A Dapper Dragon

                 

A few bits and bobs

So I've been busy with a few commissions and getting ready to move to America and I've been playing around with a new style. It's much more graphic than I would normally do but I'm really starting to dig it.

This was a college exercise. The premise was that it was the 80th anniversary of the sci-fi classic Brave New World. I kinda left the project till the 11th hour and the style was determined by what I thought I could get done in a few hours.

 This was for a hotel

The following are part of a re-branding of the Biology Dept in NUI Maynooth college.
There are 6 more, 1 in a similar style to these and 5 in different styles.

Illustrations for a Q and A article with Grant Morrison

This was an exercise in editorial illustration and layout.

The bulk of the interview borrowed from a blog that took excerpts from a Rolling Stone Interview was about "the death of comics" so I used that as the theme. 

Beginning at the end. I left out the symbols as it seemed unnecessary.

 This one was the most fun to do.

 I liked how it worked out. Superman's corpse is one layer of passing.
The second is the worn and faded look, like an old photo or a memory .

The last image I wanted to have something cosmic and ethereal.

The first attempt was just too much.
I'm gonna play around with the second style as I'd never tried it before 

and I think it's pretty cool.

   

Hellrunner... or Bladeboy

For my comics class we had  the choice of three scripts to do a scene from either The Big Lebowski,  Blade-runner or Empire Strikes Back. I chose Bladerunner.
So here is the scene where Leon and Roy visit Chew in his eye laboratory done in as close as I could get to Mike Mignola.

1st- Finished pages

2nd- Ink/Line work

3rd- Rough page layout

4th- Script break down

 SPLASH PAGE

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

A blimp is drifting silently over the city reflected

in an eyeball while we hear the SOUNDS OF THE

STREET.

PAGE 1

The eyeball belongs to BATTY who is standing on

the sidewalk. He resembles a tradition, the gym

instructor, short, cropped hair with the body of a

drill sergeant but the eyes are gray and chilling.

Roy Batty is a presence of force with a lazy, but

acute sense of what goes on around him.

He lowers his attention from the sky to Leon.

Leon approaches him.

BATTY

Did you get your precious photos?

LEON

Somebody was there.

BATTY

Police.

LEON

Just men.

BATTY

Police men.

Leon looks sullen. He doesn't know.

Batty is looking at the storefront across the street,

the one that says HANNIBAL CHEW over the door.

Batty indicates the store to Leon with a head movement.

CUT TO

PAGE 2

INT. CHEW'S SHOP – NIGHT

2.1-Eyes. Nothing but eyes swimming in a thick, clear

solution.

2.2-The eyes are in an aquarium inside Chew's shop.

There are other aquariums and technical equipment.

CHEW himself, wearing a heavy fur coat and gloves is

hunched over a workbench in a pool of light doing

meticulous work with a pair of forceps.

2.3- He is an ancient Asian and his steamy breath and frosty beard

indicate just how cold it is in this sub-zero

laboratory.

2.4- Chew dips the forceps into a vat at his side.

Deep cold!

The forceps and the tiny item in the forceps come out

of the solution frozen solid.

2.5- A SPEAKER on the wall CRACKLES and FARTS STATIC.

WALL SPEAKER

Mr. Chew.

2.6- Chew keeps working.

CHEW

Aaaaaaaannnnn?

- The wall speaker is intermittent.

WALL SPEAKER

... one... URP... wants... to

see you.

Chew continues working.

2.8- CHEW

Busy!

WALL SPEAKER

... talk to you... Nexus Six...

designs.

2.9- Chew frowns and turns from his work disgruntled.

CHEW

Busy!

PAGE 3

3.1- Chew continues working while he mutters in Chinese.

Peace returns, he calms down and works in chilly

silence.

3.2- Then the door opens.

Standing in the doorway is Roy Batty.

Chew gets up fuming.

CHEW

Busy! Busy! You go away! Make

appointment.

