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Painting!

2010-03-13T12:28:00.000-08:00

Here's some stuff from my friday painting/media exploration class...

Ingmar and Utgartha

2010-03-09T14:38:00.001-08:00

For my figure illustration class, one of the large assignments this semester has been illustrating a children's story. For my story, I went for David and Goliath, except setting it in a kind of mythical Bronze-age Northern Europe. Here's what I've got so far:

Scene 1: Utgartha Challenges the Livonians

Scene 2: Ingmar refuses King Berig's Armor

Scene 3: Ingmar battles Utgartha

All in all, I've been having a lot of fun with this project. I'll be sad to see it go, honestly.
But next week - the cover!

Some more cool comic stuff

2010-03-08T11:31:00.000-08:00

Here's a cover for a mini I'm going to have for the summer,

And some pencils and inks from within...

Montage/Book Cover

2010-03-06T15:46:00.000-08:00

A finished piece (for school) that was for a montage project. It's a comic cover!
(If you've read much late-seventies Conan, you may recognize that FONT-OF-STONE that I used.)

Here's two of the later-stage roughs for it.

THE BATTLE CONTINUES

2010-02-25T17:21:00.000-08:00

KING RADIO (king of the radioactive men) VS QUITE A FEW PEOPLE

SPACE WIZARD VS SPACE ITALIANS

Some more photos from the front.

BATTLE!

2010-02-20T18:13:00.000-08:00

Every thursday over the past little while myself and these three fine fellows
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decompress by drawing these massive battles, just like when we were little kids. Drawing without direction or purpose (beyond having fun) is very freeing when you're in a program devoted to doing exactly the opposite of that. There are often other participants, but none of them have flickr accounts yet.

UPDATE!
Richard's got another one of these battles posted up on his photostream!
MOON WAR!

Spot Drawings

2010-02-09T06:27:00.000-08:00

Some illustrations for class...

The subjects were, respectively, bear attacks in eastern russia and the woolly mammoth's extinction.

Just another silly comic...

2010-02-05T16:23:00.001-08:00

Dead Lands

2010-01-29T18:04:00.001-08:00

Playing with some different ways to draw comics. This is brush and digital shading.

Also, my final for the Dragonboat poster.

More Schoolwork!

2010-01-26T17:12:00.000-08:00

The final drawing for my previous illustration project, plus some roughs for a coming project.

2009, we hardly knew you....

2010-01-19T18:47:00.000-08:00

Ah - the new year.
I think 2010 will be a good one. Here's some roughs for my new illustration class...

And some stuff I've been playing with lately. I've been attempting to tackle the challenge of digital inking - or at least attempting to do so - and a little bit of inkwash doodling to make sure I still got it.

End of Term

2009-12-21T08:11:00.001-08:00

Buuuh. After a hard-ass semester, I'm done. Here's a few of my final projects!

More Drawings

2009-11-22T14:20:00.000-08:00

For school,

And for fun.

Oh, and GO TO NEW RELIABLE and buy some swag! There's a great deal on right now!

First Semester Blues

2009-11-13T22:41:00.000-08:00

Not much in the way of comics, but here's some stuff I've been doing at school this year - and this is what I've been drawing for fun.

And a goody/oldy from last year - one of my very first drawings using inkwash.

INTERVIEW!

2009-10-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

Got a bit up on the Fabler!
Have a peek!

Comix and Stories! British Dinosaurs!

2009-08-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! Two cool things on the horizon!

FIRST! If you're on the west coast of Canada and near Vancouver for the 23rd of August, PLEASE stop by Heritage Hall for "Comix and Stories"! It'll be good, I think - everyone from Kate Beaton to Brandon Graham will be hangin' out there!

SECOND!

Remember that collaboration I've been talking shit about? No?

Well, the fruits of this collaboration (paintings being made by myself and Nemo Ramjet) will be on display at the University of Surrey as part of the British Science Festival! THAT'S RIGHT!

