National Elf Service

Thought I'd posted this a while back. This was done in a massive whirlwind along with two other flyers last year. Seeing as I've put the others up here I suppose this should go up too.

Seems like you can't look in any direction without seeing something superhero-themed these days. Seems to remind me of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer, they've got sort of superpowered elves in those as well.

Sharks and sales

A couple of things to post here. I've finished my sharks project, another poster.

Buy it here from my shop! (There are a few Easter eggs in the background that you'll only really see if you buy it)

I took this and my other stuff to the MCM Comic Con last weekend. Weirdly the shark poster sold the best. Made a nice bit of money, not as much as before. Oh, and by the way, that massive banner behind me in the photo fell on me on the first day.

Herne Begins

Bit of drawing going on here, kinda similar to The Raedwald thing I did a while back but a bit more fictional. It started with an idea to draw a centurion..then I think listening to the latest Mike Oldfield album got in there somewhere as well. The cover's got a guy with a stag on it. (thought I'd better credit Rupert Lloyd at Diablo Pixels for it..should be good)

So yeah, it ended up not being a centurion, but a legionnaire and then it seemed a bit odd for this deer and this roman to be hanging around together so I had this idea that he'd gone native during some campaign. He sticks a couple of antlers on his helmet, fashions a weird staff and starts the Herne the hunter myth.

Sharks so far

It's been a while since I posted anything and I don't think it's a good idea to keep projects 'secret' until they're finished. It's not like there's some army of adoring fans waiting on my every post.

So, I've gone from prehistoric things to planets to..sharks (and other similar things).

From the top left: Whale Shark, Frilled Shark, Basking Shark, Thresher Shark, Manta Ray, Greenland Shark, Zebra Shark, Sawback Angelshark, Coral Catshark, Prickly Dogfish, Lemon Shark, Giant Freshwater Stingray, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Goblin Shark, Great White Shark, Tasseled Wobbegong and Port Jackson Shark.

Then plan is to do as many as I can before the next MCM Comic Con and then put them all in a big poster. That's the plan at least...

Roll up roll up!

Well, here it is people. My Etsy shop is finally open. Click here to go straight to it.

Alternatively here's what I've got up there.

My trusty old dinosaur alphabet

Buy it here!

My solar system poster

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Timeline

Buy it here!

Holst's Solar system

Buy it here!

See ya later!

"By the Solstar Order!"

I've had a bit of a comic renaissance over the past couple of years. I started getting Howard the Duck primarily for the ridiculousness of it and also to sort of promote one of the weirdest Marvel characters. I also started reading a comic called Age of Reptiles by Ricardo Delgado which, of course, was about dinosaurs.

I lost interest in Howard after issue 8 I think and Age of Reptiles was only a short run. I thought that was the end of my comic-buying. Then I happened upon the cover for issue 1 of Rom Spaceknight...I know, I had never heard of it too.

Turns out this is about a space-travelling crusader trying to stamp out these aliens called dire wraiths. It's not all that bad. Imagine a sort of extremely noble medievalish iron man fighting horde after horde of blobby Thing creatures that can masquerade as humans. He's got a pretty weird history and has teamed up with the X Men and Transformers over the years,  io9 did quite a good article on him a while back.

Anyway, I got a bit inspired so here's some shameless fanart of Rom doing battle with some dire wraiths.

Sickosaurus

I wouldn't put something up here as small as this, but it's been a while since I posted anything on here. Gotta keep up with the posts!

My lovely lady has a 4  year old nephew and he's broken his arm, it's in a big cast and everything. She asked me to put a dino in his get well card, thought I'd get out the watercolours for it. Been a little while. I was hampered a bit by the fact that it was embossed on the other side with construction vehicles.

Anyway, thought I'd make it a T Rex with a tiny broken arm.