The ever AWESOME Mal and Chad book 3: Belly Flop will be with us very soon and to help push it’s publicity Stephen McCranie (incredibly talented and genuinely great bloke) is running a competition called Make a Splash for Belly Flop! All you have to do is create a M&C art piece, OR just go colour in one of his! All info here! AND there are some awesome prizes too!!!!!
Anyway, here’s my entry, hope you like it…
ANOTHER tee design up on my Red Bubble account:
Hope to get some artwork up that’s not necessarily a tee design soon…
Sorry for the looooooooong delay in posting anything on the blog, but it’s a busy Christmas period and there’s been a looooooot of illness in the house, so happy new year and here’ a little quick sketch of the Emperor I threw together:
I’ll try to get something decent on here very soon. I have an awesome Buzz Lightyear pic to show you from the great Scott Henricks
My aim is to get posting some more pics this year as well as share with you all a couple of projects I hope to get finished this year. Exciting times!
Just thought I’d share with you a couple more sketchcards I finished recently for a fund raising event, so I hope they help…
I also received an AWESOME sketchcard from Joe Hogan. I entered one of his personal Star Wars competitions that he runs on deviantart with my Stormtrooper sketchcard:
And this is what I won from him:
I love Joe’s stuff, go check out his blog and take a look at his DeviantArt account, it’s well worth it!
Did an A4 marker pic for my son, he LOVES Buzz Lightyear. Came out ok, but I think I need to do some more dramatic poses next time:
Will hopefully do a Jesse pic for my daughter soon.
Thanks to everyone who keeps looking at my stuff, it’s ALWAYS appreciated!
Just thought I’d let you all know I’m currently selling a load of stuff.
First off I listed these skechcards on ebay, take a look here
I also have a few other bits and bobs in my Etsy store here
I’ve decided to also open commission requests. First time I’ve done this so be gentle…
Offering Full colour sketch card as per most of my stuff of your choosing (no nudity and I reserve the right to decline a commission 
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£10 via paypal (shipping inc). Message me if you’re interested on kev_brett (at) hotmail.com
Thanks
Kev
Influences Part 04 – Dani Jones
Dani Jones it has to be said is one of the most inspiring people I know (via the internet)! She makes me want to go and draw and create stuff!!
When I first started getting back into art, somehow I stumbled across Dani and found she was doing a show on Ustream where she’d paint and you could watch and ask questions and talk to her and others in “the room”. I learned so much!! She then set up The Artcast Network, to find other artists who stream live. I found so many more awesome artists because of it!
Being a versatile artist she delved into the world of comics and produced My Sister the Freak. Is there any limit to her abilities??
Take a look at some of her work:
Not only does she plug her own work but she is someone who goes all out to help other artists and so she set up The Illustrated Section. THIS IS AMAZING!! It’s a website where other artists can upload comics or books they’ve produced for people to buy or download for FREE. GO AND HAVE A LOOK IT’S AWESOME!!
I have a lot to thank Dani Jones for and so…THANK YOU!!!
I have to say this week has been fun to share my influences with you and there are so many other awesome people I owe a lot to and so an honourable mention to:
Drew Pocza - Creator of Pokeweed
Josh Alves - Creator of Heropotamus
Mike Haihack - Creator of Cleopatra in Spaaaace!
Katie Cook - Creator of Gronk
Dennis Jones - Also check out his blog
Part 03 – Eric Merced.
This is a guy who’s work is sooo varied he always keeps you guessing. He can do comic book work/illustration/chibi (cartoon big headed characters)/cartoon.
What makes Eric such a great person to follow is that he’s always open with what he draws, how he draws and all his learning stages. He’s constantly throwing up something to help teach you but also helps him! It’s awesome to see someone with such drive and passion and so good at what he does, being so humble and willing to help.
A good friend of mine on Twitter he’s always willing to help me with my art (although his taste in films is questionable!!).
Check out his awesome work and variety of styles:
Go pick up his FREE comic Spaced Thing and while you’re there pick up his other books
An awesome artist and great friend – Eric Merced
*The creator of webcomics Frank Rain/Dog Saint/Spaced Thing/Ouch! (go bug him to delve into them again 
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Influence Part 02 – Skottie Young
An artist for Marvel, Skottie Young’s artwork is absolutely stunning. The way he inks really does make me want to delve more into that side of things and the way he uses shapes just gets me excited!
Take a look at these bad boys:
He recently did a book called The Adventures of Bernard the World Destroyer – Awesome!! And I’d love one day to own his collection of sketches, Junk One
Skottie is also the man behind art for the comic series Ozma of Oz go check it out.
And finally he’s recently teamed up with artist Scott Morse to do warm up sketches based on a theme or film and these are incredible sketches, keep an eye out
Part 3 tomorrow…
Thought I’d post some of the influences that have helped me in one way or another with my art. There’ll be a couple more after this one and there are too many to do an in depth focus, but I’ll try to get some mentions in when I can.
First off is an awesome artist who when I first started taking art seriously influenced me hugely and I eventually was fortunate enough to own a piece of his work:
Otis Frampton
His work is awesome. I love the way he draws people and especially because of his love for Star Wars!
He tends to work either with markers or digitally. His colouring, especially digitally, really is awesome. But enough of my rambling, take a look at these:
If you like these go to Otis’s website and have a look around, there’s a ton of awesome artwork!
I’ll post another influence tomorrow.
