Running on EMPTY

Word of the week time, seeing as I’ve not posted anything for 3 days now. So much for that idea of posting something everyday.

This week the word was EMPTY.
Been a bit of a struggle for me this one. I had an idea early on and set about drawing something. The problem was I was drawing the component bits in isolation so when I got to stitching then together it didn’t work out as I’d planned. So had to go back to the drawing board so to speak.
Here’s a breakdown about what I mean.
Initial early sketch of the young couple, struggled with the position of girl at the start.

Wasn’t happy with how this was going so redrew.

Felt quite happy with this image at this point so proceeded to draw the psycho.

Guess what. I wasn’t happy with this either. The idea being that the psycho should be in the shadows to the right of the door being opened. The theory being I didn’t need to draw all of the chap as he’d be in shadow.

That was a bollocks idea.

Here’s a redraw of the psycho that I was quite happy with.

Happy that is until I put them both together and realised that it just doesn’t work compositionally, figuratively (the couple and the axeman look like they’re from different worlds), and there wasn’t any real space to put the speech bubbles.

By this time it’s wednesday and the deadline for the image is looming quite large.

So I did another redraw of the characters.

This time they’re all on the same sheet, which, with a bit of jiggery pokery in illustrator(thought of using photoshop, would take way too long, so I live traced some inked in versions of the above image) leads to the finished image.

And so on to Shane’s pic.

Brilliant as usual. He probably got it in one too.

*sigh*

Back under a cloud again…

Fed up at the moment. Don’t know why,
I’ve been sifting through some old drawings, things that have never it made up on here and trying to think of something for this weeks word EMPTY.
I’m going to try and put up a post every day this month. Now this is a tall order for me, but I’m going to have to dig out some older drawings and revisit them with fresher eyes.
Did this a few minutes ago. Don’t really know why…
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Halloween greetings, erm a bit late.

Halloween should last longer!
I mean we have to suffer Xmas for what seems like a bloody eternity.

12 days of Halloween now that sounds good to me…

Under your spell.

I had the Masters of Reality’s “Magical Spell” running through my head all this week. I’ve also been gawping though Ragnar’s latest volume of work Symptomatica. Which is just bloody awesome.
Which (natch) brings me to this weeks images.

Witches abundant.

Well it is Halloween time.

Shane reworked an older image from his treasure chest of wonders, which is a great idea and produced a corking fine ,nekkid lady, witch.
I went for the more fully clothed option, via the Masters and Ragnar.

Quite pleased with the result.

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A little bit of BELIEF

Word of the week time. This weeks word was BELIEF. Initially thought it was the worst of words, but I did have a few ideas in the end. For most of the week I had the Pixies “Mr. Grieves” song running around my head because of the line “I believe in Mr. Grieves”. And I did have a sketch, but it was wayyyyyyy too depressing, again the lines “but can you swing from a good rope” and “Hope everything is all right”, from the same song were the inspiration behind it.

The word BELIEF is loaded with all manner of baggage, encompassing the delusion of religions as well as the belief in things such as UFOs, the paranormal and such like. So I thought I’d have a go at fairies and also how some people believe anything that’s written down.

And didn’t finish it.

So I’m putting up the unfinished thing and one day hope to finish it.

On to Shane’s entry and he’s been in a similar situation in terms of being rushed off his arse and has also provided a work in progress sketch. It’s looking good I must say. Might make a good tattoo when it’s completed.
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Cereal Killers

I’ve had a busy week this week. I’ve been working on the illustrations for the children’s activities website as well as digging up lots of dirt in the archaeology site in Chester. I’ve had good feedback on the images so far for the website so that’s been very encouraging I’ve just got to produce a couple of group shots and I should be done for now.
Anyway onto the main reason for posting summat. It’s the word of the week thing again.
We’ve both gone for cereal based images for the word SUGAR.

Sweet.

Next weeks word is BELIEF.

Arse!

Whiter than white.

Here’s the entries for the weekly word thing. Both of us are early this week.
I initially thought STARCHED could be the worst word we’ve ever had. In the end it wasn’t that bad at all.
White shirts abound in these pics. And the occasional pun.
First off is Shane’s marvellous Shaun of the Dead piece.
Love the sense of motion in this pic.
And the blood splats.

Mmmmmmmmm, blood splats.

And then my nod to the superhero known as IRON MAN. Bad punincluded at no extra cost.

Bottomed out.

Where the F&*k did this week go?
It is with some degree of disbelief that I present for your viewing pleasure the results of the weekly word thing. The word being BOTTOM. For me it’s been frustrating, I’ve got another idea on the go but the drawings I’ve tried to do for it have not turned out so good. So that’s another idea on the backburner.
So I’ve done a quickie to get something out there.

Shane’s been thinking somewhere well out of the box and he did get a song to buzz around his head.
One that I’m not familiar with by the Kings of the Sun (Aussie rock band) and has produced his image based on a lyric from that “You’re the top of the bottom of my heart”.
It’s really lovely.

I had a quick read through of this post before I submitted it. Ye gads it was strewn with mistypes, mis-spellings and all manner of rubbishness. It was almost unreadable. So I’ve changed it so i hopefully makes some sense now.

Oh yeah and next weeks word is

STARCHED.

I think I want to cry……

Armed to the teeth

Well it was probably going to happen at some point. The meeting of minds has occured from this weeks word (ARMED).
In my previous post I mentioned the Cramps track “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” and that I’d done an image based on it. Well what do you know Shane has used the same source and has done his version from the same song.

Spoooky.

And happy coincidence. Weird how the two pictures compliment each other too.

My entry for ARMED is another go with Psychobunny. The idea of a heavily armed psychotic rabbit running amok seemed to suit the word. So here is my entry for the word.

You can keep the reward. I’d just as soon stay sick..

This image has come about out of the word of the week thing, but it’s not my entry for said project. That will be upped later. I’ve had “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” by the Cramps, running around my head all week.
This is a good thing. So I did this.
Which is a good thing also.

I had some good news this week.
I have my first paid illustration work, or rather I will be paid on completion. I’m doing some images for a children’s activities website.
I’ve designed 4 characters and I’m in the process of getting them into some images at the moment.
Feeling most chuffed about this. Yay!
Go ME!