Old Skool Scribbling: Episode IV - A Scanner Darko

Okay, so this is the last of these retro-themed blog posts for today, although I do have a few other bits and pieces that I want to share.

I really liked the 2001 film Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as the titular character, who goes out sleep walking, meets a demonic-looking rabbit called Frank who tells him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds, and returns home the next morning to discover that a jet engine has crashed through his bedroom. As you do!

I drew this picture imagining what Donnie Darko would be like if it was a Looney Tunes cartoon...



When I found this drawing in my sketchbook, I actually had all the different parts – the individual characters and items, and the background – drawn seperately. So scanned them and pasted it all together in Photoshop, as I must have originally intended to do.

Decade Drawn Out: Dazed & Confused competition

Here is my entry for Dazed & Confused magazine's Decade Drawn Out competition. The brief was to draw one of the ten selected best covers from the last decade, with the only restriction being that the cover had to be entirely illustrated.

After looking over the selected covers, I decided to do a version of this cover from 2003, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal. After sketching out some ideas, I decided to do something a bit different and have Jake wearing the Frank the Rabbit mask from the film Donnie Darko (which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, for those of you that don't know).

I'm really pleased with my final image, and it was nice change from all the comics I've been doing recently...