tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60053723781653510382024-02-19T11:17:16.284+00:00James Reekie IllustrationReekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-18465351206133186842012-05-17T14:11:00.001+00:002012-05-17T14:11:28.525+00:00Spring/Summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an image that I think I drew last year in between other projects and never posted. The weather here in London is pretty terrible at the moment, hopefuly this image won't jinx us with further bad weather.</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-18953247840816203782012-05-16T14:32:00.000+00:002012-05-16T14:34:00.157+00:00Otherworld Sailor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently completed another short story, "Otherworld Sailor", with my frequent collaborator, writer and editor <a href="http://mattgibbs.net/projects/overload-otherworld-sailor/">Matt Gibbs</a>. The story is being published in "<a href="http://www.copydesk.co.uk/overload1">Overload #1</a>" which is launching at Kapow next week. Cribbed once again from Matt's site;</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.copydesk.co.uk/overload1" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">Overload #1</a> launches at the <a href="http://kapowcomicconvention.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">Kapow! Comic Convention</a> on May 19-20th, 2012. A black and white anthology put together by Martin Conaghan, its aim is to showcase the work of established talent in the UK and introduce new creators to the comics industry.</span></blockquote>
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</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-66406231676988486152011-11-28T17:11:00.001+00:002011-11-28T17:15:20.306+00:00FutureQuake 19: Yesterday Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Page 1 of "Yesterday Today", Written by Matt Gibbs, Art by James Reekie</i></div>
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<a href="http://futurequakepress.blogspot.com/2011/11/futurequake-19-contents.html">FutureQuake 19</a>, a regular anthology of 2000AD Future Shock-style stories from FutureQuakePress, is now available. It features a whole host of writers and artists, plus a story from <a href="http://mattgibbs.blogspot.com/2011/11/futurequake-19-yesterday-today.html">Matt Gibbs</a> and I called Yesterday Today. <a href="http://futurequakepress.blogspot.com/2011/11/futurequake-19-contents.html">Go check it out!</a></div>
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This post is grossly delayed and I should have put something up much sooner. Shortly after the devastating earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand earlier this year, my frequent collaborator and pal, <a href="http://mattgibbs.net/">Matt Gibbs</a>, asked me if I wanted to illustrate a short story for the "Spirit of Hope" an anthology being put together to raise money for disaster victims. You can read the full tale of the anthology <a href="http://helenmccarthy.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/spirit-of-hope-the-comic-book-alliance-fundraiser-for-japan/">here</a>, see a list of the wonderful artists involved <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/31/preview-spirit-of-hope/">here</a>, and buy the book <a href="http://www.comicbook.org.uk/spirit-of-hope/">here</a>. </div>
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Matt sent me over a quick outline and in four crazy days we produced the strip which you can read in it's entirety below. I hope you like it and do us a favour and get yourself <a href="http://www.comicbook.org.uk/spirit-of-hope/">a copy of the anthology</a>. A fantastic book for a very worthy cause.</div>
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Have a great week!Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-86114051866378703692011-08-07T15:52:00.003+00:002011-08-07T16:06:00.069+00:00Storyboard Examples<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY2nrW-OZw-OkK77_SRMP4XfiQYQfhCdoG474ndixB-18eKdX3xwU_EkzIK9JVh4X3pJfUdpenRBu48wHdUvZFu1WJeWMF6YafAiZ-urX5oFlqBpcpYLayD1GjoM0NjtFku89p-r_le3T/s1600/Storyboard-BW.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY2nrW-OZw-OkK77_SRMP4XfiQYQfhCdoG474ndixB-18eKdX3xwU_EkzIK9JVh4X3pJfUdpenRBu48wHdUvZFu1WJeWMF6YafAiZ-urX5oFlqBpcpYLayD1GjoM0NjtFku89p-r_le3T/s400/Storyboard-BW.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638145137822789602" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Storyboard examples, drawn in Manga Studio</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here are some storyboard examples that I recently produced for a pitch for a client. I won the work, then the client went bankrupt! Sign of our times I guess.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-66815440147068981052011-07-18T08:14:00.004+00:002011-07-18T08:26:49.459+00:00The Ballad of Frank Sartre<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13_12GW4TISpbg9jir8GpUY-GQ04enSbzPExjnnbahu6maflCCMEwA7OlmLbaRrHmykeFu8J1bOE85VOffzCChu6G3UsRByy8u4IiaIfy-Xx3eTeG7KDAONSJ8a1o1Xp4_tKhU2Q92WBP/s1600/launch_pic.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13_12GW4TISpbg9jir8GpUY-GQ04enSbzPExjnnbahu6maflCCMEwA7OlmLbaRrHmykeFu8J1bOE85VOffzCChu6G3UsRByy8u4IiaIfy-Xx3eTeG7KDAONSJ8a1o1Xp4_tKhU2Q92WBP/s400/launch_pic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630602803106205106" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Panel art from "The Ballad of Frank Sartre", Artwork produced in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the best part of the last two years, in my downtime, evenings and weekends, I have been working on an original graphic novel, "The Ballad of Frank Sartre". On Friday we launched a <a href="http://www.franksartre.com/">website</a> to publish the entire book, online for free, in 4 page instalments. Below is the blurb with a little more detail about the story.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>THE BALLAD OF FRANK SARTRE - By James Peaty & James Reekie</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"What have you done?"</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Washed up club singer FRANK SARTRE is in the grip of depression. A depression fuelled by haunting, recurring dreams of a girl. A girl that holds the key to so many answers… yet seems forever out of reach.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>As Frank fumbles around the surreal city of COSMOPOLIS, desperately trying to resurrect his career and find meaning, a mysterious killer is on the loose, terrifying the freaks and oddities that populate the metropolis. Intrepid reporter SAM PARADISE has smelt a connection, but can he join the dots between Frank and the killer before it's too late?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>The Ballad of Frank Sartre is a original graphic novel, recommended for mature audiences, that will be published in it's entirety for free online every Friday on <a href="http://www.franksartre.com/">www.franksartre.com</a> starting on Friday 15th July.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Please do go <a href="http://www.franksartre.com/">check the website out</a> and have a great week! </div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-39393716678017003072011-06-27T08:31:00.004+00:002011-06-27T08:40:48.554+00:00New Sketches<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-pbeLsDrkWN3vo7Z9A9QUTp1wVVFef22E6mUPEc2Y6mrx_UDi_sc0HfW_r197ZZenOr7lxIGL-BsXEpdLLMbsf3_-9eblrZ2gBmJtsmaKj_pDVMyDo-RM1Gsbdou3jZCEZsFZ0XpGQky/s1600/CloseupNoChin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-pbeLsDrkWN3vo7Z9A9QUTp1wVVFef22E6mUPEc2Y6mrx_UDi_sc0HfW_r197ZZenOr7lxIGL-BsXEpdLLMbsf3_-9eblrZ2gBmJtsmaKj_pDVMyDo-RM1Gsbdou3jZCEZsFZ0XpGQky/s400/CloseupNoChin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814997222554898" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sketchbook drawing, ink on paper</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I finished a sketchbook recently which seems like as good a time as any to post up some of my recent sketches. As per usual, these are all drawn from magazine shoots or adverts using a various pens and brushes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHeXph37CekMO6dtVlmCKd-3syiFPaDkptFaPXvShZB0D4QXjIXiDke_xTJ_USgmMD4oNEiHrCZMMBeMh_HEjCSvniZ7BhPqAbxQwJ2NYeht76UKWHqU0pl5iNC-v1aZcG4KBHDsHLsur/s1600/SunglassesDock.