Acquisition, Page 5, inked

So, the finished inks have been sitting around my living room for a couple of weeks, but I've been too busy to scan it. So here it is:

This is actually the first time I've seen it without the pencil lines, so it's always looked like the version below. I've still got plenty of work to do on it, but again, that was the point of this, to try some new things.

©2012 James Mathurin

Acquisition, Page 5 - I hate backgrounds

Here are the pencils I promised yesterday. I partly put this up to show how convoluted the composition and background got. It's my own fault - I wanted long streets and high buildings, so the perspective gets pushed to extremes. I think it came out well though. The inks will hopefully make the image a lot clearer.

©2012 James Mathurin

Acquisition, Page 5 (Rough Sketch)

I'm posting this rough sketch because it took me ages to get a workable idea for the composition of Page 5. After a lot of bad ideas, this popped into my head, and I had to frantically scribble it down before I forgot it. It's not the easiest composition (this page is taking me ages), but I think it's the best for what I needed. The pencils for this go up tomorrow, and I hope it still has the energy this sketch has.

©2012 James Mathurin

Acquisition, Page 2, black & white

So, I'm working on page 5 for Acquisition, but I thought I'd quickly go back and put page 2 in black and white, like I did with page 1. I like the look, and I'm thinking ahead to printing it when it's completed. So, here it is. Pencils for page 5 shouldn't be too long.

©2012 James Mathurin

Recent deisgns on t-sirts, etc.

So, as promised, I've been back on the old Cafépress, so here are some examples of products you can buy with my Summer, L'Ermitage and Voodoo Bloke designs on.

Summer T-Shirt

L'Ermitage T-Shirt

Voodoo Bloke flask

©2012 James Mathurin

L'ermitage, finished piece

So, I have finally finished this one! It's taken a few days to get from the shaded version to this, but here we are:

I've tried to keep some of the colours similar to the original (which you can see in this post here), but it was always meant to be its own thing, and I'm really pretty happy with the end result.

Right! Off to Cafépress to put this on some t-shirts, etc, and then I'm planning to get to work on the last few pages of Acquisition!

©2012 James Mathurin

L'ermitage, shaded

I've been working on the L'ermitage picture, and the colouring is coming along well, but I was also happy with this black and white version with shading and text. Anyway, here 'tis:

©2012 James Mathurin