ok so its not the art i said, but still.

as much as i want to stick to coming on, once a week, updating with all the lovely new sketches i was meant to have done... life just doesnt work that way for me, and most likely never will.

but i will do my best to update a lot more frequently than i have in the past... well... two years...

so, the art... first, the first three ipad sketches i did... i dont care what any nay sayers say, its an incredible tool for an artist as it stands now.. for any creator of visual or readable media... not only do i now do art on it, i am moving to do my rough comic pages on it to then ink them on the cintiq, not to mention the thousands of comic pages i have stored, the digital scrap book, books, word processors, i keep all my scripts on there, write all my ideas, e mail, internet... i tend to rant about the pad... but thats because i truly do believe it to be an incredible tool and not the pointless picture frame some are calling it... maybe for people who dont do art... maybe it wont have the same use... but i cant see how, if you use a computer...

anyway... the sketches were all created in under 45 minutes using sketchpad, an amazingly versatile art app, with so many features that i was really surprised at, especially with the recent update. i use the htc stylus, far better than the apple recommended one, as the tip is see through with a red dot so you can see exactly where you are drawing. you only need see what some other artists are doing with sketchbook to see just how good it is. although jim lees work on it is very nice, and seems to be the most talked about, with a little searching, there are a few guys around producing some incredible paintings on it..

so, enough on the ipad.

the last image is something i'm a little more pleased about, its a portrait of my girlfriend that i did her for her birthday. this is the first time in years, and i do mean many years, i have attempted something of this nature. capturing a real likeness, using something other than a blue technical pencil and technical pens...

it took me about a day, maybe 8 hours start to finish, and was created using various tools listed on the image, like i say on the image, its far from perfect but for a change i was very pleased with the resulting overall image

so... thats it for now, but coming soon are.... my world of warcraft rough sketches, all the pages from the dredd story i did, a bunch of my favourite wildcats images, and any sketches i manage to fit in in the mean time, ipad or otherwise

so, until then, stay safe