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 358px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHeXph37CekMO6dtVlmCKd-3syiFPaDkptFaPXvShZB0D4QXjIXiDke_xTJ_USgmMD4oNEiHrCZMMBeMh_HEjCSvniZ7BhPqAbxQwJ2NYeht76UKWHqU0pl5iNC-v1aZcG4KBHDsHLsur/s400/SunglassesDock.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814991921090514" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJTH_Y0UB9QaLBvuz5qM0EnbtybHgW34SjD-K-I8OgctZ9Ab6fmYWW6D1pCtrDFx6Vt6LWLu_2lmFHG2aPshlcCAHyofS8cVR-BvN28Mp-X_0A1K_EQSsnGu1MN16vojIwTBlniz_PxkWA/s400/ProfileGirlTurn.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814867664109010" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWwdjYb-TlLvcqr2SIx2Hc3B858Jo43iN96u9zrBEwJuxlGBTy736gHOMDAdV2rUeGwB8aMLDQh7BFag2fVbszhRbyfrVHIyHb_2hRHPsOyQcVJsDs12IeMjJGlJXTS8OqHgoi2J03Sw-/s1600/StandingOnOneLegJumper.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWwdjYb-TlLvcqr2SIx2Hc3B858Jo43iN96u9zrBEwJuxlGBTy736gHOMDAdV2rUeGwB8aMLDQh7BFag2fVbszhRbyfrVHIyHb_2hRHPsOyQcVJsDs12IeMjJGlJXTS8OqHgoi2J03Sw-/s400/StandingOnOneLegJumper.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814855797896850" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuORkCSyxE7tPse9cj_vkFs-noK4mg45eN8HnQnehIyvjJ2ZKVZzd8yA0eWv5kNlOjuKnzp1Q057x7z16l3IfJJG2tZdEi7qWPV-DbdOneRQEZIDDQbFo4TiZPpUltrd6fHfg0sND-rC1/s1600/SittingPlayingHands.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuORkCSyxE7tPse9cj_vkFs-noK4mg45eN8HnQnehIyvjJ2ZKVZzd8yA0eWv5kNlOjuKnzp1Q057x7z16l3IfJJG2tZdEi7qWPV-DbdOneRQEZIDDQbFo4TiZPpUltrd6fHfg0sND-rC1/s400/SittingPlayingHands.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814852988347410" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMrkEGLEIjGR-QNMVj-y56_9wnb0Y8uKrqt6qDzt-P81DfVvi_J49jugypEfmIPrQDtLly9zyH6sL-kMeAt27fHdKMkX9b5YGr94Zuv0ji9m_s304TTFa6Hztj5vX4qTcdOjGmSfoyVib/s1600/SittingChair.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMrkEGLEIjGR-QNMVj-y56_9wnb0Y8uKrqt6qDzt-P81DfVvi_J49jugypEfmIPrQDtLly9zyH6sL-kMeAt27fHdKMkX9b5YGr94Zuv0ji9m_s304TTFa6Hztj5vX4qTcdOjGmSfoyVib/s400/SittingChair.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622814849482167026" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Have a great week!</span></div></i>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-74795810463880905202011-05-17T07:42:00.007+00:002011-05-17T08:46:55.841+00:00Photoshoot sketches<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1-fmDu5XQ1mnLRBNOQLiehMUHr3HQFobPobk9t-W4XmR-a2sBa7n9ybnxIz-zjhouNhW8b4Vubd5BgcMVD3qTStus3nLPTNpm4Eu9aF0AQd0LZZwOp-nmKxZi5uUuS8IY_tHbk2LyDq5/s1600/IPC-Swatch0003_Header.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1-fmDu5XQ1mnLRBNOQLiehMUHr3HQFobPobk9t-W4XmR-a2sBa7n9ybnxIz-zjhouNhW8b4Vubd5BgcMVD3qTStus3nLPTNpm4Eu9aF0AQd0LZZwOp-nmKxZi5uUuS8IY_tHbk2LyDq5/s400/IPC-Swatch0003_Header.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587746294969506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">These sketches are for a pitch of photoshoot, unfortunately I can't reveal who for...! All these sketches had to do was to convey the feel and direction that the proposed shoot would take. It was great to work nice and loose and not have to worry too much about finish. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fMUSU2X7FRAkosyTHoWLKSBTdPI5tCNtWdYnG3IQBaP1-v_Wy1uV3aVkI6ron02cJgF4WVg4wjvtdtZYryuI5MZlF9QxXyk3PU0LLrtXI2W9BvI5nPCmND1w1lQmqjnLt_H-PhbLJ8KE/s1600/IPC-Swatch0001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fMUSU2X7FRAkosyTHoWLKSBTdPI5tCNtWdYnG3IQBaP1-v_Wy1uV3aVkI6ron02cJgF4WVg4wjvtdtZYryuI5MZlF9QxXyk3PU0LLrtXI2W9BvI5nPCmND1w1lQmqjnLt_H-PhbLJ8KE/s400/IPC-Swatch0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587594150807106" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndm3zF0GAoWRxAQUy6su1WGNwHhxmH_qYUY7s9cquo7FoounEZdXOFlGNCkwjtVaL8TZKb3QH7qVcWuw8NfqcM1FC9eEBrVBbn6YlyBdMiy5tgqFOs6RK-_JWfxUKseRXKM17WN59KStb/s1600/IPC-Swatch0002.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndm3zF0GAoWRxAQUy6su1WGNwHhxmH_qYUY7s9cquo7FoounEZdXOFlGNCkwjtVaL8TZKb3QH7qVcWuw8NfqcM1FC9eEBrVBbn6YlyBdMiy5tgqFOs6RK-_JWfxUKseRXKM17WN59KStb/s400/IPC-Swatch0002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587584676676178" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjCnThyphenhyphenZHdl7ZBbRV4n3buJ9Z4PPLK91cTWd34gNUIy6LlTqasQP4mIuG1kL-dg-sGJqm8RPNmH0pT81P92mZki5ZqaOWM3YGhifOT9d3gRe6t85XRUaVazJiuExvlsZF9Ggns1wQZ5jW/s1600/IPC-Swatch0003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjCnThyphenhyphenZHdl7ZBbRV4n3buJ9Z4PPLK91cTWd34gNUIy6LlTqasQP4mIuG1kL-dg-sGJqm8RPNmH0pT81P92mZki5ZqaOWM3YGhifOT9d3gRe6t85XRUaVazJiuExvlsZF9Ggns1wQZ5jW/s400/IPC-Swatch0003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587579565395858" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3uYm88coglR9m7CzXAMaCQuIrrIC6mn3OzwR3DwK36pva0XHr9hS-PhSHwfmfUS1Zbg9O8flLeiGbQJOj0Yx0s6GzOFL_OG27AybRToDKsqOUZ-kFcSee8XNHIaZRYn947I67Jj4TWFx/s1600/IPC-Swatch0004.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3uYm88coglR9m7CzXAMaCQuIrrIC6mn3OzwR3DwK36pva0XHr9hS-PhSHwfmfUS1Zbg9O8flLeiGbQJOj0Yx0s6GzOFL_OG27AybRToDKsqOUZ-kFcSee8XNHIaZRYn947I67Jj4TWFx/s400/IPC-Swatch0004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587575102725826" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdEnwfyxEMPPS-ZDNzJNrQ_aLc1ets8Hp8lK5p5SD3qTL-H1-Jv41rQjUjjdN7UzrYjV7RwoaJP68_NPr1IRVQG9HCl5fOEpicortAjrFD9jlMzMwlt_AFpVPOrAojGpt5EOZcYMJ90YS/s1600/IPC-Swatch0006.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdEnwfyxEMPPS-ZDNzJNrQ_aLc1ets8Hp8lK5p5SD3qTL-H1-Jv41rQjUjjdN7UzrYjV7RwoaJP68_NPr1IRVQG9HCl5fOEpicortAjrFD9jlMzMwlt_AFpVPOrAojGpt5EOZcYMJ90YS/s400/IPC-Swatch0006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607587576533886274" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Photoshoot rough sketch, digital art created in Manga Studio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Have a great week!</span></div></i>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-76664136791167038412011-05-09T08:57:00.003+00:002011-05-09T09:03:47.976+00:00Tug O'War<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5XnyygtUMEMpizAVwd64-x3S9FlGlKh6MUtVAPO8a8tIzhBIVkTmJqO9hf-RtsAJP12Z-61XEoPHC2f-PBpL54GAJsZciPVys_dWXjwob3CO0hNZyyG4Idy8Mn_00XOPR65A3sb1qF3o/s1600/AQOP_FINAL.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5XnyygtUMEMpizAVwd64-x3S9FlGlKh6MUtVAPO8a8tIzhBIVkTmJqO9hf-RtsAJP12Z-61XEoPHC2f-PBpL54GAJsZciPVys_dWXjwob3CO0hNZyyG4Idy8Mn_00XOPR65A3sb1qF3o/s400/AQOP_FINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604638116672184850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Tug O'War" for Marketing Magazine, lineart in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i></div><div><br /></div><div>An image I produced for <a href="http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/">Marketing Magazine</a>, illustrating the struggle between the marketing and retail departments. </div><div><br /></div><div>Art direction was by Carl Golsby. Have a great week!<br /><br /></div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-23789785977976119322011-03-07T11:26:00.004+00:002011-03-07T11:57:41.308+00:00High Tea<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokSY9EGpiD2CKButitiM-C4pgseYmNmCRoWFVvBZUDISqPV51QHmUH0_WHJBK4zou7wZmng3pUzqgt8IDkGi92ute9k-8xEgiTK2HIz4i1qh0PRdyYkG-HZ8xNoKver-6d1-Pi1nIQP91/s1600/Canton.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokSY9EGpiD2CKButitiM-C4pgseYmNmCRoWFVvBZUDISqPV51QHmUH0_WHJBK4zou7wZmng3pUzqgt8IDkGi92ute9k-8xEgiTK2HIz4i1qh0PRdyYkG-HZ8xNoKver-6d1-Pi1nIQP91/s400/Canton.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581299287272690978" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Canton", Concept art for "High Tea", Line and colour in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">In December 2010 I was hired by the guys at <a href="http://www.preloaded.com/">Preloaded</a> to produce some character designs and miscellaneous art for a new flash game "<a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/high-society/high-tea.aspx">High Tea</a>" about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars">Opium Wars</a> and tea trade between the British empire and China in the 19th century. The game is part of the <a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/high-society.aspx">High Society exhibition</a> discussing the history of drug trading at the <a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/visit-us.aspx">Welcome Collection</a> in London. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My main task was to design the characters for the game based on historical figures. The art direction I received from Preloaded was to draw the characters a little more cartoony than my usual style and use cross hatching to give a flavour of the art from the period.