Bloody hell, I've been wanting to show these for ages, but have been waiting for
Owen Watts to works his magic on the colours. Since Owen has recently turned pro, obviously he has to put the paid jobs first.
Mike McMahon has probably been one of my all time top 5 comic-book artists since I can remember. Mike has worked extensively for 2000ad for over 30 year, and was one of the original artists who helped give Dredd 'his look' and his big boots! As well as illustrating Judge Dredd, he's also worked on the the ABC Warriors, The VC's and Slaine. And for me, Slaine was probably his greatest work to date.
A while ago, Mike posted some character designs that he has done for
Animation City on his website which just cried out to be inked. Ming over on the 2000ad forum was kind enough to ask Mr McMahon is I was OK to ink them. I have to admit I did have a little geekgasm when I got the OK!
He's also recently been commissioned by
Steve Sterlacchin, the writer of the excellent
Judge Minty fan film for a piece of artwork too. So again Mike posted the pencils on his site and I asked permission firstly from Steve and then Owen sought permission from Mike (I bottled it!) to ask if we could show our version in the internet.
It has been a real pleasure to work with a true legends pencils and I would like to thank both Mike and Steve for their permission and for Owen for taking up the colouring challenges on two of the pieces.
GODS OWN WORK!
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| McMahon Warlock pencils |
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| Inked by me, colouring by Owen Watts |
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| McMahon future police pencils |
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| Inked and coloured by me! |
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| McMahon witch pencils |
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| Inked and flat colours by me |
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| Judge Minty commission pencils |
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| Inks by me, colours by Owen |
