aSTROfUNK cOVERS

Hey u crazy doods....I'm squeezing in time between changing nappies to post sumthin up here quickly...been trying to finalize a cover design for issue 1 of the funk, got 2 designs here which i think are working pretty well...i slapped these together reasonably quickly, so still lots to do to take one to a final stage...anyways, hit me with feedback on anything u think isn't workin or could be stronger. now i'm gonna boost back to some photoshop sketchin' whilst Elliot gets fed and hopefully sleeps for a couple of hours :)

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this is where we begin

...this is Elliot. Born 11.30 am on friday, third of August 2007, on a gorgeous sunny day in Guildford. He's an absolute belter, and i have the craziest feeling of euphoric natural high wierdness :) ...plus i already have a spiderman costume for when he is 1.5 yrs old, so this kid is 'Lucky' ( napoleon dynamite voice ). Anyways, i spent the afternoon drawing him whilst his amazing mother got some much needed and deserved sleep. It's only a photo of the sketch, i left the pad at the hospital, so its not great quality...but i can't wait to stick it online, so i'll probs update with a better quality scan in a couple of days. So this really is where it begins, and I'm sure you'll be seeing alot more of this little guy on the blog.

Dad out :)

Howdy. Quick post tonight, been astrofunkin it up most of the weekend, since my baby aint here yet, so comic is going well, almost finished, now got all 26 pages past the cleanup stage and into photoshop for colour/tone action....and yeah, i added 2 pages, 24 wasn't enough of a challenge :) So pretty soon i should almost have a finished comic, which will feel f******n awesome!
Anyways, just dropped by me old blog to drop off this poster i just finished for the hero dude of astrofunk...hope u likey...almost finished the cover to issue 1 but taking bit longer than i thought due to it being full colour. But I'll stick it on here very soon, so comeback laters for that! Adios!

Bit of a filler post this....almost finished a couple of new pin-up type things to stick online here, but trying to finish the actual comic pages is slowing that down, so thought I'd stick up some pics of my working area....making the stickers was fun, hope to get a proper sticker sheet done eventually. Clean-up is going pretty well...infact i now have 23 of the 26 pages of issue 1 in Photoshop, cleaned up, panels layed out, ready for colouring and tonal nonsense :) So the end of astrofunk 1 is almost in my sites...almost

Finally gotten around to sorting out some photos stuck on random memory cards and cameras, so thought I'd stick these up, think I got this done a couple of months back...no wait, may have been at xmas time...man this year is flying past...anyways, just a quick spray job for a mate who calls himself the 'Hogstar' and likes to rockout Guitar Hero style...infact i think i have to thank him for getting me into that game, it's frickin awesome! Recommend it to anybody who can't play guitar but wants to pretend they can rock! :)

hey folks...just a quick update, don't post stuff nearly as regularly as i would like to these days, so thought i'd drop in some sketches. This stuff is cover work...pretty happy with the way the right sketch is going, gonna play around cleaning up with some markery felt tip style action. Comic wise, currently working on pages 16/17, so it's getting there...a little behind schedule, but going well....need to find time to finish that spidey pic also , dang it :) Too many visitors coming to check out Pregatron these days, she is pretty big...five weeks to go! As u can see from the sketches, I've also been fiddling around with fonts and logos...those are still in development, but i like the idea of using the rabbit face...also working on a couple of pin-ups still....sooo much to do. Gotta crack on, adios!!

hAPPY 30TH sTAR wARS!!

man alive, it just takes a little thing like a 30th anniversary to remind u how much u love the starwars! soo goood, absolutley loved return of the jedi when i was younger, all those crazy aliens and creatures...jabbas palace was an amazing and scary place for a 5 year old....heck, it still is at 28 :) ...anyways, i couldnt let the 30th anniversary of sw slip by without doing some kinda sketch...so i knocked this up quickly on my lunch break, a quick little birthday card from me to george ;)
Hopefully i will get the chance in the next couple of weeks to do a proper starwars pick that i can spend more time on, really wanna draw a biker scout, i loved the speeder bikes....

fly casual!

da-da-da DAAAAAAA.......bababa bap ba ( bada bada ba badap baaaa ) -Spiderman, and his amazing friends!

