Bhuna's Blog

This weeks entry the the Weekly Theme Art Blog

2011-12-11T13:11:00.001Z

This week's theme was my choice, So I went for all things Warrior.

For those young 'uns who haven't heard of Warrior, it was possibly the 2nd best (after 2000ad) British anthology going in the 80's. Stories included, Marvelman (then Mircleman, now back to Marvelman!) V for Vendetta and one of my favourites, Alex Pressbutton. Pressbutton was written by Steve Moore and featured legenary artists such as Garry Leach, Alan Davis and Steve Dillon.

(From Wikipedia) Pressbutton originally a mild-mannered and plant-loving florist, he took delivery of plant matter which included a sentient, telepathic, anesthetic, carnivorous fungus which attacked his body from the feet upwards All the time it was consuming him, it was empathising with him, apologising for eating him and preventing him from feeling the pain. (Bhuna....I shit you not!)

By the time he was rescued, the only remaining parts of his body were his head, right arm and part of his chest. As a result of this damage, he became extremely embittered, especially against vegetation. When rebuilt as Pressbutton, he was fitted with a cleaver as a left arm and, because of his lack of genital equipment, an orgasm-inducing button on his chest clearly marked "Press". Unfortunately, this was sometimes used by later adversaries to disable him (in rapture) while he was attacking them.

Buck Tucker.... Enemy of luuuv!!

2011-11-20T15:31:00.001Z

I'm currently half way through colouring a 1 papers for the next issue of Vanguard (#2)

For those of you who read the second part of Speed Date featured in this years Hallowscream, you may be thinking 'wah??!.. But he's?!.... Wasn't he??!...' You'll just have to buy Vanguard #2 when it's out to find out what the hell going on.

Happy Hallowscream!! Speed Date 2 - Cruz Control

2011-11-04T12:54:00.002Z

OK OK!! I know its a few days late!
If you want to finally read what I have been waffling on about for the last couple of months, then keep reading!

Speed Date 2 is featured in a FREE, yes.. FREE 112 pages comic of Halloween blood and snot. You can download this years’ Hallowscream from here - Hallowscream 2011. It features over 25 illustrated tales of horror and other scary shit! It comes in at 53meg so it may take time to download, but it is well worth the wait. Speed Date 2 has even made the cover!

Speed Date2 written by Dirk Van Dom with artwork by yours truly is featured on page 80-86, so what are you waiting for? Click the link above and enjoy!

Now, if you want to see the whole Speed Date story in gory glorious full colour print, it has been collated for issue 2 of Vanguard #2 written by Dirk Van Dom and will be given away as a FREE GIFT. Issue 2 will be out at the end of the year and will also be featuring your favourite psycho 'Tucker' again written by DvD with m’self drawing some pretty weird shit (again)!!

Speed Date 2... Coming Soon

2011-10-16T16:15:00.000+01:00

I know it's a complete rip off or homage (take your pick) of the fantastic Bill Sienkiewicz's cover of Elektra Assassin #4. But here is a little promo piece I've done for Speed Date 2 - Cruz Control' is going to be featured in this years Hallowscream.

Dirk Van Dom who wrote this sick little tale has quoted on his blog...

'I revisit the character and present a 'what happened next' type epilogue to the tale...a full colour (and what colour!) tale of love and romance that is now in the can, courtesy of the wonderful Bhuna (that's me, that is!), and being lettered as we speak. Speed Date 2:Cruz Control is, like all good sequels, everything the first part had but MORE. MORE violence, MORE blood, MORE death, MORE twists. It is, honestly, the bloodiest 6 pages of comic I have ever witnessed. They don't come much more blood-soaked than this people, so keep an eye out for this year's Hallowscream at the end of the month to find out if Tucker gets his come-uppance or not.'

I think he liked my work!!

Hallowscream 2011 will be available for download on 31st October!

Tucker's next tale is going to be featured in issue 2 of Vanguard which again will be written by Dirk with art my m'very good self.

Anyway, the first part of the story which appeared in last years edition (with art by Ghostpockets) has been made into a short film called SPEED KILLS as Speed Date already exists.

The big news though is that the movie has been picked to appear as part of the short film showcase at this year's Horrorthon festival in the IFI in Dublin. It's being shown on October the 31st at 11am.

Here's a still for the film!

One of Tuckers victims

Some more panels for Speed Date 2

2011-08-27T15:18:00.000+01:00

I've just finished page 4 of Speed Date 2 for this years Hallowscream written by the very talented Dirk Van Dom.

Things are starting to heat up in Tuckers little 'Love Nest'. He may even think he'll get his end away!

Speed Date 2 - Tasters of page 3

2011-08-07T18:44:00.000+01:00

Just finished page 3 of this very dark tale. Here's the first and last panels of the page. Why has she got a blind-fold on the first image and not the last, you ask?? There's only one way to find out. Stay tune kids!

