Check out my friends books!

A couple of my friends and fellow MeeeMooo posters have been working on some excellent instructional books which everyone should check out.

GOBLINOIDS

By Scott Purdy takes you into the wild and wonderful world of greenskins, giving you practical, visual advice on drawing and colouring them. Scott also gives a lot of golden information on ideas generation and character building, stuff that will be useful to beginners and experienced doodles alike!

“For Goblin drawing, Orc drawing and other dark creatures, this classic fantasy art title explores the previously unchartered territory of Goblinoids. This book will show readers how to design, draw and paint every kind of goblinoid. This is a fun exploration of all six goblinoid ‘races’ of the fantasy world. Highly practical and packed with hot tips a series of classes are presented with each race which gives the author the opportunity to show readers how to construct characters in strong step sequences. The characters range from the humorous, dragon flying Goblin through to the dark, evil and twisted torturous Hobgoblin. A wealth of visual and textual information offers guidance on goblin drawing, orc drawing and painting – both traditionally and digitally – the diverse world of Goblinoids.“

Buy GOBLINOIDS from Amazon!

FANTASY ART FOR BEGINNERS

Fantasy Art For Beginners by Jon Hodgson is out November 1st. Jon has been working in fantasy illustration for over a decade and this book is packed with his accumulated knowledge and advice for beginner artists, as Jon says:

“On the First of November my book on creating fantasy art for beginners hits the streets, published by IMPACT! books. It is full of non threatening, easy to follow ways to draw and paint your favorite fantasy fings! The first half is gently introduced theory, aimed at absolute beginners, and then the second half is a series of step by step walkthroughs of 6 paintings of favourite fantasy subjects. All in an easily approachable art style for beginners. Rather than me just letting rip at it in my usual manner…“

Buy FANTASY ART FOR BEGINNERS at Amazon!

And coming soon…

HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT VAMPIRES

Scott Purdy’s second solo instructional art book, due for release in Summer 2010, takes us into the world of Vampires! Above is the current cover artwork, for more news as its happens check out Scott’s blog!

That’s all for now, get reading!

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A Handful Of Broken Images

Out at the end of this month is issue 22.1 of Gulf Coast, a journal of literature and fine arts. This issue features a comic interpretation of The Burial of the Dead, the first quarter of The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot. I was very excited to be asked to create this 12 page interpenetration of Elliot’s poem, the whole process was fantastic fun, presenting a very interesting challenge.

I am very pleased with the results, which can be seen in the magazine (and on the cover!) or in some samples on the Gulf Coast website. The newest journal also contains an article by Sean Bishop on the growing acceptance of comic art and it’s ability to communicate complex narratives, you can read that on the website too! I will post some pages from by Burial of the Dead on this blog over the new couple of months, but if you want to see it complete and any time soon, you just have to pick up a copy of the magazine!

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Dragonfly Festival

This year I had the honor of being asked to display work at Dragonfly Festival, Sweden’s only ambient arts festival. I had a bunch of black and white ink drawings on show and some comics for sale – hello to anyone who is visiting my website for the first time after visiting Dragonfly. Sadly I was not able to make the show this year, but fingers crossed for 2010!

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