Turning Japanese

Bill's Tuesday night life drawing session featured a Japanese model who I hadn't drawn before. It was inspiring to draw a different girl as I've become quite familiar with most of the local models, lovely as they are. Alas, I can't remember  her name but here are the best efforts from that night.

Visions of Johanna

The sinuous and svelte Johanna returned from Edinburgh for a visit and some modelling at Jake's Thursday lunchtime session.
She's always great to draw. Here are my best efforts.

Lost Toys of the Imaginarium

I went to my first life drawing session in 5 weeks and only drew one nude! It was Jake Spicer's 

Lost Toys of the Imaginarium.

at The Old Market off Western Road. Loads of drawers turned up to draw the dressed-up-as-toys models and it was great fun. Here are my best efforts.

 

What I did on my holidays

Well actually it was a working holiday (more of the working, less of the holiday) in my flat in Palma de Mallorca.
The weather was scorching hot for the whole month but I have my weekly comic strip to produce for Match of the Day magazine as well as my monthly spot in SFX magazine and a couple of extra jobs so I didn't see much of the beach.

Here's my output for the month which includes a self portrait in acrylic and photoshop painted on my birthday because I've never done one before. There's also a picture I did for my Palma pal Daniel as a thank-you for repairing my laptop when it went Kablooey!

Batman

In the current issue of SFX magazine the best Sci-fi mag in the world (OK I'm biased) as well as my usual spot illustrating The steamed Nick Setchfields words for Deveopment Hell I was asked if I'd like to do 6 drawings of Batman for an article about what it would really be like to be the Caped Crusader.

They didn't want my usual cartoony line and wash style but something a bit more Neal Adams so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try out my new skills as a digital painter. And here are the results. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out though Batman's torso on the Psychiatrist one is a bit shit. I should have just modelled his rippling muscles myself. Yeah, right! We all have our delusions.

A fan at last!

I very rarely get any feedback from all the comic strips and cartoons that I do for various publications but this response from a reader of SFX magazine makes up for it. Glowing, I think, is the word. Posting this is shameless trumpet blowing but why the hell not?

From the SFX inbox:

Please convey my note of appreciation to your amazing ilustrator of the "Alien Bestiary" (SFX 222, pages 64 and 65), Mr. Paul Cemmick, it was a superb piece of art and one of the most beautiful things I've seen in your magazine, in over 10 years of reading and subscribing it.
Even that nuissance of a character, ALF, was superb!
I imagine the drawings were done in India Ink, but they were so vivid and so detailed, I could almost smell the hydrosulphuric acid dripping out of the Xenomorph from "Alien"...

Well done!


GASPAR GARÇÃO
Portalegre, Portugal

Greta

At last night's life drawing class a hot roomful of sweating artists (well, I was perspiring delicately) struggled to capture the Lithuania curves of lovely Greta. I'd decided to get out of my comfort zone and try a medium I hadn't used in years- charcoal. The results are mixed, I think but it's an interesting challenge. I'll have another bash at it soon. Here are the best efforts.