Hi! I will be leaving London (and my computer and the internet) for a month or so and will be unlikely to update this. In fact, that's not true; I am taking drawing things (who doesn't travel with a can of charcoal fixative?) and my camera, so conceivably I could load them up. What a dry sentence!
I've plans of dusky landscapes and deadbeat portraits but we'll see how things go. Where the pot's not is where it is useful as they say. Stay tuned perhaps, some nonsense will be on here. Bye!
Charcoal Animals
Inventively titled animal drawings. I feel like there are lots of these in me and these are enormous fun to do, so if you would like one, email me with an animal and a name and I'll get on it.
These are in fact all for people already. Except for the dog, but if you would like one, then look on the requests page that I'm going to set up shortly. So far I've only been doing A2s but they can be any size I suppose.
Prize for who can name all the animals! Answers to the usual address. Laters!
These are in fact all for people already. Except for the dog, but if you would like one, then look on the requests page that I'm going to set up shortly. So far I've only been doing A2s but they can be any size I suppose.
Prize for who can name all the animals! Answers to the usual address. Laters!
Forgetful drawings
I can't properly remember the process of drawing any of these. They were all wake ups and oh! I guess that looks like my work...
Dancers first. They were fully turned into a number of things. People dancing is exceptionally satisfying to draw and I've got a few sketchbook comics that I'll try to put up, as well as a folder full of singles. Prize for who can name all the dancers in this one! Answers to tombocomics@yahoo.co.uk please.
The dog is just... well... I'm not sure. Freudian dog was written on a piece of paper next to it. Also, largest neck on a transvestite dog ever.
The last comic is a blatant piece of plagiarism of Brian Chippendale's Maggots. He was the first and perhaps only artist who reads from left to right, then right to left, zig-zagging all the way down the page, then up the other one. Amazing! Definitely check Maggots out, as well as If and Oof. Oh and listen to lightening bolt too. That's all. Later!
Dancers first. They were fully turned into a number of things. People dancing is exceptionally satisfying to draw and I've got a few sketchbook comics that I'll try to put up, as well as a folder full of singles. Prize for who can name all the dancers in this one! Answers to tombocomics@yahoo.co.uk please.
The dog is just... well... I'm not sure. Freudian dog was written on a piece of paper next to it. Also, largest neck on a transvestite dog ever.
The last comic is a blatant piece of plagiarism of Brian Chippendale's Maggots. He was the first and perhaps only artist who reads from left to right, then right to left, zig-zagging all the way down the page, then up the other one. Amazing! Definitely check Maggots out, as well as If and Oof. Oh and listen to lightening bolt too. That's all. Later!
Colours
These have colours all through them. Strange dreams and deep thoughts always have colours.
Many A2 drawings and paintings have been in my house forever. I finally got them scanned at a great print shop (Prontaprint, Camden- thanks guys!) and now they'll all be going up very shortly.
These two were my first experiments with pastels and pen. Drawing with fine line pens on top of fixed pastels works pretty well I think, but it doesn't work with oil pastels at all. That's a disaster.
The golden baby was inspired by (blah blah blah. Does anyone care about this stuff?) the old chinese religious text, secret of the golden flower. Something about souls I think. Anyway, more coming soon, bye!
Young Adults coming soon
These are from a new comic that I've not really been working on very hard.
It's not remotely near to being finished, so don't hold your breath or anything. I found this great collection of photographs of kids from all over the world. There were basically no adults in any of the photos and all the kids were very serious. I thought they all had that look of lost innocence at first, but coming back to them after a few weeks, their expressions seemed different somehow
Wow, this is getting pretentious, I'm going to stop. But yeah! Read it when it's done! Bye!
Drifting
Read it forwards and work out what it is then read it back and see how far the picture carries. Christ, sounds like Guy Ritchie DVD commentary.
This was all done at work one day. A very productive evening! I worked from the end first, sketching the same thing more and more roughly. Prize for the person who knows what the drifting person is dreaming of! Answers on a postcard to tombocomics@yahoo.co.uk
Dinosaur Ads
Hello! Continuing the theme of magazine mutilation, here are some adverts for dinosaurs that cars happen to be in.
I feel this has legs for something or other, but using that goddamn tippex is just so irritating. Perhaps if I use paints or something. In fact, surely that will be a hell of a lot cheaper than the premiums on white out nowadays...
Prizes for whoever can tell me what dinosaurs they're meant to be. Bye!
I feel this has legs for something or other, but using that goddamn tippex is just so irritating. Perhaps if I use paints or something. In fact, surely that will be a hell of a lot cheaper than the premiums on white out nowadays...
Prizes for whoever can tell me what dinosaurs they're meant to be. Bye!
Mysterious Travellers
Eels! They all have a great night it seems. Oops! It's not spoilt, honest! You should definitely still read it.
This was remarkably time consuming despite the 'cobbled together in an afternoon' look. Tippex takes forever to dry when you do a few coats, and then the pen smudges all over the place. Thanks to old copies of national geographic for the insightful captions though ('black eyes and red hearts'), but no thanks for the weird shapes of your pages.
Welcome!
Hello friends and strangers!
Tombo comics is just a tiny helpless infant at the moment so please be patient if everything looks terrible and doesn't work.
I've set up an 'about' page (like every blog ever) if you'd like to know more about what tombo comics tries to do. Wait redirection is lazy. Okay, its about drawings and paintings and comics I guess.
Posts will almost certainly not be with clockwork regularity what with life and everything getting in the way of the internet. Also writing and drawing comics is far more fun than grappling with scanners and blog mechanics.
All that nonsense being said though, there will almost certainly be a flurry of posts because that's what happens when you start one of these I think.
Much love and hope you come back!
Tombo
Tombo comics is just a tiny helpless infant at the moment so please be patient if everything looks terrible and doesn't work.
I've set up an 'about' page (like every blog ever) if you'd like to know more about what tombo comics tries to do. Wait redirection is lazy. Okay, its about drawings and paintings and comics I guess.
Posts will almost certainly not be with clockwork regularity what with life and everything getting in the way of the internet. Also writing and drawing comics is far more fun than grappling with scanners and blog mechanics.
All that nonsense being said though, there will almost certainly be a flurry of posts because that's what happens when you start one of these I think.
Much love and hope you come back!
Tombo
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