..or something like that, every saturday morning before i had to go on the weekly food shop with my folks, i would sit infront of the tv glued to that cartoon...awesome show, loved the theme tune, fire star and iceman were cool, and their appartment with the secret statue switch was awesome :) I still remember drawing lots of spidey pics back then, particularly one with the lizard....I'll have to pester the folks to see if they still have any to stick up here.....anyways, still lovin the spiderman, saw spidey 3 last week, and it really doesnt deserve all the bad reviews. It might not blow u away as much as the first 2, and sure there are a couple of weak moments ( english news reporter = paaaaiiin ) but overall it's still a great movie which i really enjoyed, there's some awesome geeky moments.

anyways, been wanting to do a spidey pic for a while, so finally got round to colouring this one...it's no where near finished yet, and the background is essentially just a scaled-up post it note sketch, but goin well so far i think! Hope it gets all yer spidey senses tingling! :)

Sleep..need sleep..but must post this first :) Just finished another 3 pages of Astrofunk, and these are gonna be the last full pages I put online for a good while. Mainly cuz I want to try and get the 24 page issue finished this summer, get it published somehow, then flog it to all of u lovely people :) Or any punter that will part with there hard earned cash for comic goodness. Anyways, I got alot of pages to go draw/colour, so here's 10 through 12, let me know what u think, I'll be back soon with a new pin up or 2 and some sticker action.

YO! howdy, just droppin in quickly after a weekend of workin on tshirt designs...here's a preview of a new design that's gonna be up on Fanboy real soon, i call 'im GIANTBoy ...hope u all likes it, lemme know if u would be seen dead in it or not, coz i could always kill ya....zombies are cool :) anyways, we also have a bundle of new colours of tees for our original designs, plus some sweet hoodys now over on the site

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cathcya later! keep drawin!! i know i will :)

Bad Bad bad dudes for ya, this here trio are gonna be introduced in the next 4 pages of AstroFunk , and they aint the nicest of peoples....really looking forwards to finishing the pages, and i cant wait for some action to kick in so the 8 bit guns can get some action......anyways, lemme know what u think, and the next update should be actual comic page goodness :)

These are crazy crazy crazy CRAZY NIGHTS!! - kiss it up folks, 4 pages of astrofunkiness for your viewing pleasure....man alive, taking a lot of work this 'make a comic in my spare time' shenanigans, but lovin every minute of it, and almost half way through this issue....deadline is July for finishing the roughly 22 -26 pages, but as u can see that means that my dearly beloved blog here doesn't get updated very frequently....pretty much all i am doing is this comic right now, if i'm not roughing out new pages or colouring up others, then i'm working on a pinup or logo....but, i do have a little pinup of the one and only Peter Parker in full swing ( awesome pun intended ) ..so i should get that up next week....anyways, hope u enjoy these pages, lemme know whatchyall think, and the next 4 should be up real soon, with a bit of a change of scenario....yup, it's bad dude time....see ya in the Future!

oh yeah...why the heck is this font underlined?!? :)

Hey guys - AstroFunk Pinup time, still working on another based on the two roughs posted previously, but this one kinda distracted me for a couple of days...now that this is done ( and now that I have finished Twilight Princess , best game ever ) I can crack on with finishing another bundle of pages...lemme know what u think of the pin-up, I want to get more done for individual characters like this.

Ahoy there! Couple of small updates, all astrofunk flavoured. Currently in the middle of cleaning up pages 6 and 7 , and working up the next few pages after that...but I wanted to re-work the cover design, and that got me into thinking about getting a pin-up done, one image that kinda showed off the main characters well....so got a couple of designs here that I'm gonna cleanup and probably colour, the one on the right will be first as I've already got that ready for colouring.....the photo was me trying to create a stencil for an astrofunk logo....it went pretty well, that's my second attempt, but could probably do with afew tweaks. More pages of the funk coming soon, adios!

MORE ASTROFUNK

Hi, as promised, pages 4 and 5 of the astro flavoured funk are now up, enjoy and hit me with the feedback, i gotta go get crackin on the next 3 pages, I've been workin on the story and this is lookin like a full size issue now with roughly 20 pages...dang! :) - Comictastic!!!

If you haven't checked out the first 3 pages, then scroll down before u click on these two, cheers.

