Megatron must be stopped...

Page of the greatest scene ever to happen in Transformers history. The epic confrontation between the heroic autobot leader Optimus Prime, and the maniacal Megatron. My loving interpretation of this scene which made me cry as a boy! Before this page, Prime stands on a broken defeated autobot city, recently destroyed by Megatrons army of Decepticons. Prime knows what must be done, his gigantic frame stood heroically, he states 'Megatron must be stopped . . .no matter the cost' Prime transforms, and drives off to the epic music of Stan Bush. Possibly for the last time!

The next page should come soon.

HAIL MEGATRON!

My homage to Jim Lee's cover of X-Men #1 (1991) Megatron walks out from the inferno holding the matrix of leadership.

Website

I've just done some work on my website, It's quite basic at the moment, but it's got alot of stuff on there, please go and have a look, and tell me what you think! You can find it at www.alexander-hunt.co.uk.

Fedrigoni Rococo Paper Furniture

I entered a competition for the Italian Fedrigoni paper company to promote their products by trying to design and build a piece of furniture out of paper. I designed this lifesize Rococo period Desk Bureau as it represented the long history of the Fedrigoni company, aswell as symbolizing them as a strong company.

I have all the parts made, but havn't decorated all of them. Each piece is hand painted with watercolour, and decorated with pen, colouring pencil and collage. On each piece is hand drawn illustrations depicting the hand made preparation of paper which shows fedrigoni's humble traditions. Sadly, I didn't win.

 Some detail from the top of the lid of the Bureau

Below is one of the hand drawn designs for the furniture. I had lots of designs, and one piece of furniture allocated to every type of paper that Fedrigoni produce. Each piece of furniture symbolised the qualities of the paper, practical, stylish, tough, soft ...

 Front of the Bureau, the rectangles represent drawers which could be pulled out.

 Side panel of bureau, production stage

Finished side, I was really happy with this, there's so much to look at in it, it's quite entertaining. The bureau itself is quite massive, I think its something like 1.5 metres by 28cm, and 1.5 metres high.

Hellspawn

I love the design and look of Spawn, and wanted to draw him in some sort of battle, in this pic he's just fought, and is pulling off his face mask for some reason. 

I drew this specially for an Art-Show we were having at uni, everyone seemed to like it. This was one of the first times I used an ink nib to draw with, and it was incredible how it changed my art, making it intensely more detailed, and gave it more of a professional look.

Rococo Typography

I drew this months ago, but only scanned it in the other day, It's a very large Typography drawing based upon Rococo floral patterns, I drew it using a fineliner. 

If anyone would like a print, please get in touch.

The Amazing project!

It's been a while, but here are some pictures of what I've been working on lately, I've written a spider-man comic, sort of like fan-fiction. I don't want to give anything away, but it involves a rooftop fight, and the scorpion (not helpful at all) These pages take about 2 days to plot, pencil, and ink. The aim of the project was to try to make a Spider-man comic with better art than the ones out now, I'll let you decide so far. They were alot of fun to draw, and I hope I've done old webhead proud.

No text added as of yet, I thought i'd finish all the lettering after I've completed the art.

Death of the hero!

The other day I recieved this wonderful piece of artwork from artist and friend Robin Barnard. Iron Man #230, the classic 'Death of the Hero' was one of the first issues I ever bought, part 6 of the classic 'Armor Wars' storyline, containing possibly my favourite armor, the silver Centurion! 

Let's talk a little bit about the artist. Robin Barnard is a practicing artist who has a real passion for comics, he is the creator/writer/illustrator of the excellent weekly comic magazine 'Images Degrading Forever' which is an ongoing of the exploration and analysis of comic books and their creators, at the moment IDF is focusing on recreating issue 186 of Frank Miller and Klaus Jansons famous Daredevil run. I urge you to go and pick this up, it's great stuff, every week at orbital comics.

If you want to check out the home of Images Degrading Forever, visit imagesdegradingforever.blogspot.com

Robins work has been published in Dave Sims 'Glamourpuss' #12, where he himself is proclaimed as the 'genius behind Photo-Primitivism' I first got in touch with Robin when I discovered IDF, I emailed him, and he generously let me contribute a page of artwork, which was a really rewarding project. Robin really nicely sent his original drawing of Iron Man #230 to say thankyou, which was an amazing gesture.