Here's the blurb from the program:

What if dinosaurs hadn't died out but evolved into an intelligent species? Artists C. M. Koseman & Simon Roy imagine how such creatures and their worlds might have looked. This startling and playful exhibition and children’s workshop makes us question our unspoken assumptions underlying previous images of dinosaurs and our own notions of what it means to be human.

Pretty cool, eh? (It'll be open from the beginning of the festival until the tenth of september). So if you're in the UK or in Vancouver at all over the next little while, either come get a book signed or go admire some feathery dinosaurs.

Signing!

2009-06-27T09:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I was on CFAX 1070 (an AM radio station in Victoria) with Gareth Gaudin of Legends comics, talking about comics, the comic industry, watchmen, and stuff like that. You should really check out Legends this coming saturday - I'll be doing a signing there.

C'mon down!

Fun with the bird-men!

2009-06-24T11:47:00.000-07:00

These are three dinosauroid illustrations I've just been doing for fun. They might end up being part of a set of pieces, each showing a different stage of technological development.

They've been a lot of fun so far...

PRESS!

2009-06-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

Also, stegodons aside, over the past little while I've been doing some interviews with Victoria's finest. A local author and comic-book lover by the name of Troy Wilson has been incredible in helping me get some local press. I did an interview with ShawTV (which will be playing tonight at six o'clock) and on the seventeenth, I did an interview on CBC One in Victoria. Once I can, I'll set up links to 'em...

The wee proboscideans of Flores...

2009-06-18T12:06:00.000-07:00

Ah, the flores stegodon. How confusing those paleontologists have been.
In the first national geographic article, the dwarf stegodon described as being contemporaneous with H floresiensis was stegodon sondaari. The problem was that this water-buffalo sized stegodon went extinct some 900,000 odd years ago. It was replaced by s. Florensis, a "medium to large" sized proboscidean - a size, I assume, to be close to that of your average asian elephant. Hundreds of thousands of years on Flores, however, did dwarf the stegodons, and the proboscidean that did live alongside h. Floresiensis was s. Florensis Insularis, a stegodon which, according to the one paper I could only read the abstract of, was 30% smaller then the ancestral s florensis, based off of the size of the juvenile molars found in the same layer as H floresiensis.

With all this shit in mind, this is my new dwarf stegodon - which, visually, I think is more dramatic a juxtaposition to have with h floresiensis. What do you think?

Shipwrecked With Dan the Gorilla Redux!

2009-06-02T16:55:00.000-07:00

So I've started (finally) redrawing my 24 hr comic from last october. So far I'm pleased with the results. For titles, I'm thinking "Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" or "Land-HO! (an interspecies bromance by Simon Roy)". Take a look at these first four pages.

Vancouver was fun!

2009-05-25T10:00:00.000-07:00

A little something Ed made for the launch... which was great. I got to meet and drink beer with all types of wicked folks - all of whom I'd like to thank for a great time.

MAN ALIVE!

2009-05-14T22:57:00.000-07:00

MAY HAS BEEN INTENSE!

I got back from TCAF (the Toronto Comics Art Festival) last week, which was abso-fucking-lutely great. The whole place was just tingly with positive vibes, and I got to drink a lot of beer with Ed and the indubitable Jason Turner. I had a great time there - then got to have a blast in winnipeg with some friends who I went to Ukraina with. And if the good times weren't rolling enough, I got to do a radio interview with Robin at Inkstuds THIS VERY DAY! CHECK IT OUT!

I KNOW!

IT'S RIGHT HERE!

OH - AND GUESS WHAT! I'LL BE IN VANCOUVER FOR THE LAUNCH, TOO!

Fresh and Delicious

2009-04-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hot off of the presses!

PRESS, PRESS, and MORE PRESS

2009-04-17T14:47:00.000-07:00

There's now an interview I did a few weeks ago with Shaun Manning up on Comicbookresources.com. It's got a whole bunch of preview pages and interesting personal tidbits!

Swing on over and look it up!