GET DRAWN INTO AN EPISODE OF DEFOE (AND A ZOMBIE CRAWL)!!! UPDATED!

Hey guys, as a favour to a good buddy of mine, I've offered the raffle prize of having your likeness drawn into a future episode of 2000AD's Defoe AND you get to keep the original page! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be immortalised in 2000AD for the ridiculously low price of a £2.50 ticket!!!

The raffle is to raise money for O2's THINK BIG, a charity designed to hep young people's ideas become a reality. 

To win a chance to be drawn in Defoe, either as a zombie or zombie victim:

1. Head to THIS LINK

2. Donate £2.50 for a ticket, leaving your name and confirmation in the comments that this is for the 2000AD raffle (obviously you can buy as many as you'd like).

3. Email John that you have donated for a ticket at John.Singleton@O2.COM and this will confirm your place in the raffle.

4. The winner will be notified at the end of the month at which point you will need to provide a good quality head shot of yourself. Please bare in mind that you may not receive the page until later in 2013 due to publication schedules.

(I should add that I offer this prize solely as the artist of the strip. 2000AD is not affiliated with this raffle in any way.)

GOOD LUCK! And whilst we're talking about good causes, may I point you in the direction of this!

Scott Turner is a nice chappy who has started the week long HERNE BAY HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL , a charity event for raising money for the KENT AIR AMBULANCE. He's gone above and beyond organising all manner of cool things like zombie workshops, the zombie ball,film night and the epic zombie crawl!

Theres a charity raffle that I know 2000AD have donated some books as prizes, I've donated a signed Defoe book, and Scott himself has donated the zombie sketch I drew him at a convention a couple of years back.

So if you're in the area please check it out and tell them I sent you!

L

COMICS BULLETIN INTERVIEW!!!

Have you ever wanted to know what my favourite colour is, or if I prefer sunsets or sunrises? WELL TOUGH BOOBIES because I don't talk about any of that in this interview with Steve Morris for COMICS BULLETIN!!!

FAN MODEL OF AQUILA'S THE DEVOURER!!!

Here's a cool little thing.... 2000AD fan Mangamax also has a modelling blog with all manner of great creations. This time I'm honoured that he spent the time to make a model of Aquila's THE DEVOURER based on one of my early sketches! 

Check out the development of the model on his site here!

MAKING OF THE 2000AD PROG 1797 BOUDICCA COVER!!!

Well now that the wedding's over I should have more time for the sexy, sexy blog!

Above is the 2000AD cover (featuring Aquila part 6) from a couple of weeks back when I was off on honeymoon.

I'll admit when The Mighty Tharg asked for a cover featuring Boudicca on her chariot, charging through Romans, my toned buttocks clenched. I knew it was going to be a tough muther bugger....

And so when  submitting roughs, I tried to get away with a closer composition with one of her horses just off camera so I didn't have to draw both, but he didn't fall for it and went with the second version...

Final pencils.

Inks. I started to feel ALOT better about it at this point, feeling it was coming together well.

As with the previous Aquila cover, I carried on with my experimentation of adding an ink wash...

Hiding the wash layer for a bit, I did the colour flats (still hate this part!)...

Shading then FINISHED! All the elements brought together below! Despite how I was dreading this at the start, I was pretty damn happy with it in the end. Especially when I saw it with all cover elements added.

Right you buggers, go see the new DREDD film OUT NOW!!!

SO....WE GOT MARRIED!!!!

....And it really was a perfect, incredible day! For those of you who liked the original proposal found here, this is the invitation we sent out..... :)

MAKING OF THE 2000AD PROG 1793 AQUILA COVER!!!

Ok, this sexy, sexy baby came out in stores yesterday! It's the second part of 2000AD'S AQUILA: BLOOD OF THE ICENI, also featuring my cover. Want to know how I made it? THEN STOP TOUCHING THAT FOR A MINUTE AND READ ON!!!!