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaDDDe7Lv7tY6vId_9487oZuLXlLsuCrzBzeO7IvtC_9gLTVu2uiC89to669MeeBw2EfjzhjvqJ_svifEum0KqazDBSqedVmo4_wsP_frwW9yHvhlSAAsylookhHUr0kZ-VSh52aMgmzd/s1600/QueenVictoria.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaDDDe7Lv7tY6vId_9487oZuLXlLsuCrzBzeO7IvtC_9gLTVu2uiC89to669MeeBw2EfjzhjvqJ_svifEum0KqazDBSqedVmo4_wsP_frwW9yHvhlSAAsylookhHUr0kZ-VSh52aMgmzd/s400/QueenVictoria.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581299281943827586" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Queen Victoria", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-S-EBvFQQxJn1C_0wykLZF5BfyayWC0UEd7nhDbI2QIh_hnrP7d-TmksW6RHod_QaYHLtDcB80miyj78qKt48mhcLQ44lCYKw1YtorAnv3ycQPWOZF4lEdj08wmq11kfe2C7h3qlb3YDN/s1600/Smuggler.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-S-EBvFQQxJn1C_0wykLZF5BfyayWC0UEd7nhDbI2QIh_hnrP7d-TmksW6RHod_QaYHLtDcB80miyj78qKt48mhcLQ44lCYKw1YtorAnv3ycQPWOZF4lEdj08wmq11kfe2C7h3qlb3YDN/s400/Smuggler.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581299278239538306" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Smuggler", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUZCmnUUzjyIWsIkN344m3h_GTwvzmMU8nifBQlbxiW8X8DBs-xdECAmDOA8DCUvYu_-XkDNaKN9vU2ktI99K6YBONyCYZ59ouwA1jSNNoayjgSNau_W4KM_NG_1sQWVgz4D0SR0oHCcE/s1600/KingWilliamIV.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUZCmnUUzjyIWsIkN344m3h_GTwvzmMU8nifBQlbxiW8X8DBs-xdECAmDOA8DCUvYu_-XkDNaKN9vU2ktI99K6YBONyCYZ59ouwA1jSNNoayjgSNau_W4KM_NG_1sQWVgz4D0SR0oHCcE/s400/KingWilliamIV.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581298525609015938" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"King William IV", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeU4lRvhA4Zfj6YdMxO_Jd37LWp9ckuUAHORAtNlTgDmUhgdHKmFckiihuAoGOndj5-oHGizD1Dz8Piubu4s2Ph8TgSU4TsZy5VLFR8ZC9dilIwT27Y6aVsXsZLAyLhDoDiNdoFhP8To5b/s1600/Lin-Zexu.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeU4lRvhA4Zfj6YdMxO_Jd37LWp9ckuUAHORAtNlTgDmUhgdHKmFckiihuAoGOndj5-oHGizD1Dz8Piubu4s2Ph8TgSU4TsZy5VLFR8ZC9dilIwT27Y6aVsXsZLAyLhDoDiNdoFhP8To5b/s400/Lin-Zexu.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581298521091646258" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Lin Zexu", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aLwp38qgKdNAoAG-1EO7Q2owgUjTUzsUz1CmIgkR-nNAcUNEo2crlbskEICmyfcxEOVdDzw14dr_NrCBDjz_FOsJ2Bwb_bSUlj_minz6oHhnlI3qCOrq4Lt5Cz3mQg20XjmeBrYOMbQ7/s1600/Characters-Sheet.jpg"></a><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aLwp38qgKdNAoAG-1EO7Q2owgUjTUzsUz1CmIgkR-nNAcUNEo2crlbskEICmyfcxEOVdDzw14dr_NrCBDjz_FOsJ2Bwb_bSUlj_minz6oHhnlI3qCOrq4Lt5Cz3mQg20XjmeBrYOMbQ7/s1600/Characters-Sheet.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aLwp38qgKdNAoAG-1EO7Q2owgUjTUzsUz1CmIgkR-nNAcUNEo2crlbskEICmyfcxEOVdDzw14dr_NrCBDjz_FOsJ2Bwb_bSUlj_minz6oHhnlI3qCOrq4Lt5Cz3mQg20XjmeBrYOMbQ7/s400/Characters-Sheet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581298514512105970" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 400px; " /></a><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Complete Character Sheet, line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I also produced some concept images for splash screens and drawings of general objects to use throughout the game.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aLwp38qgKdNAoAG-1EO7Q2owgUjTUzsUz1CmIgkR-nNAcUNEo2crlbskEICmyfcxEOVdDzw14dr_NrCBDjz_FOsJ2Bwb_bSUlj_minz6oHhnlI3qCOrq4Lt5Cz3mQg20XjmeBrYOMbQ7/s1600/Characters-Sheet.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYklgjDsbrdj58A_zWwAjwxW_pIgLqaCnsP0gQhh0riTUXMetzTMrwVWixJOGjmmuyM6J9LosIdzjbon04oJdoJMMLNniqco3vIaqiYQ9oPbxxLdnX2koh2rQjy-rwa0jErcwrHtDMbb-V/s1600/Tea-Clipper.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYklgjDsbrdj58A_zWwAjwxW_pIgLqaCnsP0gQhh0riTUXMetzTMrwVWixJOGjmmuyM6J9LosIdzjbon04oJdoJMMLNniqco3vIaqiYQ9oPbxxLdnX2koh2rQjy-rwa0jErcwrHtDMbb-V/s400/Tea-Clipper.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581298518752962770" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Tea Clipper", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTwoijOZw5I0xjHNhLBz5NepgpzWcRcqfbAUCBhP793L6C48J7l6B7SK_D1ZoB-_yqOfYkXM7zHSUSdhVPJWoVnYRADYGlIeWaP_SA331WhLp1zAktZ0s1GJNQPMJiNRHvuLRY2taxZcy/s1600/Objects.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTwoijOZw5I0xjHNhLBz5NepgpzWcRcqfbAUCBhP793L6C48J7l6B7SK_D1ZoB-_yqOfYkXM7zHSUSdhVPJWoVnYRADYGlIeWaP_SA331WhLp1zAktZ0s1GJNQPMJiNRHvuLRY2taxZcy/s400/Objects.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581298511214187938" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Misc Objects", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week and be sure to <a href="http://hightea.wellcomeapps.com/">try the game out</a>!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-51752208254237820362011-02-28T10:52:00.006+00:002011-02-28T14:59:43.594+00:00Judge, Jury and Executioner<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zb9BAZQeQZKEMdkTQw3nm8Agfg2AncvE0oM3RBJEciAb_vZT6O4AXDVBNQP1_8sfFAH_8powFnCeWyqJ-59eK1BZHsdwXc6HJblWts5tKJV_ZNgC8xMFPlevVMBHiTyzPDaXrak0ZjwO/s1600/HMRC-Dredd-Crop.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zb9BAZQeQZKEMdkTQw3nm8Agfg2AncvE0oM3RBJEciAb_vZT6O4AXDVBNQP1_8sfFAH_8powFnCeWyqJ-59eK1BZHsdwXc6HJblWts5tKJV_ZNgC8xMFPlevVMBHiTyzPDaXrak0ZjwO/s400/HMRC-Dredd-Crop.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578705205351918034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Crop from "HMRC Dredd", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was commissioned by Iain Winfield from <a href="http://www.accountancyage.com/">Accountancy Age magazine</a> to create the cover for this week's issue. The cover story is about HMRC (I will hugely paraphrase) <a href="http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2026778/hmrc-loses-christopher-lunn-battle-win-war">throwing it's weight around</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Iain asked me to draw a fictitious "HMRC agent" dressed up like Judge Dredd in a parody of this classic poster (I think by <a href="http://www.brianbolland.net/">Brian Bolland</a>, but feel free to correct me) shown below with my photographic reference.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTYjZv9PAuZPXJJW6DR77PwxDrDRhOnDS_cPe2G8rv5NVorWSL0KO9jXxxhKLzvEPA9pZ7Uyltbu3ZxAahcE4jWGKrzdeDr3ZiDvXUMEwcuhWCihR4CrIdKa3Ck7yzm3oqQv1ZAa2XDfU/s1600/HMRC_Dredd-Cover.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFLF_FgbyXknaebbuF7ANGXIhK6cNTTAwHQEr8bWMNdFeS2xQev_K7PtlSOE_PNeCB7Uapn4x_0L_KkOK-Gm-NK9FWowQF7AAOBXqfMm9JUB_AM3EfdUri68-vXkJF79ow4Jd-ljRrETa/s1600/Dredd-REf.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFLF_FgbyXknaebbuF7ANGXIhK6cNTTAwHQEr8bWMNdFeS2xQev_K7PtlSOE_PNeCB7Uapn4x_0L_KkOK-Gm-NK9FWowQF7AAOBXqfMm9JUB_AM3EfdUri68-vXkJF79ow4Jd-ljRrETa/s400/Dredd-REf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578692042285083762" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Reference for "HMRC Dredd</i>"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since the brief was very clear in terms of composition, I submitted my roughs with just a few variations in pose. I tried to suggest the Judge's uniform with the leather jacket, using a ID card as the badge and sunglasses instead of the helmet. Also I felt the gun was perhaps overtly aggressive so I delivered an option with the character being "tough" with the paperwork, which is my personal experience of HMRC.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t89W4USedYkJNreHE6XeDBUP0HL6miGUR_HzGoy9k_kTaLT9TmzJ1yNNdwxlAEORE_-SA2c8ECSJ_aP8czFvx5RWt3D4l8ez1S2m7muSWVyoM9k5U5DtMncW8i4DhZA6Ct8fox7qOsjw/s1600/HMRC-Dredd-Roughs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t89W4USedYkJNreHE6XeDBUP0HL6miGUR_HzGoy9k_kTaLT9TmzJ1yNNdwxlAEORE_-SA2c8ECSJ_aP8czFvx5RWt3D4l8ez1S2m7muSWVyoM9k5U5DtMncW8i4DhZA6Ct8fox7qOsjw/s400/HMRC-Dredd-Roughs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578692041389405346" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Roughs for "HMRC Dredd". Manga Studio & Photoshop</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">The guys at the magazine decided that the "full on" version was the way forward so I pushed on to the final image.