B&W line work

I've uploaded some old (twenty years old in some cases) black and white work to my Behance pages. My interest in digital was fading briefly so thought I'd delve into the archives and see what was as far from that as possible. Check it out here or see below.

Interzone illustration

Interzone illustration

Comic pages

The guy who modelled for these pages (Carlos Rosas) went on to become an animator, working on the Lord of the Rings movies, and the guy who wrote this short strip (Nicholas Vince) was one of the Cenobites in the Hellraiser movies. Movie connections.

Mostly drawn with a toothbrush 1991

A biro scribbled Bene Gesserit from Frank Herbert's Dune

The Joker applying some lippy 2013

I still can't decide if I like clean line or brushed mess so it's a mish-mash of the two for now.

Watercolour

If anyone has noticed the background image of the header (shown cropped above, or more fully on my website) it's a negative version of the watercolour sketch below with a little more texture added). It was painted when I was deciding whether to execute an illustration traditionally for Lavie Tidhar's The Last Osama in Interzone or go digital. I went digital but did use some of this painting as a texture (see the blood splatters on the arm of the knife-wielding figure in the final illustration).

Creative Review

I've just had some work accepted onto the Creative Review feed pages for November 2012. I'm not entirely sure if that's an achievement as they may accept anything, and I'd rather be in the magazine truth be told, but it's there. The Last Osama—I thought this might generate some publicity since the author, Lavie Tidhar, just won this year's World Fantasy Award for best novel, beating Stephen King and George R.R. Martin. I also uploaded the Windsmith covers. You can leave comments on the page, or indeed here… somehow.