Badfunk

Sneak peek at something I'm working on for the second SatelliteSoda art book.

Gladstone's School For World Conquerors

Another page as promised, new scene, new palette.

line art : Armand Villavert
colors : Dylan McCrae

Gladstone's School For World Conquerors

Mark has graciously allowed me to share with you all one page from Gladstone's a week till its release. Which is great news as Gladstone's is all I am working on right now aside from various art book and exhibition work.

I decided to kick things off tonight with three pages and will update with a new one every week.

When I was asked to start over with the book six months ago I decided to take a very less is more, theory over technique approach. Meaning I could get the pages finished somewhat quicker but still produce something pleasing to the eye. I was aiming for an old school Hanna-Barbera animation vibe. I hope you enjoy.

line art : Armand Villavert
colors : Dylan McCrae

DOOM

Been practicing the painterly thing a lot the past few months. Found this old Dr. Doom sketch and decided to play around with it before heading off to work. This is the first thing I have been happy enough with, in this style, to post on my blog.

Blue Beetle

SDCC portfolio page, taken from DC Comics 'Blue Beetle' issue 24.

line art : Rafael Albuquerque
colors : Dylan McCrae

Seedless

Bit of fan art inspired by Corey Lewis' online comic "Seedless".

Longshot

Found these yesterday. Color tests for a Longshot comic which is still yet to see the light of day.

line art : Corey Lewis
colors : Dylan McCrae

Skeletron

One of the main characters for my Blue Team GO! story, which I am still aiming to have done in time for Popgun Volume 4. He goes by the name Skeletron, though he answers to Hector Skeletal also.

Lemon Yeti

Main character for something Mark Smith and I are working on.

Preview

Work in progress screen shot.

line art : Christopher Copeland / Kris Anka
colors : Dylan McCrae

Preview

Works in progress screen shots.

"Hellblazer" page for my SDCC portfolio.

line art : Sean Gordon Murphy
colors : Dylan McCrae

Page for "Conman".

line art : Nick Pitarra
colors : Dylan McCrae

Page for Image Comics "Gladstone's School For World Conquerors" trade paperback.

line art : Armand Villavert
colors : Dylan McCrae

Cover remix for "The Mighty Thor" issue 148.

line art : Jack Kirby / Vince Colletta
colors : Dylan McCrae

"Henry's Forest" test page for "Hey Kids! Comics" trade paperback.

line art : Nick Edwards
colors : Dylan McCrae

Page for Image Comics "Gladstone's School For World Conquerors" trade paperback.

line art : Armand Villavert
colors : Dylan McCrae

Valhallatron

Main protagonist for my Blue Team GO! story, which I am aiming to have done in time for Popgun Volume 4, a disembodied cosmic viking head named Valhallatron.

Fantastic Four Villains

Slow day at the comic shop today, so I did a bit of sketching between serving and chatting with customers. Sketched out a page worth of head shots of my favorite Fantastic Four villains.

King Of Hearts

The Suit Up exhibition opening was Friday night so I can finally show off the piece I created for said exhibition. For those tuning in, Suit Up is a collaborative project put together by Kate McInnes and Sean Kelly and comprises several artworks from various Australian street, comic, and illustration artists, applying their unique style to playing cards.

The image below went through many revisions before I finished it early November last year, scrapped and began anew three times in total. It was actually a full year in the works, normally I work quicker, but I had a lot going on and probably a few more projects going then I could actually handle. This was also a big exhibition for me, so I wanted to really impress everyone attending.



My biggest source of inspiration was the balls to the wall rock video below.

The video is for Probot's "Shake Your Blood," it features 66 SuicideGirls, Dave Grohl on drums, and Lemmy of Motörhead fame on lead vocals and bass.

Batman 2.0

This was done for the recent "Batman 2.0: The Dynamic Do-Over" contest over at Project: Rooftop, which was inspired by the recent death of Bruce Wayne in Final Crisis. The idea for the contest was to redesign the Batman costume should Dick Grayson take over the mantle of the Dark Knight.

My main source of inspiration was the Batman Beyond costume, which is one of my favorite costume designs alongside the Silver Surfer. I absolutely love the simplicity of the design and tried to create something similar while maintaining elements of the current Batman costume and evoking the spirit of Dick Grayson's Nightwing costume.