Chew bursts into Chinese.

3.3- Batty smiles. You would not want him to smile at you.

Leon enters and closes the door.

CHEW

(apoplectic)

No! No! Cold! Cold! Go away.

3.4- Batty smiles. His coat is already covered with ice.

BATTY

Questions.

CHEW

No! No questions!

3.5- Leon is staring at the floating eyes in an aquarium.

Batty smiles pleasantly and glances at a tank of

deep cold.

3.6- Batty sticks his hand in.

CHEW

(urgently)

No! Cold!

3.7- Batty still smioing, pulls his hand out. It's icy.

Chew looks at Batty's hand and then at his smiling face.

3.8- Chew screams in sudden discovery and outrage.

CHEW

You replicant!

PAGE 4

4.1- We looks at Batty's machine-gun smile, steam pouring

from his nostrils as we hear the shrill, indignant

voice of Chew being outraged.

CHEW'S VOICE (OS)

You illegal. Can't come here!

Illegal.

4.2- Batty is smiling his smokey smile and Chew is pointing

up.

CHEW

You not belong here. Up there!

4.3- BATTY

Fiery the Angels fell... And as they

fell deep thunder rolled around their

shores;

indignant,

burning with the fires of Orc.

4.4- Chew is bug eyed. What is this shit?

Batty reaches out and puts his hands on the collar of

Chews's fur coat.

BATTY

Questions!

4.5- RRRRRIIIIIIPPPP.Batty pulls the coat apart,

PAGE 5

5.1-Chew is suddenly totally scared, totally cold and totally

co-operative.

CHEW

Okay! Answers!

(pointing)

Gimmeee coat! Cold!

5.2- Chew is pointing to the wall pegs where more fur coats

hang.

BATTY

Morphology.. longevity... use life...

incept dates...

5.3- CHEW

(squealing)

I dunno! Dunna that stuff. I do

eyes! Just eyes! Genetic designs,

just eyes!

5.4/5.5/5.6/5.7/5.8- Batty looks around the room at the tank of eyes, the

muscle charts of eyes, the pictures of eyes.

BATTY

Ah! I thought perhaps feet...

hands... muscle tissue.. or..

noses...

5.9- CHEW

(desperate)

Just eyes. Gimee coat, okay?

5.10- Leon is staring into the tank of eyes, trying not to

blink.

The eyes stare back at Leon, unblinkingly, arrogantly.

5.11- BATTY

My eyes..... I guess you designed

them, eh?

5.12- CHEW

You Nexus? I design Nexus eyes.

PAGE 6

6.1/6.2-SMASH! Leon, infuriated by the unblinking eyes, smashes

the tank. the insolent eyes pour out onto the floor.

6.3-Batty smiles and points to his own eyes.

BATTY

Ah, Chew.....

6.5- (squish,squish) The squishes are Batty's feet

stepping in eyeballs as he paces in front of Chew.

6.6- If only you could see the things

I have seen with your eyes.

CHEW

Please! Cc-cc-cold!

6.7- BATTY

(prosecuting attorney)

Questions!

CHEW

D-dunno answers! P-please!

6.8- BATTY

Who does?

PAGE 7

7.1CHEW

Tyro! Knows everything!

BATTY

The Tyrell Corporation?

CHEW

Big boss! Big genius! Design

your brain.

7.2- BATTY

Ah! Smart!

CHEW

V-very cold, p-please....

BATTY

Not an easy man to see, I'd

guess. Security.....

7.3 CHEW

Sebastian take you! Gimmee

coat.

BATTY

And who is Sebastian?

7.4- Chew is blue and hysterical.

- CHEW

J-j-j-j-j F. S-sebastian.

Please.............

- BATTY

Ah! How would I find him...

J.F. Sebastian ?

7.7/ 7.8/ 7.9Chew looks like heart attack city. Is it going to

go on forever?

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