NICK EDWARDS

Melvins poster + a load of sketchbook pages

2012-01-17T15:35:00.002Z

SKEEZ

2012-01-12T20:33:00.002Z

My two buddies jordan and pete are making a book with me called SKEEZ. Here is a little preview and here are links to their sites: JORDAN and PETE. I will update again soon with a bunch of sketchbook pages.

insects fixing robot

2011-12-13T15:37:00.000Z

More GIFs

2011-12-02T02:08:00.001Z

all for a uni project on "repetition"

GIFS!

2011-11-29T18:43:00.001Z

2011-11-22T21:34:00.001Z

NOVEMBER! The best month. My birthday is the 23rd (tomorrow) and you can see the small chubby version of me on the calendar there.

Travel penny!

2011-11-19T14:03:00.001Z

Little five part strip (last long strip i'm going to do for a while now) for a uni project. We had to make 5 books for 5 pounds and each strip makes a tiny concertina with a 50p coin on either side so it all adds up to £5.

I realise the penny in the story isn't a 50p coin and also looks a bit more like a pound coin, but apart from that I hope you all enjoy it!

Here are some photos of the tiny coin concertinas:

LONG STRIP

2011-11-10T17:08:00.005Z

HERE IS A LINK TO THE LONG STRIP VERSION

This was for a sequences project at university. For the red I actually used a "Wet Erase Chalk Marker" so thats why the scan is a little funky in parts. It looks a bit better in real life i might upload a photo of it all lined up on a wall at some point.

So let me know if the story makes any sense, I told myself I couldn't use any words and relied entirely on SYMBOLISM and stuuuff. It works in some places and fails in others.

DINOPOP TRAILER!

2011-10-31T11:47:00.000Z

Heath Robinson Hat and Some Hawks

2011-10-30T00:27:00.003+01:00

Solipsistic Bop

2011-09-25T01:33:00.001+01:00

^^^ Solipsistic Pop 4! I am a part of it along with many talented UK artists. Fund it here!

Four double page spreads I did for FRONT magazine which were a lot of fun.

WURKS

2011-09-01T20:33:00.001+01:00

^^^ First of a three-pager I drew for Lodacal Comix, out soonish.

^^^ Still working on this comic, still full colour, still slow progression

SOLAR SYSTEM

2011-08-11T12:06:00.002+01:00

how to train your cat

2011-08-07T17:45:00.002+01:00

caaaaat comics

DINOSOMETRIC

2011-07-27T17:44:00.002+01:00

DINOPOPOLOUS COMING SOON http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/2011/07/prepare-for-dinopopolous-with-free-nick-edwards-wallpaper/ I CAN'T WAAAIIIT

HOW DAWG! BURGER! T-SHIRTS!

2011-07-26T13:53:00.002+01:00

Get em as T-shirts from the exceptional people at DIGISIN they've also got my KEEP POUNDING design

Big inks and small sketches

2011-07-21T20:20:00.004+01:00

Commissioned piece, really fun. I was allowed to draw whatever I wanted on a big piece of bristol board.

adventure blocks

2011-07-05T19:14:00.003+01:00

Adventure time! YEAH, just watched guardians of the sun episode, so cool, had to draw this.

^^^ Gingerbox characters, Go over to GINGERBOX now. BEST ART FORUM EVER

ZOMBIE PEWNCH!

2011-06-24T12:49:00.002+01:00

This is Tom Hunter's character zombie puncher. He made this:

Its my beetle doing some awesome jelly giant suit magic. So awesome, check out his stuff HERE

Here is more of the thing i'm still picking away at. Insect division!

Sketchbook stuuuufff:

HOW IT DO IT

2011-06-06T18:28:00.000+01:00

Tutorial I made: http://teamdynamite.livejournal.com/50910.html#cutid1

working working working

2011-06-05T17:12:00.003+01:00

Working hard in the lab. This is just a little part of a full colour story I'm doing to set up a new universe. Going to post it all in one go, but not for a while because colouring takes forever. Back to work!

excellent fun good times project

2011-05-20T01:00:00.003+01:00

Will probably attempt to colour this at some stage. This is for a nice long "personal project" for uni. Going to build a universe and make some comics based on certain planets within it. Working on a sequence akin to the "First and Last" project right now. In colour.

flapjack and a poster

2011-05-08T17:02:00.003+01:00

The misadventures of FLAPJACK! Its a great show that should come back for many more seasons.

^^^^ Poster project at uni, this was just to get it started, way too detailed for a poster, too colourful, red washed out version here will update on this soon.

beetle and me

2011-04-18T17:59:00.000+01:00

space dingus cat hammer

2011-04-09T18:25:00.004+01:00

i am going to do more comics in this universe of cats and aliens

cover under the cover

2011-04-06T18:32:00.002+01:00

going to have this as the cover underneath the dust jacket for dinopopolous

keep pounding

2011-03-23T22:23:00.003Z

^^^ Scrap.