Ok, not really anything to do with sketching in the slightest, but this I'm just a tiny bit excited about this and have had a bundle of requests to get a peek at this picy...so anyways, this is my 13 week old kiddo, currently dancing away in my amazing girlfriends belly.....got this scan on thursday, crazy stuff, looks like their gonna be a dancer, little arms and legs were going crazy. Looking forwards to when the bump is bigger and i can play them lottsa stevie wonder, get it all funked up before it arrives :)

So I'd better try to finish AstroFunk before July 20th then ;) oh, and pages 4 and 5 are gonna be online on wednesday....c u then!

ASTROFUNK is GO!

Woo!! Finally got pages 1 to 3 of AstroFunk done, after a big push last night. I'm pretty pleased with the results, and am looking forwards to finishing off this story....i reckon it's probably about 10 to 15 pages max, but there shouldn't be as much of a wait for the rest of it, pages 4 and 5 will be up in just over a week, then the rest should trickle through gradually. I have a couple of other astrofunk flavoured story ideas, so once this one's dun there's plenty more i wanna get straight into.

Anyways, feels good to have some comic stuff dun, i was thinkin' about it recently, and drawing comics is something I've been doing pretty much forever, i mean i was always drawing when i was growing up, but every now and again i would try to draw a short comic, and sticky tape it together to show to my friends. Basically i flippin love comics, and i hope you enjoy astrofunk! :)

Cheeeers!!

Happy years beginningness! Hope you all had a great holiday, i personally was too busy eating and drinking to even think about drawing, so no sketches today :) However i did find time to play a little of my new Wii console, and there's nuthin more fun than creating your mii persona and battering each other at the sports games....so here's a glimpse at my wierd holidays, that's my brother in law, my sister, me, and the missus ( to be ) , who it turns out is an amazing boxer! Unbeatable! ..hopefully i will have a video up here later today or tomorrow of our crazy boxing antics....

ayways, hope your all full of energy for lots of 07 sketching! My first 3 comic pages are so close to being dun that i can taste the finish line...so i hope to have them up this week! Anyways, i'm having a lot of fun doing them, comics rock my wii world. I think i will also stick up a quick guide to what comics i am picking up these days, there's alot of awesome stuff out there that i gots to recommend!

See ya real soon for some Astro Funk action!!

Astrofunk is here...well almost....thought I'd share my working on this, i was working on some A3 pages, and they're going well, but obviously take longer to draw the bigger the hot dang paper...anyways, I had an idea the other night for a shorter story, like an AstroFunk intro-taster teaser-thing-umy. Anyways, if your easily bored or don't think comics are awesome, then stop reading now :)

I had a very small rough 2 min idea of the pages on paper, so yesterday morning I got the 3 pages thumbnailed out on post-it notes, workin small and quick
















Then I photocopied these up to A4 size, so I can then use them as a guide for working up the pages to the next level...as you can see, there's a couple of changes made at this point, shots that don't quite work ( saved by post it notes again ) but eventually i got there ( i think by this point it's one in the morning and although I'm not yawning I know I should be :)















So that's astrofunk so far...I'm pretty pleased with that as a days spare time work.....next stage is cleaning up these pages with the final line, and getting them coloured...although when i say colour it's gonna be pretty much black and white...oh yeah, these pages may become 2+3 instead of 1+2, but whatever numbers they are I should get the finished 3 pages up real soon!

Comics Rock!

HotNewsUpdateStuff!!

Yo...no drawings for now, just an update....over at Fanboy there's now a bunch of new wallpapers up for download, all classic nintendo themed....i would recommend the NES look :)



This just in...check out this new video from talented Scottish director dude , everyone loves a bit of Rocky :) - Limber

ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba, bappa-ba ....bap. Been getting into astrofunk bit more this week, currently working on the first 4 pages on some a3 bristo board at home, so should get those online in very near future...what i gots 4ya today is just some development work on the cover, not final yet , needs tweaked and cleaned a little, but thought i'd drop it into the blog mixer. Lemme know whats u think. Should also get some character sheets up soon. It's a weekend of drawing for me!! Adios muchachos!

rAWK! This weekend, I took some time out from beating the un-living crap out of zombies, and ventured into the big smoke of londinium, only to bump into one of me hero's - Noodle from Gorillaz! I was mesmerized as you can see, i think i was stood like that for 45 minutes :) What a gal!

