Dredd story

I've just finished short Dredd story coming up sometime soon written by Alan Grant, called "The Pusher".
Here's a panel which gives away nothing of the story…I hope!

A few more, slightly older

Some more from an older sketchbook, including a drawing of Alison Moorer singing,  the opening act for her husband Steve Earle at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, January 2008.

Out and about

Sketchbook drawings from the last year or so.

More Old Life Drawings

Drawn using various media, the last two were coloured digitally.

Shaolin at rest

I worked with Geof Darrow on his comic "The Shaolin Cowboy" for a few years colouring, lettering, doing design work, basically whatever was needed that I could turn my hand to. 

Here's a lovely little quiet image of the kind Geof does so well for which I think he's rarely acknowledged as it appears he's more well known for the big crowd scenes and over-the-top comically violent images that he more often asked to draw.

I can't recall if this was a cover for a foreign edition or just a image that Geof wanted it colouring for some other purpose but here it is stripped apart to show not only the final image but the line and colour separately (because I think the colour looks funny without the line), and finally with a logo.

Seaside

Some drawings done on the beach at Robin Hood's Bay on a summer evening.

New(ish) Young Death cover

A couple of years ago I was asked to paint a new cover for a reprinting of "Young Death, Boyhood of a Superfiend", which was the first story I ever drew way back in 1990.
Here's the cover I painted from scribble to finished piece.
First the sketch

Then I drew a tighter version was then, scanned and printed it out in blue over which the final tighter pencils were drawn.

This was again scanned, the blue removed in Photoshop and the lines were coloured, as I thought it would help to make the background recede a little behind the figure and as I was painting the final version I felt a coloured line would be less harsh against the watercolour.

The line work was printed out on a hot press watercolour paper using a friend's Epson that uses waterproof pigment inks. This was spray mounted to a board to ensure it didn't cockle when I ladled on lots of water during the painting process.
The image on the left below is a scan of the finished painting, the image on the right is slightly digitally enhanced---I dropped a multiply layer over shadow areas to give them a little more bite and increase the contrast.

And the final image with a cheesy border befitting the tone of the story.