SPELLDANCER 1

 

(2B pencil on 170mm x 110mm paper)

I did a number of these "Spelldancer" sketches in recent months. They seemed to come thick and fast in various poses and of varying quality. I discarded most of them and kept ones like you see here, caught in a final pose after a very strange spell-dance.

Nudes are common in art, but I've developed a background with these Spelldancers:

They're witches of The Crimson Moon Coven and exist on an alternate Earth where an "Apocalypse Of Man" took place. A terrible war which nearly wiped-out all life on the planet. From the ashes rose the Crimson Moon Coven who directed a miraculous revival of humanity under a benign matriarchal system. In the space of a single generation, they'd pretty much fixed most things and, in the centuries which followed, their Earth became more peaceful and prosperous than it's ever been, with the men resigned to the fact that their thousands of years of tenure hadn't really worked-out and that the women were actually doing a much better job, if they were being honest. They didn't even mind that, over the space of time, their numbers were reduced to 35% of the population. A much more manageable level, with anything above that seen as dangerous.

Men may protest, at first, but after a while they do get used to sitting on comfy cushions!

The Crimson Moon Coven, with their unique abilities to harness the forces of the universe, then looked into our own reality, didn't like what they saw, and decided to do something about it. With the spell-dance (and my help) they're finding a way through to gain influence in our world to sort things out.

At least, that's what they've told me....

ART CARDS 01

(Fineliner on 80mm x 50mm coloured card)

(Fineliner on 80mm x 50mm coloured card)

A couple of small, credit card sized, artworks done with a fineliner on coloured card. Quick drawings which can show that the stock colour of the medium can have an effect on what is drawn on them. The top one is called "Windy Woman" and the bottom one is entitled "Matchstick Men."

ARCHIE FELTCH - British Heroes

 

(2B pencil on 180mm x 136mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

You always get someone like Archie Feltch around. You just can't fathom how it's possible. Well, now you've got "Black Hole Theory" to explain it!

ROBBIE "Wee Jobbie" McFUD - British Heroes

 

(2B pencil on 136mm x 125mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

What makes a "survivor" these days? It used to be something horrific, but now if you shit your pants you can call yourself one!

BRYAN BUMMINGTON - British Heroes

 

(2B pencil on 140mm x 130mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

We must all accept "God's Will"

SONJA NADSAX - British Heroes

 

(2B pencil on 158mm x 137mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

Revolutions do start with the simplest of things, and the unlikeliest of people.

SHARDONAY JIZZBY - British Heroes

 

(2B pencil on 147mm x 133mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

Flashes of genius can come from the most unlikely people at the strangest of times. The beauty of it is that it thoroughly annoys those who work far too hard to try and achieve the same thing.

EUGINE COCKSHAFT - British Heroes

(2B pencil on 141mm x 118mm paper)

 "They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

And, without even looking, you can bet there's a conspiracy theory similar to it!

BARRY ANALBY - British Heroes

(2B pencil on 140mm x 135mm paper)

"They're not flag-waving wannabes, or finger-pointing-blamemongers. They're true British Heroes! They were born with spines of steel, have spunk by the bucketload, and their upper-lips aren't just stiff, they're rock-solid! They're the type who'll kick those mad-dogs aside and proudly march, bare-arsed, into the midday sun!"

The images themselves are quite ordinary. It's the text alongside that changes the nature of them. And real heroes are like that. They really are just ordinary-looking people.

THE COCK & BALLS

(Gel Fineliner on A5 Paper)

I did it as a crude pub sign with the words “free house” on it because anyone can draw a simple cock and balls, whether they're young or old. It's a basic form of disapproval, of protest and defiance. They don't take long to do and the message they have is universally understood. And there's always something which deserves to have one.

Like Inktober for example.