Sweetie

Sweetie Pie - a mixture of Xara & Gimp.

The Garage - Coloured

Coloured version of the image in this post.

Jennifer

Not sure which one I prefer...
Hand drawn, then vectored in Xara.

Jennifer and Sweetie

Two very quick sketches today - the poses are based on photos, but the cartooning is all mine. I'm more pleased with Jennifer (the top one), but I that's because I've got the head wrong in "Sweetie" - perhaps I'll do the inks in Xara, and see if I can't improve them a bit (the head needs to be smaller...).

Angry...!

I'm so bloody angry with myself. For the last two days, I've been doing some pinup cartoons, and I made the same mistake that I always make - I try and make them too realistic. Whenever I do that, I get frustrated, because I can't seem to get the picture right, and it's because I'm trying to copy the picture I'm taking the pose from, rather than use it to draw my own.

I wouldn't mind, but it's the same mistake I keep making time after time. it's SO BLOODY ANNOYING!!!!

Tomorrow, I will do better...

More comic work...

Ok - first up, meet Sprocket. Primary robot on-board Lucy's ship...
He's quite a good egg, but sometimes he has attitude...

... as well as a set of rocket powered skates. He's chief cook and bottle washer too. Last, but by no means least, is Crykk and Honest Jock...
Crykk is the Engineer - someone you should have complete understanding with, which is a problem, as the only word that Crykk knows is "Crykk!" Luckily (for Him) Sprocket is fluent in Crykk. Honest Jock is the used spaceship salesman on WayPoint Station, who's primary purpose in life is to separate the Captain from his hard earned cash...

Some of these cartoons are shaded in pencil - this is deliberate, as I want to use them as a platform for futher work later on, possibly in ArtRage3... Yes, ArtRage3 is imminent, and it comes with a proper inking tool - my christmas's have all come at once...

Lucy and The Captain

These are a couple of characters I'm looking into for a new webcomic (I gave up the idea of the hamsters - not enough scope). I'm really please with these ones, although in the future, I'll probably change the black shirt - trousers for color, to improve the look. Lucy is the second in command of a trading ship, and is our much beleaguered heroine. Her Captain (name to come) is basically a well meaning, Captain Hastings type (utterly hopeless, in other words). Other characters will come soon, but as for these too, I'm happy enough with the design.