Speed Date Page 2 - sort of!

2011-07-17T17:35:00.000+01:00

Just finished page 2 and here's a little taster of things to come!

The complete Cosmic Excrement

2011-07-10T15:06:00.001+01:00

Here's the full story of my first published comic strip... Cosmic Excrement. Written by Matthew McLaughlin, artwork by yours truelly and lettered by David Evans which was featured in the first edition of Dr WTF 2011. Enjoy!

Anyone fancy a bit of Speed Dating??

2011-06-04T19:12:00.003+01:00

Last year a small press publication called Hallowscream featured a story called Speed Date which was written by the very talented Dirk Van Dom and illustrated by the enigmatic Ghostpockets.

Now Ghostpockets style is very unique. I can see a little bit of a Mike McMahon influence in his work, (after Mr McMahon mutated his style again) which isn't a bad thing.

Anyway, due to other commitments Ghostpockets wasn't available to illustrate the second part of Speed Date - Speed Date 2 - Cruz Control (cool title or what!) So after the work that I had produced for Dr WTF, Dirk asked me if I would like to take over the mantle of drawing the final episode of the story. After reading the script how could it refuse!! Expect, blood, snot and a hot bad-ass chick!

Below is the first page of the second episode. I'm wanting to keep the continuity going buy using Ghostpockets colours, but try and make it a bit more grittier as the story does become quite dark.

And below is the final page of the first episode.

And finally (because I'm waffling) is the initial concept sketch of the main character 'Tucker'

Horrible Histories.... Frightful Futures

2011-05-15T17:49:00.002+01:00

For this months 2000ad Forum competiton

The Brief: A Children's book adaptation of 2000 ad.

"Choose a well known children's book and adapt it to a 2000ad story or character. You could draw the artwork in the style of a certain children's book or pick a scene in a children's book and change it to suit the 2000 ad universe. Anything goes... the sky's the limit."
I wish history was taught like this when I was at school. And probably the funnies program on TV... Horrible Histories.

So I give you not just a single book, but a whole frickin series.... Frightful Futures!! I could have gone on and on with Dastardly Droids, Galactic Gladiators, Barmy Berserkers , etc etc.

Hellboy

2011-04-04T19:30:00.000+01:00

There a brilliant new blog called 'The Weekly Themed Art Blog' which basically does what it says ont he tin!

This weeks theme is Hellboy.....

Exterminate, Exterminate... ermm no you won't!

2011-03-15T21:30:00.003Z

Some more concept work for the Cosmic Excrement Dr WTF!? story.

Even as a kid, Daleks never really scared me. The just seems like a large upturned bin with a sink plunger sticking out of it. Obviously, with Davros being the star villain in the story, we had to have Daleks or Dalexxx at Matt has called them.

We decided that there would be two types, your bog standard Dalexxx and the Sado- Surgeons. I had a lot of fun with these. The tentacles were to give them a bit of a HP Lovecraft feel. I thought it would be cool (in a sick sort of way) if the Sado-Surgeons actually had their surgical instruments grafted to them by Darvos.

Dr WTF!? - The Who and the Villian of this piece

2011-03-12T16:53:00.007Z

Now that the story is going to print very soon, I thought I'd show some of the original concepts that I did for 'The Who' and the main character of the vile little tale... Davros

The Who.

Over the last few years there has been a few changes to who has played the Doctor. Whilst playing around with a few ideas, I though 'why is the 'Doctor' always white?' Why not Chinese, an Aborigines or a black Rastafarian! I like the idea that the Doctor is always quite eccentric in the most English of ways. I wanted to keep that element in the character.. This is where the initial 'By Jove, What What!' phrase came from. Matt has done a cracking job with the script, building the above element into the dialog. And why the blue eyes??? You'll just have to buy a copy and find out!

Davros

Whilst Matt was polishing the script it came quick obvious that our is a blatantly homosexual with distinct homoerotic undercurrent. It's a love story..... honest!

Why not join the Dr WTF!? facebook page to see some teasers of other tales are to be told?

Dr Who WFT?! Teaser

2011-01-23T13:35:00.003Z

Owen who is putting the Dr WFT?! anthology together has asked the contributors for a few teaser images. It's been doing the rounds on Facebook, but what the hell!

More Dr Who WTF... WIP

2010-12-31T12:46:00.005Z

I wasn't going to post these, but I sent them over to Matt who's writing this sick tale for feedback. He's posted panel 1 on Facebook so the cat's out of the bag.

Still work in progress so they need touching up before adding the colours. Images are low res.

Can you draw a terminator/judge with a trombone in front of a christmas tree holding a present with a stick of C-4 stuck to it?? Aye, go on then!!