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHUdSBb83qEg0oNE5XHrWFUsbgyoi0W1JLZ3f5leJHw3GQ2j8NcN8xGY-tZqk_PPdq1Zza0uxKoxFBl4UdJPvAw4mr1I5i9OdAcWSTOdyEzikUUFVKVqoL-W12-miBdtcgdyXYMhWl1Oy/s1600/HMRC-Dredd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 353px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHUdSBb83qEg0oNE5XHrWFUsbgyoi0W1JLZ3f5leJHw3GQ2j8NcN8xGY-tZqk_PPdq1Zza0uxKoxFBl4UdJPvAw4mr1I5i9OdAcWSTOdyEzikUUFVKVqoL-W12-miBdtcgdyXYMhWl1Oy/s400/HMRC-Dredd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578692036262232994" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><i>"HMRC Dredd", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHUdSBb83qEg0oNE5XHrWFUsbgyoi0W1JLZ3f5leJHw3GQ2j8NcN8xGY-tZqk_PPdq1Zza0uxKoxFBl4UdJPvAw4mr1I5i9OdAcWSTOdyEzikUUFVKVqoL-W12-miBdtcgdyXYMhWl1Oy/s1600/HMRC-Dredd.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTYjZv9PAuZPXJJW6DR77PwxDrDRhOnDS_cPe2G8rv5NVorWSL0KO9jXxxhKLzvEPA9pZ7Uyltbu3ZxAahcE4jWGKrzdeDr3ZiDvXUMEwcuhWCihR4CrIdKa3Ck7yzm3oqQv1ZAa2XDfU/s400/HMRC_Dredd-Cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578705200791837602" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><br />Have a great week!Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-18088844390301107092011-02-21T08:12:00.005+00:002011-02-21T08:45:10.254+00:00The Outsider<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrWrQ7tcAsDfWgsBsAodRdaMMG5DNkGGjrkJ6WecJxhQVL91vXj7vMhSKln-ejgjQutbLiHfu8DiSNMsOMqq4oiIk2lSVtSWp2DUuJHpgxNgea_kHDJud-jsGffWaFMdCTDzOpttvRy92/s1600/The-Outsider-Opener.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrWrQ7tcAsDfWgsBsAodRdaMMG5DNkGGjrkJ6WecJxhQVL91vXj7vMhSKln-ejgjQutbLiHfu8DiSNMsOMqq4oiIk2lSVtSWp2DUuJHpgxNgea_kHDJud-jsGffWaFMdCTDzOpttvRy92/s400/The-Outsider-Opener.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053387701791570" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Crop from "The Outsider–2", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Right at the beginning of this year I put aside a couple of days to enter <a href="http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/2010/10/call-for-entries-house-of-illustration-and-the-folio-societys-inaugural-book-illustration-competition-2/">The House of Illustration and the Folio Society's inaugural competition</a>. The prize was a commission to illustrate a new edition of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)">"The Outsider" by Albert Camus</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)">Wikipedia</a> summarises the book thusly. </div><div><br /></div><div>"The title character is Meursault, an Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture") who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. The story is divided into Parts One and Two: Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively."</div><div><br /></div><div>For the entry to the competition you had to submit 3 final pieces and if successful, create art for 7 images. As I read the book over Christmas I thumbnailed out likely scenes in my sketchbook as I went. Sadly I can't show you these as I am in the middle of a house move and that sketchbook is at the bottom of a box somewhere!</div><div><br /></div><div>With the images plotted out I dived straight into research. </div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBBclTGkU_iz9iV8FQUplpQesyU2tWualYpYBn8OvSXYveO_y05RuAT0Qaw1CeU5P0MlKSTuzzuyx9ayexjtUAJoOUg3matkxV1_vyRdUGHGM2PG-QFfbY7G2kGr-Njt90MTUknX_pYyo/s1600/Ref-Sheet-01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBBclTGkU_iz9iV8FQUplpQesyU2tWualYpYBn8OvSXYveO_y05RuAT0Qaw1CeU5P0MlKSTuzzuyx9ayexjtUAJoOUg3matkxV1_vyRdUGHGM2PG-QFfbY7G2kGr-Njt90MTUknX_pYyo/s400/Ref-Sheet-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053386003040322" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Reference imagery for "The Outsider – 1"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">When illustrating books, I don't want to draw all the details of the scenes as I feel, especially being a more "realistic" artist, that it's important not to take away from the reader's imagination. What I wanted to achieve was the isolation of the main character in each scene, but not sadness as the isolation is his choice. The other aim of the images was to translate the heat of Algiers through the illustrations.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIaVOpHyQNSNBg5sQNY8lO4X5uy2YfpM2JNxQRmq8ubU0MnlCFh8yJkA3Nv_kWhSxyKONQ-ear38bcbmaz0Uf7iIkZ3weZwgr4yvOTV7VkciEdZVzoDJtbg9pbtnOVD9kEk46hOm40246/s1600/The-Outsider.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIaVOpHyQNSNBg5sQNY8lO4X5uy2YfpM2JNxQRmq8ubU0MnlCFh8yJkA3Nv_kWhSxyKONQ-ear38bcbmaz0Uf7iIkZ3weZwgr4yvOTV7VkciEdZVzoDJtbg9pbtnOVD9kEk46hOm40246/s400/The-Outsider.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053161569891442" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Final Art for "The Outsider–1".</i> <i>Line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYd8JIbP15t6tBC71MjBelR9GiKntixPbKCPzLLnQj83N98sFUZrdXG_zsUZ_pjCwPucG5O6qg_am2vJaC9PAIg5gQ7kL4ml3PuQZ0AxGBFeKboI_EjkvJ6LihODaSN2W7A69EwnZz4BV/s1600/Ref-Sheet-02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYd8JIbP15t6tBC71MjBelR9GiKntixPbKCPzLLnQj83N98sFUZrdXG_zsUZ_pjCwPucG5O6qg_am2vJaC9PAIg5gQ7kL4ml3PuQZ0AxGBFeKboI_EjkvJ6LihODaSN2W7A69EwnZz4BV/s400/Ref-Sheet-02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053155018016610" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Reference imagery for "The Outsider – 2"</i></span></div></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9C6fE1HQr4P_eX0aHOS5OL9JNsZY4buWvyQKceIzukobyf0p98HxPCK9OqqRcKpz3hx3EF8HDChLsE6DEliFOeqbiM8bf2M81qPUwpE41TwFVD_7wmJXqXrJ76ns74ERbdi1DrlkWo94/s1600/The-Outsider2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9C6fE1HQr4P_eX0aHOS5OL9JNsZY4buWvyQKceIzukobyf0p98HxPCK9OqqRcKpz3hx3EF8HDChLsE6DEliFOeqbiM8bf2M81qPUwpE41TwFVD_7wmJXqXrJ76ns74ERbdi1DrlkWo94/s400/The-Outsider2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053156817203282" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Final Art for "The Outsider–2".</i> L<i>ine art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</span></div></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sb632mPDlcOz0riFsz_6S5tWBdPBF8n5lJw3W82zA3USiNIXq_F8hKfPZ2943ai0Yq-5bMI1c_MywuoBnbVU185-Lv2wruR_GCep03vUHs7YVlky7WZwZaZ6KVAl4_qpxA42dAczs8K5/s1600/Ref-Sheet-03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sb632mPDlcOz0riFsz_6S5tWBdPBF8n5lJw3W82zA3USiNIXq_F8hKfPZ2943ai0Yq-5bMI1c_MywuoBnbVU185-Lv2wruR_GCep03vUHs7YVlky7WZwZaZ6KVAl4_qpxA42dAczs8K5/s400/Ref-Sheet-03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053149234732402" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Reference imagery for "The Outsider – 3"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfT4vtwj1VkYadlTSE6GI41xLsMo3tdk-R0DL_d6uxodXoucwFBVn0N0MBsTVW2plULLGiDJdEzvn0ehpiaqPn9vXh6Gbq50yiu5DpPIjfkbwEtMirS2xSaH2x-nne1d16Ieil5QnGe0GJ/s1600/The-Outsider3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfT4vtwj1VkYadlTSE6GI41xLsMo3tdk-R0DL_d6uxodXoucwFBVn0N0MBsTVW2plULLGiDJdEzvn0ehpiaqPn9vXh6Gbq50yiu5DpPIjfkbwEtMirS2xSaH2x-nne1d16Ieil5QnGe0GJ/s400/The-Outsider3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576053147059722306" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Final Art for "The Outsider–3".</i> L<i>ine art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Though the winner has not yet been announced, I have been informed that it wasn't me! I thoroughly enjoyed producing the art for these and I would probably have never read the wonderful book without the competition. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Have a great week!</span></div></i></div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-87308989129553415482011-02-14T08:20:00.004+00:002011-02-14T08:59:26.465+00:00Wired - Aliens!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Gcxpuclvig1uPWERywNnxEqDmiw2xIp2rdhtBPrKSHWQBSqZaZegblrtVzPiBLeu_SfhxW4b1GqgvTECyJxqLGuQjDWkq0BLN4_QYhPnkAVwJ3hvKNEdd9et4pV2glr2NWx_q-0KefKf/s1600/Aliens-Opener.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Gcxpuclvig1uPWERywNnxEqDmiw2xIp2rdhtBPrKSHWQBSqZaZegblrtVzPiBLeu_SfhxW4b1GqgvTECyJxqLGuQjDWkq0BLN4_QYhPnkAVwJ3hvKNEdd9et4pV2glr2NWx_q-0KefKf/s400/Aliens-Opener.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573458239655365474" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Crop from "Aliens" for Wired Magazine, Art Direction Alice Cho, line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Just as I was about to leave the house for bonfire night fireworks (yes, it was that long ago but I wasn't allowed to post until now) I was contacted by Alice Cho at Wired magazine. She commissioned me to illustrate four films, due to come out in 2011, that feature alien invasions. The films were <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217613/">World Invasion: Battle LA</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/">The Thing</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/">Paul</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/">Cowboys & Aliens</a>. The catch, aside from trying to fit all these films into one image, was that most of these movie's hadn't even released a publicity shot.