I gave Tharg options, being in two minds about which to do myself. The first I liked because I knew it would be easy to do, but the second I knew would be worth the effort if I did it. So as you know, the boss picked the second option.

After taking manly reference photos of myself that you will not see because I'm just too damn buff for you, I did the pencils. I should add that at this point in time, I hadn't seen the script of what Aquila was wearing, so unfortunately you won't actually see him in this exact outfit in the story...

 Followed by inks (you know the drill by now)...

At this point I thought I'd start experimenting with my techniques, and so added an ink wash to the background to give my colour work some much needed texture...

Hiding that layer for a moment, I went onto flatting the colours. Now I love the opportunity to colour my own work, but the one thing I don't love is FLATTING. It's damn tedious and time consuming. If ever I get a chance to colour my own interiors, I'll be tempted to employ my own flatter.

Very nearly done....this was what I thought was the finished cover...until The Mighty Tharg thought that the light appearing from between Aquila's legs looking like a fart... neeeever thought I'd hear Tharg say that....

And so here is the FINAL version of the cover. I added a paper texture last minute, which also gave it a warmer shade that I quite liked. Pretty happy with this one!

The 2000AD design bots slam the logos and headlines on, as seen at the top of this post, and you can find it in all good stores NOW!

Right, now I gotta get back to drawing part 7!

2000AD JUDGE DREDD ORIGINAL ART SALE!!! (UPDATED!)

UPDATED 18TH JANUARY 2018!

Hey guys, just added 16 Dredd pages to sell at cheap prices, from both 2000AD's and the JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE!

All pages are india ink on A3 bristol board or cartridge paper.

As with other art sales I have such as:
2000AD KINGMAKER

DC/LEGO BIONICLE

2000AD DEFOE

MIXED PROJECTS

2000AD AQUILA

OK, all prices are ABOVE each page and add £7 postage if in the UK, elsewhere in the universe we'll talk. Thanks!

If interested in any, email me at leighgallagher2000@yahoo.co.uk and payment is accepted via PAYPAL or bank transfer.

                                       1: £45 (SOLD!)

2: £45 (SOLD!)

3: £55 (SOLD!)

4: £50

5: £50

6: (SOLD!)

7: £55

8: £55

9: £55

10: £65 (SOLD!)

11: (SOLD!)

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 391 cover.

I'll also include a print of the colour version.

12: £50

13: £55

14: £50

15: £50

16: £50

Unpublished A3 sketch

"DAY OF CHAOS"

17:  (SOLD!)

18: (SOLD!)

 19: (SOLD!)

20: £100 (SOLD!)

21: £100 

 22: (SOLD!)

 23: (SOLD!)

 24: (SOLD!)

 25: (SOLD!)

 26: (SOLD!)

 27: (SOLD!)

 28: (SOLD!)

 29:(SOLD!)

 30: (SOLD!)

 31: £100

 32: (SOLD!)

 33: (SOLD!)

 34: (SOLD!)

 35: (SOLD!)

36 : £60

37: £60

 38: £60

 39: £100

 40: (SOLD!)

 41: £100

42: £100

                            

43: £100 (SOLD!)

 44: £60

 45: £100

PROG 2013: "THE RIGHT THING."

47: £120

                           

 48:£120

49: £60

 50: £60

51: £100

52: £60

53: £60

                           

54: (SOLD!)

 55: £140

"DOG SOLDIERS"

56: (SOLD!)

 57: £60

 58: (SOLD!)

 59: (SOLD!)

 60: £60

 61: £100

 62: £60

 63: £45

64: £50

 65: (SOLD!)

"THE FAMILY MAN"

These are actually TWO pages drawn on each A3 board!

 66: (SOLD!)

 67: (SOLD!)

   68:(SOLD!)

69: £60

70: £60

 71: £60

 72: £100 (SOLD!)

73: 2000AD PROG 1770 COVER

(Will include colour print)

(SOLD!)