Next week my drawing will be published in IDF aswell as a small interview from me about my work. You can see an interview with Robin all about his work for glamourpuss, and his ways of working on Matt Seneca's blog:

http://deathtotheuniverse.blogspot.com/2010/05/robin-barnard.html

Ohhhhhh Canada!

I've just sent a package to Canada to Dave Sim. He doesn't know that he's getting it, it's just a bit of fan art, hopefully it will arrive in a week or so, and I pray I get a reply. the quality of the photos are not that great.

If anyone doesn't know why I am doing this. Dave Sim is the legendary creator of Cerebus, possibly the greatest independently published comic book of all time! himself with the help of Gerhard conseculatively created the longest running original english comic book of all time! Consisting of 300 isues, and over 6000 pages, taking 27 years. The reason why I love Cerebus is because of the humour and extremely well written characterization of characters, I also love seeing the progression of Sims' art and writing skills, in such a short period of time, he improved so much, it's very inspiring, and proves that constant practice will improve your craft!

Final Project- Sticker Book Final pages+Stickers

Here are the final pages for the album with the number boxes attached.

Here are the stickers I've made, they reflect the pages that they are placed in.

Underneath are the sticker backs, with numbers

 My favorites include the 3 part spiderman/carnage/venom, the magneto head, juggernaut, Iron Man, and Spiderman 300. If I was a kid, I would make my parents buy me these.

Final Project- Sticker Book

For my final project, I decided to make a sticker book based upon things I like. It all came about because I recently bought a Spiderman 'WEBS' sticker album from 1992, that was unused from America. I bought it as it contains artwork from Todd Mcfarlane. 

Front and back of the album.

It really is that simple! Here are the finished pages

Wolvie

Spidy

Space scene

Megazord

Magneto vs. X-men

Venom webs

Venom

Incredible Hulk

These pictures were immensely fun to draw, I really enjoyed it, it's always so much easier when your passionate about the subject.

The Zine

I've made a Zine, and it's about J.F.K. I took six photos in harrow, of places that looked similar to the actual scenes of Dealey Plaza, Texas, where he died. As the background was done, it was just a case of filling in key players like Jackie. K, Lee Harvey. O, and the Ford Lincoln. But let's delve into why I did this, and how it came to be.

Why-I've always been fascinated with the murder of J.F.K, it happened on the same day of my birthday. I've always found the imagery extremely compelling, it's just great for using in work for getting that strong quality across, their good strong images, It's something I come back to again, and again. We're joined forever, in an endless struggle, just like Captain America, and the Red Skull

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 Here are the pictures that I captured for the zine, the Dealey was always there.

 

 

 

 

  

 

This one looks  really like the Book Dispository.

 

Now that I had the images, I had to start bringing it all together, my zine would tell a short story of some key events on the day, but I also wanted it to be visually striking, I looked at the work of Robert Rauschenberg, and Dieter Roth for inspiration, their work was extremely inspiring as it seemed so untouchable, extremely timeless, work created 50 years ago, that looks as fresh today as it did back then.

 

Rauschenberg, A big inspiration for me was his inclusion of american culture, such as Baseball, mixed with iconic imagery, like the eagle.

 

This work just looks very powerful, exactly the thing I wanted.

 

Another great inspiration was Atlas by jake Tilson, I was lucky enough that the library has the first four copies of the zine, so i could see one in my hands, It was etremely exhilirating, and fascinating, it seemed out of the future, it changed the way I thought how the zine could be. The production values were so high, printed on glossy paper. It had lots of free bits to cut out, and collect, in one copy, there was a whole sheet of specially printed Atlas stamps.

So I went away with all this inspiration, and just sat down, and made the zine.

 These are just images stuck onto accetate.

I was very happy with the finished pages, as they have an edgy look that I want, but also have some really powerful imagery too, I feel it looks very expressive, and playful, it was nice to just sit down, and experiment alot with collage, something I havn't done in a while.