All the ones...

Today is Remembrance Day or Armistice Day.

It's also a odd day on a odd year. It's all the ones...

11 minutes past 11 on the 11th of the 11th, '11.

...Now available on iTunes. How bizarre...

Halloween, Yo!

Hello to yee one and alls.

Thought I'd say a big ol' trick 'er' treat and pop up a couple of pics for everyone to gawp slack-jawed at before I treat myself to my traditional indulgence in a few horror films.

Firstly, an old image from 2009 featuring Doctor Loomis from John Carpenter's Halloween. I always liked Donald Pleasence in movies but sometimes found it hard not to think of him stroking a white cat and cackling at Sean Connery's James Bond. That never happened with Loomis.


This second image is a photie of our pumpkin / Jack O'Lantern / soon to be soup that is currently downstairs in the kitchen window welcoming our first trick or treaters to our house.

I used to love Halloween as a kid. It was my favourate day of the year because I used to love monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man. None of this zombie crap. Good old gothic monsters in foggy grave yards.

Ahhhh. Those were the days.

Flying Monkey... Ape.

Hya.

He's a drawing I did of one of the Wicked Witch of the West's little airbourne apes in my own design of party gear. Maybe he also needs some Ferris Buller shades and a little t-shirt too?

I could draw apes all the time. I may do.

Did this for Chris Askham's art blog.

Books. Buy 'um.

Two books of note are out this month.

First we have How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton and myself and The Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration by Martin Dawber which features artwork by a tonne of great artists, some crappy (kidding) and one from myself.

Click the links to buy them from amazon.

More from How To Save A Dragon

A few more images from How To Save A Dragon. I've added a bit of colour to these but they appear as black line only in the book.

How To Save A Dragon cover

Here is my cover design for my book How To Save A Dragon, by Annie Dalton, due out this September. The cover has been substantially altered for print for some reason and I'm not too pleased with the outcome. I was really pleased with the balance on this one and thought it really worked on several levels.

Oh well, that's publishing for you. You can buy the book in all the usual places on release.

Carl

More of my work from How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton.

How To Save A Dragon: DONE!

Hi All.

I finally finished work on How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton [pub. Random House] the week before last.

I was first sent the manuscript in March 2010. Several changes happened throughout the year and I only managed to start drawing proper in Feb of this year. I've had a load of other commitments to see to so that's why it's taken so long. Well, that and the fact that in February the amount of images in the book jumped from 12 to 74.

Needless to say my 6 month work schedule got a little more complicated.

I'm going to post some of the images from the book, all black ink line on white, over my websites between now and the release date in September. The sites, including this one, are listed below.

http://jimoakley666.deviantart.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carl-Pearce-Illustrator/171975762848382
http://carlpearce.blogspot.com/

Catch ya later!

Carl

Nearly there...

Wow.

I've been so busy over the past month. Over the past 12 months, actually. Haven't stopped lately.

I thought I'd better update the blog with some of the stuff I've been working on. So here we go. The image above is one of the pages I've (penciled) so far for my book How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton, a sequel to Ferris Fleet.

In other news, I saw X-Men: First Class for my birthday on 1st June. What an amazing movie. As soon as I've hit this deadline I'm off to see it again a further 2 times.

I've also started reading Carte Blanche, the new James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver. I'm quite impressed. It feels like Fleming's world but brought from the 50's to contemporary 2011.

Well. Until next (month?) time!

Carl

Mermaid

More from the 'currently working on' section. Thought I'd show m take on a Mermaid. Well. My latest take. I've done some in the past that looked much... naughtier...

Carl

Busy Busy Bee...

Hi again.

Late again.

Been so busy lately. It's hard to keep the blogs and stuff up to date. To show 'something' at the very least I thought I'd do as I did last time and share an image from one of the books I'm working on.

This is an image of a cantankerous old 'wizard' who is pretty much an every day old geezer like you'd see sitting at any old bus stop, cafe or bowls court. The main difference being... well. I suppose you'll have to wait for the book to come out.

Catch ya later.

Carl