Inktober 2017, Days 1-5

My first few drawings for Inktober. It might also be Drawlloween as I've chosen a Halloween/horror theme, although I'm not using the Drawlloween prompts. 

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Heart for a Heart

I drew this for the British Heart Foundation's #heartforaheart campaign to spread awareness of heart disease.

Sketch

Penguin

Are penguins Christmas-y? I don't care, this one is. Just felt like doing something quick this evening. I'll see if I can find the time to do a pic a day for Advent.

December 1st

Doppelganger

This started as a self-portrait, but it went a bit skewiff. So, not ideal for an avatar, but I still like it.

Farseer Album Art

A recent commission that I can finally show off - the front cover for the upcoming Farseer album. I don't work in this style very often so it's a fun challenge when I do. Not sure if the emphasis is on fun or challenge there.

Some detail

Drawlloween Day 6: Pumpkin

Drawlloween Day 5: Werewolf

By total chance, Warren Zevon came on while I was drawing this, so I threw in a reference to round out the picture.

Drawlloween Day 4: Vampire

Ever been in a relationship you knew was only going to end one way but you just couldn’t stay away?

Drawlloween Day 3: Goblin

This one's may a little less Halloween-y, but it seemed like a fun situation to draw a goblin in.

Overall I'm not super-satisfied with how the Goblin turned out, but since this is a drawing-a-day situation I'm not going to worry about it.

Drawlloween Day 1: Ghost

I've been busy the past few days so I'm starting Drawlloween a bit late. Hopefully I can catch up. Here's day 1, Ghost. I felt like trying vectors for this.

If you're a Tumblrer, I'm going to post my work there too which you can follow at http://markh-art.tumblr.com/

Draw All The Robots - Details

A few close-ups from my previous post. I remember feeling too embarrassed to post this at the time. It hadn't occurred to me that someone might have already done this sort of thing.

Draw All The Robots

I was looking through some old work today and found this piece. I started it a few years ago for some International Robot Day (there's a lot of them, can't remember the exact name) but before I could finish the colour and fill it out with a floor, shadows, reflections, etc. I discovered someone had done almost the exact same picture (only with a tighter composition and the great concept of "Where's Wall-E") and I lost all the wind in my sails. I couldn't face dedicating any more hours to what would amount to be an uninspired duplicate.

I'm still really proud of the art here though. I am tempted to finish it off just for myself - might make a nice poster for my wall. What do you think? I might have to update it with all the new popular robots from the past few years if I did.

Elwood Mountain Rescue

There's a story behind this, but it's not important.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

If you're looking for a cheap gift for one of those smaller, less mature people that seem to be everywhere - children, I think they call them - then you could do a lot worse than giving them the gift of reading. "But Mark", I hear you cry, "kids don't want books for Christmas! They want technology and special effects and superhero origin stories!" You didn't let me finish! Jeez! This isn't just any book, this is an e-book, loaded with all the stuff kids yearn for, including that touchscreen interaction they seem to love so much. So pick up The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, adapted from the L Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) original and let the young folk in your life learn the story of Santa in revolutionary boredom-annihilating condensed form, interspersed with animated illustrations by yours truly!

Snap, Crackle and ArtPop

You may have heard Lady Gaga's new album has a app tie-in, but did you know it has an edible element?

No real meaning behind this, I just liked the title.

Will-o'-the-wisp Rewispited

I wanted a red version of this picture for a background image.

30 Movies #5 - Fight Scene

I passed on some grander and more memorable cinema fights in favour of this scene from TMNT. This rooftop fight scene made the movie for me. I don't know that I'd have given it a second watch if it didn't have this scene in it. It also gave me a good excuse to draw the Turtles. Despite being from the 2007 movie I decided to draw Leo the way I've always drawn the Turtles. I prefer the classic look to some of the more recent styles. I think the original live action movie was the high water mark for me.

Illustration Work

For the past few months I have been creating animated illustrations for a series of eBooks by Giglets. Unfortunately since the animations are part of the core content I can only share a one or two static images from each title, but hopefully I can show you some animation previews in the near future. Or, you can download the books to your strange touchy glass box device right now!

(Adapted from John Leech's original A Christmas Carol illustrations)

(Adapted from John Leech's original A Christmas Carol illustrations)