BIOHAZARD

I was a huge fan of the Resident Evil franchise right from the very first time I saw a PC demo of the original game. I hated the live-action Paul Anderson films, even as stand alone movies they were appalling (Nemesis crying?! WTF!) but the games, comics, books and even the CGI movie were gold to me so here's a few of my Resident Evil related drawings from a few years back!

The Blues, They Run The Game

Sometimes I feel the need to animate something. The problem is, I'm not a writer and I don't have many good ideas. More often than not I opt for creating a music video. I'm a big fan of old folk singer Jackson C. Frank and Blues Run The Game is one of my favorite songs, so naturally I selected it for an animated film. I didn't get very far, just these few character concepts for the man himself... But I never really settled for them and didn't believe I could fill the length of the song with anything good.

The same happened again with The Cure's 'Burn' for the film The Crow. I loved the book, and share that feeling with the first movie. So of course it inspired these drawings for yet another abandoned music video...

Here's the 2 seconds of animation I actually got around to (story-boarded above).

RIP Grandad Steve - I love you x 

Another ghost story...

Here's a sketch I did late one night, up watching shows on the paranormal.
This particular night, the story focused on artist Robert Eugene Otto who was given a doll as a child that was supposedly cursed or possessed.

Neighbors claimed to see the doll moving from window to window when the family was out. The Otto family swore that sometimes the doll would emit a terrifying giggle and that they caught glimpses of it running from room to room. In the night Eugene would scream, and when his parents ran to the room they would find furniture knocked over and Eugene in bed, looking incredibly scared, telling them that "Robert did it!".


So here's my quick sketch of 'Robert the doll'. At the time I was fascinated by the story, but having been unable to actually find any real information on Robert Eugene Otto or anything other than the doll story I'm quick to say it is pure myth,


Text taken from 'Robert the Doll' - Wiki (Link).

Just another random mess!

I don't know why I'm sticking these all in one post, I guess just to get them out of the way... Plus it'd be a shame not to share, wouldn't it?

Starting with the Batman above, if you aspire to be a comic book artist, it should come as no surprise that one of your biggest influences be Jim Lee - there's a reason he's one of the best!

A fan of Cowboy Bebop I attempted to draw the show's main character Spike Spiegal.

Spike Spiegal

From left to right: Brooklyn (Gargoyles). Gargoyles was a damn fine show and Disney should never have closed the doors on it! Lara Croft (Tomb Raider). This is a drawing of Jill De Jong, one of the many Lara models promoting the games. Finally, an adult Prince Talmit, in the style of Akira Toriyama from one of my favorite Mega-Drive games Talmit's Adventure (or Marvel Land as it's known in America).

An a van, which my Dad asked me to do for some one at his work place, I forget why, but I don't think anything ever came of it.

'The Law'

A few years ago, 2000AD comics had a little contest to design and create a back-story for a new Judge Dredd villain. The winner would see their character appear in print. This is another case of me being young and hopeful...  I created a character who typically started out as a mad scientist and became a sort of supernatural ghost-like creature call The Elemental and started taking the law into his own hands... I can't remember the details, but I refused to submit it when I had finished most likely due to a lack of confidence.

... And the final image I would have submitted had I bothered...

Judgement Night

DragonBall Z!

I cannot begin to describe my original hatred of all things Dragonball. It all changed however after being forced by Nathan (the artist formerly known as NAJ) to sit through an episode. It was one of the better edited episodes, and needless to say; I was impressed. The quality of the animation and the designs of the characters were intriguing and completely won me over. I now call myself a fan of the franchise, and in particular of Akira Toriyama (Creator/Writer/Artist) who's style and works never cease to amaze me.

Above and below are some of the drawings I was able to dig up, and here's a link to another on my deviant-art page: Perfect Cell

Discovering Talent (Or Lack Of...)

As I've said before, growing up my dream career was that of a comic book artist and I would later realize that I wasn't at all cut out for it. I know you shouldn't give up but keep trying, but this was me at 15 having contacted a small British comic book publisher looking for a job. Not knowing my age or anything, they sent me a sample script to work off of, and away I went... The following is what came of it, and looking on it now, I don't honestly know why on Earth I thought that they would ever, in a million years accept my submission but hey, I was young.

Here is the first two completed page layouts I did but didn't have the balls to submit (probably a good thing considering the state of it).

And randomly, some sketched I did of a vampire super-hero character (Blade inspired) I found with the submission art.