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Howdy folks!  You can grab some of my prints from my online store at the link above,  like my recent Force Awakens Fan Art!

Howdy folks....finally got my fan art finished for The Force Awakens.  Less than a year to go now, man I cannot wait.  It was an amazing feeling getting to draw Luke Skywalker again, alongside cool new characters,  looking forwards to seeing more and trying to resist the spoilers!! 

Chrimbo

Hope u all had a good one folks....now onto 2015!

Howdy folks

Here's a piece based on a bunch of new characters I've been doodling recently....I got the chance to sit and scribble some comic ideas, and it seems like they mostly centered around skateboarding rollerblading colourful characters, so I decided to paint these guys up. Whether I get the chance to do any actual comic pages - well hopefully 2 or 3 at least - maybe that's a good way to do it, aim ..low  :)

I guess it's partly my own way of trying to create something similar to a jet set radio sequel....man i loved that game....the closest at the moment game wise looks like the wicked 'Sunset Overdrive', looking forwards to that.

Found the original sketch, which is actually a little older, some of them have changed but not that much....

Now this is out the door I've got a fantasy character that will be up in a couple days, then it's onto some Gumroad tutorials, do some environment practice, which I shall present to you lovely people soon...ish!

STAR WARS DAY!

May the 4th be with you!

I've been celebrating it mostly this evening, sitting drawing and listening to John Williams.  Oh, and a little Kevin Kiner, he had some great moments on Clone Wars.  Anyways, cannot wait for Rebels,  if u haven't seen the new trailer already then go check it out now!  It's gonna keep me ticking over until episode 7 arrives.....so I fully expect to be drawing Luke Skywalker in his new costume in a years time for the next StarWars day. How awesome is that gonna be....I mean, when I think about how exciting the build up was for Phantom Menace...the Vanity Fair issue with the fantastic photoshoot, the first teaser, the midnight launch of the toys....to go through all that again, but with kids, it's gonna be amazing.  Geeking out already.

Anyways...here's my StarWars day pic of Kanan,  and also a pic I worked up recently for my tumblr, but neglected the old blog here. I do apologise.

Until next time...Fly Casual!

I'm back , ready for Round 2!  God I've missed u all  :)

Sorry folks, this post has been a long time coming.  So what have I been up to?

These days I'm Freelance,  which has been pretty cool so far, working with a variety of talented people on lots of diferent projects.  Some of these I can't share with u on here quite as of yet ( classified Top Gun style ) but some of them I'll put up in the next month or so as I try and actually get back to blogging regularly!

But I'll ease you in for now with some Astrofunk work....I don't really think I'll do another one, but for a little while recently I was looking at re-designing some of the characters, basically doing things...betterer.  So I've got a different take onthe story which would be fun to do, but not sure if I'll ever do it.  I've got two other comic ideas I'd love to at least get past scribble stage, so will focus on those for now.  

Anyways, here's some of what I was toying with on Astrofunk Zero as I called it ( only slightly catchier than Astrofunk:Redemption Legends Turbo X )  For your eyes only.  Coz I'll probably never make it !  :)

I will be back in the next couple of days, I promise Internet!

"YOU HAVE BECOME A RIVAL!"

My latest print 'Battle of the Sith' is up now at my new print store.

As usual it's printed on beautiful Giclee paper, and at 10" x 30" ultra panoramic it looks supercool.

Limited to just 50 copies, each hand signed and numbered.

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This scene from the series just blew my mind.  I loved getting the timeto draw these guys in a style more reminiscent of the original clone wars animation - simplifying Mandalore for the background was a lot of fun.

Loved the Clone Wars - was gutted when it finished, but man what a way to finish, absolutely stunning. Can't wait to see what those guys cook up with their new show Rebels!

Next up? - well, I would love to do a Return of the Jedi print in the style of my untouchables piece...if i can find the time, maybe!

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Got my new print site up and running, and it's got my brand new Untouchables print up there - 'The Strength of the Righteous'

You can also still pick up prints of my Ripley trilogy and Bond portraits, along with other fun stuff.

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I created this piece for the 'I love you man' show at The Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn.  It wasn't a quick piece to put together, but I loved pouring the hours in - it's an absolute gem of a classic movie, full of fantastic contrasts, great performances, an amazing script, and a phenomenal score from Morricone, which I had on the headphones a lot whilst drawing.  If for some crazy reason you haven't seen the movie  - I highly recommend it.

Hopefully I get the chance to do a few more similar pieces soon,  there will certainly be some new stuff up on the site very soon.  

Next up should be 'Battle of the Sith' - couple more tweaks to do before it's done, but I'll be back in a couple days with that.

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JUST A QUICK HEADS UP - MY PRINT SHOP SITE RAB PRINTS IS CLOSED AT THE MOMENT, AS I'M OFF ON SABBATICAL.  SO IF ANYONE OUT THERE IS LOOKING TO BUY BOND, RIPLEY OR ANY OTHER PRINTS, YOU CAN EITHER DROP ME AN EMAIL AT  ROSS@ROSSBURT.COM  OR WAIT UNTIL I RE-OPEN THE STORE IN SEPTEMBER.

Also just realised I never posted these Skyfall sketches on my blog!  Just too many places to post these days with Deviant art, tumblr....gotta get more organised! I'm a massive culprit of Blog neglect!

Mega Excited to hear Sam Mendes is back for Bond 24. Plus there's the new William Boyd Bond novel in September - good time to be a 007 fan!

I've also got a bunch of new stuff over on my portfolio site - quite a mixture of work  - some Vector work from my time on The Sims Social facebook game, as well as a bunch of new character concepts and ideas - here's a preview of a couple, check out the rest here - 

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Also got a couple of new pieces almost finished, which if I'm lucky I might get up here in the next day or two!  Back soon!  

