Hellboy

Here is a lighting study that slowly turned into Hellboy. I have been meaning to have a good play with the amazing Kyle T Webster brushes and this is the result!

Jazz 625

Here is my contribution to the Jazz and Draw project. I was contacted to add some Jazz themed work shortly after catching Jazz 625 on BBC Four late one night. The two clicked at the right time to make the illustration.

I chose the Bill Evans Trio as my subject, not an easy task to single out one act from the show.

Here is a snazzy gif showing the process behind it.

Space Pirate Serg

Here is Space Pirate Serg, the only outlaw with enough fashion panache to match up a poncho with a beret.

Here is the process, although I lost a lot of the WIP shots for this one.

Space Pirate Bucky

Meet Bucky, the new addition to the Space Pirate crew.

I enjoyed making the t shirt design, although it's pretty lost in the full illustration. It reads: 

"New Califonia Beach twice the sun twice the fun!" 

I should have really saved the design before committing it to the t shirt really. 

Here is the process for Bucky

Waiting

Here is a piece I did using eclusively the most excellent sumi sketcher from The Stumpy Pencil blog

Apologies for not having a process for this one, I just got carried away with it!

Detective Robo

Here is a super sleuthing robot on the case

and here is the process

Space Pirate Bird

Here is Bird, the newest addition to the Space Pirate crew.

Here is the process behind making him.

Space Pirate Boves

Here is another member of the Space Pirate crew, the Napoleon complex afflicted Boves.

Here is the process for it

Space Pirate Polumo

Another Space Pirate, the rather burly Polumo. Had a lot of fun tattoing this guy.

Here is the process behind it

Space Pirate Essab

Here is another Space Pirate crew member, the kind approachable Essab.

And here is the process behind him

Space Pirate Tiam

Another Space Pirate for the crew, Tiam.

I re worked this design after looking at it again. The line work was originally drawn on paper and scanned in, and looked scruffy compared to the other pirates. Here is a comparison.

And here is the process of creating it

Arrr! Space pirates ahoy!

This is the first of a group of Space Pirates I have been working on. Colour and vibrancy was key when I made them.

Here is the first of the bunch

Here is a step by step process

Vulture

GU-Vulture-Final, originally uploaded by SteTop.

Here is the process

Hello handsome!

What a handsome fellow!

This one kind of emerged from a usual face sketch, and he went from there.

Here is the process for it

Launch

Who needs wings when you can fly!

Swept

Hi!

An illustration for Illustration friday- why did I opt for such an autumnal image in the middle of summer? Who knows!

Here are some paintings I have been beavering away at also

The Pig Butcher

Here is another Under the moon style character illustration. I have a growing number of these languishing on my hard drive in various states of completion. I'd better get going and populate this blog!