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqL6_2o448kiwqIEQAlNIRANGBbwWn9zfLwMSHmHWrXSIEPAOfjg9e2knyxbv8x9GkzFAOmKCuEGnHqwr6neH2gbzXo2hXgqU_GyHyB_kqd2ICLZTDocPSKiZNXTf_ojf6cTp98pkTagU-/s1600/Aliens-REF.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqL6_2o448kiwqIEQAlNIRANGBbwWn9zfLwMSHmHWrXSIEPAOfjg9e2knyxbv8x9GkzFAOmKCuEGnHqwr6neH2gbzXo2hXgqU_GyHyB_kqd2ICLZTDocPSKiZNXTf_ojf6cTp98pkTagU-/s400/Aliens-REF.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573457793572308658" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Reference for "Aliens"</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">I scavenged what reference imagery I could and produced three roughs, mainly playing off and thusly becoming a little homage to the overhead ship composition from the Cowboys & Aliens cover by (I think) Luciano Lima.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1PAACvwPmkNGKrgyUWh-Gc6MxFAQ7YIxovi_fUEtneepf8XTL8-XourNXHYFbH5_OAFe828OhmjFB-fBRiFd9QQZCNQmlbhjh1Zs6Hv55yU_z9lq8aCLucgqoHyMM7CMPx109Nq6sAjd/s1600/Aliens-Roughs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1PAACvwPmkNGKrgyUWh-Gc6MxFAQ7YIxovi_fUEtneepf8XTL8-XourNXHYFbH5_OAFe828OhmjFB-fBRiFd9QQZCNQmlbhjh1Zs6Hv55yU_z9lq8aCLucgqoHyMM7CMPx109Nq6sAjd/s400/Aliens-Roughs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573457794100635282" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Initial roughs for "Aliens", drawn & coloured in Manga Studio</i></div></div><div><br /></div><div>At this point the copy got cut down to only three movies (loosing the remake of The Thing) so I was asked to redraft version 3, adding in Paul from version 2 and a larger cowboy behind him to create the new rough below.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcMSyRqqIPcb5cLiUB3SuoT56XEC_wupzxEtSSNb9FT-LrJ-tJNkPniXLGg9WIRCbfsuDXgSvEqek_lmxToUO2qwJzPUuiI30naDPxHdPwVJ6YiasSgIvLlbGekWXSKCWnwh7ANKh8sDr/s1600/Aliens-V4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcMSyRqqIPcb5cLiUB3SuoT56XEC_wupzxEtSSNb9FT-LrJ-tJNkPniXLGg9WIRCbfsuDXgSvEqek_lmxToUO2qwJzPUuiI30naDPxHdPwVJ6YiasSgIvLlbGekWXSKCWnwh7ANKh8sDr/s400/Aliens-V4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573457784615591890" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Final rough for "Aliens", drawn in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6OxWeCfvTcObzK2njVe-AVhpPG8YTkqKgLfiufOhZqmicSgMxnnILr373Y59KEPdoAPLe2kZp58ZHpXsZzBnAPE77kgc6EXaY9IOug3qbx0RnXFi9GkGDPlv_k6L_k_aIXz3zNBKx2DF/s1600/Aliens-FINAL.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6OxWeCfvTcObzK2njVe-AVhpPG8YTkqKgLfiufOhZqmicSgMxnnILr373Y59KEPdoAPLe2kZp58ZHpXsZzBnAPE77kgc6EXaY9IOug3qbx0RnXFi9GkGDPlv_k6L_k_aIXz3zNBKx2DF/s400/Aliens-FINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573457781110509330" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Final art for "Aliens", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-21747942900736200872011-01-31T08:02:00.007+00:002011-01-31T09:00:14.660+00:00Tablets and Product Photography Illustration<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUP0CU4CE7URZvzOB6OXP7AgXDZPcvNNRr2Yp_fyrc1qTLK3wvx_XRNO0a143vcW89q35WxEe1rVU6qO7QZNgrqePBXbrIBSdWWOAvl2d0Ye0PL8WpvBFXuqLw5Xyd7CjQT4iu57ZMYduh/s1600/Tablets-Starter.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUP0CU4CE7URZvzOB6OXP7AgXDZPcvNNRr2Yp_fyrc1qTLK3wvx_XRNO0a143vcW89q35WxEe1rVU6qO7QZNgrqePBXbrIBSdWWOAvl2d0Ye0PL8WpvBFXuqLw5Xyd7CjQT4iu57ZMYduh/s400/Tablets-Starter.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568257616466942114" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Detail from "Tablets", line art in <a href="http://manga.smithmicro.com/index_ex.html">Manga Studio</a>, colour in <a href="http://tryit.adobe.com/uk/photoshopfamily/?sdid=IBFIW">Photoshop</a></i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was hired by <a href="http://sciencefocus.com/issue/playing-fire">BBC Focus</a> to illustrate an article reviewing the new batch of tablet PC's desperate to take the iPad's crown. Working with Steve Sayers, the Art Editor on Focus, the process of the job was a bit different for me as it involved illustrating around product photography.</div><div><br /></div><div>Steve's idea, inspired by the poster for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833/">Cecil B DeMille's 1956 film "Ten commandments"</a>, was to produce a dramatic image of a guy on a mountain carrying all the tablets. As usual I then sourced my own reference for the drawing, including the obligatory dressing gown dressing up shots... (<i>A quick google search failed to bring up the name of the illustrator who painted this poster. If anyone knows who it was, please let me know!</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJzvtPR6LHVFRgXDyfTvtlcvW3N_J6JKZXPLefyTgDJ_1JfqNudPaRTsy4MI5UfTC-p-srpjACNn5YepbdK2EA-gDJNY7gdk3Qjg1HV7cC16Ge5l5p1fqQNHSlRxVUXBu8wK95oFXmccL/s400/Tablets-Reference.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568261521302585810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ten Commandments poster and reference images for the final drawing.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Steve then sent me over a rough layout for me to draw over, so they could work out where the tablets would be. After deciding that the figure couldn't hold the tablets in his hands as they would be to jumbled up, I decided to go for a more fantasy angle and have the tablets "appearing" out of the lightning. I scribbled up a rough over a stock photograph in Photoshop, which was then sent to the photographer so he could shoot the tablets at the right angles.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhtQl9IBhNiz-AzjOmzgUXmaBF-cb3dgK2nF26eKlOkOKCykT2hPeUiw_PoIJEWWVB4ddwTKw9KVS_6blJ9fQ_pYLcXnT4PmHtiuQLcoTP3hZegDTSKoa0Tsu5PQ9QbB7zk9olL-HA9q7/s1600/Tablets_FP_Rough.jpg"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhtQl9IBhNiz-AzjOmzgUXmaBF-cb3dgK2nF26eKlOkOKCykT2hPeUiw_PoIJEWWVB4ddwTKw9KVS_6blJ9fQ_pYLcXnT4PmHtiuQLcoTP3hZegDTSKoa0Tsu5PQ9QbB7zk9olL-HA9q7/s1600/Tablets_FP_Rough.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhtQl9IBhNiz-AzjOmzgUXmaBF-cb3dgK2nF26eKlOkOKCykT2hPeUiw_PoIJEWWVB4ddwTKw9KVS_6blJ9fQ_pYLcXnT4PmHtiuQLcoTP3hZegDTSKoa0Tsu5PQ9QbB7zk9olL-HA9q7/s400/Tablets_FP_Rough.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568257614979359586" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Rough layout, drawn in Photoshop over a draft pdf of the magazine spread.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">With everything approved I waited for the shots to come back for the photographer and then completed my artwork. </div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYocq-zMtfdRRB-UicOb3cQdhYYjtcwBIkcrxrNhvgiFx4nx_DxZHPEVs9aRx56RMtvL-UnKUfveQBEtytKL0b8PflixlSUV1oqyMdUq69TrNA_j8P1aUfnuRKISml72QT6h7kpzkBLbRw/s1600/Tablets-SP.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 385px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYocq-zMtfdRRB-UicOb3cQdhYYjtcwBIkcrxrNhvgiFx4nx_DxZHPEVs9aRx56RMtvL-UnKUfveQBEtytKL0b8PflixlSUV1oqyMdUq69TrNA_j8P1aUfnuRKISml72QT6h7kpzkBLbRw/s400/Tablets-SP.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568257608312590946" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Final art for "Tablet", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A real collaborative effort and a really striking product review spread even if I do say so myself! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div><br /></div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-28854287608047659752011-01-10T10:36:00.004+00:002011-01-10T10:49:24.881+00:00Work In Progress<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy07dk4mfHBy1XU2AClp00qJij0wb4rXSFOLcISyy_1U-KqUQGoC4ee3FnVY8m-dUG_nfEdOrUCaJfceHYiTa5dMHtOQUmPW7qZLxq20eKV_rcdiBsyXzE5fNw4L3s9aAal5K8QRVV8BJf/s1600/tumblr_lenig2gJBM1qg3debo1_1280.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy07dk4mfHBy1XU2AClp00qJij0wb4rXSFOLcISyy_1U-KqUQGoC4ee3FnVY8m-dUG_nfEdOrUCaJfceHYiTa5dMHtOQUmPW7qZLxq20eKV_rcdiBsyXzE5fNw4L3s9aAal5K8QRVV8BJf/s400/tumblr_lenig2gJBM1qg3debo1_1280.