Ray Fawkes

Detail from page thirteen of MERCY.

I finished the interior artwork for the book last week, and am now into the lettering phase. Those who’ve heard me speak of my process in the past know that this is where I tend to edit heavily, and I take several passes at the lettered text, coaxing it closer and closer to my intention for it.

MERCY is a new self-published mini I’m putting together while I work on bigger projects. It will be out in August of this year. If you pre-order a copy in my online store you have the option to add an exclusive, hand-embellished bookplate, available only before the book goes to print!

Page 23 from the forthcoming “Possessions volume 4: The Final Tantrum”. Gurgazon the Unclean demonstrates her reaction to being called “cute”.

Some people ask me if Gurgazon the Unclean is based on my daughter, and often I tell them, somewhat mischievously, that only her hair is. This is a half-truth, that masks a larger truth. The real truth is that Gurgazon is based on every woman I have ever known. Every woman I have ever known has voiced aspirations that have nothing to do with their looks, and have discovered that there are outside influences who will go very far indeed to involve their appearance in the discussion that results.

Gurgazon just wants to initiate armageddon. Why does it matter how adorable she is while she does so?

Fawksy Wednesday: Captain Bryant in his office. Pen and ink, 11 x 14”. 

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Part of the “Fawksy Wednesdays” series - every Wednesday, I am drawing the characters from Blade Runner in the order of the scenes in which they appear, from the beginning to the end. This is the fifth in the series.

Fawksy Wednesday: Detective Gaff at the Market. Pen and ink, 11 x 14”. 

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Part of the “Fawksy Wednesdays” series - every Wednesday, I am drawing the characters from Blade Runner in the order of the scenes in which they appear, from the beginning to the end. This is the fourth in the series.

Bre Posing - pen and ink, 11 x 14”

“Katie with towel” - pen and ink, 11 x 14”

There are some people I know who lend themselves to portraiture because of an innate glamour - not “glamour” as in fame or skin-deep beauty, which they may well have, but “glamour” as in mystery, as in the suggestion of secret worlds behind their eyes. Glamour, as in the expression that conveys an emotion that threatens to unpack and multiply itself, unbury itself, until it extends to the horizon on all sides. Turn about and there is no way to step around it, no way to evade. These are the people I can never properly capture, so I find myself moved to try again and again.

Fawksy Wednesday: Rick Deckard waiting in the rain. Pen and ink, 11 x 14”. 

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Part of the “Fawksy Wednesdays” series - every Wednesday, I am drawing the characters from Blade Runner in the order of the scenes in which they appear, from the beginning to the end. This is the third in the series.

templesmith:

TempleSith Tuesday: Sand People! As usual the final is available at 78SQUID.blogspot.com (Taken with instagram)

Ben Templesmith knocking it out of the park as usual. Get to his 78SQUID.bigcartel.com site fast if you want to buy the original.

EDIT: It’s sold!

“Emerald Ghost”, oil on board, 7.5 x 10”

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” - Edgar Allan Poe