Crazy couple of days! Today was auditions and it was a blast! Abby and I meet up an hour before it all kicked off to discuss how we wanted to run the process. We ran it in 2 parts, the first was a simple table read with the various combinations of actors trying out for the different parts. After, we got everyone up for a bit of a workshop style run through the selections of the script that Abby and I had chosen. It was a lot of fun and in the end, we had our Joe, Fletch and Maddie for the film. Announcements will come soon as will a website or facebook page for the film where all proper news will come from.

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So 2012 has been an extremely busy year for me already and we’re only a couple of months in!

The biggest news of the year so far is that I had a film screened at this years Sundance film festival. I was lucky enough to be asked by someone whose work I’ve admired for a long time to make animated a film with him. The person was actor/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises). The film was produced by by Joe’s own production company hitRECord, an online, open collaborative production company that anyone can join and start sharing photos, drawings, moving imagery and ideas. Click on the hitRECord logo and visit the home page, maybe join! It was a real honour and an incredible project to work on. There’s more information on the movie on my FILMS page right here, as well as a link to the film itself which contains a short introduction by Joe himself explaining all about it.

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So today has probably been one of the most exciting day’s of my career so far, it’s 11:37 and I’ve not long finished up with an awesome skype video call that ended with me signing up to make an amazing project. I have, however, only 3/4 days to complete it. BUT! I’m getting to work with a lot of talented people and the director is someone I’ve admired for a long, long time! More on this as it happens!

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I haven’t posted anything for a while so I thought I’d update my site with a few things going on.

Film projects. I am very excited with what I have on my production slate right now. I have been working with some extraordinary writers recently on creating some amazing scripts for films. We have about 3 in the pipeline to be made over the next 2-3 years. I can’t really go into much details at the moment but I shall say as much as I can.

First of all, I’m currently working with the extremely talented writer, Abby Chandler, who has written an amazing script codenamed: Fanboys, that we are both developing together to turn into a live action feature. It’s one of those projects that don’t come along very often, 2 pages into the script and I knew I wanted to be onboard with it. As it stands right now, Abby is currently finishing up the 2nd draft of the script and in 2 weeks we’re scouting locations for shooting. We are of course, in the very early stages but it’s very exciting as I am already building a very clear vision of what the film will look like. Updates will follow for this soon so keep checking back.

You can find Abby’s blog on this link, http://follow-the-nerd.blogspot.com. It is well worth a follow.

I’m going to end this post with these awesome pictures. Abby, myself and a certain Time Lord.

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This piece is a commission I got a few weeks back and here it is in stages.

I wanted to go with pencil on paper instead of the usual straight to digital I do with my storyboard work. I was really inspired by talking to a few inkers at Kapow comic con that I really wanted to do it myself.

The first stage after research was sketching it out in blue line. Blue line is awesome as you can use them to sketch over and over in a drawing and then pick out the lines you want and go over them easily. After I sketched it out, I then added more detail and shaded in the eyes and various shadows. Any large areas of black that were needed during inking, I just marked with an X. After I had got to a point where I was ready to ink, I scanned in the drawing and printed off a copy ready to ink. I was trying out my new brush pen for this and I’m not ashamed to admit I was a little excited to see how it would turn out. When the inking was done, I rescanned it and took out the blue line. Again blue line is awesome because it’s easy for Photoshop to remove and I was just left with the pure black of the ink. I printed off a copy of that and got to work on grey washing it with the indian ink.

I love working this way but don’t get to do it as often as I’d like. I’m pretty happy with the result of this and thought I’d share it with you all.

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I’ve been trying out drawing with black and white ink or a brown paper sketch. I saw sketch Ben Templesmith tweeted a sketch he had done a while back that was done a similar way, so I thought I had to try me some of that, and these are the results. I won’t lie, it’s not my best work, but they were sure fun to do. Just trying something a little different can be an awesome exercise to do. As much as I love the recreated scene from Super Troopers, it’s Boba Fett I found the funniest to draw, he just came out of the pen. I’d just finished a Star Wars week and had just watched Return of the Jedi. As for his speech bubble, it’s just how Boba rolls right?

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Here’s the artwork for the band Marwood (Rob Field, composer for Petrified’s band). My brief was basically boat of rough seas and my references were the TV show “Worlds Deadliest Catch”. I wanted to go with a limited colour palette so I went with the green’s, blue’s a purples. I’m pretty happy with how it’s turned out. All I have to do now is create a back image but that won’t be too hard. Check out the EP, it’s called Anchor Ridge here. http://marwood.bandcamp.com/album/anchor-ridge

Album Cover art commission for Marwood's EP Anchor Ridge

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So, I bust my Comic Con cherry this past weekend and attended the Kapow Comic Con in London. All thanks to my good friend Rob, who noticed this awesome event before I did and insisted we went. The first thing I noticed about this event was how geared up it was for comic fans. I’ve tended to notice over the years that comic con’s have been more and more about games, movies, and various other

the Millerworld panel, was awesome as it was all about creator owned projects. Got to meet and chat to Dave Gibbons afterwards as well as Mark Miller before hand.  I also got to meet the Gutters/Least I Could Do team in the form of writer Ryan Sohmer and artist Lar Desouza, the later of which produced the Green Lantern commission (below) for me. They were great guys and there work is amazing. Check it out at www.the-gutters.com.
One of the most amazing things that I found out about a Comic Con, was the awesome people that you meet a long the way. Be it iconic artists/writers, other fans or the independent artist/writers in artists alley trying to get their books noticed. I picked up some lovely little self published books that I’ll be reviewing on here in the comics days. Going back to the other fans, while lining up for various different parts of the day, Rob and I got to meet some awesome people. Waiting in the line for the Dave Gibbons signing, we meet 3 con buddies: Abby, Alex and Helga. It was awesome to sit and have a chat with people who are into the same things you are in the same passionate way. Below is a picture of me and the Mistress of Magic herself Zatanna (better known as Abby).

Of course though, the highlight of the day was meeting some people that have been heroes of mine for a very long time. It was incredible to get to chat to these people. Below is a couple of photos that’ll stay with me forever.

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Before Christmas, an artist friend of my mine and I had decided that for presents that year, we would draw/paint something for the other. A couple of days ago, we finally exchanged gifts (sort of). Anyways, this is the epically awesome present she did for me, I was completely floored by it. (My present to her is the Wolverine drawing in the gallery page that isn’t storyboards)

by Emma Bailey who you can find at twitter.com/Baileybailey67

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