Jason and the Thai Beer!

Me and King John went to see The Meg the other day at the beautiful old 1911 cinema- The Dome in Worthing. The film was a well made slice of shark action cinema with the ever reliable Jason Statham in the lead but I have a question! This isn't a spoiler but if you go and see the film please bear this in mind.
After an early tragedy in a submarine Jason's character (can't remember his name) goes for a long 5 year sulk in Thailand where he slobs around drinking Thai beer all day before being lured back for another rescue mission. At one point we see him coming out of the shower with a fabulously fit and totally toned body- AFTER 5 YEARS DRINKING THAI BEER?!?
I'm going to try it! I'm an unrealistic optimist!
And also, why oh why does every action/disaster film have to contain a dog in peril which (spoiler alert!) ALWAYS SURVIVES! and this one is particularly obnoxious!

Rant over.

Boris Banner

I'm a huge fan of the comic book genius of Jack Kirby and the Frankenstein films of Boris Karloff and I've always thought that Jack's original drawings of the Hulk were very influenced by the appearance of Frankenstein's monster. So just for fun I thought I'd have a bash at combining the two into- Boris Banner alias The Incredible Hulkenstein's Monster!

The Joker

In the current issue of SFX- the magazine about all things sci-fi I have an illustration of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker for a forthcoming film also starring Robert de Niro.

Future Films

Some of my regular SFX illustrations where I am called upon to visualise a film, previewed by Nick Setchfield, that hasn´t yet been made! Included in this bunch is Venom starring Tom Hardy which is out later this year.

Solo

In Nick Setchfield´s regular ¨Development Hell¨ spot in SFX magazine I am asked to accompany the news of a film in development by a relevant illustration. If (as in the case of Solo) the film has a few changes along the way I may get to draw it a few times.
Here are the three cartoons I drew for the stages of bringing the film Solo to the screen.
The film was announced by Lucasfilms in early 2016 and all the young hopeful actors of Hollywood auditioned for the prize role of Han Solo. I was asked to illustrate all of them about to shoot Greedo!

Alden Ehrenreich won the part. Then shooting began with the directors Loed and Millar who had made the Lego Movie. They were soon kicked off the project by the producers for ¨artistic differences¨ and George Lucas´s mate Ron Howard was brought in.

Then the rest of the cast were announced including Emelia Clarke and Donald Glover as Lando Kalrisian. This drawing was done waaaaay before the film´s release and I didn´t know that Glover would be sporting a fetching beard. But we did know that it was being described as a ¨space western¨ in style.

As you may know, it opened to a bit of a bashing from the critics but I really liked it' Especially the robot! Robots seem to steal every film that they´re in including the recent reimagining of the old TV show ¨Lost in Space¨.

Sketchmania!

I´m a bit of a sketch maniac and always like to be doodling away even when I´m watching a film on my computer. Last night I did these sketches whilst watching the last half of the excellent Netflix series The End of the F···ING World.

Recent scribblings

Here are some recent illos for the magazines SFX and Match of the Day.