^^^ did this during a life drawing class. It's on the back of a paperback book, "To The Vanishing Point" by Alan Dean Foster.

this stuff is for a uni project on SEMIOTICS, my good buddy theo and I chose five words from a list: Mutation, Violence, Reproduction, Desire and Entrapment

^^^ The drawing of garfield and bart simpson were drawn by Matt Furie and Aiyana, respectively. I got them to draw it in my sketchbook during my trip to SAN FRANCISCO which was amazing. I long for the sunny bays and quadruple burgers often.

DINOPOCALYPSE NOW

2011-03-07T20:23:00.004Z

^^ Front cover for a the comic i've been working on. This is the main reason i haven't updated in so long. It shall at some point be published (24 pages) by BLANK SLATE. I'm very excited about it.

^^^ This stuff is all for an EXPERIMENTAL uni project. I took a shine to acrylic, so I did a bit of that. Painting random shapes onto cardboard and then drawing into them.

^^^ Also trying out pixelart. This is literally the first pixel character I've ever made and I'm very proud of him. Think I might call a future comic "Space Dingus"

SKETCH BOOK OVERLOAD

2011-03-07T20:14:00.003Z

work work work

2011-03-02T11:04:00.003Z

^^ Left over from "Numb3rs" project for uni. If anyone wants a go at colouring this properly just send me an email: goodbyemrchips@gmail.com

^^ Not sure if i'm allowed to post this, so i just won't say what it is or what it is for.

^^ Short comic for my Dad's birthday about our cat Ozzy and his weight problems.

^^ Blew up a smaller sketch page, will do another post of loads of pages from my sketchbook soon

isometric platforms

2011-01-11T02:00:00.001Z

and for those who want a grunier look here is an inverted version: HERE

twan bwop dup!

2011-01-02T14:34:00.001Z

planet

2010-12-18T20:38:00.002Z

wanted to do the same kind of drawing as my t-shirt design, but in colour. So i just did it, man

bordeauxxxxxxxxxx

2010-12-11T13:57:00.003Z

t-shirt design for friend's band: LINK

QUOTES

2010-12-04T00:05:00.002Z

^^^ First attempt. The quote is a bit lame looking back on it... i don't really like quotes in general. Most don't hold up under much scrutiny. Anyway, its all part of the task/brief.

^^^ Second slightly more successful attempt. Better quote too. It's from one of my favourite films, "The Man With Two Brains"

first and last project

2010-11-26T20:30:00.004Z

This might not make complete sense, so i'm going to work on some accompanying illustrations to explain other parts of the planet's life.

new planet, yet to be named

2010-11-18T23:02:00.003Z

^^^ For new "First and Last" project. I'm doing the birth and death of a planet, lots of firsts and lasts in there. Going to do some more maps and big double page diagram/science book type stuff like this.

^^^^ some beetle warrior characters, for fun

and here are some creature maps that i don't think work so well:

SCRAPS:

beetle map

2010-11-09T23:01:00.002Z

cat and neil

2010-11-03T18:33:00.002Z

this was just an experiment, was thinking of making it a really long comic, but I basically just came up with the panel layout then made up what was going on in each panel as i went along and then lost interest so you'll never find out what the cat has spotted :-| oh and the title is jibberish too. Look forward to me drawing something with worthwhile content at somepoint in the future

squid, patterns and a moth

2010-10-21T21:54:00.001+01:00

moths and a beetle diagram

2010-10-20T17:34:00.005+01:00

owl attack!

2010-10-18T01:03:00.001+01:00

this is for the "what is drawing" project, under my chosen theme of insects. The idea with this was my immediate reaction to the question, drawing is fun and this picture was alot of fun to draw and i think that comes across

BEETLES

2010-10-12T20:16:00.003+01:00

poddles

2010-09-20T10:08:00.003+01:00

http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/nick-edwards-covers-amazing-spider-man.html

dinopopolous

2010-08-28T18:01:00.003+01:00

monkey

2010-08-11T12:54:00.003+01:00

ever so slightly bigger version here

This is for a book collecting 72 different versions of Monkey by 72 different people from around the world. I'll let you know when it comes out.

Here are some sketches

adventure time with finn and jake

2010-08-05T03:11:00.001+01:00

XANTHORP

2010-07-31T14:41:00.001+01:00

little blue things

2010-07-27T17:37:00.001+01:00

i lied in the previous post - here's another update - this time with colour!

