Why So Serious?

Told you so.

Suffer Not The Mutant To Live!

These two pics have been drifting around the top of my sketch book file for the past few months and, fancying a break from all the shiny new DECONSTRUCTED niceness I thought I'd post them. Sadly, although the extremely thin drafting paper (about 40gsm) I drew them on is great for detail work and takes a line really well it also had a tendency to compress and then crease when used. It's not really noticeable to the naked eye but the strong point light source of the scanner I use really accentuates the ridges. Pity, but there you go.

This dude is just your standard rank and file cannon- fodder guardsman, no doubt soon to become a Tyranid toothpick or have his head burst by the fiendish machinations of the chaos gods. Poor bloke. I always liked the guard- I mean Space Marines are all very well and good but they only account for about a tenth of one percent of the Imperium's fighting strength. In terms of sure volume, it's the Guard who win every time. Plus they get tons of cool tanks and shit.

I freakin' love Eldar. That's all there is to say about this dude. Somewhere, lost within the pages of my books or on a dusty hard drive somewhere there's a pretty cool picture of a Harlequin Deathjester. I'll see if I can find it.

For the Emperor!

So I was trawling through some of my mum's wardrobes (at her request) clearing out my old crap for the tip (I haven't lived there for five years so i figure this is fair enough) and I happened upon my old Black Templars 40K army. Looking through the individually compartmentalised red foam storage trays I happened upon this fella:

This is Maximus, my custom built Emperor's Champion- converted from the parts of some four or five figures including; a chaplain, a Space Marine force commander, a Space Marine captain in terminator armour and a few plastic bits and bobs. Now I thought I'd post a photo of him not because he's a cool figure but because I was quite proud of him at the time, proud enough infact to have drawn a picture of him, which you can see below.

I was pretty happy with this sketch too, and it's only the tip of the iceberg so far as Warhammer goes- I have plenty of that stuff knocking around the archives somewhere, I'll be sure to post more in the future.

On a sidenote I still haven't found the oldest of my sketchbooks and pads. I'm forced to conclude that they may be in the garage.... :-S