Slinger's Sketchbook

The Amazing Spider-Boy!

2012-02-16T23:36:00.000Z

The Amazing Spider-Boy swings again! Ages ago, Marvel Comics did a bunch of mini-series based in Marvel's own Manga-verse. Marvel's Manga-verse was basically Marvel characters done in a Japanese Manga style. One of my favourite Marvel Manga-verse characters was Spider-Man, but this was mainly because of the artistic force behind it. Kaare Andrews did the first Manga-verse Spider-Man story, then Skottie Young followed it with two more stories. Who could not love Spider-Boy after reading three stories by those guys?!?

Ultimate Iron Man Flies Again!

2012-02-06T23:05:00.000Z

Every now and again, I like to revisit old doodles I'v done and recolour them in. This time, I've decided to re-do my old Ultimate Iron Man doodle. Gave the armour a new lick of paint and used a new photo of New York for the background. I'm quite with how the background looks, makes it looks like old Shell Head is flying high above old NY.

Harry Potter!

2012-01-29T13:07:00.000Z

It's Harry Potter! The dorky hero of Hogwarts himself.

The Technology Goddess!

2012-01-25T21:58:00.000Z

The Technology Goddess! This is a commission I did for Northampton University a while ago. Basically, I was contacted by the Uni to come up with an image that shows all the different devices you can use in the library. After sketching up a few ideas of different people researching in different ways, I had a brainwave (doesn't happen very often) and decided to have one person holding onto all the devices in a Hindu Goddess way. So the ways of technology and the ways of the spiritual meet.
I was quite pleased with the way this doodle turned out and, more importantly, so was Northampton University.
With Apple being the fashionable gadget to use these days, I decided to use quite a few of them for this doodle. Sadly, I didn't get a back hand from Apple for this. Oh well, maybe next time.

Space Boys!

2012-01-12T14:05:00.001Z

This is a commission I did for my cousin. He asked me to draw a doodle for his nephews' first Birthday. That's the kinda thing you can't really say no to. However, with his nephews being twins, it allowed me to have some fun with the doodle. With them both loving Space stuff, the idea of making them little Space Boys was an easy one. Also, rocket packs are cool, admit it, when we were kids, we all wanted rocket packs.
A fun little idea I did with the doodle was so you could view it upside down and it would still appear the right way up. So if you flip the doodle, it still would be right way up. This way no twin is the favourite twin.

Robo Girl Smashes Tokyo!

2012-01-09T03:14:00.000Z

We all have that one friend that has a rage, that could destroy downtown Tokyo. Well, this one is mine. Do not cross her, like the Hulk, she likes to smash.

Lil Green Lantern Battle!

2012-01-08T00:41:00.000Z

Lil Green Lantern and Lil Sinestro are about to throw it down!

How To Do A Standing Squat!

2012-01-01T16:22:00.000Z

A doodle of 'How To Do A Standing Squat.' Just have to put the key points on and it's ready to go in my Exercise Note Book project. That blue thing she's holding is a Medicine Ball, by the way.
You get points if you can tell me why is a Medicine Ball called a Medicine Ball?

Chris Bullet Revisited: The Mad Bomber

2011-12-31T02:57:00.000Z

Another Chris Bullet character revisited, this one here is known as The Mad Bomber. Now, next to Gray, The Mad Bomber has the biggest revamp, for one, he's no longer mad. The Mad Bomber is now a Demolition Expert, he's now a Boom-for-Hire. Another big change I've made to him is his jacket. Before it was merely a fashion accessory or something to wear when he's cold. Now, it's a converted Bomb Vest, just in case any of his "little projects" backfire on him. Making him a smoker was a fun little touch on my part. I just thought it would be a bit of fun to have someone who works with high dangerous explosives while smoking. Health and Safety would have a heart attack.

The Umbrella Academy's SpaceBoy

2011-12-30T02:19:00.002Z

I'm a big fan of the Dark Horse Comic, The Umbrella Academy. I just love the off-the-wall stories and even crazier characters. For example, this is one of the hero right here, Agent 00.01 or SpaceBoy. During an accident, Agent 00.01 had his entire body destroyed, the only way to save him was to graft his head to a gorilla's body. Thus, SpaceBoy was born.

His massive gorilla body and Kirby styled Ray Gun allowed me to have great fun doodling him.

Tiger Love!

2011-12-29T02:53:00.000Z

Awwwww! This Tiger has love for everyone.

The Iron Spider-Boy!

2011-12-28T13:10:00.000Z

The Iron Spider-Boy! Basically it's a recoloured version of my old Black Costume Spider-Boy doodle. Although, I think the red and gold colours work better than the black and white.

Wolverine!

2011-12-27T02:26:00.001Z

Before the movies, Marvel Comics' Wolverine wasn't the six foot two, good looking powerhouse that Hugh Jackman is. In fact, he wa a five foot five, ugly, angry brawler that would have no chance getting with any woman, let alone Jean Grey, and that's how I like to draw him. Hence why I like to go for the super-deformed, Bruce Timm look for old Logan here. Massive arms, huger upper body, but tiny, tiny little legs.