BOSH

2010-07-24T22:14:00.002+01:00

KERSPLOSH! I am working on comix and other things, no time to update propperly.

next project

2010-06-15T10:48:00.003+01:00

Pond-based-exciting-beard fun with a minicomic i hope to finish this summer:

the working title is Pond life but that may well change. It's about a brilliant scientist whose inventions are stolen and life is ruined by his contemporaries (a la Edison and Tesla (and most inventors)) So he lives in a squat and has used the last of his resources to build a tiny base in his pond where he digs into the centre of the earth to prove his theory that the earth's core is made of water and bares life. It's a comedy. Here are two pages i binned... because.. i'm not sure why i just didn't like them and they were drawn the wrong size:

i probably won't update with anything that isn't scraps until i'm finished. wooo

LARP finished FINISHED!

2010-05-27T15:15:00.002+01:00

final batch...

Could have definitely finished with more of a bang, but it makes me laugh. In retrospect i really wish i'd thought of page ideas much earlier on so i could refine them, the pages that really work were just inspired on the spot creations, very few pages had the amount of time spent on them that they deserved. A couple of wrong decisions produces a page like the relationships page that i think just doesn't work. Still... off to the printers now

LARP FINISHED 2

2010-05-27T15:02:00.003+01:00

Here's pages 7 to 11:

I'm really pleased with the first page of this batch. Border-less and colourful it just works for some reason. Tried my best to intersperse text with image and i think this page is a triumph in that respect. The second to last image was supposedly going to be a Chris Ware-type very complex and mathematically laid out image, but this was the last page I did at 4:00 in the morning so there are reasons for it's simplicity. I wanted to shove in more information but that could have ruined the balance of the page.

LARP FINISHED 1

2010-05-27T14:48:00.003+01:00

I'll spread this out, but I've finally finished my LARP project. I didn't really update as I was making it as time was a bit short and i was drawing around the clock. Anyway here are the first bunch of pages.

Pretty pleased with these one. Would like to revise the title page things, as they seem a bit unnecessary in retrospect, another fault on my behalf with time planning. The Gouache coloured page is a nice variation and a bit of a show off page really, yet still informative. The contents page works better on the page black and white i fear... although my colour sense isn't really developed it doesn't seem to work as it is. And i constnalty change my mind about the first page, my girlfriend says it looks professional though.

another cover idea

2010-05-09T18:49:00.002+01:00

Here it is B&W ^^^

^^ Here is a direction i didn't take. Took me flipping ages, but in the end the no-lines look is a inferior to the normal version. Still thought i'd put this up to show the general effort and trial and error that comes with almost everything.

^^ final piece

spera page two

2010-05-09T18:47:00.003+01:00

Second and last Spera page, i think i put a link to the website one post down. go look at it.

cover ideas

2010-05-06T11:30:00.002+01:00

Quick and simple cover idea for LARP guide book. Just playing around with limited colours, in this case one colour, and bolder images, something that will stand out.

spera

2010-05-06T11:26:00.001+01:00

Also not related to "LARP" project, but is similar in a way as it is fantasy. This is page one of a two page part I am doing for the online multi-illustrator comic SPERA:

http://spera-comic.com/

not related to college project

2010-05-06T11:24:00.001+01:00

obviously

maps

2010-05-02T01:10:00.002+01:00

I decided to start creating my own LARP universe to accompany a narrative studying the life of a real world LARPer. Mainly because if i'm doing the journalistic illustrator thing so i need a creative outlet, but they also compliment each other pretty well. So this is the Mappa Mundi above here, and below is my plan for my version, it's not as similar as I had first intended, but i like how it turned out, i also intend to do more maps, better thought out and with hidden easter eggs and codes and more labels detailing the universe.

coat of arms

2010-04-23T15:32:00.002+01:00

Some more LARP work. That man is this is sort of based on Skip the lead character/person in the fantastic documentary, "Darkon". This is a coat of arms that juxtaposes the real and fantasy world, something I may well revisit. I really want to draw an evil character's coat of arms, which i could also base on Kenyon, another LARPer featured in "Darkon". Anyway here are some coat of arms i found googling, they're great:

mrrrmmmmrm

2010-04-17T15:29:00.003+01:00

Not entirely pleased with any of these, apart from the b&w symbols i think they could work in multiple forms (badges, t-shirts, posters etc). I'm not sure why I always go all gruesome when I'm stuck for ideas, but I'm not entirely sure that gore is completely inkeeping with the sensibilities of all LARPers... probably some of them though, need to have an in-depth chat with a LARPer at some point.

doooooop

2010-04-15T14:56:00.003+01:00

Basically the same idea as ARCANE BRILLIANCE (which i drew a few weeks ago) but more focus on the mundane than the fantastic. I like how the colours turned out

demons! be gone!

2010-03-23T15:21:00.002Z

Another fantasy piece related to the LARP project (FMP). I like the simplicity of this, trying to be more illustrator-y. I read some of the YCN annual 2010 the other day in the waiting area for an interview at Brighton university and some of the stuff in there is really great. Especially the work of Andy J Miller and Scott Balmer really appealed to me.

