If the rumours in this episode of Cattywampus are true, things are going to get a lot more interesting in Tredregyn! Whether Des will be around to see them is another matter altogether.
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2020-10-24 11:20:26 +0000 UTC View PostMore 3D modelling for Mrs Clovis' house in Steeple. Her house is a traditional Cornish cottage, I've been in a few and the key thing to remember is that after you concuss yourself the first time on a door frame, you should try not to do it again for another half an hour to avoid permanent brain d...
2020-10-23 14:08:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A few quick sketches from this week. I'm contemplating a little fill-in Charlotte Grote story for the new year. It has to be right though, it may collapse in the writing. I'm not sure what website I would put it on. I have too many URLs. Maybe I'll just watch the leaves fall instead. &c.
2020-10-17 08:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostUpcoming pages require me to draw Mrs Clovis' kitchen over and over again, sometimes from mad angles. So I modelled it in Sketchup from photo reference. It's taken me a long time to get to grips with Sketchup but with practice, I'm improving. I don't need anything perfect, just a good sense of di...
2020-10-14 17:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the final batch of Secret Sentai pages. I hope you've enjoyed this story. There's one more 22-page Steeple story to go this year, then it's back to the drawing board to work out what comes next.
2020-10-13 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI don't often share full pencils ahead of time but these give little away and feature a lot of fun faces that can never be quite as zesty in the final inks. As you can see, my pencils are still relatively loose. But in the digital age, there are plenty looser than me. I know people who can get aw...
2020-10-12 17:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostAll right shag! Don't ask me what spurred this week's bout of extra-curricular creativity. But here's a third comic in as many days that puts a lie to the notion that one needs to think carefully before sitting down to draw a world-beating sequential masterpiece.
2020-10-09 16:04:28 +0000 UTC
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The title of this post reminds me of Japanese football club, Grampus 8. The comic itself has little to do with the pride of Nagoya but they could be used together in a piece of rhyming verse. One to tuck away.
Yesterday's comic had a 45-day gestation. This one arrives like lightning. These ...
2020-10-08 14:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostI started this comic in mid-August and something went wrong, don't ask me what, I have no idea. I threw away the failed drawing on the file and redid it today, it's now 100% perfect. No one could find fault with this work.
2020-10-07 15:52:09 +0000 UTC
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Some previews are sneakier than others. With 25 days until the final issue of Wicked Things comes out, this one qualifies as "upper-medium sneaky".
And with issue 6, the first arc comes to an end. I am not sure when a second will emerge - circumstances have not been on our side in 202...
2020-10-03 08:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
John Byrne is another one of my childhood favourites - Alpha Flight, She-Hulk, X-Men (I think I read those issues in Classic X-Men). I asked my friend R Stevens who I should attempt to ink next and he suggested one of JB's "X-Men ...
2020-09-30 07:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Marc Silvestri's art on Uncanny X-Men was so exciting when I was 11. The costume designs in Inferno were racy and doubtless damaged me and many other pre-teen boys forever. These were lurid comics but within the framework of the Comics Code, a tension that I always think makes things better. I ad...
2020-09-29 08:24:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm taking a few weeks off drawing Steeple (and other projects) to rest and also do something I almost never do - practice. I've been inking some of my favourite artists to try to improve my lines, but also because it's educational and therapeutic. It's like a museum tour of their decisions.
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Sketches have been thin on the ground of late, hopefully once I get my new glasses this week, I'll be able to resume sketchbook fun. But here are some digital warmups from the last couple of months. A lot of these pages build up over the course of days before I head into drawing. If I don't warm ...
2020-09-26 14:16:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the third quarter of Steeple: Secret Sentai, exclusively for Patreon members.
2020-09-23 06:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a 6-page preview of issue 5 of Wicked Things, out on Wednesday. Written by me, art by MAX SARIN, colours by WHITNEY COGAR, letters by JIM CAMPBELL.
Lottie attempts to solve a series of casino heists, while Little Claire attempts to solve Kendo Miyamoto's attempted murder. One o...
2020-09-19 08:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostDesmond Fishman is desperate to go on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but he won't go on with Jeremy Clarkson, he says it "has to be Chris Tarrant, the original millionaire".
Few are aware of Desmond Fishman's vanity film projects, designed to paint him in the best possible light as a working classic hero. The one that came closest to general release until its eventual derailment by the Freemasons was "DUST BOWL DESMOND". Rated 'U' - unsuitable for all.
I will a...
2020-09-14 14:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about the lack of new sketches on Patreon. I do most of my sketching watching TV, but due to the onset of short-sightedness as I enter middle age, I can't look at the TV and my sketchbook at the same time. Hopefully I can fix this with either bifocals or by sitting six inches from the TV, t...
2020-09-12 08:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Nine years ago I was very well-drilled with my sketchbook work and had a go at redrawing old comics with no inks, just pencil, in my looser sketchbook style.
I managed these five wild looking recreations of some 2003/4 comics. But I could never make this style work when I applied it t...
2020-09-05 11:48:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second quarter of Steeple: Secret Sentai, exclusively for Patreon members.
2020-09-03 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a special place in my heart for my "awful" characters. Desmond Fishman is the king of awful characters, a terrible green boy in the world. Dean Thompson in Giant Days is another, repreh...
2020-08-26 14:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Wicked Things issue 4 is available in comic shops (and digitally on Comixology) on August 26th.
Lottie must prove she is m...
2020-08-22 07:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the first quarter of Secret Sentai exclusively for Patreon subscribers.
2020-08-17 11:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostAt various points I've redrawn really old comics, often to see if I could get more out of that format in the present day. For a period around 2001 I worked in a strict 4-panel A4 grid which gave you quite a lot of space to draw a low-density strip. Space I clearly thought I could use better in 20...
2020-08-14 13:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of years ago I made a series called By Night - all three volumes are currently available. By Night was produced under pressure, and remains the weirdest thing I've ever made. It featured a troll who was obsessed with the 1980s and many other beasts, all rendered with great expertise by C...
2020-08-07 16:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostDes gets deeper into the world of sea shanties, and Billie is drawn in with him. But who... is the BOSUN?
I filled in on art for Giant Days #48 alongside writing it (one of two issues of the Boom run that I drew, along with the 2018 holiday special). But my chores extended into issue 49, where I pencilled a number of the pages. Max then inked them. I think you will find the process of comparison very...
2020-07-29 15:24:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere are two comics I made about the Hulk in 2015. What you should take from these comics is that I was very upset about not being asked to be in Marvel's 'Strange Tales' anthology. They're two of my favourite comics that I've ever made, which just goes to show that Mickey The Mouse's loss was my...
2020-07-28 19:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Cattywampus, exclusively for Patreon subscribers. Billie is always trying to get people singing. And Desmond has a long musical history, with many unpleasant vanity albums recorded, so he will su...
2020-07-25 09:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post