A blog where I intent to post whatever scribblings I find cluttering up my desk.

Saturday 3 April 2010

Harry Potter Storyboards


Katy has a shooting script from the first Harry Potter movie, from her days at Propstore.
I haven't seen the movie in years and as I fancied practicing storyboarding an action sequence, I choose the bathroom, troll fight sequence from the script.
It takes up just under two pages of the screenplay [so just under two minutes of screen-time, I guess].
I kept it black and white and drew faster than the 16 Blocks one.
Here's what I came up with.

Now I'm going to dig out the DVD and see how close I got!

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Monday 29 March 2010

Colouring In














I believe that is the technical term, yes?
[obviously, again - Lee's fantastic pencils]

Lee Carter pencils, I scribble












My mate Lee, who is a proper current comic book artist on occasion, sent me a bunch of his Dredd pencils to have a crack at inking.
His pencils are superb.
You can find his blog here: http://mrleecarter.blogspot.com/

Sunday 7 March 2010

Work In Progress


I'm working on some more storyboard stuff.
Here's a random panel. Can you guess the movie?

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Now with added chat


It's Basil Exposition! Dialogue hidden for spoilers.

Monday 8 February 2010

Inking Darren



My mate, Darren, sends me the cracking pencils from his various comics projects.
I'm trying to develop a quick but good-looking inking style.
I couldn't resist inking a page and then slapping some colour on [Darren's stuff will eventually be fully painted].
I love old 70's comics which look effortless but just happen to be perfect.
How best to aim for this? Maybe, superb intricate draughtmanship in the pencils [Darren] and then fast inks slapped over the top [me].


Tuesday 12 January 2010

16 Blocks storyboard












I set myself the challenge of doing some storyboard practise.

I wanted something contemporary and American, so I downloaded the screenplay to Richard Wenk's 16 Blocks - a Bruce Willis movie from a couple of years back - I storyboarded the first two pages of the screenplay.
I have the movie on DVD, and enjoyed it, but I can't honestly remember how it started.

I guess now I'm done with the boards, I can go take a look and see if the finished film is anything like my version.
Probably not, but hey, I had fun.

Monday 11 January 2010

Quick Hulk Smash!



Still haven't seen the latest Hulk movie - it's lanquishing somewhere on our Love Film list.

He's only got 4 toes on his left foot, no wonder he's so angry.

Friday 8 January 2010


More stuff from down the back of the virtual couch.

A themed arena idea for a light-hearted first person shooter that unfortunately never saw the light of day.

Monday 4 January 2010

Parker


I'm a big Donald Westlake fan and a big fan of Darwyn Cooke's recent adaption.


This is the first scribble I did with my shiny new Cintiq.