Postoberfest Year 2

So last year I made a very VERY half assed attempt at posting everyday of October, why? Because I am mental.

SO I am not doing that this year, screw it, but I'm gonna try and post a few times a week to get back in the habit ) September was quiet)

I started Uni like a week or two ago, its pretty amazing. Good flatmates, good course, lots and lots of booze. And for the first day of like, lessons we had to do a self portrait type thing that said something about who we are.  Which of course, meant I panicked about it and made this the night before it was due. That is true discipline right there. Its really just me doodling (it is also my new theme)

Just a doodle

Because I'm flicking though my doodle folder and some of them have colour

Graphic Design Piece

So for whatever reason I had not yet uploaded his stuff on here, which is weird because I usually

upload my final pieces from college, or I did that one time last year.

So after re-reading the narrative portion of my final piece, I decided it was a load of poop.

So you can look at the pictures, yay.

This was the inner title in the booky-wook I made

and interiors...

SO basically, it follows the character of the Hunter Daughter, whose job is to clear the Dark Wood of any ghouls and goblins that may decide to move in.

It's odd in that i don't 100% hate it, it's all mixed media, the tree's were all done in water colour pencils and scanned in for placing, and all the characters were drawn traditionally and digitally coloured and lastly all the floors, rocks and the fire in the third panel were digitally done, though I have since forgotten how to shade entirely.

Bonus; individual pages that in theory you can click on and enlarge to get a good gander at: 

Photo Finish

Photo Finish is best Pony.

I mean she was good on the show but then I saw this:

And now I love her even more! Vhy is she so good!??!?

Also, she's getting her own blind-bag minifigure, which are hella hard to find here in the UK and I nearly managed to get one on eBay and then BAM! As the bidding rolls to a finish I COULDN'T BID!

Because I was playing Bingo and they block your coverage!

Heart Broken.

Picture perfect ponayyyyy, picture perfect pony, pony, pony, pony.

Oh and by the way, I got into uni, but Photo Finish is more important.

Cocktail Girls; Revisited

Hey! Remember those Cocktail Girls I drew like months ago?
No? Well click here, here or here to remind yourselves. Forgetful fillies!

Well anyway moving on, I quite clearly abandoned the series, why? One cannot remember but I was flicking through my rather extensive sketches folder and found...

COCKTAIL GIRL NUMBER 4!

I am pretty sure she is a Clockwork Orange, which I cannot for the life of me remember the recipe for so...
I'm going to guess! Yay!

25ml of Vodka (a good foundation for any cocktail)
then...

25ml of Malibu
OR
25ml of Archer's Peachy Stuff (I prefer this because its nice and smells nice)

then you may top up your glass with fizzy orange and ice.

Delicious, but not many people buy them

Wonder Woman

I love Wonder Woman, she's no Black Canary but I like what she stands for and I can't grasp as to why, of the 'trinity' she alone seems to be less popular, you would think that a hot battle-goddess whom hails from an island populated solely by other hot battle-goddesses, fighting mythical creatures whilst scantily clad would appeal to most readers but hey. Whatever.

I've given her a teeny bit of a redesign as I believe pants are a tad more practical for fighting monsters than knickers. I also thought this looked hella good when I was drawing it last night at 2am but my woken up eyes see it differently.

Really need to start doing more traditional work, also BONUS SKETCHES!

Really just me trying out different costumes/hair/doodling

Grr and also Argh

So, like, I've been angry quite a lot lately, which is weird because I used to just bounce between depressed and boredom like a space hopper but I've replaced in with anger and being content which is probably just as bad.

I think it's hard to draw an angry image, especially digitally because the amount of refinement that goes in so any anger that goes into a piece is eventually worked out as you calm down whilst working on it. So yeah, ranting.

Ninja GIrl Doodle

More digital work, as I'm more likely to be near my laptop to draw than I am to paper these days.

I find my biggest problem at the moment is that I'm completely useless when it comes from making a jump from rough work to a finished piece, whether working digitally or traditionally, I generally love my quick sketches and then once it comes to trying to refine them it never feels quite right, woe is me. Woe. Woe. Woe.

Another Sci-Fi Girl

Perhaps I shall draw a Sci-Fi Boy soon?

I tried adding a bit of shading this time around, been contemplating doing a short one-shot comic with lovely Sci-Fi Battle Girls as eye candy, but we shall see if the inspiration bug bites me :)

Random Sci-fi Girl

Oh boy, this blog just can't seem to keep itself updated can it? The lazy dickens.

So err, digitally drawn generic sci-fi battle girl because... I could? I dunno this isn't going to be a long post so you may as well stop reading it right now.

Stop.

Cocktail Girls: Purple Haze

I am determined that I will get all of these done, damnit.

Today'

s Cocktail Girl; Th Purple Haze:

Once again I do not like this drawing, mainly because I hate colouring. THE WORLD IS BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE!

But I do however like purple haze's they are delicious and purple.

Cocktail Girls: Black Russian

Today's Cocktail Girl is the Black Russian:

I do not like Black Russians because of the coffee tasting nastiness that it is, but its a relatively popular drink none the less.

Also not as keen on this drawing as I am the Green Devil but hey, I can't win them all.

Next Might be the Clockwork Orange if I can remember what's in it.

