Lew Stringer Comics: Strax: Pencils and finished art

Thursday 15 March 2018

Strax: Pencils and finished art

I thought you might like to see part of my pencils for the latest Daft Dimension, compared to the finished version. This one featured Strax, a Sontaran from Doctor Who. I took the photo on the left when I was working on the strip. As you can see, my pencils are quite rough and I tidy things up a bit and add a little more detail and shading when I ink the work. Then I scanned the inked strip into my Mac (and the scanner doesn't pick up the blue pencil lines) and coloured it in Photoshop.

The printed strip is in Doctor Who Magazine No.523, currently available in newsagents, supermarkets, and comic shops now. Mote info here:
http://www.paninicomics.co.uk/web/guest/news?id=93124

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A brief history:

I've worked as a freelance professional humour comics artist and writer for 40 years. I sold my first cartoon in 1983 and since then have created many characters such as TOM THUG, PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, COMBAT COLIN, BRICKMAN, ROBO-CAPERS, DEREK THE TROLL, TOUGH GUY AND SCRUFFY, SUBURBAN SATANISTS, SGT.SHOUTY and others.

My clients include IPC, Marvel Comics, Egmont, Panini, D.C. Thomson, Rebellion and many others, covering the comics field from originated characters to licensed properties, pre-school to adult on comics such as BUSTER, OINK!, BEANO, DANDY, TRANSFORMERS, SONIC THE COMIC, TOXIC, VIZ, CiTV TELLYTOTS, LEGO ADVENTURES, HERMAN HEDNING, SWEET FA, ACTION FORCE, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, RAMPAGE, LUCKY BAG COMIC, SWIFTSURE, WARLOCK, WHITE DWARF, ACES WEEKLY, THE DAREDEVILS, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, and many more.

My recent comics work includes:

'The Daft Dimension' for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 'Keyhole Kate' and 'Postman Prat' for THE DANDY ANNUAL and THE DANDY SUMMER SPECIAL 'Sgt.Shouty' for The77.

'Bad Pets' for ANIMAL PLANET Magazine.

'Short Sharp Shocks' for THIS COMIC IS HAUNTED

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