For some reason I get a lot of jobs where the client wants a robot as a character. I suspect this may be because there's an image of a robot on my business card, which I reason demonstrates the power of subliminal imagery. With this in mind my new business cards will picture a stack of freshly-minted £50 notes with an arrow pointing to an illustration of my wallet. Worth a try...
Anyway, I just found the above thumbnail rough in the archives, which I've posted to address the balance and to prove that I can draw things other than automatons. It's a thumbnail rough for my first commissioned comic strip which was published by AQQ magazine in autumn 2007. It's interesting to see the differences between the rough (above) and the finished artwork (below). I was never entirely happy with the end product, which, as is often the case, was compromised due to publishing deadlines. I still like the idea, though the version that saw print lacks the simple charm and fluidity of the rough.
I'll post some more pages soon and explain what it's all about...