ARCANE BRILLIANCE

2010-03-20T18:33:00.004Z

this piece is for final major project "LARPing". This is more WoW (world of warcraft) than it is LARP, but having watched the wicked documentary MONSTER CAMP (trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tobGvjez9x0 ) i know that the two go hand in hand.

I really did this piece just to see where I could go from here, this image is sort of my immediate reaction to the task and works as a good starting point. Already I can see a ton of things i need to improve upon. It's also my attempt at telling a story with a single image, I'd like to simplify it a bit for starters. Anyway here are the inks aswell:

i looked up all the spells, they're all authentic apart from "water rush" which i made up just to include an extra element

working working

2010-03-18T12:57:00.003Z

Some character sketches and dinosaur sketches for a comic I'm planning at the moment. It's going to be a dinosaur/adventure/mystery type thing. Sort of "Famous Five" but with dinosaurs and more up to date. This is just a side project. I am now, and have been, doing a lot of research into LARP (live action role play) for my Final Major Project (FMP) for college. Also been looking at D&D and some of the pretty insane art that stems from that (click for bigger) :

concrete island wrap around cover

2010-03-11T14:59:00.001Z

concrete kaufman

2010-03-10T16:24:00.000Z

MORE concrete island stuff, and some dinosaurs

2010-03-09T22:19:00.002Z

"The best thing about photoshop is that you can change your mind indefinitely. The worst thing about photoshop is that you can change your mind indefinitely" - Someone

FIN

2010-03-09T22:17:00.002Z

Finished first big part of minicomic, here's my favourite page

READ IT ALL HERE

SPACE COMIC

2010-03-05T18:08:00.001Z

Working on a space minicomic, i'm on page 16 at the moment and it's going to be about 32 pages, it's SQUARE

conrete island tests MULTIPLE VERSIONS

2010-03-05T17:56:00.002Z

LARP sketches etc

2010-03-05T17:52:00.002Z

ice death final?

2010-02-08T22:43:00.000Z

ice poster thumbnails

2010-02-07T19:21:00.001Z

JEB

2010-02-06T11:53:00.002Z

And here are some sketches of JEB, amongst other things:

JUST CAN'T DECIDE WHICH ONE I LIKE BEST

2010-02-01T23:15:00.002Z

what's cooler than being cool?

2010-01-31T18:32:00.001Z

be careful

2010-01-31T18:31:00.001Z

big sketchy

2010-01-25T21:55:00.001Z

sketchy stuff

2010-01-25T18:25:00.002Z

blech

2010-01-23T12:48:00.003Z

2010-01-17T20:28:00.003Z

^ The pencils

^ Pencils turned into purest CYAN in photoshop by going Image>Mode>Duotone and then clicking the black square and making it 30% cyan and 0% everything else.

^ And then you print the Cyan onto some Bristol board or whatever and ink it and then the pencil lines barely show up and you have two copies of your drawing. you can also use this method to turn a little doodle into a big inkable piece. Oh boy!

ALTERED BEAST!

2010-01-16T17:21:00.000Z

birthday card for mum

2010-01-16T17:19:00.005Z

PHANTOM SWORD

2010-01-16T17:19:00.004Z

Go vote for my ZUDA entry (this month only, if you don't have an account make one): http://www.zudacomics.com/node/1593

merry merry

2009-12-24T22:59:00.001Z

megadog // SASQUATCH & NIGEL

2009-12-19T20:17:00.004Z

ABANDONED COMICS AND SOME OTHER SHIT

2009-12-08T00:54:00.004Z

THIS IS NOT ABANDONED THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS:

it's for college, i'm not that much of an action figure enthusiast

BEAST!

2009-11-16T17:01:00.003Z

FANTUM SWORD - and an idea i won't follow through with

2009-11-11T18:33:00.003Z

CLICK FOR BIGGER

2009-09-30T14:13:00.004+01:00

space pew pew pew

2009-09-30T14:03:00.003+01:00

sporadic updates

2009-06-11T09:05:00.003+01:00

Is there an easier way to upload pictures?

sasquatch and nigel: the return

2009-04-17T14:43:00.000+01:00

grog and bits

2008-10-26T20:31:00.005Z

Commission for an engaged couple who wanted to be depicted as their superhero counterparts, Grog and Bits.
(also a midway comic featuring their two cats Moz and Noodles):

And here's one of my upcoming projects, Henry's Forest.

more fishboy

2008-07-22T12:03:00.002+01:00

the return of FISHBOY

2008-07-11T09:55:00.001+01:00

2008-07-06T19:14:00.001+01:00

2008-07-05T22:01:00.000+01:00