Roger Langridge's Blog, page 276
February 3, 2013
Day of the Boob
McNutt, that is... Boob McNutt, created by the great Rube Goldberg. I started this one as an experiment in drawing with Manga Studio, got frustrated that it looked like shit, and drew this one on paper in a fifth of the time. Digital schmigital.
February 2, 2013
Ball of the Foot
For someone who knows zero about football, I seemed to get a lot of football-related jobs at one time. This was the cover for a children's book by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore, still available second-hand, apparently. This goes back to before I owned a computer, when it would take me days of mucking about with acrylic paint to do any kind of colour job - which dates this from the mid-to-late 90s, I suppose. Really, after doing this for a few years, it was a question of learning to colour by computer or starving.
February 1, 2013
The Players
Some of the cast for the Fred the Clown story I'm working on. The butler-ish character isn't quite there yet...
January 31, 2013
A Horse of a Different Colour
The Fred the Clown story I'm working on right now is going to have a horse in it, so I thought I'd better have a bit of practice - I drew Barney Google's horse Spark Plug recently, but with that big horse blanket over him all the time, Sparky could look like a potato under there. Anyway, I thought this was okay for a first attempt - might make the head a bit smaller, it's a bit donkeyish here.
January 30, 2013
Double Humbug
More work-in-progress.
January 29, 2013
Boom! Town
I was asked to come up with a banner design for Boom! Studios' alt-comix imprint, Boom Town - something they could use at shows like SPX, with a slightly artsy-comix aesthetic. I'm not even sure I qualify, but they asked nicely, so I put my best foot forward.
First I submitted a few rough ideas...
They decided to go with the last one, so here's the finished result.
I think I botched the colour choices somewhat, looking back... colouring for me is such a trial-and-error process, I doubt I'll ever get the hang of it. The difficulty came from making the "Boom Town" logo stand out against all the other details – I had to make those rather muted in order to make the words pop, and I could never quite get it looking right to my eyes. In hindsight, I should probably have made the lettering light and the background darker... of course, the solution's always obvious after the deadline has been and gone!
First I submitted a few rough ideas...
They decided to go with the last one, so here's the finished result.
I think I botched the colour choices somewhat, looking back... colouring for me is such a trial-and-error process, I doubt I'll ever get the hang of it. The difficulty came from making the "Boom Town" logo stand out against all the other details – I had to make those rather muted in order to make the words pop, and I could never quite get it looking right to my eyes. In hindsight, I should probably have made the lettering light and the background darker... of course, the solution's always obvious after the deadline has been and gone!
January 28, 2013
The Great Man
One of my all-time comedy heroes. The sketch isn't quite there - it looks like the work of a moderately talented fifth former from here - but still.
January 27, 2013
Hawwy Potter
Young Thomas is right in to his Harry Potter at the moment, and he also knows his Tex Avery back to front, so this was only a matter of time. Cracks us both up.
January 26, 2013
The Stationery Ape
This image has been on the top of my letterheads and invoices for a while now - longer than a decade, I'm sure. Every so often I think about changing it, but by now I'm reluctant to part with him...
January 25, 2013
Big Feet
I tend to have a few stock sketches in my repertoire for conventions, and this is one of them - there are a bunch of versions of this floating around out there. I have no idea if Animal's feet are really that big, but it works for me.
