A few weeks ago Dave Gibbons gave a very insightful video streamed tutorial on how to use Manga Studio, and now you can view it in its entirety here at Smith Micro’s Manga Studio Website http://manga.smithmicro.com/webinar_video.html

If you don’t know what Manga Studio is, It’s a very powerful program for creating comic books.
I have been using it to draw my ImagineFX strips since last Novemeber!

(Below is a screen cap from Dave Gibbons tutorial!).

The Incredibly talented Drew Millward has a new website, I recommend you check it out! http://www.drewmillward.com/

The Incredibly talented Lee Carter has just started up a new blog showcasing his work, I implore you to have a look!

http://mrleecarter.blogspot.com/

I think I had “Fist of the North Star” on my brain when I drew this!

I re-watched Brad Bird’s Iron Giant movie last night, It’s one of my favorite animated films!

It took me a while to get round to watching it as I had initially written it off as your usual bad Hollywood kids movie gunk ( I think this may have been down to a bad marketing campaign by Warner Brothers which sold it as “bad Hollywood kids movie gunk”).

I ended up catching it on TV on a quiet sunday and was absolutely gobsmacked at how good this movie was. The storytelling, animation and design all amazing. It’s a real shame that very few people watched this on release this is something I would love to see on the big screen!

Anyway as you can see I have knocked out a quick doodle of said Iron Giant, though I may redo the shading as I have seem to gone a bit screen tone crazy! If I have time I may draw him a body and give him a lick of paint.

If you never seen it I suggest you go to you local video shop and rent it (amazon also have it for very cheap).

I just got Manga Studio EX4 and its very good as you can see by the results below!

I will make more posts as I get to grips with the software!

Have a look at the art work of Drew Millward, its all rather good!
I’m rather partial to this supersonic poster here, Crows feasting on eyes of a Bishop... very nice!


Any how look at his website and explore his work http://www.drewmillward.com/

I was interviewed by my friends Peter and Parusha on there site Goodness Greatness.
Go and have a look to see new pictures and abstract ramblings from my mind and mouth! And read interviews of the other folks they have interviewed, as they are very illuminating!
http://www.ohgoodnessgreatness.blogspot.com/

Self portrait done in a freeware program called pixen!
Download it here:
http://opensword.org/pixen/

I have been doodling robots, transformers mostly!

Sara ( my better half!) Has a T-shirt on Threadless, go have a look its covered in cats!

Cats are my 2nd favourite thing in the world ( Tea holds joint first place with Sara ).

Please vote for it, so it will get made into a wonderful T-shirt, and leave comments if you have them time, click on the conveniently placed cat faced link thing below this sentence to have a look and vote for the fabulous feline themed short-sleeved casual top!