Kate was created with inks and watercolours, to test out newly purchased brushes.
Continue readingMonthly Archives: May 2011
Zatanna
Zatanna, daughter of the famed magician crimefighter Zatarra and a member of the Justice League – assembled with a combined application of pencil, brush ink and water colours. Click here to view a larger image on DeviantArt.
Continue readingCover for Three’s Company
Ebb n Folks’s latest short story soon to be published on Amazon as a Kindle download is Three’s Company. The publisher called for a lined artwork with clean colours on it. So here it is. “Three” in the story title is the catlike lady seen below. But why has she been with the protagonist all these decades? Watch for it on Amazon.com soon. [[image:ebb-n-folks-threes-company-cover.jpg:What’s with the picture in the middle?:center:0]]
Continue reading
Revisions of Azamar
Here are revisions of several illustrations that was made for Wicked North Games’ Azamar RPG. Click here for a bigger image of this flaming skeletal monster on DeviantArt. Click here for a bigger image of a Shrave administering first aid to an injured Immyr. My first Azamar art redone! Click here for a bigger image of the Immyr city.
Continue readingClark Flies
Smallville has ended its 10 year run making it the longest running series based on a comic book ever. I’d like to say it was a great run through and through, but it did lose my attention somewhere during the fourth season due to Clark’s teenaged lovey-dovey hijinks with Lana. I saw the odd episode here and there over the years, but I never had the urge to return to my regular viewings of it… until the 8th season. [[image:clark-flying.jpg:Some Kryptonian:center:0]] It seemed like a switched was flipped and it went into full DC Universe mode. We’ve already had the Smallville‘s Elseworlds version of Supergirl, Green Arrow, Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman on the show beforehand. But they were visually adapted to fit the “no capes, no tights” rule of Smallville. Suddenly we were getting Maxima, Zatanna, and of all characters Doomsday, that very nearly resemble their comic book counterparts! (The […]
Continue readingPoster for Horizon
Horizon is a short film written and directed by Emma Coats, set in the wilds of a post-apocalyptic near future. I’ve seen a rough cut of the film. It looks spectacular and is very ambitious project. Also, it has a zeppelin! I was invited to contibute a movie poster to be displayed in a gallery released with the DVD and here’s what I came up with. Watch this space for details of its upcoming release! [[image:horizon-poster.jpg:80s comic adapation movie poster at its cheesiest?:center:0]] Click here to see more photos and posters for Horizon. Click here to see a bigger version of my poster on DeviantArt.
Continue readingCover for Crater
Ebb & Folks has again given me the assignment to come up with another cover for one of their books. This time it’s the novella Crater by David Leyman, now on sale on Amazon.com as an ebook. [[image:ebb-n-folks-crater-cover.jpg:That star is Aldebaran, by the way.:center:0]] It’s a star and time spanning tale of humans versus a ruthless alien civilisation at war. Check it out at the link above to buy and download it.
Continue reading
D6 Magazine: Issue Two Artwork
I have been illustrating for an article for a new issue of the D6 Magazine. This hilarious entry by Mike Fraley, entitled “Graiv’s Magical Curiosities”, is a marketing drive by the eponymous business owner trying to sell off some strange and unconventional magical artefacts that seem utterly useless at first glance. Would you purchase… Using the razor would cause an inhumanly quick hair growth where blade touches the skin. The flame from this torch cannot be easily doused by water… but human voice will cause it to go out. This dagger will slice through everything except living matter. The Blue Ring just turns the wearer’s skin blue. Also depicted here are the Trackless Shoes, the Ever Empty Tankard, the Nevertied Rope and the Compass of Impeding Doom. Read about these magical gear and more in the upcoming issue of D6 Magazine. Click here to download the previous issue. Check out […]
Continue readingForsooth! A Thor Movie Review!
[[image:thor-vs-destroyer.jpg:Drawn by Hisham:center:0]] A Thor movie. Can you believe it? Produced by Marvel themselves instead of licensing it out to another studio? Directed by Kenneth Branagh? I wish I could go back in time to tell 13-year-old, comic book fan Hisham how awesome the future will be in the movies. He would go nuts. In a good way. Mostly. So how does one adapt the tale of super-powerful Asgardians into a movie continuity that will also include Captain America, Hulk and Iron Man? It appears the answer to that is, “to totally embrace them as interdimensional space beings using supertechnology so advanced it appears as magic to humans”. And boy does it totally embrace that fact, and its Silver Age Comics origins – with some Ultimate Marvel elements. Make no mistake, this is not a primer to Norse mythology. This is a story where superheroes are kicking ass and taking […]
Continue reading
Azamar Deities Part Three
Herein are two more illustration for Wicked North Games’ Azamar RPG. Syndia of the Cliffs, the Goddess of the Moon, the Enlightened One, the Shining Lady… enemy of the Ash Lord and the thwarter of Mo’s mischief. She vigilantly protects her charges on Azamar from otherworldly threats. Balmaritch is the deity of truth behind illusion, with an abundance of disguises among others, clockwise from top left – Hanath the crone, Vankoln the warrior, Naalateth the magician, Marvanock the miser and Parkoxina the thief. (The final artwork has a few modifications done to it compared to this version.) Click on the links to see Parts One and Two of the Azamar Deities illustrations.
Continue readingSages of RPG Game Art
Here are some recent commissions from Sages of RPG in New Hampshire. These are some artwork for their upcoming (and yet-unnamed) game. Stay tuned for more details of this “bright colored happy silly game without being corny,” according to game developer Wayne Moulton Jr. [[image:sorpg-monkey.jpg::center:0]] [[image:sorpg-crowd.jpg::center:0]] [[image:sorpg-barrel-organ.jpg::center:0]]
Continue reading
A Banner Image
This is some incredulous Hulk, who is said to be gamma-irradiated. Which sounds unhealthy. This was a warm-up sketch using a new brush I recently got with ink. Something is still not right with how I wield the brush. I suppose more practice is needed. Update (May 13, 2011): I’ve coloured Bruce:
Continue reading33 Months
I’m just not even going to mention how late this entry is or the reasons why because they’re all the same boring reasons recycled month after month. At any rate, the girl is now 33 months old! 2.75 years old already! [[image:2011-0422-22.jpg:Fashionably bored?:center:0]] Honestly, I like the picture above because we rarely see this expression of calmness and peace about her. 😉 * As usual, mouse over the pictures for captions It has been a quiet and rainy month. Poor Yaya only got to go to the playground maybe twice this entire time we’ve been home (and we didn’t go out to New Jersey this month). Why? Are we just lazy parents trying to raise a couch potato? Well, not quite. It’s just rained almost every day for weeks now. The backyard will be sprouting mangroves and alligators will be migrating there soon. We are all getting such cabin fever […]
Continue reading