bLIMEY! Halloween is past and its November already.....and i slowly edge that little bit closer to actually doing somekinda comic thingy....this is just a bunch of my recenty development sketches for astro funk, i have the first 3 pages pretty much worked out, gonna draw them up very soon hopefuly, just tryin to completely lock down the character style, which has been fun but tuff, not finished yet. But almost there... plus, pretty busy designing tshirts, trying to find a new flat, playing DeAd rISing ( u can pick up a frying pan, stick it on the cooker, let it heat up, then burn the zombies faces!! ) ...but astro funk will happen... u guys need to hassle me more about it :) - tell me i'm a lazy git, kick my ass!

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Woo!! Thought I'd let you all know that the new Fanboy website is up and running! Two of our t-shirts are currently available to purchase, with a couple more designs coming very soon, plus there's free desktops, and a forum were trying to get up and running , so feel free to jump over there and post any sorts of gaming news.

I'll keep this site updated with when new stuff gets thrown up on Fanboy, and apologies for my crap modelling of the t-shirts :)

Mornin' all. Bit of messin about this week, not had loadsa spare time, but managed to find a spare hour or two to knock this up quickly. I finally got around to reading the orignal Philip K Dick book 'Do androids dream of Electric Sheep' , which was great, quite diferent to Blade Runner in some areas, but really enjoyable. Anyway, just some photoshop fun at the end of a workin day :)

In other news.... :) Finally updated my website with a link to this page, so the two sites are connected! ..although i havent really updated the website with any new content as such, just a lil' animated link....if u wanna see it u may have to clear your history and stuff first, firefox seems to not like it otherwise :) - www.rossburt.com

This week...i 'ave bin mostly eating.....pizza :) been a busy one at work this week, so practically no sketching dun, but did have a birthday card to do ( warning: cuteness within ) and managed to make a little bit of progress texturing my lil' robot and his walkdog. So hopefully get him finished soon and actually get some drawing done - one the train tonight to scotland again, so no excuses if i dont have anythign to show next week :)

have a gooood weekend!

October already, so that hopefully means i have a halloween party to make a costume for soon.... as for this week, been trying to fix a broken pc, funnily enough crayons weren't much use so it aint going fast....but i have salvaged afew things from my old hard drive, one of which is this Lil'robot guy and his Dog ( i'll be your dog, a boogy boogy woogy boogy ) ...eh....well, a dog that happens to be a walkman, cassette style....anyways , so i started this guy a couple of months or so ago, but never got him finished, so this here is the state he's in now...almost dun with the model, gotta unwrap all of him before i apply that smooth button :) which you can see i've dun test runs for on the heavier mesh. Should hopefuly have him textured real soon, then gonna just chuck him in some illustration stuff at first, maybe animate him eventually one day far away.....

oh, i may have to give him a skateboard or rollerblades :)

hI. Not been doing very much sketching this week - due to 2 things - 1:Lego starwars 2 still being amazing, the bounty hunter missions are swweeet, and -2: Painting the above xbox 360 faceplate for my flatmates birthday... she's a fan of my rabbit, don't worry i didn't force that design on her :) Turned out not bad, just needs a protective coat of spray varnish i reckon, but good practice for future faceplate designing, might have a go at my own one next.

Suck it up folks. Hot nutz poster action, courtesy of a rainy afternoon in Glasgow. What better to do than fiddle around in photoshop. Anyways, went through a few variations but I'm really happy with the final poster - just the actual comic to do now! :) gonna get some of that dun tonight probably.....thanks to Rowan for the mac time and help, hope this gets u all excited about the comic. If not, get the heck off my blog!!! ;)

Just been to an hour of life drawing - man i'm rusty, need to improve alot, and luckily i should manage to catch this class pretty much every week for the next month and a bit.....did a mixture of one minute and ten minute poses, prefer the one minute stuff myself....more nakedness next week then hopefully!

Odd Socks. Always a problem, but not for this little guy :)
Just a quick colour study on my lunch break worked up from the train sketches....next week maybe i'll move on from drawing bunnies...infact i imagine its gonna be starwars themed next week, lego star wars 2 has been consuming me xbox style. Sooo good. Plus check out the new links i just added, Beat 13 and Process Recess, both great sites.

This one's for Rowan. Enjoy.