I was just about to go to bed at about one o'clock last night when I had a sudden urge to draw Judge Dredd. I've only drawn him once before - for a fanzine in about 1986. Anyway, it's just a quickie, and I coloured it this morning...

Edit: Of course I have drawn Judge Death before!

Here is some fan art for the brilliant Nedroid, because he regularly gives me a good chuckle (especially with the exploits of Reginald, Beartato and friends). If you don't already read them, go and see!

I haven't blogged much this month, things have been somewhat hickeldy-pickeldy. June will be a time of intense work and will include the 40th of June, more of which in a week or so. I've been collecting so many links to share and comics I want to write about that my head's a bit over-full, so for now, here are some recent sketches I've been doing for Rainbow Orchid volume two.

I love drawing elephants - they're like two old men in baggy trousers.

A post on Andrew Wildman's blog sent my mind racing... where could that stray speech balloon have come from? Here's my take from an imaginary comic, and because it's Andrew, I included a robot - though perhaps a little more old fashioned in style than he usually draws!

Cross posted at the Super Comics Adventure Squad.

This drawing is Dave Shelton's fault - his lovely cartooning gave me the stomping urge.

I have just finished Tezuka's Dororo volume 3 - what an excellent piece of work. The tale of a child (Hyakkimaru) born bereft of body parts, supplied with prosthetic limbs and things by an adoptive father (a proto-Black Jack), he comes of age and goes on a quest to regain his real anatomy from the 48 demons that now possess them, accompanied by a child thief, the titular Dororo.

Here is a drawing I made of the two adventurers, Hyakkimaru and Dororo, rustled up this morning.

I have been thinking about doing some Tozo fan art as an appreciation of a superb comic strip for quite a while, and so it became this morning's warm-up/procrastination sketch.

If you're not aware of Tozo, go and get reading, and you can also see the interview I did with David O'Connell, the strip's creator, here.

I bought some new pens a couple of days ago with one of them being a brush pen - something I've heard lots about but never used before. This is just a quick sketch to try it out (grey-washed with the water from my rinse-pot!)

In other news, go and watch this video - it features Hergé, Goscinny, Uderzo and Franquin! (via)

The latest issue of The DFC (no.11) has just seen the final episode of Super Animal Adventure Squad in 'The Teatime of Doom' by James Turner. Every single episode has given me hearty chuckles aplenty, but one of my favourites was in issue 8, which featured Beesley taking on a giant mutant ant all by himself.

As with Neill's Mo-Bots, I thought I'd have a go at James' 'Learn to Draw Beesely' (download the sheet from this link) and here are the results!

A funny thing happened to my mobile phone the other day... it suddenly started blipping and downloading something odd. The next thing I knew I was being challenged to a duel by a 14-year old girl who appeared to have a huge digital robot standing right behind her. This is what happens when you go to Mo-Bot High, a school with a rather unusual break-time activity, and the name of the comic strip created by Neill Cameron that has been running in The DFC these past few weeks.

Recently Neill put up a 'How to draw a Mo-Bot' sheet on his blog, so I thought I'd quickly get one together, as per his instructions. After all, I've got a 14-year old girl to fight!

(Click on the pic to see the finished version)