Here are some new doodles. Man I was buying a Wacom Cintiq yesterday, filled out the whole thing, ready to pay 1200 Euro with paypal but at the final step it wouldn’t let me pay because my account is frozen until I provide anti-laundering info. Yes, I have that much cash in my paypal. No, when you hit over 1000 clams in payments you have to validate your account.

So I didn’t order the Cintiq. And I was thinking about it all night. Should I or shouldn’t I? They are brilliant but I have no room for it on my desk. I don’t know, maybe I’ll do it later. Look at it:

Just bought the new Corel Painter 10. Yes, BOUGHT.

There’s no major new features in it but alot of the stuff has been tweaked. Spent all day Sunday dicking around with it between dipping in and out of Call of Duty online.

Spent way too long on this piece but it was worth it because I learned so much. I could do it in a hour now if I had to do it again. Loads of sloppy amateur mistakes in it but good for my first proper stab at digital painting. I gave up on it before doing the wings and the gun but I’ll definitely finish it. Hi res version here

This vulture dude is part of a comic about dueling robots that I’ve been working on for around 6,000 years. If I can crack the painting skills I’ll be pitching it to 2000AD. I just finished up the roughs for 2 new Twisted Tales and one of them, The Apartment, is my best yet.

And here’s another. All naked rat moles should be killed by mini drones for my amusment.

UPDATE: The Vulture pic inspired my da Papa Peanuts to add a glowing green light to his mouth with his top class photoshop skills. Nutty old fokk.

This was from the first issue of Morbid Milton. I love it. My first double page spread.I would have loved to see it coloured. But no. I got dicked. BUT I’m reusing it in a new kid’s book so suck it. View the high resolution version here

Nuff sed.

Wham! Back in Dublin, Sorry Dec, it was an intensive ActionScript thing I couldn’t go nuts with the ol’ pints. Up to my fucking eyeballs, Amperduke is in an envelope ready to be sent off to the printers and I need to organise the launch and exhiibtion thing in The Shaw quickly because I booked a holiday for Feb 16th and will not be able enjoy myself if I havent got The Duke in shops before I leave.

Here’s some more cute cards I made over xmas

A card from Brownie, my mate’s dog

And yes, that is a card to my cat. Commence the slagging……now.

Just realised that the Flickr images dont get scaled down to fit in Internet Explorer and it bumps the right hand menu off. Everyone using IE get that? Firefox all the way lads.

First post of 2008 and already it’s a gay one. Made a caricature for my fwends Susie and Kevin’s wedding, they got married over Christmas. I fucked up him because I was certain the photo was wrong and I met him once so I went off the wacky energetic buzz I got from him. Ho-hum, still learning. Got the bride bang on and thats all that matters innit?

I’m practicing caricatures once a week now so I can go live on Crete and draw big fat heads from Liverpool again and again as I slowly wither into a twisted brown heap.

I got the finished art mounted on a standing A2 board for everyone to sign. Cheapest wedding pressie ever!

Loads more goodness to be announced soon.

Twiddley hey hey! Continuing my bitching about not having anytyime to draw comics, here is a Christmas card comic I made for the wonderful folk at Thinkhouse .

I recorded most of the making of it with Camtasia and will put up the video next week. I love watching myself draw. It’s like wanking on front of the mirror.

Story is as lame as it gets and I obviously had to squeeze in all the staff (without offending anyone). Happy with the way it turned out.

Where’s Amperduke? Where’s Shiznit 5? How do you get jizz stains out of a Communion dress?
These are the questions I am constantly bombarded with. So here’s the beefio, I’m busy with other shit. I’m now working 5 days a week and have a bunch of paying gigs and favours to do. I usually could squeeze an hour here and there in work but lately I’ve just been doing non comic work. Don’t draw as much during the week too as real life tugs at my sleeve, But fuck it, I’m happy.

So Amperduke is completely drawn, the delay is working it all into book form. The cover is a nightmare but I think I’ve nailed it. The launch is mid Janurary. Cover price is looking to be 15 EURO.

So here’s some of what’s eating into my precious dossing time in work.

My boss and dear friend Paul. Uncanny likeness drawn from memory. Uncanny.

Another workmate had a kid a week after Paul.

And a robot for good measure

Busy little bear today so here’s a quickie, these are some of the cards I’ve made people. My first paying gig was making greeting cards, ended badly though. I know Crumb started out doing card illustration too. I got a mention in the last Judge Dredd Megazine
as ‘Ireland’s R Crumb, Bob Byrne’. Sounds good to me!!

I’m such a dope, I only read his stuff about 2 years ago and really should have checked him out sooner. I’ve copied the way he does speech balloons.

For Yvonne’s new job. Chalk and pen

Chalk and pen

Diggy-digital.

Working on a few new ones for new babies and a wedding. Blammo.

My delicate constitution is just recovering from the trip to Birmingham. I’ll post about it this week and show some pics. Meanwhile
here’s some nonsense from 5 years ago. It was for a sketchbook of Irish artists. I stand by alot of these pieces but a few of them are atrocious!!