AMPERSAND

Been a while since i've posted on here, so Happy New Years and all that jazz! I've had a pretty relaxing start to 2013 so far, a well needed break! But i'm starting to get back in the swings of things now and i've got a bunch of exciting projects to work on. So stay tuned!

This is something i started late last year, and finished off the other day. Because i love Y The Last Man! And one day i'm going to name my pet Ampersand.

Ink, PS

THE LAST MAN

I am no fan of Collage. There's tons of great of Collage art out there that i think is amazing and am flabbergasted by it's beauty, but me doing collage? Nuh uh. Everything sticks to my fingers, there's mess everywhere. Never enjoyed it.

So last year when we had to do a Collage project, in which we had to pick a reference image (photo or artwork) to recreate, i thought i should pick something that i would be really excited about. Y: The Last Man is one of my all time favourite comic book series. It's amazing, from start to finish and the final issue is one of the few comics that will make me cry like a baby. And it's got a fantastic cover by Italian Illustrator Massimo Carnevale. As you can see below, with my attempt at collage. (click for larger view)



The whole time i was working on it, it looked like a complete mess. Really bad. Thanks to everyone's encouraging words though i soldiered on and it actually ended up coming out okay! Unfortunately i didn't get time to finish it, and it certainly didn't make me wanna do anymore collages, but i was quite happy with this in the end.

Y THE LAST MAN

Another entry for the OzComics weekly challenge. This weeks theme was comic book romance, and i straight away thought of Yorick and 355. But i couldn't do a Y the Last Man drawing without including Ampersand and Dr Mann, so i got them in there too...

Here are my original pencils for this. I always enjoy seeing different work stages so i figured i'd post this up. I scanned it at this point and printed it in light blue to ink over. Which i then brought back into the comp and coloured in PS for the finished version above.

As i was doing this i though it'd look awesome on a tee so i mocked one up to have a look. I want one so bad!

Y the Last Man is one of my all time favourite comic book series. It's incredible and i highly recommend it.