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560504473437408802" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Crop from a <a href="http://competitions.houseofillustration.org.uk/folio2010/">competition entry</a> for "The Outsider", artwork in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've started a "Work in Progress" blog on <a href="http://www.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a>. The address is <a href="http://jamesreekie.tumblr.com/">www.jamesreekie.tumblr.com</a> and the aim is to post a crop or section of whatever I'm working on that day. I've been posting similar images via <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesreekie">twitter</a> from time to time but I felt I should give the images a proper home. I'll hopefully be posting daily, but many of my projects are often taken on under the terms of pesky non disclosure agreements so I obviously it won't always be possible.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'll put up a proper link on this blog later, if you want to make sure you don't miss any updates from me please do follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesreekie">twitter</a>, everything get's a link there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-29974500539378952672010-12-20T11:53:00.006+00:002010-12-20T12:06:45.182+00:00Sketchbooks 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogPUNOgZYO4N9OMyooIsGZE6eHNHLVUK3_P3KxOJScmJnudT_slOLLE3jWg8Pn48iZSlzaJc_JGtM-D_-QH6eBA1BBEOMW7H6CHibGuhkOA0Vdv2cn-ALp2JcWrcZ-unsh4Yja9wFS5ZB/s1600/Head-shot-shadow.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogPUNOgZYO4N9OMyooIsGZE6eHNHLVUK3_P3KxOJScmJnudT_slOLLE3jWg8Pn48iZSlzaJc_JGtM-D_-QH6eBA1BBEOMW7H6CHibGuhkOA0Vdv2cn-ALp2JcWrcZ-unsh4Yja9wFS5ZB/s400/Head-shot-shadow.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731866492741554" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sketchbook image, ink on paper</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">In this update, my last post for 2010, I thought it would be a good opportunity to show some of my sketchbook doodles for the year. I'm not a prolific doodler, I tend to draw with my mood more than out of habit these days, probably due to drawing all day for work.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These sketches come from magazines that my <a href="http://twitter.com/birderiebirdie">magazine designer better half</a> has all over the house. Some are from adverts, some from fashion pages, and thusly much apologies to the copyright holders. These were just done for fun.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All ink on paper over blue pencil which was removed when I scanned them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(Click image to enlarge)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghAg7MPWuOE0luDx6E8_s0A8NDatkfI7fsuKTi9F5a6ZtL0WlLCXq2wOhPmpAt2ZF2S2MGHwhWqqv4QVUHWkwoCozuqt7887qG7kdPwS68DNQOfQemeXsDhpPXlHTkXzRjRBsmTfW0XS5/s1600/Sheet-01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghAg7MPWuOE0luDx6E8_s0A8NDatkfI7fsuKTi9F5a6ZtL0WlLCXq2wOhPmpAt2ZF2S2MGHwhWqqv4QVUHWkwoCozuqt7887qG7kdPwS68DNQOfQemeXsDhpPXlHTkXzRjRBsmTfW0XS5/s400/Sheet-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731866233513250" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JS0Ri1xdUWNfEc7mnghM-xZdA0kcs9C3ajhTeBFzks3pgYh0-yp7ekrSRSbAkxdM00ZR4KReQCTK97nOj3yOPcgqvMcMgotiAh1NLMkCc6JFOb-PG_5Vq2GjcqpauNnSWiw8bVdalo6H/s1600/Sheet-02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JS0Ri1xdUWNfEc7mnghM-xZdA0kcs9C3ajhTeBFzks3pgYh0-yp7ekrSRSbAkxdM00ZR4KReQCTK97nOj3yOPcgqvMcMgotiAh1NLMkCc6JFOb-PG_5Vq2GjcqpauNnSWiw8bVdalo6H/s400/Sheet-02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731730317434274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukUKWgWpQmny4b9j73c6qU3M-BkAZb_19MprABnHsnwJaBmXYl-St0A0cxd23S2zChNeNJ1K33dI6WLRf5BVrg4tDkJXE1qqb2LU-k2g49PHkcqmKrZl-GWfUMcSUA5Lnf3N-SDJh1tv9/s1600/Sheet-03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukUKWgWpQmny4b9j73c6qU3M-BkAZb_19MprABnHsnwJaBmXYl-St0A0cxd23S2zChNeNJ1K33dI6WLRf5BVrg4tDkJXE1qqb2LU-k2g49PHkcqmKrZl-GWfUMcSUA5Lnf3N-SDJh1tv9/s400/Sheet-03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731728236045106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3JB1FGzRYQq9XT_ahmw0gdEjxbkM1WgzHGcstyGg4067S31HBw2jvo8-jfAi7CbynYlssSgdRZEOFGAZDkqRmMORR5Ql2XtN2EIBOXEgqC9SY_ISmUnciH9M4yp8tWDUM8ChRB7KukBd/s1600/Sheet-04.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3JB1FGzRYQq9XT_ahmw0gdEjxbkM1WgzHGcstyGg4067S31HBw2jvo8-jfAi7CbynYlssSgdRZEOFGAZDkqRmMORR5Ql2XtN2EIBOXEgqC9SY_ISmUnciH9M4yp8tWDUM8ChRB7KukBd/s400/Sheet-04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731720437258594" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfEjo9ZZHVd3Zsik9Y66G1y16cv5b0YNLYD-4FGL4GcGtslmM2vTLYtITkx68IOX0_rvPsRG0UdUNSA15K3A1mD432op3fMqw6KEXsO62Ewa4pij7mSr48uCKUbpCjImsUjh2thrPSb1Z/s1600/Sheet-05.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfEjo9ZZHVd3Zsik9Y66G1y16cv5b0YNLYD-4FGL4GcGtslmM2vTLYtITkx68IOX0_rvPsRG0UdUNSA15K3A1mD432op3fMqw6KEXsO62Ewa4pij7mSr48uCKUbpCjImsUjh2thrPSb1Z/s400/Sheet-05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731721464634402" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmslHlPQP5t-CS7Ma4pqsRzsVggXevmIkl6DCpizW8CQW3MfPvZP40wtQTcTb1MGsI6xwSsiPql32vKRBuiCzjh4-s7DbBUR6EiDMz8-9RU-fsjj5ItNJmH827vqQL3OSc2hdDLnnNmZZ/s1600/Big-pattern-dress.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmslHlPQP5t-CS7Ma4pqsRzsVggXevmIkl6DCpizW8CQW3MfPvZP40wtQTcTb1MGsI6xwSsiPql32vKRBuiCzjh4-s7DbBUR6EiDMz8-9RU-fsjj5ItNJmH827vqQL3OSc2hdDLnnNmZZ/s400/Big-pattern-dress.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552731716795407842" /></a>Have a fantastic Christmas and New Year and here's to a prosperous and exciting 2011!Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-45149981478102391302010-12-13T10:15:00.004+00:002010-12-13T10:21:23.684+00:00Winter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBEWwr2Xf2zzprUDaLIace2jf8G7YsJgY1OmKUz5e-cCG5tTh90L7nh-U-FFahfo5ZJ97dIsxucw-zgDh9fkIY2E8MImAE8H4mXUQ0nWBYCXvIzcfLdBlAi4rqOImULh04EnxmgXaEjOy/s1600/Snow-Mansion-Couple.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBEWwr2Xf2zzprUDaLIace2jf8G7YsJgY1OmKUz5e-cCG5tTh90L7nh-U-FFahfo5ZJ97dIsxucw-zgDh9fkIY2E8MImAE8H4mXUQ0nWBYCXvIzcfLdBlAi4rqOImULh04EnxmgXaEjOy/s400/Snow-Mansion-Couple.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550108487337185218" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Winter", line art in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Manga</span> Studio, colour in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Photoshop</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I needed something snowy and seasonal to add to the header on my site so in between projects I knocked up the the above image. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-82833185250579907012010-12-06T07:53:00.005+00:002010-12-06T08:34:27.255+00:00The Truth About Dinosaurs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOUwL-h3TOUM6CUPGRm9r9uxu7mcLJALIc4-z8EO0cMkWaK3gma_o2to2RTu7pDtZF7mtiEmn5wJOTKasbcLUerk5hTukirVIIA4NR9_E08ITp6ItFWQP4tr3xNY9z4DQC2RYMd6BQwm4/s1600/Dino-DPS-Opener.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOUwL-h3TOUM6CUPGRm9r9uxu7mcLJALIc4-z8EO0cMkWaK3gma_o2to2RTu7pDtZF7mtiEmn5wJOTKasbcLUerk5hTukirVIIA4NR9_E08ITp6ItFWQP4tr3xNY9z4DQC2RYMd6BQwm4/s400/Dino-DPS-Opener.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475373105175858" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Crop from Dino DPS, Line art in Manga Studio, Colour in Photoshop</i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was commissioned by <a href="http://www.bbcfocusmagazine.com/">BBC Focus magazine</a> to illustrate an article for the December issue on the changing nature of the "truth" about dinosaurs. As the article says, "These days barely a month goes by without a fossil find or new research challenging our assumptions about how dinosaurs lived."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the opening double page spread the art editor suggested a drawing of the main hall of the Natural History Museum in London with the addition of a giant pair of pterodactyl wings on the large Diplodocus skeleton. Completely in love with this idea, and secretly hoping that one day a fossil is found that supports this, I was more than happy to oblige! