Thingsbydan » Comics, Design & Illustration

29 Jul

Autostitch Error

While trying to make a panorama of my current workspace, the Autostitch iPhone app messed up and came up with this. I far prefer it …

22 Jul

Page 100 – No Country For Old Men

I’ll be honest - I really struggled with this, but I’ll put it up anyway. This is page 100 from Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For …

16 Jul

Silky Wilson

Silky Wilson emerged as a character following a conversation with Joe List, Louise ‘Felt Mistress’ Evans and Laurie Pink the other day on twitter. Silky …

15 Jul

Oxford Clay Process

I thought I’d share a little of my process when I’m writing/drawing Oxford Clay. If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, it is basically …

14 Jul

Harvey Pekar

I was really saddened to hear of the death of Harvey Pekar. His work was a big influence on me, so I thought it only …

09 Jul

Motel

I’ll post up the rest of this once it is finished. This is a taster of a strip I’m doing for the Page 100 project …

08 Jul

Chickens

I spent the morning at a replica Victorian village the other day, and was presented with the opportunity to look at some chickens. I’ve never …

07 Jul

More faces

This is something new I’ve been trying out recently. It is also coincidentally iPad sized. Just sayin’ is all…

06 Jul

Badger

D’you know what size this is? iPhone 4 wallpaper size.

01 Jul

Drunks

I have been very much enjoying drawing these broken-down stumblin’ ol’ drunks recently.

01 Jul

Finger-pointing

Doodled during a long long meeting.

26 Jun

The Kings of Lush County

Introducing; the Kings of Lush County. I drew these chaps at DoodlePlanet.

12 Jun

Sketchbooks

When I first started keeping a sketchbook years ago, I don’t think I really knew what a sketchbook was for. I knew that it was …

22 May

So many faces

Well, it has been far too long. I should definitely update far more often. Anyway, here is a bunch of leering faces. This is an …

03 Apr

Oxford Clay

The comic I’ve been drawing, Oxford Clay has it’s own website over at OxfordClay.com. Head over there and read up on what I’ve been doing …

12 Jan

Dinosaur Comics Timelapse

1 Frame every 5 seconds. This was a quick one. The image below isn’t the one in the video, but never mind!

09 Jan

Dinosaur Comics

Part of a slightly longer story for the UK Web & Minicomix Thing anthology in the style of George Herriman. That guy made it look …

10 Dec

More Doodleplanet

This shot is of a piece done at the previously-mentioned Doodleplanet. I’ve not often worked in colour at Doodleplanet, favouring the time-saving strategy of just …

24 Nov

The gig that never happened

I put this poster together for a gig that never happened. I quite liked it though, so I thought I’d share it up here. The …

23 Nov

Post-it Note Doodle

This one should be titled something along the lines of ‘Procrastination in Yellow #4’ or similar.

23 Nov

More IDOAWWY

It’s been such a long time since I last updated that my face burns with shame. Meet King Jenks, a scumbag.

11 Sep

Lovvers

I felt pretty grubby drawing up this picture for a gig poster. Pretty grubby indeed.

06 Sep

IDOWWY – Reggie Bricksmith

Latest update from Idreamofaworldwithoutyou - Reggie Bricksmith.

22 Jul

New work

This is something I’ve been experimenting with for some time, and I think I might be on to something. Updates from this project to follow. …

18 Jul

The Drawing Room

I had a grand old time the other day at The Drawing Room, another event organised by David Setter. Here are some of the stuff …

12 Jul

idreamofaworldwithoutyou

More IDOAWWY adventures with Lord Gillingham-Spencer-Farmington-Wordbee.

12 Jul

Trees

More trees. These are done with a Rotring Artpen 1.1 and a Kuretake no.40, a lovely pen, especially with a converter full of Platinum Carbon …

11 Jul

Doodleplanet

Doodleplanet is an evening of drawing, drinking and chilling at Telfords Warehouse in Chester. Organised by the exceptionally talented David Setter, with sweet jams ladled …

11 Jul

Comics

An illustration I did for a book jacket that ended up never being used. It was originally coloured in, but I prefer it this way. …

11 Jul

Comics Vs Literacy

Page from the Drawn Out book tenuously linking comics, literacy and libraries.

11 Jul

Drawn Out

A collection of comics made by secondary school students in North Wales during some comics workshops I ran recently. You can buy a copy from …

11 Jul

Obsessive doodles

Something I’ve been playing about with recently is repeated patterns. The image above was originally about the size of a playing card, but I’ve also …

11 Jul

Doodlezine issue 2

This is my submission for Doodlezine issue 2 by Desdemona McCannon and Abi Whitehouse. You can try your luck and see if Etsy have any …

11 Jul

The Annotated Weekender

The Annotated Weekender is a weekly blog by Joe List that features doodles all over the Guardian’s Weekend magazine.

11 Jul

idreamofaworldwithoutyou

idreamofaworldwithoutyou is a collection of biographies of fictional scumbags created by Joe List of ‘The Annotated Weekender’ fame. In addition to yours truly, it features …

11 Jul

Draw Serge

My drawing of Serge Gainsbourg, French musical pioneer, that I did for Jonathan Edwards’ fantastic blog ‘Draw Serge’, is the 50th to be added to …