FEAR HER!

Pencils and inks for Fear Her Timeteam in DWM issue 451 out now. The father's angry face was drawn with a Derwent Tinted Charcoal pencil to give it a hand drawn feel whilst the rest was inked with pen and brush.

The Sarah Jane Companion Vol 3

I was delighted to be asked to contribute illustrations to accompany the features on unmade Sarah Jane Adventures stories. Initially this was seven illos which soon doubled to fourteen! I was sent design layouts and since the deadline was fairly tight ( not to mention I was colouring a Dr Who strip for IDW at the same time) I needed to work out a suitably efficient style. Having pencilled I only inked in the lines before scanning. Then I coloured the art adding black only as a colour such as hair or somesuch. They gave the art a nice posterish look in places. The Sarah Jane Companion contains more of my illustrations and is on sale now! I'll be selling the original line drawings soon so keep an eye on the blog!

ZYGON COLOUR STRIP

Here's a very recent commission to colour the art I did for a client earlier this year. This was good practice getting into the swing of colouring strips as I'll be colouring one of the stories in the upcoming IDW Dr Who Annual 2012. Can't wait!

BERNICE SUMMERFIELD Original art sale

I've a large selection of Bernice Summerfield art for sale that was used  on either Big Finish's book or audio range. All artwork is black and white ( see image above for size). Price is £60.00 each. Please contact me at adrian.salmon@btinternet.com  under heading Benny art sale. I can supply digital photo of any art you're interested in. Here's the available art listing:

CD Cover Art

Secret of Cassandra

The Green-Eyed Monsters

Dance of the Dead

Mirror Effect

The Bellatron Incident

Draconian Rage

                                          Poison Seas - SOLD

The Bone of Contention

                                         The Grel Escape - SOLD

                                         Masquerade of Death - SOLD

                                          Kingdom of the Blind - SOLD

Something Changed

                                         The Goddess Quandary- SOLD

The Tartarus Gate

                                         Timeless Passages - SOLD

                                         Empire State - SOLD

                                         Tub full of Cats - SOLD

The Judas Gift

The Final Amendment

                                         The Wake - SOLD

Beyond the Sea

                                          The Diet of  Worms - SOLD

The Adolescence of Time

                                          Glory Days - SOLD

                                          Secret Origins - SOLD

Freedom of Imformation

The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy

                                          Dead Man's Switch - SOLD

Year Zero

                                          Silver Lining - SOLD

Book Covers

The Glass Prison

Life During Wartime

A Life in Pieces

The Tree of Life

Genius Loci

Old Friends

                                       Missing Adventures - SOLD

The Vampire Curse

Secret Histories

The Two Jasons

The Big Hunt

ROBOTS OF DEATH / STORM MINE

I was delighted to be asked to illustrate two posters for these upcoming fringe plays. Robots of Death is adapted from Chris Boucher's Dr Who original story and Storm Mine based on the audio adventure script. The images needed to represent each play individually but at the same time tieing them together. It struck me the chessboard from the play would be an ideal graphic solution representing the cat and mouse game between Taren Capel and the crew of the Sandminer An ambigious robotic faced Taren looking down on the game as two Vocs stand guard.

The second illustration was more difficult and so became more of a composite of elements - the human dream tree , the Fendahl monster and the quarantined Kaldor city forming a backdrop with the Robot central to the story towering over.

For the premiere *only* - Paul Darrow !! will be starring which I hope to be at. For more details go to : http://www.kasterborous.com/2012/06/robots-of-death-at-the-greater-manchester-fringe/

COLOUR COVER STORY

Below are a few examples of covers I've coloured for Panini/Marvel titles. I've always enjoyed colouring other artists' work - you learn alot about their approach. Some artists leave plenty for the colourist to do whilst others shade and tone their drawings with black ink. With the advent of digital colouring , comic art styles have evolved to take best advantage of the new possibilities. All the art you see below was drawn in the 1970s and 80s except the last cover and hence the drawing had to be stronger to contain the simpler colour techniques back then. I think these brush up quite well overall.

CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN creation stages