Evil Vampirical Thing (Again)

Just had a good tinker with this long neglected portfolio piece, which I'd thought was finished until looking back at it this afternoon. Lordy, what was going on with her head? Serious cranium issues there! I think sometimes I forget whether I'm supposed to be doing cartoony or realistic, and end up with these characters who are just plain misshapen. Anyway, everyone at least appears to be roughly the right shape now, and hopefully the style's a little richer than it was.

Evil Vampirical Thing

Knowing me this'll get tampered with again in a week or so, but it's pretty much finished. It's called "Vampire". That's right. "Vampire". "Wow Nelson," says you, the reader, "You surely went on an epic mental journey to arrive at that one".

After years of mucking about in Photoshop, I'm finally getting cosy with a defined set of techniques which feel just right, and that means the production of this stuff seems to be speeding up and up. Not before bloody time!

Vampire Cover / New British Comics 3

My agency suggested it might be an idea to knock up some "pretend" book covers to go in my portfolio. They're absolutely right. I really should have been doing this sort of thing - young protagonist having a to-do with very bad thing, or things (with space for letters at the top) - for ages. Here's the beginnings of a vampire themed one, vampires being good subject matter because they quite simply refuse to go out of fashion.

Speaking of covers, how about this utter beauty by Lawrence Elwick?

Can't wait to see this. Check out the NBC blog for the "tracklisting".

"The Silver Slayer"

Illustrations for a team building murder mystery event... one of those nice little surprise jobs that lands on your drawing board every now and then.