SABERTOOTH COLOURED

I just got the colours back from Michael. The guy is a monster, I love working with him and can't wait for our Phantom book to get underway. He did 2 versions, one based on the movie colors, one based on the comic book color scheme, I like both so I've let the client choose which one he wants as a print with his original.

Overall though, I'm pretty pleased with the end result (gimme a week or so and I'll hate my line art in it).

Now on to Emma Frost :)

SABERTOOTH INKED

I finished inking this late last night. Tidied it up and just scanned it. Hope you like it. Michael Birkhofer will be giving it his usual touch of colour genius. Can't wait.

OPSEC continued...
and here are pages 6-8

OPSEC

I thought, as the competition is over I would put up the line art from my Zuda entry. Here are pages 1-5

SABERTOOTH

Pencils for a pinup I'm working on. Going to start the inks soon. Looking forward to seeing Michaels colors on it.

NEW SKETCHES

Below are 2 character sketches. Laughton Brice who will appear in my run on "The Phantom" and Professor Napoleon Stone from the novel "Fallen Heroes" written by Barry Nugent. A graphic novel adaption is in the works.

The three colour sketches below are from Bristol Con last weekend.

THE GHOST THAT WALKS
I'll soon be starting work on "The Phantom: Unmasked" being written by Martin Powell and published by Moonstone Books. I'm just doing a few rough sketches to try and get comfortable with the character before I start work on the book. I'll post some more soon.

OPSEC
My story went up over at earlier this week. Please pop over and give me your vote. I'd really appreciate it.

JUDGE DREDD
Did this for a friend as a thank you present. I rushed it a bit. Should have spent more time inking the lawmaster (bike). I wanted to get it done quick because I have a sabertooth vs wolverine commission to get done next.

THE SHADOW COLOURED.

Just got this back from an awesome colorist called Michael Birkhofer. Hoping to work with him again soon.

THE SHADOW
This is a commission I just finished inking. Along with the original art, I'll also be giving the guy a print mocked up a bit like a pulp novel with the title of his fan-fic story to the right. Hence the composition being a little left heavy. I left the inside of his coat unshaded so that once it's colored the red really pops.
I tried something new on the clouds that looks all right at original size. But looks a little like pudding in the web sized version

Anyway, here goes.

EXETER COMIC EXPO

I just got back from a small one day convention here in the UK. Last year I decided to start doing coloured sketches at cons using markers. This year I thought I'd try going a step further and using coloured fine liners to give them a sort of faux color hold type of look.

Mixed results on the sketches. I tend to do them really quickly as I always feel guilty how long I leave people standing around near the table while I sketch and want to get rid of them as quickly as possible so they can go and get sketches from a proper, professional comic artist.

I don't think I quite hit the characters. Both punisher and Dredd should look a lot beefier and meaner. Oh well, live and learn. I'll hopefully do better at the rest of the cons this year.

This is a Guy Gardner commission I just finished up. More coming soon :)

Something a little bit different for me. A commissioned portrait of someone's grandparents.

Below are a couple more convention marker sketches. John Constantine (Hellblazer) and the character from a new story I am working on.

Got back from the birmingham con late last night and I've been scouring the internet for anybody that has scanned some of my sketches. If I did a sketch for you this weekend and you have it online can you please email me the URL at jimmy@jimmybott.com. Many thanks.

Below are a couple I have found so far.







P.S. Dave, if you read this. I'm going to do a special peice to give to you at Bristol next year :)

This is a pinup I did recently for a friend, Arvid Nelson. To be featured in an up coming issue of his Darkhorse mini-series "Zero Killer".

I finally got around to ink this pinup. Most of it was done while I was sat at my table at the comic convention in Bristol last weekend.


Someone took a picture of me while I was sketching and I didn't even realise it :)

HALF DEAD REVIVED

Man, this book has been the craziest experience of my life.

For anyone wanting to know the book is resolicited in April through Desperado Publishing for June sales.
Diamond Code APR083747 PAGE 261 Price $10.99
Written by Barb Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper.

We started out in 2005 as a mini-series with 'Speakeasy Comics' who went down before our series hit. We then signed with the Dabel Brothers May '06 who wanted us to sell it as a graphic novel for Halloween. Which in all honesty the format worked better with the story in my opinion. A couple months later Dabel Brothers finalised their paper work with Marvel and we were taken on as the only creator owned comic book they were due to publish at the time, but with plans to publish more. Half Dead was to be released in March '07.

March 28th 2007 comes and Half Dead is released, not too bad initial figures coming in at Number 50 on the chart, and steady reorders in the hundreds. Then, lightning strikes again, Marvel and Dabel split company, and the end of July/early august the book goes on stop at diamond. None to leave the diamond warehouse in Memphis until it's sorted. After the contract break, Marvel no longer had the legal right to distribute the stock and dabel brothers moved on and were no longer interested in dealing with it. Leaving us in a bit of a sticky situation. A bunch of stock we have already paid the printing costs for, heavily in the red on production costs and no way to recoup even a fraction of our losses.

After a couple months of working it out with Marvel and Dabels lawyers. We sorted out the situation and we got the paperwork to sell the remaining stock through a third party. Even though it was branded with the Marvel and Dabel Brothers logos. As diamond did not want to deal with me directly we had to go and find a publisher willing to help us. THANK GOD for Joe Pruett and Stephan Nilson at Desperado Publishing. Who have kindly worked their asses off to sort it all out with Diamond and get the book back on the shelves. I can't thank them enough for everything they have done.

So please, if you see it in your store, give it a flick through and see if it's your kind of thing. It's gone through a lot to get there

"HALF DEAD is clever, compelling and personal - with a unique narrative and unbelievable images that will haunt you. If Luc Besson and Stephen King had children, HALF-DEAD would be their beautiful, twisted offspring." --David Gallaher, writer, HIGH MOON, VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE, JOHNNY DOLLAR

This is just a bunch of stuff I've been working on recently I wanted to post.