2010-12-18T17:15:00.017Z

Another illustration for the 2000ad advent calendar. Dirk gave me this sort of strange brief of what he wanted. For once I'm quite glad how it has turned out. There are 20 odd artist who are participating in the story, so if you want to see how this fits in, here's the linki Party Crash

It's very much like the old Ian Livingstone Dungeon & Dragon books from the 80's

The Christmas tree in the background is ours, which has been decorated by my wonderful wife Kim. It was also her idea to have my Judge Dredd action figure as one of the decorations.

2000ad Advent Calender

2010-12-16T21:19:00.005Z

Here's my post for this years 2000ad Advent Calendar. Tiz Fink & Ratty Angel from Judge Dredd waaayyyy back in the 80's. To have a gander and see the previous days enteries of this years Advent here's the linki - 2000ad 2010 Advent Calendar

Merry Christmas y'all

Blasts from the Past!

2010-11-29T16:27:00.004Z

I found these whilst at my parents over the weekend. I must have started these around 15 years ago but never got around to finishing them. They have been done on A3, which is a bit of a sod to scan.

There is a Cantona 7 shirt in the pile of bodies somewhere!!

Dr Who WTF page 2 spoiler

2010-11-27T15:26:00.004Z

I've finally finished page 2. Here's a little spoiler of what is to come.
I'd better to crack on with page 3... time for an operation m'thinks!

Dr Who WTF page 3 pencil panels

2010-11-17T11:21:00.004Z

I thought I'd post up these two panels which I've just pencilled. Quite happy with the way they are looking. You'll have to wait to find out WTF is happening....

Dr Who WTF

2010-11-01T14:54:00.005Z

I've been working on a short 5 page story with Matt McLaughlin (Locus of Death) for the up and coming Dr Who WTF through the 2000ad forum. It's Dr Who, but not as you know it!

Page 1 is all finished and ready for lettering. Time to crack on with page 2!

Dark Judges Ink

2010-07-24T15:52:00.001+01:00

I've never tried to draw the Dark Judges before. I'm not to happy with the way that Deaths gob has turned out to be honest, but hey-hoo!

2000ad July August Competition - Judge Dredd the movie

2010-07-19T21:36:00.000+01:00

This months comp was to design a poster for the new Judge Dredd movie that is going into production soon.

Here's my effort of an entry. I'm not too happy about the lettering to be honest.

I'm going to pop on a few of the images over the next few days

All Done!

2010-05-31T18:12:00.001+01:00

2000ad May - June Forum Competition

2010-05-26T09:42:00.000+01:00

The idea of this months forum competition is to choose any 2000ad related story at page 100 and put your spin on it. If the story has less than 100 pages, choose page 50, if it is less than 50, choose page 25 and so on and so on!

I've chosen page 50 of the Mike McMahon's fanastic run on Slaine - Sky Chariots. Just need to colour and letter it.

Slaine Sky Chariots

2010-05-16T20:15:00.001+01:00

Constanta

2010-05-02T17:48:00.001+01:00

Found a nice little tool in Manga Studio for cross-hatching, so I've added some uplighting and coloured.

Captain Constanta

2010-05-01T16:48:00.000+01:00

Fiends of the Eastern Front - 2000ad April competition

2010-05-01T14:22:00.000+01:00

Trying to russle up a quick entry for this months 2000ad forum competition.

I think Christopher Lee's Hammer House Dracular is legenday, so I 've used this image as a reference for Captain Constanta from Feinds of the Eastern Front. Just need to ink the fecker!

The Zombie-Fest Arrives

2010-04-24T17:56:00.000+01:00

2000ad Zombie-Fest

2010-04-18T16:54:00.000+01:00

Almost there. Just need to put in the finishing touches!!

The Living D(r)edd is finishing

2010-04-13T21:36:00.000+01:00

Finshed the inking & colouring of the dead Dredd! Just have another 5-6 to finish and the background.

Zombie Kano

2010-04-11T17:02:00.001+01:00

Finished the inking for this months 2000ad comp. Quite chuffed on how Kano has turned out!

The Living D(r)edd is rising

2010-04-02T18:09:00.000+01:00

Finsihed pencil.... now for the inking!!

A Zombiefest a-coming!

2010-03-30T21:30:00.000+01:00

Prelim sketch for this months comp!

Hello World!

2010-03-30T16:52:00.000+01:00

I've loved being part if the 2000ad forum, especially the monthly art competition which I thoroughly enjoy taking part in. I decided last year to bring my pencil and pad out of retirement after many many years collecting dust.

Even though I didn't come in the top three (well done Grimm, Cpt Rhodes and Iamthesystem) of last months competition (Breaking the Law!) I received some great feedback which I'm really chuffed about!!