the drawing b0ard

self-portrait

2011-09-19T10:31:00.001+01:00

Camila over at Orbital Comics very graciously asked me to be part of a Self-portrait exhibition of comic artists she was organising - here's my entry -

Physic Or Surgery installment #2

2011-06-14T19:35:00.003+01:00

Woop, second installment now finished!
(first part here)

oopdates

2011-03-23T00:14:00.005Z

yar! i got started with the first two pages of Physic Or Surgery #2 tonite! I have about 20 odd pages written up, so i decided to get on drawing it again.

I even changed to a new undersheet - On my desk i tape a big sheet of landscape A3 which i use as a sketchpad and an under cover which i can use for extending horizon and perspective lines on smaller paper. These are a couple of sketches that were on my old one..

Life Drawing Class 2011-03-03

2011-03-04T09:58:00.001Z

Sir Henry Alexander Miers FRS

2011-02-23T21:12:00.001Z

Form Like Voltron

2011-02-15T21:07:00.001Z

pencil drawings

2011-02-05T23:44:00.002Z

First image was drawn during my new life drawing class, and second from a random google image search.

Abney Park Chapel

2011-01-30T23:41:00.002Z

possible artwork for an HPLL release. I need to sleep on it - i know some of the angles aren't quite right - those steeples are hard to do!

Ono-Sendai SLB-10 ORB system

2011-01-23T18:35:00.000Z

The SLB-10 is the latest generation of ORB manufactured by Ono-Sendai, utilizing state of the art EM pulse powered flotation; archive-quality audio and visual recording capabilities; fully CMYK coloured, tactile holographic capability; and guaranteed always-on connection to your personal encrypted data storage facility.

ORBs have become so integral to our life and yet they are barely a 7 year old technology. It is worth reflecting on the brief history of these astounding devices, upon which we now rely so heavily.

In 2027, a group of engineers, skaterboarders and film-makers came together to work on a project utilizing the first commercial Shawyer/EmDrive propulsion system released by the British National Space Centre. Their early device was designed initially as a simple anti-gravity camera to be able to follow a moving person, while filming and streaming the data. It was a personal project for their own use, but they also expected it would be useful for other filming niches. What they hadn’t expected was the enormous demand from the general public, as real-time life-recording and live-blogging quickly took off, finding a multitude of personal and business uses. They formed a company to market their ORB devices, calling themselves Ono-Sendai, in joking homage to William Gibson.

The market for ORBs exploded, with feature upon feature being added in response to consumer demand: multiple cameras, higher definition a/v recording, voice control and audio speakers, automated laser protection systems, and crucially - the visual feed became integrated with in-Frame overlays. In those days Frames were still competing with handheld devices, before we perfected the means to spatially interact with data.

Two more pieces were necessary to bring us up to date with the contemporary ORB experience - the addition of the holo-projector in 2030, in order to finally disperse with a physical interface; and, more recently in 2032, the first mature ultrasound-based haptic holographic interface was introduced to provide a truly tactile experience.

As many imitators as there are on the market, Ono-Sendai manages to stay one step ahead of the competitors due its truly innovative operating system, SOLX - Son Of LinuX, the most advanced and personable decision-taking, realtime smart O/S. With Ono-Sendai and SOLX assisting your life, you be sure of trusted network access, personal security, and reliable data archive - Get on with enjoying your life!

Statler and Waldorf

2011-01-21T23:07:00.001Z

image for Pats birthday card.

marvel style

2011-01-20T23:28:00.003Z

possible record artwork for a project..

(love this one, copied from a Jack Kirby drawing of the New Gods - sorry Jack!)

Physic Or Surgery Issue #1

2011-01-16T23:07:00.005Z

I'll still probably tidy up little details here and there, but i believe this an almost finished chapter/issue 1 ..

*update* second part now finished

Orson says..

2011-01-15T18:01:00.002Z

"The Parc Xerox are coming..."

spidey shooter

2011-01-02T00:05:00.001Z

for a new years card illustration for camila

facial studies

2010-12-31T15:45:00.001Z

laughing:

moody spex:

spidey-dork

2010-12-29T19:46:00.000Z

hmm, a touch narcissistic but i thought it amusing!

Rejected By Covered

2010-12-28T18:18:00.004Z

My cover version of Marc Ellerby's Chloe Noonan #3 was published over at Rejected By Covered the other day

random xmas drawings

2010-12-28T17:45:00.004Z

a page probably to be used in Physic Or Surgery, a stage dress of 2 art deco style ladies and a random glasses model from flickr..

non-festive xmas cards

2010-12-22T20:15:00.001Z

Drawn for my ma and da's xmas cards this year

Devo

2010-12-17T02:11:00.001Z

oh yes!

