Duck and Cover

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Summer Paintings

Summer has hit us with a vengeance…. Here’s some little tidbits of work, as a bunch of things are progressing…

Here’s a sample of progress on the Viking comic that I’ll be working on for an anthology by artists at Aardman. I’m determined to paint more than ever, so this is oils and a sprinkling of digitalness to follow. The original can now be hung on the bathroom wall :)

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In other comics work, my partners Mysh and Oren and I are hard at work on a killer issue 2 for Duck and Cover. I’m enjoying inking BG’s before all the colouring begins. Got to tell you, Mysh’s characters for this are fantastic.

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And lastly, enough of all this arty business. It’s summertime, schools out, time to build lego and head to the beach. Here’s my boy graduating to big school. So proud of this little family.

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Next week I’ll mostly be in the UK and will be making a pilgrimage to the Tintin Museum in Brussels…


Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Duck and Cover issue one available for online purchase

Over on the Facebook page. Just click the ‘Shop Now’  tab. You’ll get some original character art by me with every purchase. Printed on high quality paper stock with heavyweight matte covers. And here’s some issue two cover art for you.

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Friday, March 19th, 2010

Duck and Cover comic art

I’m frantically wrapping up some boards for work before leaving for Italy tomorrow. Although the way things are going I’ll be doing boards in a hotel room in Rome tomorrow night. Which (if only for one evening), sounds kinda romantico. So before I leave I’m putting up some new Duck and Cover art, which is going into a pitch bible for the project.

I’m looking forward to Florence and I’m ready to cram my sketchbook with new work.  I’ll post as I go.

Adios,

j

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Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Duck and Cover interior art

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Morning. The @#$% Cat just knocked over my painty water jar.  Again. I’m working away on interior art for issue 2 of Duck and Cover….I love the chance to break out the oils and make a mess. I drew out the sketch on stretched paper and began the painting in oils before going to photoshop for the finish. Depicted: The Armada of our bad guy, a genius chicken who uses an old Russian sub and jet parts to create his flying battleship.

And Hey, if you’re in Tel aviv, come and join us for this weekend’s global sketchcrawl, details are on the facebook page. Any questions, drop me a line/comment. Be great to see you.

More to come…


Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

It’s in our hands….


It’s in our hands…., originally uploaded by jpvine.

It’s a lot of fun holding something I worked on in print- and I can imagine it will get dangerously addictive. I enjoyed an evening selling them with mycomrade Oren at the Tel Aviv animation festival yesterday. Trying to decribe the story arc of this series in Hebrew was something of a challenge, but after a couple of hours and a beer it got easier.

Big plans for the series, future editions and live painting demos. So I’ll keep you posted. :)

About the comic;

Only animals have survived the last nuclear conflict, but they have been mutated by the devasting effects of the war. Duck and cover roam the chaotic earth in a mysterious mechanical egg. They are pursued by the cohorts of -er- a megalomaniac chicken, desperate to lay his hands on the egg- a miracle of human engineering. But they are yet to discover what it is capable of…

It’s epic. And needless to say, a bit silly.

Concept/Script: Oren and Mysh
Interior art: Mysh
Cover: Me

Got to get back to boarding. Have a great day, jp