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How to draw a comic strip superhero
Submitted by James Turner on June 4, 2008 - 09:35
Here's a link to the PDF of the page on "How To Draw a Comic Strip Superhero" I did for the Times.
I hope you'll all be practising drawing with my terrible terrible advice!
eruditebaboon @ 2008-06-04T11:48:00
Submitted by James Turner on June 4, 2008 - 07:00
I'm excited to reveal that I have a full page illustration in the Times today - if anyone has a copy or can sneak a peak in a newsagents it's on the Young Times page, page 34 of the Times2 pullout. It came out quite well considering I was up until 5am finishing it! It's a series of panels telling kids how to draw their own super hero - will try to scan in a copy once I get home.
#344 - the one and clonely - part 5
Submitted by James Turner on June 1, 2008 - 00:00
Sorry for the late update - I've been busy carrying boxes around for the last 3 days. Story finishes next week!
#343 - the one and clonely - part 4
Submitted by James Turner on May 23, 2008 - 00:00
Part 4! Thanks to Daniel for coming up with the idea of that really disgusting eyelid trick for the finale. Ugh.
#342 - the one and clonely - part 3
Submitted by James Turner on May 16, 2008 - 00:00
The adventure continues!
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Decidedly Fantastic Circumstance
Submitted by James Turner on May 14, 2008 - 11:54
I was dead chuffed to see this article in the Times Online earlier this week. Look! I drew that picture!
#341 - the one and clonely - part 2
Submitted by James Turner on May 9, 2008 - 00:00
Here's Dan's brilliantly illustrated second installment of the storyline. If you'd like to see more of Dan's work I recommend you check out his cyborg caveman epic (yes, that's right: CYBORG CAVEMAN) Thog Infinitron, and although it's not updating at the moment I strongly advise a browse through the archives of his other comic Anything Could Happen for some 5 star laffs.
#340 - the one and clonely - part 1
Submitted by James Turner on May 2, 2008 - 00:00
And the winner is: Dan Woodhouse! Woo! Dan will be handling the art work for the site for the next 5 weeks (and he'll also be getting signed copies of my books in the post) - I hope you will all enjoy his art as much as I do!
experi-mental
Submitted by James Turner on April 25, 2008 - 11:47
Ok, so after some people suggested I find an artist to do the strip for me, I tried to think of people who I felt I could trust my precious precious baby with. But when I realised that everyone who is a good artist is also going to be busy working on their own webcomics, so I decided: screw it, I'll just let everybody draw it.
#339 - the amazing Beaver and Steve GUEST ARTIST competition!
Submitted by James Turner on April 25, 2008 - 00:00
Hello! Are you intrigued by the message above? Would you like to have your artwork appear on the Beaver and Steve front page? Would you like to win signed copies of Beaver and Steve volumes 1&2? Do you know which end of a pencil is the one used for drawing with? If you answered yes to all these questions then this is the competition for you!
