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

BERNICE SUMMERFIELD

Benny's creator Paul Cornell has put together a picture resource  http://pinterest.com/paulcornell/bernice-summerfield/ for Bernice Summerfield which includes plenty of my work naturally! For those interested I do have original Benny cover art of many of these for sale so get in touch if interested.

POP ART JUBILEE

In the latest issue of DWM ( # 448) the Timeteam watch The Idiot's Lantern which is set at the time of the Queen's Coronation in 1952. It occured to me that this was an ideal opportunity to use a Pop Art retro style. I did a bit of this way back in the series The Cybermen so it was nice to revisit. After drawing and inking the art as usual I added some dot screens digitally ( like the old Letratone) and used  very flat colours hopefully evoking memories of Roy Lichtenstein's controversial comic panels. Below are various stages of the artwork.
Have a great bank holiday everyone!

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