Oh yeah, and huge, ridiculous claws. You've got to have huge, ridiculous claws when doodling Wolverine.

Vampire Iron Man!

2011-12-26T14:47:00.000Z

This is my multi-million dollar idea! Kids love Vampires, kids love Iron Man, put them together, hello, Swiss Bank Account!

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T21:28:00.001Z

Nothing says Merry Christmas more than Pandazilla destorying DownTown. Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you're having a good one!

Wonder Girl

2011-12-24T13:41:00.004Z

A light-hearted take on DC Comics' Wonder Woman character. I enjoyed playing around with this picture. I decided to changed Wonder Woman's hair to brown instead of black. With Wonder Woman holding her hair in a couple of bunches, I thought it might get a bit confusing. The baggy jeans are just there for a bit of fun.

Your comments and opinions are always welcome! Thank you.

Chris Bullet Revisited: Gray

2011-12-24T01:09:00.007Z

During my days at Secondary School, I came up with an idea for a comic called Chris Bullet. I managed to crank out four issues, which for me, is incredible.
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for my little comic creation and the characters in it. Well, that's because half the characters in Chris Bullet are based on people I knew from Secondary School.

So, while I was in Hong Kong, listening to the music of Hideki Nagamuna and being highly influenced by the city, I decided to redesign and revamp all of my old Chris Bullet characters.

Here's the first revamp for the character known as Gray. Gray is Bullet's main rival and enemy, he's the Yang to Bullet's Yin. He also a total psycho as well.
During his redesign, I wanted to make him highly dangerous and unstable, so I decided to make him a total 'Roid head, hence the Hulk like arms and sparrow legs.

How psycho is Gray? Well, he brings a knife to a gun fight.

Go, Green Ranger! Go!

2010-08-10T12:13:00.005+01:00

"Rise, My Evil Green Ranger. Rise!"

Anyone who watched the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as a kid knows that the Green Ranger was the most bad-ass out of all of them. So I decided to do a doodle of the Green Ranger himself.

I decided to do the Green Ranger in a different way, a very stylized way. His Dragon Shield is much sharper and his costume has been made much more simple. And yes, Tommy's hair is way longer in this image that it ever was.

The art style behind this Green Ranger image was influenced from the anime, "Casshern Sins."

I think it works quite well, what are your thoughts?

I'm Back!

2008-08-31T16:38:00.008+01:00

Yup! It has been over a year since I last up-dated these Blog. Mainly because, I forgot all about it. So if I've forgotten all about it, I guess everyone has as well, so no doubt no-one will be reading, so anyway, straight onto the new art.

This is a Leaving Gift present I've done for a guy I used to work for who has decided to move on to newer and better things.

Anyway, here's the piece, and in future, I'm going to try and keep this Blog upidated.

Back In Black!

2007-04-16T20:15:00.003+01:00

Wow! It has been awhile since I updated this blog. With the Spider-Man 3 movie coming out in May, I had to urge to draw the Black Spider-Man Costume. But I had to be different, so I came up with the Black Spider-Boy Costume.

This design is based on Marvel's Mangaverse Spider-Man. Opinions and comments are always welcome. Thank You!

I've Got The Power!

2007-01-22T02:26:00.001Z

Some older images I did for fun awhile ago. Just playing around drawing Super-Deformed Japanese Super Heroes. Now there's a sentence I thought I would never type.

I need to go back and do a few more of these guys one day, there were kinda fun to draw. They also look like the love child of Capcom's Viewtiful Joe and the Power Rangers. All they need now is a guy in a giant rubber monster suit to beat up.

Lil Monsters...

2007-01-18T12:40:00.001Z

You guys all set for Halloween? Because it's almost upon us again! And in honour of this wonderful "holiday" here are some Halloween Cards designs...

Okay, I know Halloween is about nine months away from us, but I thought I'd post these up anyway. These are some designs I did for Halloween cards awhile, but as usual, nothing came from it. However, I'm quite pleased with the Lil Death design. I just find it abit amusing to turn sure a morbid and grim character like Death into a small, cute, super-deformed character. The other two witches are your basic cutesy Harry Potter teenager styled witches, just because I think they're a bit nicer to look at rather than your usual big nose, ugly witch.

Feeling Lazy...

2007-01-04T22:36:00.000Z

I'm feeling lazy this week. So instead of trying to spank out some kinda illustration, I'm just going to post up another music video. This is The Killers with their song, Mr. Brightside, which I feel is the band's best song. There are two videos to this song, but I think this is best version out of the two.

And So The Date Changes...

