No Fanfare

No Fanfare

(Markes and digital colour)

A blast from the past.

Ginger Cactus 1 & 2

Ginger Cactus 1

(Markers and digital colour)

Ginger Cactus 2

(Markers and digital colour)

Looking though my other digital cartoons and illustrations, I came across these two, produced for, but not used by an online group. Time to get them out there.

 

Inktober2020 - Wisp

 

Wisp Revisited

(markers and digital colour)

So far, I'm enjoying following the official prompts from Inktober2020, though there's no doubt that with my determination to revisit each black and white drawing and apply colour, I'm giving myself quite a bit of work to do.

Wisp

(markers in sketchbook)

Inktober2020 - Fish

 

Fish (Revisited)

(markers and Photoshop)

It's hard to believe it's been a year since I last drew a cartoon, but then it's been a pretty weird year so far. Despite all the controversy around Inktober, I thought I'd give it a go again, so following the first prompt, I drew the Fish below. 

Not content with that, however, I reworked it again with digital colour and a photo of fish I took in Valencia, and the result is above.

Curt's Coffee Cups

(Black marker and digital colour)

I did this for a fanzine article but sadly missed the deadline. So here it is, devoid of context, just because I like it.

Illustration Friday - The Letter A

(Black marker with digital colour)

Previously published here as "The Definite Article" just for the fun of it and now conveniently recycled for this week's Illustration Friday challenge - "The Letter A".

Map

Map

(Black marker, collage and digital colour)

While I'm waiting for the flood of comments on my recent suggestion, here's a contribution to this week's Illustration Friday brief - Map.

Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It

The Last Cake before the New Year Diet

(black marker in 14x14 cm sketchbook, digital colour)

Happy New Year to one and all! 

In Another Place, I took a little time to count up the paintings and sketchbook drawings I did in 2017. For various reasons, the grand total came to around 30, not a particularly impressive number but I expect next year's to be better.

And then I thought:

"Maybe I should do the same thing for my cartoons." 

Hmm. Can it really be that I did none in the whole of 2017? I know I reworked one or two and added some digital colour to some others but it does seem as if my Cartoonist's Hat fell down the back of the sofa at some time.

At the top of this post is yesterday's sketchbook drawing of a cake. I've posted it here because I think it could also come under the heading of "Illustration" and one of the things it illustrates is the way I think the strands of my work are gradually drawing together.

So: does it make any sense to continue running two separate blogs? My inclination is to close this one down and simply post everything on Boogie Street. Cartoons and paintings are just as much a part of what goes to make me as were last year's daily entries from My Dad's Diary.

Comments welcome.

YouTubers

(Black marker and digital colour)

At the Gym

(Black marker and digital colour)

Back on the ..er.. treadmill, as it were. This is for the latest challenge from the Cartoonists' Forum Cartoon Competition. Caption Competition No 337 asks for a cartoon on the Theme: AT THE GYM.

Theme Park

Trying my best to keep this thing going, here's another another challenge from the 52 Week Illustration Challenge. 

This is Week 3 : Theme Park (Black markers and digital colour)

Outdoors

Another week, another challenge from the 52 Week Illustration Challenge. 
Week 2 - Outdoors. Black marker and digital colour.

Lush

Lush (Black marker and digital colour)

There are still lots of things preventing me from working on a regular basis, but today I digitally coloured this old (1994) drawing to submit it to Illustration Friday for this week's challenge - Lush.

Surveillance

In an attempt to get back into practice, here's my offering for this week's Illustration Friday challenge - Surveillance. 

I've used an old fanzine cover which started life with a background by Sheryl Birkhead, had a figure added by me and now has digital colour added. I acknowledge there's a little clunky corner in the lower right of the background where I had to take out the issue number - must do better.

Wheel

Wheelboat (Marker, digital colour)

You may have seen this before when I posted it in 2010.  It's some time since I've submitted anything to Illustration Friday and in the absence of something fresh for this week's subject - Wheel - I thought I'd enter this one.

Wallbanger

The cover of a fanzine I did for Eve Harvey a long time ago. Now coloured digitally.

Bembridge

An old fanzine cover given the digital colour treatment. Don't blame me for the pun - that was Sam Long.

OK! I'll talk!

This week's Cartoonists' Forum Competition entry using the fixed caption, OK! I'll talk!

Hope

I won second place with this cartoon in the Cartoonists' Forum Competition this week. The challenge was to produce a wordless cartoon on the theme of Hope.

Science

(Fibretip with digital colour)

This is my entry for this week's Cartoonists Forum Competititon.