Midnight in Elwoodland

A better look at the first panel of this strip.

Elwood et Dave

This is one of the sketches I did while plotting out this Elwood strip and I think it's my favourite drawing of Elwood ever. Sketches like this are done in seconds and are no more than visual notes, so I don't bother about keeping to a style or ensuring the characters are on model - I just need enough to record what needs to happen in the strip. Which is why I think I like it. If I sat down to draw the strip without this sketch I don't think I'd've captured this expression with the way I've come to draw the characters - not to mention how these things always become more bland once they're cleaned up and inked. Sketches like this often do spur on changes and developments in my art style but that's often a gradual thing - especially when I worry about suddenly changing something that already exists. Now I just want to go nuts and just start finding new ways to draw the strip without worrying about trying to work it into the existing style.

This may seem like small potatoes in the grand sphere of illustration but maybe some like-minded indivudals know where I'm coming from.

Elwood Returns

Elwood finally returns! Check out the first new strip on the double time!

www.elwoodcomic.com

Boom

I just felt like drawing something comic-like. I might change the background later, but today the more realistic fireball I've made here looked better than the cartoony one.

A Ship on the Horizon...

A concept sketch for the Elwood story I'm currently writing. Pastels on paper.

Elwood, Waterfall

I've been sitting in at the Degree Show most of this week, and spending a good bit of that time in my sketchbook. Went to the art shop in the college today and bought some new markers and broke them in on this sketch I did yesterday.

Trooper in High Quality

I've made the Vimeo version of Trooper public so you can see it in better quality.

Trooper from Mark Haldane on Vimeo.

Trooper!

I finished my film about 3 weeks now (seems like 3 days) and the Degree Show is now open! You can see Trooper and all the other films from my year on the website!

http://imaging.dundee.ac.uk/animation/trooper.html

Or visit the Degree Show here in Dundee to see all the films in superior sound and picture quality.

Effects Animation

Last Show - Lightning Animation on Vimeo.

I did the lightning effects in this film. Check out more on the Last Show blog!

Trooper Poster