2007-01-02T19:16:00.000Z

So yeah, I guess it's the year two thousand and seven now, so Happy New Year and all that crap! To kick off the New Year, here's a song by the insanely unrated band known as The Servant. The song is called Cells and if you think it sounds familar, that's because it was used as background music for the movie trailer of Sin City.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, the video's dodgy as Hell, but that doesn't change the fact that Cells is a fucking awesome song. If you come across a Servant CD, don't waste anytime and buy it right there and then. Or steal it, either way, you've got have this CD, I know I do.

One Step Too Far...

2006-12-30T16:16:00.000Z

Winter fun and games...

...or maybe not!

Just a small image that I think sums up the whole spirit of Winter. The spirit of Winter is not about sitting down in front of an open fire with your loved one. It's not about spending it with your family 'round the table having a huge dinner. Winter is all about taking that snowball fight one step too far.

With Great Power...

2006-12-27T16:22:00.000Z

With the latest Spider-Man movie coming out at the beginning of May, I got into the mood of drawing some Spider-Man images, but with a bit of a twist.

Since the Black Costume got changed a little bit for the movie, I decided to change it a bit myself. I was never really a fan of the old Black Costume, I thought it was a little too boring. I also wanted to draw a version of Venom without his trademark mouth as well. I based my designs for the "Spider-Boy" costume from Skottie Young's Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan story. If you do get the chance, pick up the comic book Spider-Man Family, the story's in there. You can also see more of Skottie Young's work at:
http://skottieyoung.blogspot.com
You won't be disappointed, the guy is amazing.

Merry Christmas!

2006-12-21T03:05:00.000Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Can't be bothered to buy friends and family Christmas cards? Never fear, all you have to do now is save one of these fine images and print them off, saving you both time and money! Remember, it's the thought that counts.

Bethamphetamine

2006-12-21T02:32:00.000Z

If you look up the word "Bethamphetamine" in the dictionary, you will find the word means kick ass song from the shamefully unrated and over-looked Butch Walker. Well, to be honest, that's a lie, if you look up the word Bethamphetamine you won't be able to find it, because it doesn't exist, but in a fair world, it would mean kick ass song from the shamefully unrated and over-looked Butch Walker.
Bethamphetamine is from the Butch Walker album, Butch Walker and The Lets Go Out To Nites, if you're lucky enough to come across this CD in a record shop, buy it immediately! Hell, if you have no money on you, steal it, it is that good.
Oh yeah, if you're wondering, that is Avril Lavigne in the video, dunno why, but she ain't singing, so it's all good.

Could This Be The Greatest Movie Ever?

2006-10-12T19:23:00.000+01:00

Hell Yeah! This could be the greatest movie ever! This is the trailer for the latest movie by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, should you be excited? Fuck yeah! Remember the first Dust Til Dawn movie? The first one? Remember? I'll give you a clue, it's the only the good one! Yeah, well, these guys did that, and they also did the impossible, they made George Clooney cool!
Sorry, I'm not a forty three year old woman who's going through a mid-life crisis and has just found out that my daughter's pregant, my son's a pothead and my husband is having it away with my brother, so I'm afraid I don't find George Clooney all that dreamy. So for Tarantino and Rodriguez to make Clooney cool after the 90 minute gay fest that was Batman & Robin, that's quite and impressive feat.
Also, it you don't think Danny Trejo's a badass in this movie, you need to find that old six shooter of your grandpa's and blow your brains out right now, because you are not right for this world.

Blades Of Fury

2006-10-12T03:19:00.000+01:00

Another character design! This character is known as Blade Master B and if you're wondering why he and Agent 13 have very similar taste in shirts, well, there is a very good reason for this, which I'll talk about at a later date, once I've posted some more character designs up.

Make Love, Not Warcraft!

2006-10-10T23:46:00.000+01:00

This has to be one of the funniest South Park Eps ever made.
I don't play World of Warcraft myself or any Online Role Playing game, I'm not into the whole buying a computer game then having to pay more money to play it. That and Elves piss me off.
Before anyone starts, yeah, I know, the money pays for servers and other computer online stuff that I don't understand or care about, I get it, just doesn't mean I have to like it.
Anyway, I don't understand a single thing the boys are saying in "The World" but I that what makes it even funnier, I mean R-tard? Uberpwnage? What the fuck?
Also, any show that manages to squeeze in "Live To Win" by KISS frontman Paul Stanley gets my full respect.

First Post!

2006-09-19T03:20:00.000+01:00

First Post! Don't really know what to say, I know, kinda pointless setting up a blog if you don't have anything to say. Well, anyway here's a image of one of my characters called Agent 13, he's one of the main characters in a comic book idea I have, I'll post up some more of the characters soon and more info about my idea.
Yeah, I know, comic book idea, very geeky, can't help it, it's my childhood love. Plus, everyone has a geeky hobby, true, I bet you any money that everyone you know is into something that someone, somewhere would consider nerdy.
But as long as you keep it under control and don't bore the shit out of people about your hobby, then it's all good.