Kennedy City Bicycles

I took some pictures for a friend's bicycle company the other day. The bikes are lovely - I'm not sure the pics totally do them justice! Anyway,

Check out Kennedy City Bicycles

And here're some more pictures on my Flickr.

Farewell

Goodbye Iain Banks. I will miss you a lot.

Troll!

I watched Trollhunter the other day. But other than that, I have literally no idea where this came from.

7 up

Here're some doodles for The Seven Samurai as gangsters. Playing around with body shapes.

Here're the film charcters in order from of drawing...

1. Hayashida HEIHACHI (Chiaki Minoru) of the 'Woodcutter Sword School'. "There are too many enemies to kill them all, so I usually just run."

2. KIKUCHIYO (Mifune Toshiro), the buffoon, the man who would be a samurai. He is the first to admit the faults of the peasants--they are crafty and dishonest. But who made them that way that they are? he challenges the rest of the samurai.

3. SHICHIROJI (Kato Daisuke), Kambei's right hand man. He answers YES to the proposition of there being no profit. Honor, without hesitation. "We might die this time," says Kambei. He just smiles; He is ready.

4. Shimada KAMBEI (ShimuraTakashi), the "lead" samurai. "Such selfishness will not be tolerated. You're all in one boat." "He who thinks only about himself will destory himself, too." "In war, it's teamwork that counts."

5. Katayama GOROBEI (Inaba Yoshio) the first to join Kambei and Katushiro. "My name sounds strong but. . ."

6. Okamoto KATSUSHIRO (Kimura Ko), the young, idealistic samurai, whose story is a coming of age story.

7. KYUZO (Miyaguchi Seiji), the master swordsman "A man only interested in perfecting his own skill"

Info from here.

This Way

Testing the head theory.

I watched Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai the other day. I've seen it before but I'd forgotten quite how bloody good it is. Ghost Dog is such an awesome character. Understated but complex, I wish more heroes were written like this, and that actions in the films weren't so generic good guy style. Anyway, at one point he hints that he has no mates, so here's a stab at another ganster samurai character.

I saw a bunch of Kurosawa films as a kid, and I was thinking of doing a ghost dog inspired take on the seven samurai characters...

Hardware

 Havoc Suit from Exo-Teck Hardware. And an X-ray version because I think it looks cool.

Buggy Love

Over the weekend I realised  that there hasn't been a wheeled vehicle up here for ages! Here's some buggy.

A Head Of The Game

I'm posting this in quite an excitable mood! I really feel I've learnt something from this drawing, which hopefully is going to affect my work from now on. Basically, the rule I've found is that as long as you get a face nailed pretty early in a drawing then you can be a lot looser with the body work.

The face is from photo reference of a model, and the body is just out of the blue. If you look at the marks they're actually pretty abstract. Value is what really defines the forms - it's pretty subtle, but I think I'm getting there...

Sea Devils!

Yesterday was the start of the London Sci-fi Festival, so I pottered over to see the costume parade which was supposed to kick everything off. The theme was 50 years of  Dr. Who, and obvoiusly all the usual suspects were there - Daleks and Cybermen.

I grew up watching old Dr. Who episodes thanks to my mum. I remember it actually being pretty scary, especially the Sea Devils - a race of wierd reptile things that lived in the Earths oceans. I think that their backstory was actually pretty sad made these freaky monsters even weirder. Anyway, here's a spoiler for the episode, but it gives a good flavour of how cool it was.

There are a bunch of cool images of them, but nothing new and everyone seems to have forgotten about them. I had a go at a redesign...

Full Stop.

Oh, hi Friday! I've been drawing this robot for too long. It started as a sketch, then over the weeks became a render which I have been endlessly unhappy with. Anyway, now it's a bit of graphics, and hopefully will no longer haunt my dreams...