More Sketchbook stuff

Triffids - Originally they were more like orchids but I felt that was a bit too close to the 80s TV series design so I went for pitcher plants instead - pen and copic marker.

Cthonion worm - pen and copic marker

War of the Worlds (original sketch done on Drawing Day last year)

Drawing Day 2010

Here's a quick sketch of Mouse, who realised I was looking at her sleep and came and started rubbing against my drawing folder - very helpful.


Gave myself until the end of the "War of the Worlds - The Coming of the Martians" CD to draw something resembling a Martian war machine.I seem to be drawing off the ends of the paper at the moment so had to knit two pages together to make it fit.


An Elder Thing for John - damn I went off the ends of the paper again! This took one and a half Rammstein albums.
Also here is a fantastic depiction of an Elder Thing and an Elder Thing Papercraft I found when I was checking out what they were supposed to look like.

Matt Brooker (aka D'Israeli) artist of "Lazarus Churchyard", "Scarlet Traces", and 2000 AD artist has a blog post up on how he went from traditional techniques to digital.

D'Israeli tells how he went digital

If you are not familiar with his work, the complete "War of the Worlds" comic he did with Ian Edginton is available online at the Dark Horse website.