Back at last !   Loved season 3 of The Walking Dead, and had an awesome time drawing up these guys...started with a sketch of The Governor,  which I then played with making into a composition involving michone and Rick, and grew from there -  I'll put up a working GIF showing all the various stages in another post.  Anyways, hope u dig it,   Can't wait for season 4 of this!

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Been neglecting this blogsite bigtime -  it's fair to say I've been spending more time with my other mistress of internet art - the sexy Tumblr.  She's so ....easy  :)

Just launched a website where you can buy prints of some of my recent work

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...which includes this set of 6 Bond Prints I've just recently finished

Kinda got Bond fever at the moment - can't wait for SKYFALL!
Although I did enjoy watching Prometheus on blu ray  - could be tempted to add a Noomi Rapace flavoured pinup to my Ripley prints....maybe

Been neglecting this blog a bit sorry,  spending too much time with my mistress Tumblr :)   I'll try to make it up to u!

Felt Tips!

 Went into town at the weekend and picked up a few bits of
stationary which is always mega exciting - new sketchpad, a few felt tip
pens, pencils n stuff - so I've been doing some traditional computer free sketching this weekend, results so far u can see here.  Not sure who's next on the list - maybe Andrew Garfield, I need to catch Spiderman this week, would be cool to draw him and Emma Stone.  Although I have tickets for The Prestige tomorrow night for BFI london's Nolan season, so might just draw Bowies crazy magician dude instead!  And yeah that's meant to be Batgirl...I know she's probably a read head right now but....well, i think she was blonde at some point.

although that is definitely NOT based on Alicia silverstone :)

ASTROFUNKIN'

..well kinda.  Been doing the odd Astrofunk scribble here and there, playing with re-working a few elements - tweaking character designs, maybe do a new logo,  and definitely push the style into a diferent direction.  So this is just a first attempt, in no way final, but might be close to where I end up.  Anyways, having fun drawing some of the characters again, hopefully get some new pages done soon.

Prometheus has landed...

UPDATE! - 23/05 - I realised when looking through my files that somehow I'd lost some of the colour in the poster when making final tweaks, specifically the Blues, so I've updated the main image below  

This started out as a doodle whilst on holiday....as u may have noticed I do enjoy scribbling the odd movie pinup here or there, I love figuring out the composition and sketching the actors....this started as just an attempt at a landscape style pinup...and I think since I'd been reading Empires prometheus articles that week, the first thing that came out was the space jockey - and suddenly I was like 'oh that could work really well as the main shape in the background.  The rest was basically poses from within the magazine, but trying to go for the feeling of exploring, discovering, using the starmap dude from the trailer.  I think the most exciting thing about this film is the unknown - will it be as awesome as we all hope?  What will they find out there?  How does it actually connect to Alien.  It's only a few weeks away now, and I cannot wait.

Anyways, hope u like this one.  Not sure what's up next, probably some sketch book scribbles I've been scanning in, rough stuff.  Back soon with that!

RAB

RIPLEY TRILOGY

Howdy folks!  Finally fnished my Ripley Trilogy.  After finishing ALIENS I decided to go back and slightly tweak the first two, hence the posting of the new versions here.   Mainly Alien 3, tweaked her face and hair a little, and alligned text and boring stuff like that!  Decided to drop Newt out of this new one, keep the focus on Sigourney, plus it meant I could make use of the tracking device.  Pleased with how this one turned out, maybe the best of the likenesses.  Now I'm working on a Prometheus pinup...should be done in a couple of days, so back in a week or so with that!

Warrior Block-IN

This guy started with the sketch on the far left whilst on the train home the other night...thought I'd show the progression so far, spent a couple of hours tidying it up, then I always block in the basic shape so I can mask off the character and get down to blocking in different material types - I'm not too worried about specific colours at this stage, they will probably change a bit, but it identifies which areas are metals, leathers, wood etc, and allows me to easily select them so they can then get diferent treatments, be it texture overlays or custom brushes or whatever, that helps them read as their diferent material types.  

Aliens pinup is very close to being finished, but ....well, the final stretch is the longest!

The Bitch is Back...

...second of my Ripley pin-ups - Currently sketching up the Aliens version, complete with Newt,  and have started thinking about how to do Resurrection also, which I really need to re-watch, been a while. 

Worked out the colour schemes for each poster so they should sit together eventually, been having a lot of fun with these.  Plus all the new Prometheus trailers around right now have me mega excited about anything Aliens esque!  

ps - anyone else read the Dropship Aliens Fanzine in the 90s?   I used to love the fan comic strips and stories, kept me going whilst waiting on this third movie! 

Photoshop LineArt

Howdy!


Finally put together the tutorial I mentioned a few posts ago

Separating Line Art in Photoshop


-  it's pretty old skool now,  but it still works really well, and is still the best method I've seen ( other than obviously drawing straight in with yer wacom or cintique! )   But once u do this a couple of times it's easy and quick, so thanks to Pete Clark for teaching me this in College all those years ago!!

ALIEN

Started a little Ripley doodle on my Cintique lunch break the other day, and it somehow turned into this ....gonna do some tweaks to my previous Aliens pinup, very slight, and the Alien 3 pinup is also underway. 


Although i am distracted right now by the Jet Set Radio graffiti contest!

The Dark Knight Rises

Finally finished my Dark Knight Rises Pin-up.  Had the day off today, so used the afternoon to really focus on knuckling down with the final touches.  It's the little tweaks and mistakes u notice at the end that just prolong finishing, but it's always worth just getting through them rather than rushing it. 


Got a bunch of stuff to draw next, so I'll be back very soon!

Ross