More new bits...

Here are some more sketches/illos I'm working on at the moment...Wanted to do an XMen piece, as well as a Nick Fury piece, so I decided to do them both!...a hypothetical XMen story involving Nick Fury! I give you...X-MEN : Fury's War

Still WIP...as I intend to digitally colour the characters...but here's the line work for each one...
First up:Cyclops...


Next up:NightCrawler (although I am going to re draw his hair...do NOT like how it turned out!)
Next up:Wolverine...I like how he turned out, although I will add his claws to the final image...
Finally...Nick Fury. Went with more of an old school look for him....
That's it for now...I'll hopefully post again soon with progress shots of the actual colouring of each illustration...Until then, laters!!

What I've been up to...(pt4)

Finally, here's a little illo I did yesterday.

I'd recently got back into using my brush pen, and ink, as well as my dip pen (quill nib). What was weird, was how much I enjoyed it! So I decided to use it a lot more, and did this (you may recall seeing the pencil sketch in an earlier post) :
As you can see from the top image I went really stylized with the colouring and design. I really enjoyed doing that illustration, and it's a style I want to pursue more, and try to incorporate more into my future work.

Thanks for stopping by! And I promise to post more regularly!
-Mack.

What I've been up to...(pt3)

Here's a few ideas I've been wanting to do with the Punisher (a favourite of mine!)

First, the line work:
Second, the flat colour:
Third, some tone work...(colouring it in a more stylized way than the Wolverine piece) :
And finally, a rough comp of how the finished piece will look, (again, going for a more stylized look for the backgrounds) :

What I've been up to...(pt2)

More posts??!!

Ok, here goes...This is an updated/improved version of the Wolverine in the snow shot...Still not finished, i want to add footsteps, some blood, more breath, make him a little bit more 'worn', but here's the progress so far...

What I've been up to...(pt1)

Sorry about the long space between posts...I've been super busy at work...Nearly finished the game now!!!

Anyway, enough excuses...Here's a few bits I've been working on in my spare time:

The first is an idea I've had for a Silver Surfer shot. Decided to go the 'fully painted' route for this one. Here's the initial sketch:
Sort of got the poses down. Any way here was the first pass at an inked/coloured version:

And here's the final (almost finished!) fully painted one (still have to add some bounced light/reflection...)
And here's the sketch/paint of Galactus so far...

Just started this the other day...sketched it out on the PC, printed out and scaled the body to fit on A4. Using my light box, I transferred it to some nice smooth illustration paper, where I'm going to ink it up. Once that is done, I'll rescan it back in and digitally colour it...(I may do a fully painted version, eventually getting rid of the line work...who knows!!)
(Here's a quick colour comp, more for me, than anyone else!)

Here's another illustration for The Fallen. This time it's of the main 'Bad Guy' in the first story arc. Basically, penciled and inked the drawing, scanned it in, then painted it digitally. Took about 2-3 hours all in all. Really enjoyed painting it, and (for a change) I'm quite happy with the results!!