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Ink Sketches – Week 6

March 15th, 2015 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

Time for another round of ink sketches! I’m quite a bit behind on posting these sketches to this site, so I’ll make this a big sketch dump to catch up a bit.

This lot continues the theme of basketball players and X-Men characters. I hope you enjoy.

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Dark Phoenix

Sketch29

Stephen Curry

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Rogue

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Russell Westbrook

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Magneto

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Joakim Noah

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Jubilee

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Dirk Nowitzki

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Iceman

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James Harden

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Mystique

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Marc Gasol

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Sabretooth

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Ink Sketches – Week 4

December 29th, 2014 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

Some more ink sketches needed to be posted to this site. I’m still doing them, I just keep forgetting to post them here.

Here we go.

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Curtis from Snow Piercer

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Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman

Sketch13

Gollum

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Pablo Prigioni of the New York Knicks

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Apocalypse

Sketch19

Captain America

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Ink Sketches – Week 2

November 27th, 2014 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

Here are the ink sketches from week 2. Unfortunately I did not really get any sketches done for week 3 as some additional work came in and I had to prioritise my time for that. I’m hoping I’ll be able to get some more done for this coming week though.

If you missed them when they were posted, here are the remaining ink sketches to bring it up to date.

Enjoy!

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Tim Hardaway Junior of the New York Knicks.

Sketch05

Spider-Woman.

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Elektra.

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Green Lantern.

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Mr Incredible.

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Doctor Who.

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Ink Sketches – Week 1

November 12th, 2014 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

Well Inktober might be over, but the ink sketches continue. These won’t be daily, but they will be regular. Hopefully you all enjoy them.

In the meanwhile I’ll continue to work on a new ActionMan Adam page in the background.

Here are last weeks sketches.Sketch01

Vision.

Sketch02

Zatanna.

Sketch01

Juggernaut.

I will post a re-cap of this weeks sketches here next week. Or you can always check my Twitter, Instagram, FB Fan page or Tumblr, if you want to check in on them daily.

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Inktober Week One 2014

October 13th, 2014 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

This month is Inktober and I have been taking part. It’s been fun, and I’m just going with whatever pops into my head in most cases.

Here is my first week of the month.

1. Malcolm Reynolds

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2. Chewbacca

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3. Stay Puft the Marshmallow Man

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4. Avatar Korra

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5. Iron Man

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6. The Blues Brothers

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7. Beartato

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Hope you like these. I’ll post the next batch up next week. Or if you want to see them daily you could always check my Instagram, Twitter, or Tumblr accounts.

Cheers!
Marc

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Valkyrie Sketch

May 31st, 2013 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog

Valkyrie

A longtime reader/friend asked me to do a sketch for him to pick up at Chromacon. He wanted the Marvel Comics character Valkyrie. Even though I read a few Marvel books, I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t know much about this character at all.

Seems like she is a female Thor or something? In any case, she is blonde, and likes swords. So I went ahead and drew this piece for him.

Thanks for reading,

Marc

└ Tags: Chromacon, inks, Marvel Comics, sketch
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BC Bud: Process

February 12th, 2011 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog, Uncategorized

It’s been a while since I have documented one of my pages from start to finish. I though maybe everyone would like to see what happened with the latest page?

Generally what happens with the writing process is, I sit on the idea for a week. Thinking about the best way to progress the story. The aim for each page is to end on a scene that I think will either make you laugh or smile, or keep you intrigued enough to return for the next page. After the week has gone by, I generally have enough of an idea, that I draft out a rough blurb of whats going on. I keep a physical notebook to write my ideas, and story break downs in. The page itself, I’ll write a small description of each panel. That generally will let me know if I can translate what is in my head to a page that effectively communicates it.

Once that is done I throw down some thumbnail sketches. Sometimes I’ll do some varying layouts, sometimes I’ll get something that I think works right away. Often times I’ll work on something, and change it when it comes to the actual drawing. Nothing is really set in stone at this stage. Generally I use the thumbnails just to get an idea of page layout. I don’t tend to use them for the planning of the actual drawing. My thumbnail sketches are generally really small.

After that, I get straight into the page. I draw in my panel grid. Then get onto the sketching. Which is usually loose. After the sketch, I throw in the text, just to make sure I have enough room, and no images that are important are cut out of the scene.

After I’m happy that everything looks as though it is flowing, and a reader can understand it. I move into the actual drawing. Tighten things up. This part of the process takes the longest time of course. I like doing it, but it is time consuming. Especially with more panels, and the backgrounds I put in. I think that stuff makes it all worthwhile though.

Then I’m onto the home straight. I add in the colours, make sure there is a light source thing going on to keep the characters grounded in their scene. My colour palate generally is very bright and bold. I like punchy colours. I find this comic is pretty light in tone, so I try to communicate this with the colours. I try and make sure that the colours highlight the areas I want your eyes to see. Pushing characters that are important to the foreground. Objects that aren’t as important I’ll try and push back, with a warm versus cool colour mix.

Add it all together, and you get the final comic! Hooray! Hope you enjoyed this look at the process.

Thanks for reading,
Marc

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Creating a custom comic book cover

November 27th, 2009 | by Marc
Posted In: Blog, Uncategorized
pencils
inks with a touch of colour coz I almost forgot to take a picture
Finished Cover

Just dropped off the custom cover to the guy who purchased it off me. It was really cool catching up with him. Plus he worked in the city, and I rarely visit inner Auckland these days. Looking around there were some changes. Including a whole new skyscraper that apparently came out of nowhere? I should have taken a photo of it, now that I am mentioning it. Sorry for my spectacular fail there!

In any case. Now that he has it, I can post the progression of how the custom cover came together. Obviously I was selling something physical, so I went old school on this one. Pencils, inks, and the colour markers to finish it off. The “Hey Ladies” is really me just thinking that, if Adam were to have a song that would represent him “Hey Ladies” by the Beastie Boys always comes to mind. It’s such a good banging track.

Now I’m back in the house. I have a cold Mac’s Gold beer in hand. The weekend has begun.

Fuck yeah.

Don’t forget, I only have limited stock of the custom covers at present. If you would like one, you can hit up the store.

Thanks for reading!
Marc

└ Tags: ActionMan Adam, Adam, comic, drawing, hey ladies!, inks, markers, pencils, Uncategorized
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