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Friday, 12 June 2020

Digital Stuff & Nonsense

Here's a quick digital painting that I did to learn the technique. It was done in Clip Studio with watercolour brushes and took roughly four hours to do. It's the first time I've used those brushes and I'm quite pleased with it. It's a steep learning curve and I'm more used to working in colour traditionally.

Next is a completed panel from Fred Fortune- City of Tomorrow. As you can see it's very dense, this isn't to visually overwhelm the reader but to reflect the intense claustrophobic nature of the future city. I think it's really effective and I'm loving doing it. For the eagle eyed amongst you in the background you will find R2D2, the Tardis and a Dalek. This one is part of the establishing scenes in the first couple of pages. Each panel is taking hours and hours to do with multiple layers and textures, greys and rain. At the time of this writing I'm doing the tone work on page 4, so it'll be a while yet before it's ready to go. Let me know what you think. I'll be posting regular updates etc so watch this space...

Just enough time to remind you that the Teespring and Redbubble stores have lots of nice Funky Punk stuff for you to enjoy so if you've got a spare few minutes to have a look I would really appreciate it. Links down below. Thanks.

Next Time- More stuff and nonsense!

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Monday, 6 April 2020

Meet The Cast #1

These cast profiles were originally in the issue #0 special preview issue of Fred Fortune (link to where you can buy it below) of the most recent series. #s 0-3 are available and issues 1-4 of Fred Fortune: Gold, a series that collects the really old strips from the early 1990s. Bear in mind that the stories that appear in 0-3 will be reworked and form part of the ongoing narrative that follows the forthcoming 'City of Tomorrow' story line, but if you don't mind spoilers please feel free. I'll be reworking most of them to fit the narrative. Also several of the stories in those issues were drawn by old Mondo* legend and all round good bloke Mr. John Woolley, who has since retired from drawing, so I will be drawing new art for all of them. This is by necessity rather than design because unfortunately I had a digital disaster a couple of years ago when the external hard drive that stored ALL of the Fred files decided to give up the ghost and break down on me and it was lost. I had one issue saved on Dropbox and a few low res back ups here and there, but not enough to continue as was originally planned. Luckily most of Fred was drawn traditionally so it has mostly been re-scanned... the oldest strips needing the most TLC to tidy up to a printable standard. Around 50 pages were lost completely, mostly ones that were digitally inked. Still have the traditional pencils though. A stupid mistake that won't be repeated. It feels like starting again from scratch so some jiggling of stories was required to get back on track. Mr Woolley will of course still be credited and will get a cheque for those stories if enough funds are raised.