Recent Paintings

Here's a couple of commission pieces I did recently. It was nice to break out the paints again!

First up is a commission featuring the original Legion of Super Villains. It's loosely based on a Legion of Superheroes one I did over a decade ago. 

And secondly, a mix of Silver and Bronze age DC villains loom over classic DC heroes!

More soon...

Adventure Comics #15: The ongoing tales of the Legion of Superheroes.

ADVENTURE COMICS #15

Here's the next chapter in the Legion series that I've been working on for a while. It's been a while since I've posted any of these pieces, as someone reminded me recently! 

I like covers that start the story on the cover. I don't think this one needs much explanation, it's all there! I thought the left side of the composition turned out pretty well, I like the way Cham looks and also the way Invisible Kid is half visible.

COVERS THAT NEVER WERE: VOLUME 2

Here's the cover to my second volume of cover recreations. I should receive the proof any day now so I should, if all goes well, have copies for sale at LSCC in March. The book will be bigger than volume one, comic book size, and be printed on better paper too, whiter and should therefore show the art more clearly. That's the theory anyhow.

There was a little cropping of the image to fit the dimensions of the template for printing. But I think it came out pretty well. A lot of thanks to Russ Payne...he managed to get rid of the irksome barcode the publishing house kept adding to the back cover. If not for him I would have thrown the laptop out of the window.

 This is what the cover looked like before text was added specifically for the book.

And here's the cover art in a little more detail.

This was going to be the alternate, or variant cover...but I've run out of time! I may use it for something else instead!

I was pretty pleased with the way the colouring worked out on Supergirl in this piece...

The Chiari Conundrum

I'm going to be drawing a comic book soon, it's on Kickstarter right now. Here's the link

Chiari Conundrum

I've already painted the cover, here's a bad photo of the piece (it seems to be dark here all the time, I'll get a decent scan of it soon and update it here)

The man behind the project and the writer is Chris Hill. I worked with Chris at Marvel when we collaborated on the Triple-A baseball comic books for a couple of years. It's an educational comic. There's even chance to get your likeness in there! Check it out.

johnwatsonart.com is down and has been for some time.

I've been told my site www.johnwatsonart.com is down and has been for some time, for months actually. I've been trying to sort it out but have so far met with frustration. 

Easyspace have done nothing to reestablish the link or get the site up again, they've managed to fail on every level. Their levels of ineptitude are fantastic. For example a phone call to them at 5pm is rewarded with a message that tells you that the office is now closed and to call back during office hours, between 830 am and 530 pm...for pity's sake.

So, sorry about that. Hopefully soon the site will be back up. In the meantime I'm still drawing and it only looks like I've let things slide and have disappeared or possibly died. If it continues to be a problem then I'll have to develop a new website and change all my banners and information...I'm hoping it doesn't come to that but Easyspace are trying their best to be so inept that it'll become the only option...

A few colour sketches: LSCC 2015 London Super Comic Con

Here's a few quick colour pieces I've done for family and friends recently...thought I may as well post them as the first examples of colour sketches. These are all A4. Maybe not the most exciting subjects, but hey, it's what I was asked for! I'm still hoping to get some more examples done soon, more comic based work, maybe some more colourful examples. But for now...

LSCC London Super comic convention 2015

LSCC 2015, March 14/15

Excel Centre, London 

www.londonsupercomicconvention.com

I'll be attending LSCC in March next year. As last year, get in touch if you'd like a pre-con commission sketch doing. They're basically copic marker,  finished/detailed convention sketches. I'd like to say they're similar to what Adam Hughes (did) or Copiel does for pre-con commission sketches...but they're clearly not as good as the sketches they do (And the price reflects that!) They do look quite nice though! 

Prices are £80 for an 11" by 17" (or A3 depending on where you live) and £40 for one half the size (A4)

Also, I'm adding sketches with colour, by that I mean a tonal copic one but with some watercolour added in. Not really bright, but pretty nice. I'll post examples and prices as soon as I've experimented a little and figured it all out. Just wanted to mention it!

Over the last year, well since the Film and Comic con in July, I've added in film and TV sketches too. Some examples at the end of this post.

I will be sketching at the con as well, both Saturday and Sunday but as I'm really slow and also can't talk and draw at the same time the number I can do will be limited. The sketches I do at the con are free, they're not as detailed or finished as the pre-con ones mentioned above...but they're ok. 

As the spots are limited I'll have to ask that you come over on the day and get your name added to the list. This is fair as otherwise, if people get on the list before the con starts, then I'm booked up before it even starts...

Also, a few people have asked about me doing other kinds of commissions for them before the con. These will be increasingly difficult to fit into my schedule as they take longer and I'm getting booked up...so if you'd like a recreation, a full tonal piece or something else then it'll have to be sorted soon!

I'll also have a folder of pre-con sketches for sale (like last year) but this time I'll have a selection of the aforementioned colour ones too.

I'll be at my assigned table and have a banner with my name on it again too.

Here are a couple of pre con pieces from recent cons...

More detailed blog to follow at some point over the next weeks. Right now I'm a little behind on some work!

I'll post more examples in the next LSCC post including some of the colour ones (with prices)