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWFZ4_yVncGJym1AkMkIrbjK6LO_PsGp9DkAQIYb7EBtoBXZUL5kmWQJ_aYDU0GSvJBgwn8yWMNj6DzTeChLkhHjuOiKP5pxKEiEDbHsN3G4hKVwEpSiR-YbZh7Dp_4v4eFoYafhymmkd/s1600/Dino-DPS-Col-V1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWFZ4_yVncGJym1AkMkIrbjK6LO_PsGp9DkAQIYb7EBtoBXZUL5kmWQJ_aYDU0GSvJBgwn8yWMNj6DzTeChLkhHjuOiKP5pxKEiEDbHsN3G4hKVwEpSiR-YbZh7Dp_4v4eFoYafhymmkd/s400/Dino-DPS-Col-V1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475249834914738" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dino DPS rough sketch, artwork in Manga Studi</i>o. <i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbCMEMwetGNQTUhAsUnDpS8n1_HoIlpKJhQhTm-IplrStMv47XZd3HHdtAuw6gHVH45sqirpAUli6S7UslChG-B2A_tp4fRUSFo1DSY9f24lAFYxA1Nb756eDa5VtKNV6APcESARbSw4a/s1600/Dino-DPS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbCMEMwetGNQTUhAsUnDpS8n1_HoIlpKJhQhTm-IplrStMv47XZd3HHdtAuw6gHVH45sqirpAUli6S7UslChG-B2A_tp4fRUSFo1DSY9f24lAFYxA1Nb756eDa5VtKNV6APcESARbSw4a/s400/Dino-DPS.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475248862062770" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dino DPS final art, line art and colour in Manga Studio with some colour overlays in Photoshop.</i> <i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Accompanying the article I was also asked to create 4 half page illustrations. This image was to illustrate the idea that "until this year palaeontologists had no clear-cut evidence for the colour of dinosaurs. Illustrators made educated guesses, basing their pallets on what they know of colour in modern animals." I decided to show an adventurous illustrator painting "from life".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLd74iDmOY-eh0Lcbq79U14qgZ7gsU2FQlqqMHWskD85-TcLkLY21QcUNj0-HCnnfH0eJrIxVUlxpYWyl1TxxwqYpZ9LE9MkjR97b8o0QcORuW1f5FmOVxdDBPQEasn4R-045-0ZHOf09M/s1600/Dino-True-Colours.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLd74iDmOY-eh0Lcbq79U14qgZ7gsU2FQlqqMHWskD85-TcLkLY21QcUNj0-HCnnfH0eJrIxVUlxpYWyl1TxxwqYpZ9LE9MkjR97b8o0QcORuW1f5FmOVxdDBPQEasn4R-045-0ZHOf09M/s400/Dino-True-Colours.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475243927333250" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"True Colours" rough, artwork created in Manga Studio. </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMfFGKtbPlg3X6beK02Si9e3VtwK5KY8H1mcEoK5YO1_42zawT4xt5hgw44-KSriDa-u9fE_Q5EYR4ZrZnXzWlGN1669kS6nxnVXXLfxZ4XzFQlFDa1sxyMpEPQmaBsnvhuZyzAmKBwIO/s1600/Dino_04.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMfFGKtbPlg3X6beK02Si9e3VtwK5KY8H1mcEoK5YO1_42zawT4xt5hgw44-KSriDa-u9fE_Q5EYR4ZrZnXzWlGN1669kS6nxnVXXLfxZ4XzFQlFDa1sxyMpEPQmaBsnvhuZyzAmKBwIO/s400/Dino_04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475240752364866" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"True Colours" final art, line art and colour in Manga Studio with some colour overlays in Photoshop.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">"Think dinosaurs and you’ll likely conjure images of vast creatures tramping through sweltering swamps or fetid forests. But palaeontologists working in Alaska and Antarctica have shown that dinosaurs survived in far colder conditions than previously thought, with some species able to thrive amidst snow and ice."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4Cq2O4XlNt1TZnwgpvTDGVWpZpKAr91HKgAMJTkYks7IgNQy-DPGyq56vIgcTZAvzUk15rKKp1T0f7t7EHoVEG249JODNvu9Ox2b7ss95zLfT17XJCXvUNhvjG6bo3NXHExW7gKtfQNs/s1600/Dino-On-Ice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4Cq2O4XlNt1TZnwgpvTDGVWpZpKAr91HKgAMJTkYks7IgNQy-DPGyq56vIgcTZAvzUk15rKKp1T0f7t7EHoVEG249JODNvu9Ox2b7ss95zLfT17XJCXvUNhvjG6bo3NXHExW7gKtfQNs/s400/Dino-On-Ice.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547475237314460866" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Dinos on Ice" rough, artwork created in Manga Studio.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> </span></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7lk3HGhaJMB5BTsF4EsnA9P3XyDdncHOfUqdf6H-1C4-QeqcUysuFpuLgHFOCiVZKAoZDE59CSTUv6EkFZb4txOr5kthmBHmMK6Sz1NnP8RV376LiHMZnCAePghCtdRgG3it6uRJZjIh/s1600/Dino_02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7lk3HGhaJMB5BTsF4EsnA9P3XyDdncHOfUqdf6H-1C4-QeqcUysuFpuLgHFOCiVZKAoZDE59CSTUv6EkFZb4txOr5kthmBHmMK6Sz1NnP8RV376LiHMZnCAePghCtdRgG3it6uRJZjIh/s400/Dino_02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547474810152298130" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Dinos on Ice" final art, line art and colour in Manga Studio with some colour overlays in Photoshop.</i> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></div></i><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2SJ2xiGLW1wMQ-Q5DZ8QjEm21lsFWfqb4IViTK2MAqfRLmsH9q6nzmGoNTufiPAymE29y_RKf2ZVmWETFWPLKadBSZjUrKveCj7KHzYxbTlfqxlLTDBKiGt-yEqyfDZhqXkMJZtzCRuX/s1600/Dino-Bronto.jpg"></a></div><div>It also turns out that there's no such thing as a Bronotsaurus. The palaeontologist who discovered it, Othniel Charles Marsh, essentially mixed up the bones of another dinosaur, Apatosaurus ajax, which he also discovered, and thought he'd found a new species. Brontosaurus, being much more fun to pronounce has lived on in the public consciousness.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2SJ2xiGLW1wMQ-Q5DZ8QjEm21lsFWfqb4IViTK2MAqfRLmsH9q6nzmGoNTufiPAymE29y_RKf2ZVmWETFWPLKadBSZjUrKveCj7KHzYxbTlfqxlLTDBKiGt-yEqyfDZhqXkMJZtzCRuX/s1600/Dino-Bronto.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2SJ2xiGLW1wMQ-Q5DZ8QjEm21lsFWfqb4IViTK2MAqfRLmsH9q6nzmGoNTufiPAymE29y_RKf2ZVmWETFWPLKadBSZjUrKveCj7KHzYxbTlfqxlLTDBKiGt-yEqyfDZhqXkMJZtzCRuX/s400/Dino-Bronto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547474802734881954" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Mistaken Identity" rough,</i> <i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>artwork created in Manga Studio.</i></span></div></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></i></span></div></i></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i></span></div></i></span></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjKB4VaEcXvlFD_yswvOE3dKiL4pKJME_kS-MzLGZGjb7JLb6GL3KpKAAMZ1TqnHAS19H09WiiRpR6yjUxU0J9KDjgnv6iT86Dq5C67d9XrWWarTrkghsfdrIz-8DiIHb44ZzNIsOEiyX/s1600/Dino_03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjKB4VaEcXvlFD_yswvOE3dKiL4pKJME_kS-MzLGZGjb7JLb6GL3KpKAAMZ1TqnHAS19H09WiiRpR6yjUxU0J9KDjgnv6iT86Dq5C67d9XrWWarTrkghsfdrIz-8DiIHb44ZzNIsOEiyX/s400/Dino_03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547474795841669554" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Mistaken Identity</i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>" final art, line art and colour in Manga Studio.</i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></div></i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><br /></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">"They look like weapons, but many of the dinosaurs’ most impressive horns, plates and spikes may have been used more for display than destruction."</span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXpLhvk1FXvZM5bIH1pUCyktwLLecT4tpxKE6hoOKX1g-wRqfZnuueAIBt4CBT6zyJgSljPdYAWzbper0FYyCEq2-GxcEpGa66_Q0HaYP3AxsLENmYJb3ALG8PHwD4UMF4L7lTSNbYzl6/s1600/Dino-Display.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXpLhvk1FXvZM5bIH1pUCyktwLLecT4tpxKE6hoOKX1g-wRqfZnuueAIBt4CBT6zyJgSljPdYAWzbper0FYyCEq2-GxcEpGa66_Q0HaYP3AxsLENmYJb3ALG8PHwD4UMF4L7lTSNbYzl6/s400/Dino-Display.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547474792806777778" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Display not destruction" rough,</i> <i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>artwork created in Manga Studio.</i></span></div></i></span></div></i><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i></span></div></i></span></div></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i></span></div></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i></span></div></i></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwe7SgKXKPWDg2djl9dD4U4TW8drsR7D6Dzy0PcL_QenRq02VNrPCVj-3HL2i6AM7c_AgAyUzNwPyXEgKAzPBhKmbbKM-aDpPp0p2G8SGZyYHpmzOUyslPja5JQ3BlbHrsS3_nFkMhlmD/s1600/Dino_05.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwe7SgKXKPWDg2djl9dD4U4TW8drsR7D6Dzy0PcL_QenRq02VNrPCVj-3HL2i6AM7c_AgAyUzNwPyXEgKAzPBhKmbbKM-aDpPp0p2G8SGZyYHpmzOUyslPja5JQ3BlbHrsS3_nFkMhlmD/s400/Dino_05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547474789375703282" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Display not destruction</i></span></div></i></span>" final art, line art and colour in Manga Studio. </i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i> </i><i><b>Click to enlarge</b></i>.