Physic Or Surgery pub

2010-12-10T00:38:00.001Z

Physic Or Surgery rebooted. take three. opening shot...

Weeping Gorilla

2010-11-27T02:22:00.002Z

Character taken from Alan Moore's Promethea. I was inspired to draw Gorillas after the Giant Gorilla Quiz at Thought Bubble last weekend, which was very fun.

material substructure

2010-11-21T20:59:00.003Z

My entry in the very lovely new edition of Paper Science

The Voice Of Science

2010-11-13T15:03:00.001Z

My entry for the Warren Ellis Remodel thread here

Corbusier pic

2010-10-24T23:46:00.002+01:00

copied from a pic in Corbusier's The City Of Tomorrow. Possibly to be used as a cover to a Physic Or Surgery beta run i may put together for THought Bubble..

Physic Or Surgery Page 1 preview

2010-10-21T00:43:00.002+01:00

i have twenty pages of story and art sketched out so far, enough for my first issue now. I only have about five of them mostly drawn, so i still have a load to get through. Dialogue needs tightened too, but aye, just wanted to post a wee update!

Erstlaub forest image

2010-10-14T19:35:00.004+01:00

possible Erstlaub album cover, based on a still from his upcoming visual DVD..

[[ my lack of posts on the blog here of recent, was due to a reinstall on my computer with scanner, plus me being head down working on 'Physic Or Surgery' - its looking 'KIN ACE! 10 pages deep into the intro, story is somehow flowing through me, like it's writing itself now. I should have something scanned and up here soon but no promises till its done ]]

Mazzucchelli Daredevil repaneled

2010-09-24T16:17:00.002+01:00

my entry for repaneled

Original:

paper science shizzle

2010-09-05T19:46:00.001+01:00

lumi green skate

2010-08-27T00:27:00.001+01:00

i love this colour of green

sequence copied from July issue of Kingpin magazine (2010)

my dad's wee dog..

2010-08-26T22:36:00.001+01:00

skate session

2010-08-19T23:29:00.001+01:00

just cos i been pulling ollie nosewheels..

The Everyday #200 Sideb0ard style

2010-08-12T16:31:00.002+01:00

One of my fav autiobio webcomics has unfortunately just finished up at #200 - http://theeveryday.adamcadwell.com/ - to celebrate the ending, he asked for submissions from readers as to how they would end it. This drawing is mine, and is based on episode 12 of Yacht Rock!

Depakote album art for the Gummo album

2010-08-07T23:29:00.001+01:00

smiler

2010-07-27T22:56:00.001+01:00

Physic Or Surgery Issue #1 BETA

2010-07-22T01:25:00.002+01:00

still needs tidying, colouring and the text needs reworded, but this is an early beta of the first issue:

weepop sketches

2010-07-12T21:46:00.001+01:00

potential cards of authenticity..

De Beauvoir Square, saturday afternoon

2010-07-10T22:44:00.001+01:00

Blackbolt The Inhuman

2010-07-01T00:23:00.000+01:00

quinn - first view

2010-06-24T23:08:00.000+01:00

coney island 50s girl

2010-06-24T23:06:00.002+01:00

space and time fiction

2010-06-20T00:01:00.002+01:00

(a total rip-off of Steve Ditko backgrounds and style!)

audio

2010-06-19T21:48:00.001+01:00

father's day

2010-06-17T23:26:00.000+01:00

Watch out ladies...

2010-06-09T22:49:00.002+01:00

...here come The Futurists!

(see full size here)

skater in pencil

2010-06-08T01:01:00.000+01:00

Iron-man

2010-05-31T16:28:00.002+01:00

Drawing i did for my little cousin, copying an image from his comic book

homey

2010-05-20T22:42:00.001+01:00

trying to play around with monochrome effect..

working ideas

2010-05-18T00:42:00.002+01:00

trying something organic for possible Roof Light artwork:

Superman, Crumb style

2010-05-11T00:06:00.003+01:00

inspired from reading http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/06/02/do-anything-001-by-warren-ellis/

Fantastic Four / Seth Fisher style

2010-05-05T00:17:00.003+01:00

Just finished reading Big In Japan with the Fantastic Four and Iron Man, a totally bizarre take on Marvel heroes by Zeb Wells and Seth Fisher, really fun. Seth Fishers art is just so clean and nice, i had to try copying a few of them..

test walk animation

2010-05-03T01:11:00.001+01:00

walking test from thorsten sideb0ard on Vimeo.

music by 10-20

more figures of sociology

2010-05-02T16:51:00.001+01:00

Charles Booth

Seebohm Rowntree

strike a pose

2010-05-01T00:11:00.001+01:00

cityscape

2010-04-29T18:01:00.001+01:00

not sure what this is for yet..

