I’ll be at Brisbane Supanova this weekend in Artist’s Alley table 87 ( HILT – Nick Smith) on the final leg of the Hilt 2024 tour. Come by and grab a copy, or a print, including these new Kung Fu Panda images. Hope to see you there!
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Supanova Gold Coast April 4th-6th
Looking forward to this weekend’s Supanova at the Gold Coast convention centre. You can find me at booth A29 in the Independent Press Zone of The Alley. I’ll be there selling my comic Hilt with my mate Zachary so come by, say ‘hi’ and buy!
Supanova Sketches
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- Eddard Stark
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- Punisher
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- Harley Quinn
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- Dutch
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- Deadpool
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- Blaine
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- Bat Girl
Just a few sketches I did while I was at Supanova a few weeks back.
Squat Fighter
A few fat little street fighter characters.
Lobo
Dirty pencil drawing for the Ozcomics.com Lobo Challenge this week. It was great fun letting loose and digging into the page with a soft pencil and pushing it around with a paper stump and eraser.
Iron Man
Having done some Iron Man sketching at Drink’n’Draw the other night I fancied inking and colouring him up.
Usagi Yojimbo
At last! Usagi Yojimbo makes an appearance in the OzComics.com sequential challenges. This was a quick drawing I did last night using the Brush pen and fine liner, as well as a little white paint pen, which turned out to be really useful. Not only did it white out the blacks, but I could then reapply the blacks over it and you couldn’t tell the difference. It literally behaves like liquid paper. The pose for this image is a homage to the great Toshiro Mifune and his ronin character that he played in Kirosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro. Great films. Check them out!
Dredd
Saw me some Dredd 3D last night. Gotta say I really enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised how close they kept to the comic in terms of not only the character and world, but also the bleak ethos.
Personally I liked the Judge Dredd design. The helmet was true to the icon comic version, while the rest of the costume brought the character a certain believability. It was a great proof of concept. I just hope they can get enough at the box office to do a sequel. A TV show wouldn’t go amiss actually.
If I was to have one criticism it is that Karl Urban was a little on the short side for my liking. I always think of Dredd as being tall and lean. With a more pronounced jaw also. Still, it was definitely good enough to inspire me to knock out this pic.
Thor
Created for the OzComics.com Thor challenge.
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