<i> </i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div></i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">The magazine's in the shops now, so please do go pick up a copy to read the full story and all the other great features. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Thanks for reading and have a great week!</span></div></div></i></div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-79650443511488689072010-11-29T08:12:00.002+00:002010-11-29T08:22:53.674+00:00IMD: Acheron hub<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3eiRF9OqvixwQU80Mamn2tpVCl34tND-uWCQxMGntRo3UpGcfxFN_lg7xSkdop6cmhUjBrZtY09mUVeHf7Jvs_x02ogUby9XqTCbk1sxai7V2AMh-KOTDe-LiknrRWsO_JB0XOh3PDis/s1600/IMD_CH01_18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3eiRF9OqvixwQU80Mamn2tpVCl34tND-uWCQxMGntRo3UpGcfxFN_lg7xSkdop6cmhUjBrZtY09mUVeHf7Jvs_x02ogUby9XqTCbk1sxai7V2AMh-KOTDe-LiknrRWsO_JB0XOh3PDis/s400/IMD_CH01_18.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544882114173980306" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Acheron hub" splash page from "The Ionmonger's Daughter". Line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Apologies for the lack of weekly posting but I have been very busy with work that, due to pesky non disclosure agreements, I can't show until they are published. In the meantime I thought I'd post another image from the new project I'm working on, "The Ionmonger's Daughter". This is a street scene from a spaceport/market/city called "Acheron hub". </div><div> </div><div>Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-58146916417158743972010-11-08T08:06:00.003+00:002010-11-08T08:14:13.970+00:00The Ionmonger's Daughter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio80jNkttj6nrfs4xozVGceY7X0fB6p1KxnmxyeHYwkatmPphl42WUcohbqom9a2UEIb1sI_0vcKM53pT9hs5CTlhiGSP3A2VNSOgopMm2HuVcBTpAO_m9ICNKFV6C2YuIbZ26ik8oVcQY/s1600/IMD_page01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio80jNkttj6nrfs4xozVGceY7X0fB6p1KxnmxyeHYwkatmPphl42WUcohbqom9a2UEIb1sI_0vcKM53pT9hs5CTlhiGSP3A2VNSOgopMm2HuVcBTpAO_m9ICNKFV6C2YuIbZ26ik8oVcQY/s400/IMD_page01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537087394535981970" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Page art detail from "The Ionmonger's Daughter" written by Matt Gibbs. Line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In between all the other things I'm involved in, I've been drawing some bits and pieces for a new graphic novel project, The Ionmonger's Daughter, written by the fantastic <a href="http://twitter.com/matthewgibbs">Matt Gibbs</a>. More details to follow soon.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-70389739193877746032010-10-12T11:55:00.002+00:002010-10-12T11:58:57.677+00:00Autumn<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheoCWpahS9Gx5ygaTgUqcrzW9RYX9DiecHgK9mmORWhb6B6whooosuUHUOnpwDwo7hF-rZspi2fm6SfchkMG-8h9-z2c1hEY09AlLJvH4KkUy2ch8kKxWZEVFPhwkKPqmPaOM-oyivjfl/s1600/MAc-Wind.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheoCWpahS9Gx5ygaTgUqcrzW9RYX9DiecHgK9mmORWhb6B6whooosuUHUOnpwDwo7hF-rZspi2fm6SfchkMG-8h9-z2c1hEY09AlLJvH4KkUy2ch8kKxWZEVFPhwkKPqmPaOM-oyivjfl/s400/MAc-Wind.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527127018839844786" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Autumn" created in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since Autumn appears to have arrived in London I thought I'd post a recent image I created for a self promotional postcard that I sent out a few weeks ago.</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-87791313342313074442010-10-11T07:11:00.002+00:002010-10-11T07:15:34.548+00:00Post Modern<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxzr3jbZzK9Oe_f1QH1-VskbG8UzenvPXuUkSKucgJjfa3fZDTWTf-JkYODjGpMt67CFQk94V9zptoE1DsOL9RAcxNi24K182opL6b8_dlgxI_vQjCSJ6OgRVYGKfMf-1wZkaSa7_1Mdp/s1600/Frank-Reading-comic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxzr3jbZzK9Oe_f1QH1-VskbG8UzenvPXuUkSKucgJjfa3fZDTWTf-JkYODjGpMt67CFQk94V9zptoE1DsOL9RAcxNi24K182opL6b8_dlgxI_vQjCSJ6OgRVYGKfMf-1wZkaSa7_1Mdp/s400/Frank-Reading-comic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526682914096051106" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Panel art from "The Ballad of Frank Sartre", Manga Studio and Photoshop</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yep, a comic book character reading a comic book that we're about tell the story of within our comic book. It's all getting a bit... arty.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-12782057763348539812010-10-05T08:12:00.002+00:002010-10-05T08:17:47.443+00:00Rome<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGjeWIbvcASsgbEGB47GcaSR3OZM0dP8DgQBg9O_8GODSM8y7HEAe2RxehB5HSUdv1k_9H7HtbI5tanEBLNfZs96wPSDtEw2OOr_yH-cB3wGAXB5rHHH2ul7VbogFLCXi5icPJqH71v-B/s1600/Statue.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGjeWIbvcASsgbEGB47GcaSR3OZM0dP8DgQBg9O_8GODSM8y7HEAe2RxehB5HSUdv1k_9H7HtbI5tanEBLNfZs96wPSDtEw2OOr_yH-cB3wGAXB5rHHH2ul7VbogFLCXi5icPJqH71v-B/s400/Statue.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524472127775052306" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Statue", ink on paper</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic9uxiSaVVgfbl0dKG7zBIcpp-qVLEey8DJl-zWx-0PSZPlZ7YOYn_JHi1C1UI9qV5GXE-OgGL8zXDQdVg0TzLp15fRKZa_ZP0BeZJSvVO8zeq8Xhlz1TkLJP7GcdB7BsvOvzceIkuNC2_/s1600/Hotel_view.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic9uxiSaVVgfbl0dKG7zBIcpp-qVLEey8DJl-zWx-0PSZPlZ7YOYn_JHi1C1UI9qV5GXE-OgGL8zXDQdVg0TzLp15fRKZa_ZP0BeZJSvVO8zeq8Xhlz1TkLJP7GcdB7BsvOvzceIkuNC2_/s400/Hotel_view.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524472125356205730" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Rome, Northern Suburbs", ink on paper</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></div></i><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNULXs-GsyxARJuvNg7D0v_gMPDgo6hCyFo7ThVNCOSC28wbOGmQTxpAOPL0tXX-e5CnzyX_9ivgbx2nlMPtvN0YoLl5RN-TCyApSeS7w4zRicXUovfmXCV7u7qWMbd3KccXfUU3bOepf/s1600/Arch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNULXs-GsyxARJuvNg7D0v_gMPDgo6hCyFo7ThVNCOSC28wbOGmQTxpAOPL0tXX-e5CnzyX_9ivgbx2nlMPtvN0YoLl5RN-TCyApSeS7w4zRicXUovfmXCV7u7qWMbd3KccXfUU3bOepf/s400/Arch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524472112640277570" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>"Colosseum Arch", ink on paper</i></span></div></i><div><br /></div><div>I'm not much of a location sketcher but as an artist you can't really go to Rome and not do some drawing!<div><br /></div><div>Have a great week!<br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-76519634162618242492010-09-27T10:04:00.002+00:002010-09-27T10:07:14.113+00:00Lights, Camera, Action<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReuGmSXuxSVFeVYzvd99LiVymPrk_VJDtCbPVNaSgjB9P4FNfy4rewG4jO8NkPLjc82cQxqG8GHeBX6Qh5knxSW0Na8zmh4l_bqu0PrhpsGBF3yae7Y9BFu-tDAm1WBL-YYRe8eHEbVGy/s1600/Lights_camera.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReuGmSXuxSVFeVYzvd99LiVymPrk_VJDtCbPVNaSgjB9P4FNfy4rewG4jO8NkPLjc82cQxqG8GHeBX6Qh5knxSW0Na8zmh4l_bqu0PrhpsGBF3yae7Y9BFu-tDAm1WBL-YYRe8eHEbVGy/s400/Lights_camera.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521532194862598098" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Panel detail from "The Ballad of Frank Sartre", linework in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm busily preparing the sets, sewing costumes and casting extras. More news on this project soon.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005372378165351038.post-16562228008122170832010-09-20T08:19:00.002+00:002010-09-20T08:23:57.032+00:00Eagle T Shirt Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RbeGnZs8GXajToQcAuh9qggVyIv8IUVcNsQLmwAoQfuPwNvR6je0-YOlf8Ee6GqvLTgn0vDsxsthwZD_Mm0hewu9CYMPcGJCCnihxgfCkG9FokQK0yquNZBqcNr1FkaxuOul1UBKbtF1/s1600/400-Blows.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RbeGnZs8GXajToQcAuh9qggVyIv8IUVcNsQLmwAoQfuPwNvR6je0-YOlf8Ee6GqvLTgn0vDsxsthwZD_Mm0hewu9CYMPcGJCCnihxgfCkG9FokQK0yquNZBqcNr1FkaxuOul1UBKbtF1/s400/400-Blows.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518907700970488162" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Eagle" Shirt design, Line art created in Manga Studio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">This illustration is the centre piece for a T shirt design for a character to wear in a comic book that I'm working on. It'll probably only ever been seen about 2 cm square. I guess I got a bit carried away with it!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great week!</div>Reekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324430954637046292noreply@blogger.com