The Great Spike - ACAD 19

Clubber ACAD - 18

This guy is super strong, with hardened skin to match, and sells his services to the highest, and nastiest, bidder. Even more, despite his beetle-browed demeanour, he has a keen intelligence, often described as cunning and crafty, that make him more than just dumb muscle for hire.

Conversation of Corpses

Fear His Cold Embrace

Wings Ride Wings

Nazi Samurai - ACAD - 17

Iron Man

Wait Amid The Roar

Knobbie #1 - ACAD 16

Battlin' Billy Barraclough - ACAD 15

Roughly based on a guy I knew as a kid, this character won't be messed with, despite his size, and the big gun doesn't hurt either.

Forlorn - ACAD 14



Magma Man - ACAD 13

Cosmic Spock

The person who bought this- several FanExpos ago - told me that Leonard Nimoy liked it. I'll take that compliment any time.

Captain James T. Kirk

Wolverine

Green Woman 1 - ACAD 12

The Green Man has long lurked on the periphery of our awareness of the pagan world - should not the Green Woman also inform the collective consciousness

we all have of things ancient, and primal, and wise?

Halfmoon - ACAD 11

SHe is as idealistic as she is beautiful, as simple as she is direct, and as compassionate as she is powerful.

Gladiator Concept 1 - ACAD 10

The first of several gladiator concepts in my ACAD series. No reference was used, except my memory of the basics of the Roman concept: large helmets to hide the face of a possible friend, scanty body armour to allow for bloodletting, and relatively short weapons so you have to get in close ... and fight!

Rabbit Hatter

An irresistable commission - who could withstand the appeal of that face, those colours, and all that is going on beneath it all!

Cleaving Black Waters

This illustration was done for Palladium books, and shows the rising of an owl-headed monster and his attendant lords, lords of death and darkness. This  was fun fun to do, for obvious reasons, and because I could play with clouds and water in the same image.

Dreams of the Dark One

There is no refuge iin the forest

or in the town -

his malevolance spreads across the land

like a black ooze.

King Tekra - ACAD 9

Scion of a future age and total master of that age,

Tekra brooks no interference, no questioning

of his intents and purposes.

In that way we can well recognize our own time ...

Lycan - ACAD 8

From the fertile brain of Dan MacKinnon comes this first of the ACAD challenges - the Lycan - part werewolf, part surgically enhanced cyborg. I struggled with this at first, resistant to doing anything but my own thing, but then it began to resolve itself ....

Manta - ACAD 7

The first to be posted here from the TPTATE universe,

Manta is excitable and open to her world.

Her little friend is not quite so excited ...

Recorder One - ACAD 6

She was the first of her kind to reach to the stars -

the stars embraced her, and all her kind,

and the offspring of her kind,

down to the last generation.

Black Prince - ACAD 5

The first of the Black Cohort - beings outside the bonds of good and evil - they are manifestations of something woven

into the very fabric of the universe.

And now they have entered

the world of man.

Listen to Them



This a comics page, adapting the famous sequence from Dracula, where Harker first enters the abode of the thirsty count. I worked this up from a thumbnail - to a 1/2 up - and then to this finished page, and let my 2nd year layout class at MaxtheMutt give it a good critique. When I get a spare minute I'm going to do another page for this years class - fingers crossed.

Beautiful Zombie

She has so recently been turned she still remembers

her humanity.

But not for long ...

Rocket Girl - ACAD 4

Once, a long time ago, I saw a man flying - a real man!

Could it possibly be that a woman could fly as well?

Manhole Cover Collector - ACAD 3

What he does with those manhole covers, nobody knows ....

The Nameless

He is left to guard a city where no-one lives,

or ever will live again.

Yet his vigilance will not decrese in the slightest ...

Golden Age Frankenstein

After many years and many attempts, I am finally happy with a drawing of Karloff as Frankenstein. It catchs Karloff, but is still done my way - with a generous tip of the hat to the influence of Basil Gogos.

Ancestral Mystic

From the past marched the heroes of a forgotten time,

ready yet again to face the horrors of my own.

The Rising of Death

Be careful of what rises 

 for it may not be put down!

Double Level Mermaid - ACAD 2

She was bred to exist in liquid

environments, but her natural medium is water.

Here she swims in ammonia, but inside her

helmet is the water of her native planet ...

Earth.

Studded Valkyrie - ACAD 1

In May of 2010 I set myself a challenge - 

to design a new character every day for the next year. This is actually ACAD - although I will be posting here, as on Facebook, as the spirit moves me,

rather than in chronological order.