Of Anniversaries & Artest

Long overdue update. Blaming the holidays but they went well so I guess it's not so bad. The first piece was done quickly over 2 years in time for my father's 65th birthday. He had mentioned the phrase "Where there's a Will, there's a way" because his nickname is Will. I don't remember why. I left the phrase in the back of my head for a long time before developing an image to match. Our last name is Herring by the way.



Second update which should of come before this is... Ron Artest. Special thanks goes out to illustrators Steve Manale and Michael Cho for helping me take part in this show. Artest himself decided to make an appearance and I attempted my first traditional work in a long time. The entire show can be viewed at www.lovablebadass.com

3x Post (8bit + Shakes & Mash + Hungry Hungry Charge!)

Busy working as a colourist left some time between issues to illustrate.

1) Sendup to Super C (Contra's sequel) complete with a mimicking of Konami's weird cartridge elements. Photoshop did up an 8 bit version using only 16 colours!



2) Richard III meets Hamlet. Pinup to be included in November's release of Kill Shakespeare Vol. 1. In case you didn't know, I colour that series.




3) Finally, a friend wanted an illustration of some Hippopotamus-themed cavalry . So this is what he got. Completed a few months ago but I never posted it because I was waiting for some text to be written. That text never came so I filled it in with my own gibberish for now.

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Something to pass the time while roasting in a laundromat. Sketch ontop of scribbles.

Birds and Nieuports

With regards to the song by that french band for the header, M83. Continuing to add colour to The Great War. Spiraling outta the air, next stop... the SEA!

"All Quiet on the Western Front" IN TECHNICOLOR

Work after some other work. These were pointed out awhile back, old photos from WWI and they were shot with an early colour process. Usually I associate that war with muddy, black & white images so this was a surprise.

Let's add colour to the era.

Terrible enough?

Trying to channel some cheesy elements from book covers and album art. Galaxies with laser grids seem to do the job. Further research can be found at everythingisterrible.com

For the scrubs at the end of the bench...

The colouring of Issue 2 for Kill Shakespeare wrapped up last week. I was staring at dozens of foot soldiers for about a month so it's no wonder this is what came out. Playing with text, google image search, and blend modes.

Onto Episode III.