September roads. My blog, home for my thoughts on many things.
February 10, 2011
Recently I've become fascinated with the Urban Sketchers movement. I'm aware that I found a comfortable niche drawing people and foliage, organic things, and need to step out of it and urban sketchers are my inspiration.  First attempts are a little shakey, this was the end of a row of rundown garages near my daughter's school. This is how it looks in Google streetview.  The sketch was drawn with a black Rotring over 6 minutes while sat in the car.
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January 23, 2011
My participation in the 30th World Sketchcrawl was limited to little more than an hour due to family commitments but I made the very best of that time.  The first sketch was a short one in my mother's garden. She still lives in the house where I grew up and I have a lot of history with this particular Rowan tree. Apparently, when I was aged four or five, I decided to see how many of the berrys from the tree I could fit in my nose. My mother delights in reminding me about the fun of removing ... Continue reading...
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January 10, 2011
I've heard about Golden Books for more years than I care to count, mostly in connection with Disney films as they come out. The've almost been a compulsory piece of merchandising. You couldn't make a film without releasing a book. I'd never seen one or had an oppotunity to buy one however until yesterday. I walked into a charity shop to look through the kids book section and found three, Bolt, Ratatouille and Wall-e. The one that first caught my eye was Bolt. The film was, I believe, Disne... Continue reading...
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January 7, 2011
I'm not a fan of modern remakes of classic movies, mostly because they rarely match the quality of the original but also because I'd rather see someone make something new and original rather than retread something old. When I heard that there was a remake of True Grit I had a feeling of horror and disbelief I hadn't felt since Burton's reimagining of Planet of The Apes. I Just thought WHY? 
Wonderful poster design for the Coen Brothers movie True Grit Then I found out it was the Co... Continue reading...
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December 31, 2010
As I get older my interests are changing. One of the interests that seems to be developing is British birds of the feathered variety. I'm not a committed spotter but I'm finding I need to know more to be able to answer Molly's questions. Drawing things helps me to know them better so I began drawing birds on small, 3in x 3in cards and rather than add another page to put them on the website they're on a blogsite instead, bangs twitches. I like them so much so far, that I'm considering an E... Continue reading...
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December 22, 2010
Browsing the web looking for something, I no longer remember what, I was swpet up into a moment of sheer nostalgia. I don't have an awful lot of strong memories from my childhood, I'm always amazed by people who seem to recollect perfectly everything from the age of 3, but one thing I do remember is Pippin weekly. This was probably my first comic (sorry, picture weekly. The word "comic" seems to have been kept mainly to stand up comedians when dealing with the very young pre-school market)... Continue reading...
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December 22, 2010
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December 22, 2010
This year's Christmas card ended up being digital. I underestimated the work involved so I'm a little disappointed. Each card was printed, stapled, with a hand embellished and stamped cover. The digital version doesn't do it justice.
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November 23, 2010
I'm a regular follower of Leif Peng's superb " Today's inspiration" blog which introduced me to more fine illustrators then I can count. When I came across the John Costanza illustrations and wanted to verify they were by the well known comicbook letterer, he was the first person I turned to for help. Leif took a look at the illustrations and contacted some people he knew. Within less than an hour I had confirmation, from no less than Jerry Ordway, that these pictures were by that John Cost... Continue reading...
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November 22, 2010
Browsing charity and secondhand shops can lead to some interesting finds in the way of books. Today I picked up two eighties editions of Joy Berry's "Let's talk about" series illustrated by John Costanza. Now I'm guessing this is the John Costanza, reknowned comics letterer and masterful cartoonist on The Simpsons, Looney Toons and many another cartoon comicbook franchise. The style is much looser than his comicbook work, done in pen and slightly reminiscient of Hank Ketcham's Dennis work, a... Continue reading...
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About Me
| Peter Bangs |
| Southampton England |
Married, two kids, mortgage, working for my wife, looking after our two year old son and frankly terrified. Welcome to my little bit of sanity. I've spent 39 of my 46 years wanting to create stories and comics and achieving very little (a 200 page comic and a 24hour comic 10 years or more ago and very little since) so this is where I'm getting serious. Do work, put it out there, move on. Currently blog, reviews and a bunch of artwork will appear here, comics will be hosted on issuu on the words and pictures page. Now let loose the dogs of war. ( that would have been so much more effective in capitals with lots of exclamation points. )
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