Roger Langridge's Blog, page 243

Spinach City - A Patootie Ta Kill Fer

Here's the inked version of that Popeye-in-the-style-of-Sin-City commission. Lots of fun, this one!

More Moose

Following up yesterday's post about Rocky and Bullwinkle, IDW will also be releasing a "Classic Rocky and Bullwinkle" collection featuring work by the mighty Al Kilgore. I was asked to do a new cover for it - and here it is.

Rocky and Bullwinkle!

I'm a keen follower of Mark Evanier's website (as all right-thinking people should be), so it was a great pleasure to see yesterday that he's announced the upcoming Rocky and Bullwinkle four-issue series that's coming out in March 2014 from IDW, which Mr. Evanier will be writing and I will be drawing.

I guess that means it's okay for me to talk about it as well; I've been sitting on this one since March this year, so when I say I'm relieved to finally be able to spill the beans, I'm not kidding. It'll be a whole year between my being approached to work on it and the first issue hitting the stands!

So far Mark's scripts have been everything you'd want them to be: very smart and very silly at the same time, nailing the tone perfectly. I only hope my drawings are living up to the material. Mark's post about it can be read here.

Aaand here's the cover to the first one. Out in March, if I haven't mentioned that already.

What I Did On My Day Off

Here's something for the Photoshop nerds. I did this little experiment to try and create a Photoshop action which will take a line-art drawing with blue wash and turn it into a line-art drawing with a dot screen tone. I tried to make it so that I can pencil in magenta and the pencils will drop out, too - which seems to work. The end result looks a little bit like Billy DeBeck.

Basically, I just want to be Billy DeBeck.

Here's the "Before..."



... and here's the "After."


I think this might have possibilities, not least for creating art very, very quickly that still looks halfway decent. I shall be exploring this further...

Spinach City

Pencils for a commission.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

And here's one I made earlier

Here's the inked version of the piece I posted yesterday. It's for the London Film and Comic Con booklet, as I'll be a guest there in March 2014.

Adventures in Swamps and Theatres

"Hello Orphans"

Drawn to amuse my daughter in a restaurant recently.

Work In Progress

Here;s the panel I posted the pencils of last Saturday, all inked up.