Brizzle

Once again the amazing Bristol Comicexpo arrives. I will be there for the whole weekend sketching and signing Transformers, and Frontier. I will also be helping out att he Draw the World Together table so if I am not there I will be in the main hall alongside Jason Cobley, my Frontier pardner. See you there

Current studio

So this is the studio I am in now. Not a lot to look at really. doesn’t have the same messy charm as the previous ones. Gone are the days when we needed to have copious amounts of reference plastered all over the walls. Google image search put an end to that. What we have going on in here are; Transformers ReGeneration One. HORIZON, various TV projects in very early stages and a bit of storyboarding.

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New Millennium Studio

After the post about the 1991(ish) studio I thought it might be fun to get a bit more up to date. The picture below is something that I put together for an old blog of mine. It shows the studio that I was in from 2000 to 2009. It went through a few changes in that time and I wasn’t always in it. During that period I did a few stints in various games and TV studios but this was my home base. This is how it looked towards the end of my time there. It has been labelled up with a few interesting bits and pieces and there is evidence of some of the projects I worked on in that time, namely, Transformers and Frontier.

a Tribute to Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud

Many of you wil have heard of the recent passing of the great French illustrator, Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud. A project has been set up where artists were invited to illustrate a tribute to Moebius. This is a great project and something that I am sure he would have been proud of. I never had the privilege of meeting Jean Giraud but put together this piece by way of an expression of the influence his work has had on me. It hasn’t really shown through until recently. His work was an influence on FRONTIER and even the new TRANSFORMERS but the biggest influence seems to show up in HORIZON. Doing this piece has made me even more aware of how much. I have added a few words that not only relate to the impact his work has had on me but they are also very personal as I lost my father last year to cancer. The illustration is of Ali from HORIZON who herself feels the loss and influence of her own father in the story. All seemed like a good fit.
I hope it has some resonance for others too.

The secret behind HORIZON.

In the Chipping Norton area on the 21st April? Come along to hear my contribution to the Chipping Norton Literary Festival.
I am doing a presentation where I will be going through the process of how I am creating HORIZON and exactly what it is about. I will also be talking about the new Transformers book and the secret narrative behind it. Would be great to see you there. Details below

10am, Saturday 21st April 2012  £7.50  The Chequers Inn

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Box Office: 01608 642350.