ...

Cattywampus 5

Another Cattywampus, exclusively for Patreon subscribers. Billie is always trying to get people singing...