Sketchbook pages

Here are some recent sketches. A Palladian bridge in the grounds of Prior Park near Bath...
...and a mill in the village of Monkton Combe.

Greece sketches

I've been on holiday to the Greek islands of Samos and Fourni and did some sketching. First up is a view of the main street in Fourni followed by the rest in the order I drew them. There's quite a few so I hope your eyes don't glaze over too soon! They're drawn with a Pentel pocket pen and wash in an A5 sketchbook.

Tree sketches

Yesterday evening a friend and I hooked up with a fantastic group of local artists for a sketching session in the park. It's the truth, officer. They were most welcoming and it was inspiring to be drawing in their company. Hopefully it'll become a regular thing.
These were drawn with two Pentel pocket pens - one for the black and an empty one for the wash.

Bath sketches

I got into a bit of a pickle with the second one (hence the strange placement of the text!) but I think drawing directly in ink - rather than mapping out the view in pencil first - gives the buildings a bit more character and also forces me to look harder and hopefully generalise less.

London sketches

Painting

Here is the top half of a painting I've been working on along with a couple of close-ups. It's 24x36" and was fun!

A few...

...finished panels from A Luckless Santa Claus:

Picture

I'm illustrating an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, 'A Luckless Santa Claus'. Whilst working on a few preliminary character sketches I got a little carried away and decided to ink and colour one, making a stand-alone picture of it. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Also, Pamela Mullin at Vertigo recently posted two pages from the forthcoming graphic novel 'Dark Rain', written by Mat Johnson, drawn by me and toned by Lee Loughridge. Please click here to read 'em!