Happier new year

Merry christmas, hanukkah etc.

Jason

Watched Friday the 13th. extended cut (2009). I was a big fan of the original movie series back when I was like 16 and have most of them on VHS tape (they have made a total of 11 films plus this new one if I remember it correctly). Jason Voorhees is more iconic than Michael Myers; the hockey mask really does the job. And yes; I still have something like 300 VHS tapes I never carried to dumpster.

HELLsinki freezes over

Not Siberia. Helsinki this evening. We have more snow than anywhere in Finland. Used to be the other way round. Over 50 cm. at this moment. Over 70 car crashes today.

Undead Girlie

Testing some new techniques. I used a lot more collage here with this little girl.

The dead has risen

Death

This fella here is originally a tattoo I designed few weeks ago. But I took the image a little further since I wanted to test some colors the new Deadworld series in my mind...

Chaos AD.

Finished part eight of The Pacific -tv series and took a look at my desk. And the first thing that comes to my mind is the battlefields of Iwo Jima. Will finish my cup of coffee now and start filling more of them papers. But I will not clean the desk. No. I will end up living amongst my scribbles in a mad scientist way.

Deadworld Omnibus

IDW and Desperado are releasing the DEADWORLD OMNIBUS for January release. It collects Requiem for the World (Image) and Frozen Over and Slaughterhouse (which was only in hardcover)...264 pages for only $19.99. This is where Deadworld was sort of rebooted so fans could join right in and not have to deal with the 50 previous issues of continuity. Diamond order #NOV10400...make sure you tell your store you want a copy so they'll be sure to order it. Also, here is an interview Gary Reed did that discusses it a bit more.

Helsinki or Gotham?

Met friends last night: me and mister Penguin!

Preparing for the night out

Alchemy of Katana making

A quick memo of the process.

Hatter M. vol. 1 reissue

Vol. 1 was illustrated by Ben Templesmith but the now published reissue includes two short stories I did last year. That`s 18 pages from me.

Cleaning pipes

Got this great waste pipe cleaning powder from friend of mine. I think with 20 cans of them you could dispose a body. For professional use only!

The world is dead

Another page from the Deadworld graphic novel I`m very much trying to illustrate in the middle of this chaos and pressing. But I`m enjoying it. The biker Tony has got himself to a situation not so nice.

Drawing stuff

Done this morning. Just minutes ago.

deadworld doodle 3

Dan this time.

Older scifi

They started to broadcast the new V -tv series here yesterday. And as I very much guessed it, the series seems to be crappier than the old one. Very much the same way than The original Battlestar Galactica vs. the new one. hope it will get better later; I`m still going to see the next episode.

Well here we go. An image of Cylons I did a long time ago. I modified it a bit though (and no the older version was not better).

Character designs

A VERY quick character design sketch warm up

thingy for Deadworld. Meet Lonnie and Tony, an

ex-biker with Harley motor tattooed to his belly.

Desk today

My desk today. Some Hatter drawings and a cup

of coffee. Lot`s of more drawings at the left

corner. And the red thing is ink made in China. 

Smells like shit.

Hatter M. vol. 3

A reminder. Hatter M. vol. 3 hardcover

is now available.

Deadworld doodle

King Zombie and Bowker ready to color.

The harsh and violent Deadworld and softer fantasy

world of Hatter M. is actually very functional

compination for me. When you draw both of

them at the same time they kinda support

each other in terms of drawing technique and

my imagination.

Hatter M. vol. 1 reissue

Available November 9.

Reissue of Hatter M Volume 1 Hardcover

compiling Hatter M Issues #1-4 with two new bonus chapters

and additional bonus material. 

thumbnails

This is where it starts. I allways do the thumbnails

when reading the script for the first time. This

here contains Hatter M. vol. 4 pages 9-16. Just stupid

little pics for me to know where I`m going.

But you guys, you don`t

probably get anything out of these.

Aukio art

All of the Anssi Kela Aukio -CD cover stuff can be now found from the section B of the gallery at my site.

Samimakkonen.com

My new website is now published; go and check it out! And bookmark it!

Uni

Illustration #2

Huuto

So these are all done 2009. And starting with illustration #1.

Aukio cover

Hey you guys. Thought I should post here all the material I did for Anssi Kela`s Aukio -CD. So basically one image every day from now on... You might have seen some of these before but now it will be the whole package.

The first pages of Hatter M. vol.3

Page 04

The first pages of Hatter M. vol.3

Page 03

The first pages of Hatter M. vol.3

Page 02

The first pages of Hatter M. vol.3

The pages are unfortunately without text but here we go. Page 01. Enjoy!

Material for Hatter M. vol. 3

+ material for vol. 3. I`ll soon post the first pages of the book too. And my new homepage will be online soon. More about that later.

Hatter M. vol. 3

Got my copies of Hatter M. vol.3! The book will be in stores October 6. Here is couple of pictures of it.

hatter M. vol. 4 drawing 2

Another one. She is actually the same girl as the one posted on September 01. She just went through a little metamorphosis.

Hatter M. vol. 4 drawing

My second week with vol. 4. Thought that I`ll try to post a drawing here every now and then... Maybe that even happens. Let`s see.

Hatter M. concepts

One more new character. A very cool one actually. Can`t wait to get drawing this girl.

Hatter M. concepts

Started illustrating the next volume today. Did some thumbnails and concepts. Here is one of them.

Some serious shit happening at Deadworld.

A good little blurb about Hatter M. Volume 2.

Go and read.

New Deadworld in production

Sunset. Deadworld characters, some new some old walking towards the safehouse.

Tweet tweet

Just created a twitter account so you can follow my madness there as well.

The window board of my apartment

New Deadworld in production

Some of you may know that I was telling you about one little vacation book I started a while ago. Well here is one page from it. Yep, another one in Deadworld graphic novel series. No real deadline as I`m doing it beside the next Hatter M. volume but you`ll see it coming.