birthday card

2010-04-29T18:00:00.001+01:00

done for camila's birthday:

i based my drawing on someone's image of Rogue from X-men, but bugger, i can't find the link anymore..!

space-time theme

2010-04-18T00:23:00.002+01:00

illustrations for a piece...

solitary

2010-04-08T01:12:00.000+01:00

hair twirler

2010-04-07T01:12:00.000+01:00

estates project

2010-04-02T11:42:00.003+01:00

Here's an update on the highrise i had been working on, it's finished now using water colours for the sky, and i'm now working on this other smaller square piece to accompany the highrise. I have two other square boards similar, so i can make my own little council estate with them when its finished..

headless stormtrooper

2010-04-02T11:33:00.002+01:00

drawn for Ransom's birthday card.

couple of randoms

2010-03-27T01:01:00.002Z

been working mostly on my big block of flats which now has grass painted with oils, and a sky done in water colours. It's close to being finished and i'll post up some photographs when it is.

some random brush drawings i did tonite..

building

2010-03-22T00:25:00.001Z

turing test

2010-03-21T23:35:00.002Z

based on Turing, but i make no promises as to likeness!

work in progress

2010-03-10T17:48:00.004Z

I moved house and have no internet at the moment, hence the lack of updates here (writing from work at the moment). I have been drawing, but i found that the process of doing one a night, scanning and uploading, means that you don't do any larger scales projects. So yeah, i been working on this at the moment, on a piece of wood from the back of a set of drawers, a three point perspective of a local high-rise building. It's coming along okay, nothing amazing, but nice to work on a different scale and using different materials (the colour in it is oils). Once it's finished i'll get a proper pic taken and uploaded..

cat sketches on a friday night

2010-02-27T15:23:00.001Z

felix panel 4 and 5

2010-02-25T23:58:00.000Z

cats

2010-02-24T22:48:00.001Z

felix combined

2010-02-23T23:54:00.001Z

b0ard side

2010-02-21T23:41:00.002Z

invisible crunk usher

2010-02-20T17:08:00.002Z

hello?

2010-02-20T01:32:00.001Z

perspective jogger

2010-02-20T01:12:00.002Z

Ogami Itto

2010-02-18T01:18:00.002Z

possibly for upcoming Highpoint Lowlife flyer..

a panel

2010-02-16T00:25:00.001Z

gummo

2010-02-12T23:27:00.004Z

shady alleyway

2010-02-12T23:17:00.001Z

page one of a new comic

2010-02-10T19:59:00.002Z

thrashin'

2010-02-05T23:34:00.002Z

Thrashin' - the movie - as a comic book - in 6 panels - for a competition

only gay in the village

2010-02-02T23:55:00.002Z

hourly comic day

2010-02-02T01:30:00.003Z

from : http://www.hourlycomic.com/hourlycomicday.html
"hello! on february first a bunch of people make a journal comic every hour they are awake. and then they show these journal comics to other human beings, sometimes on the internet"

this is my attempt; not done every hour though, i just took notes then drew it all this evening about 11pm..

felix panel 1

2010-01-31T23:26:00.003Z

Covered: Chloe Noonan, Monster Hunter

2010-01-28T17:05:00.003Z

I drew this to submit to the Covered blog but it's been over three weeks now, and I never did hear back from the guy who runs it, so i think it's safe to publish here now...

Here is the original cover by Marc Ellerby, of his Chloe Noonan Monster Hunter Issue #2 which you can (and should!) buy here

housing estate

2010-01-28T00:34:00.002Z

random female figure drawing.

2010-01-27T01:09:00.004Z

Rocketman

2010-01-26T01:20:00.002Z

bobbies in action

2010-01-25T01:17:00.002Z

(copied from a chapter in sociology studies)

more practises

2010-01-23T16:52:00.004Z

women in action (using principles from the 'how to draw the marvel way' book..)

more faces..

2010-01-23T00:40:00.002Z

girls faces

2010-01-21T23:54:00.002Z

i've never been good at drawing females, so i figure its time to learn. these are influenced from reading 'How TO Draw The Marvel Way' last night, and from reading Gilbert Hernandez' The Troublemakers today..

pats birthday card..

2010-01-20T23:47:00.003Z

action jump

2010-01-20T01:01:00.002Z

foucault

2010-01-19T01:16:00.003Z

Doom

2010-01-19T01:15:00.000Z

spidey swinging in london

2010-01-15T00:50:00.001Z

daredevil in lawrence, kansas

2010-01-14T01:46:00.002Z

iron man above manchester

2010-01-12T00:31:00.000Z

Spidey over San Francisco

2010-01-11T11:24:00.000Z

He's a bit bendy and skinny still, but its an awkward pose - fun to do!

houses done with brush (and some pen)

2010-01-10T20:54:00.004Z

max weber

2010-01-09T17:18:00.004Z