Sean Azzopardi

Lettering testing

Sean Azzopardi — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:47:17 +0000

Filed under: Sketchbook Tagged: 2012, Hand lettering test, New nib test, sean azzoparsi

Act 1

Sean Azzopardi — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:32:31 +0000

Filed under: Sketchbook Tagged: 2012, Act 1, Illustration, Sean Azzopardi, Sketchbook

Weather?

Sean Azzopardi — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:53:08 +0000

Filed under: Sketchbook Tagged: 2012, illo, Sean Azzopardi, Sketchbook, Weather?

Return to school

Sean Azzopardi — Tue, 29 May 2012 07:05:07 +0000

( Skull sketch – brush and ink on paper. Previously blogged from a rubbish photo )

It’s been a bit of a break on this blog, I’m sure my exciting and interesting posts have been missed.I have recently had a trip to Chicago, then attended Comiket followed by a trip to Toronto. So it’s taken me a while to catch up with myself. I was going to write a long post about these events but it was so exciting I decided to just live it rather than blog it. I did write a report about TCAF for the Forbidden Planet blog, but I’m not sure I did the event justice as I spent most of the event behind my table. I have to give a nod and a thank you to Crystal For being a wonderful table buddy during the weekend. TCAF has had a massive impact on my festival/convention going experience. In the UK we have Thought Bubble which I’d say is the best event now, it has many many, plus points. Comiket is getting there, but the last one had serious venue space issues, that made it uncomfortable for exhibitors and punters. But is there too many now? Too many or just idiocy in trying clash against a ‘rival’ event. Having now entered the (Well) Seasoned festival exhibitor stage, I’ll be selective about events to attend and use the time saved elsewhere. I guess it’s a positive to have that choice. Waffle, waffle.
The important stuff is the work, and making the work though. I did plan to take a complete year away from all the festival stuff,to make masses of comics. Due to random events it hasn’t quite worked out that way. But so far this year i have been involved in an anthology, a book and making a sketchbook. There is a new issue of a diary comic that has been lettered and roughed out, similarly for Black Leather (I know, I keep saying this). Both these comics will be ready for Leeds. The diary comics will be collected into a book called ‘Three years gone’, it will be about 150 pages.
the main news for me is that the Chicago trip gave me and Daniel some time to talk about projects. We decided that maybe it was time to make another volume of Necessary Monsters.

Filed under: Conventions 2011, Current projects, News Tagged: Andy Oliver, arts, Black Leather, Broken Frontiers, Chicago, Comics, Comiket, Diary Comics, Illustration, Joe Gordon, Necessary monsters, Ranty stuff, Richard Bruton, TCAF, Toronto, Update, vacation

Sketchbook 26/4/12

Sean Azzopardi — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:30:40 +0000

A sketchbook page from yesterday. I have been slack on the blog updates. Have been too busy. There was a trip to Chicago and then Comiket. Two events that I should have written about. Next week is Toronto for TCAF. I will blog about this.

Filed under: Sketchbook Tagged: 2012, Illustration, pen, Sean, Sean Azzopardi, Sketchbook, TCAF, trip to chicago

From Chicago to Comiket

Sean Azzopardi — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:54:17 +0000

Back from Chicago report to follow.

Comiket tomorrow and looking forward to and catching up with friends. Interesting stuff happening. Marc and Adam have started a new venture called Great Beast – exciting!

Filed under: Conventions 2011 Tagged: Adam cadwell, beast, Chicago, Comics, Comiket, Excitement, Great Beast, interesting stuff, Marc Ellerby

Off to Chicago

Sean Azzopardi — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:24:00 +0000

I am flying out to Chicago tomorrow to attend comic con with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. We will be on the Comics First booth signing Necessary Monsters and other stuff.

Here is a sketchbook page.

See you when I get back.

Filed under: Conventions 2011, Sketchbook Tagged: 2012, Chicago, Comic co, daniel merlin, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Illustration, Necessary monsters

Sketchbook and reviews

Sean Azzopardi — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:43:28 +0000

Back to posting sketchbook pages now I’m working in sketchbooks again. This is brush pen sketches drawn while travelling on the underground.

Richard Bruton has been very kind in review most of my recent output. The latest is for D’Accord, which can be read here. There is also one for Sketchbook. My project with Douglas, Dark Matters is now in the process of being printed. No timescale as of yet. But looking forward to seeing the completed version.

Filed under: Current projects, Talks, Presentations interviews and reviews Tagged: 2012, D'accord, Dark Matters, Forbidden planet, Richard Bruton, Sean Azzopardi, sketchbooks