Cocktail Girls:- £3.40

So yeah... this is my first post in nearly 2 months, I am a dedicated and hard-working blogger its true.

Moving on, Cocktail Girls:

I am now a working girl, I work in a local bar and its fun and stuff. It provides me with enough money to fuel my budding alcohol addiction which is lovely :)

So anyway, we have like a list of cocktails for £3.40 each and ones called the Green Devil (not my favourite)

and so I drew it as a Green Devil Girl, OH HOW MY MIND WORKS

Done in Sketchbook Pro.

Black Canary!

Eeee!

Of all the things I am nerdy about, Black Canary takes the biscuit.

I can't explain why but the most likely things are probably;

-She's female, female super-heroes beat males everytime.

-She has a superpower but prefers not to use it

-She wears fishnets into battle, like a proper lady.

Totally obsessed with the character and she may be the only one who I make an active effort to read all her exploits of. Quite proud of the drawing over all, only took about an hour and the only thing I dont like is the face, colouring faces is a weakness.

Quick Sketch for Monday

Goodbye March, hello April. March as a particularly good month for my little blog of wonder, the most popular month so far and I would like to keep it up, SO KEEP READING, tell everybody about it, post it through your neighbours letterboxes and tattoo it on your forehead.

Anyway the picture is a drunken reflection everyone will have experienced, the drunken phone call. You're guarenteed to get one whenever a good friend or a particularly bad ex has had a few and you may even make a few yourself. Well I say, no more. It's embarassing for everyone involved and there's nothing worse than checking your phone when your hungover and see your inbox, Ugh

Ghosts In The Bed

So earlier today I was sort of mopey, thinking about nothing in particular and a thought crept into my mind about memories. But not your own memories, sort of like the memories of those you know. How you're not the first person to lie in someone's bed or maybe you're not the first person whose been phoned at three in the morning to calm someone down between drunken sobs.

So I got to thinking about ghosts, the memories of other people who sort of occupy where you are in the mind of someone else and you can't guarantee that when you aren't being compared to the ghosts and you sort of have to accept that the ghosts re there no matter how much it bothers you, and then I got really mopey and did the washing up and hoovered.

End insecure rantings.

Also I'm working on a new layout. Exciting stuff.

A Comic Page I'm Not Even Remotely Proud Of

I've got to admit I'm a man with a vision, and this isn't it.

So yeah, this was my first attempt to officially start off my own comic and it went horribly wrong, I know exactly why though. Digital Media, man. I cant do it. I have some little mental block that makes me want everything to look neat and tidy just cause I'm working on a computer, had I done this with a brush and ink I might have hated it a little less.

Fear The Birds, is set in a parallel Pendle County (where I live and its famous for Witches) and follows three teens on their super-natural shenanigans. I will continue working on it, I'm not gonna lie though, it'll take a while for me to get e technique I can work with decently. Need to get me some super skinny size 0 brushes and some Bristol Board. And you know, actually keep up with drawing despite never being home would help.

Witty Post Title

I fail to see why I keep trying digital stuff but whatevs bro.

I've decided I don't like the way the line work looks, I need a reyt* good brush or sly way of inking in photoshop cause there's not enough friction on my tablet for my taste. Anyway here it is, my DCUO character.

Now, I don't play games as often as I'd like to because;

A) I like to pretend I don't have time and

B) My money is better spent on comics and shoes.

BUT, DC Universe Online recently decided it would be free, and so I quickly downloaded it (and it took  like 30 hours) and am now really into it, I made like 4 heroes before I ended up with one I liked using, a Gadget powered Gal in the Tech field who uses a pole, her name however sucks: Rockette. 

But I used my good names on the previous 3 heroes who sucked.

Anyway, great game, highly recommended.

*really

Fanart Friday, Alice in Wonderland

Eeeeeeh! I missed Wednesday AND Thursday, oops. I shall make it up to you, my dear blog, by  posting three pictures today, lucky you. If I'm honest I was feeling very un-corey like on Wednesday and the feeling lingered well into yesterday but oh well.

I offer unto some Alice in Wonderland fan-art, from a page of doodles that were themed around choices Alice makes a choice between her shrinking 'drink me' potions and the 'eat me' cake which make her grow, there's probably some underlying metaphor of mood-stabilizers when it comes to those items, making you feel less and 'small' (the potions) and making you feel more confidence (the cake). ANALYSIS!

Originally a pencil sketch and then outlined with multi-liners before being very quickly coloured over in Photoshop.

I shall also add another Alice drawing;

Which was done entirely in ink, on some paper that was not the normal kind of paper I use and therefore wasn't as nice to use, thus fulfilling 2 of 3 pictures I'll post today,

Fan-Art Friday; Sucker Punch!

Hoorah for the 2nd Fan-Art Friday! This week I bring you DIGITAL fan-art (gasp, gasp, muttered whisper) and it is Babydoll, from the beautiful film Sucker Punch! (Or if you are Austrian 'Sookah Pah-nch!')

All in all I love the film, even if the plot was a little confusing at the end (and isn't cleared up in the extended version) it was all around beautiful. I drew Babydoll as she's the most recognizable characted but I was going to do Sweet Pea as her bad-assery is the bad-assiest.