Dudley Dexter Watkins who was born in 1907 and died in 1969 was an english cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor Wullie and The Broons; comic strips featuring them have appeared in a scottish newspaper The Sunday Post since 1936, along with annual compilations. Watkins also illustrated for comics such as The Beano and The Dandy.
Watkins was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, Although the family moved to nottingham while he was still a baby. His father was a lithographic print artist who noted the boy's early artistic talent and ensured that he received extra art classes at the nottingham school of art. By the age of 10 the local newspaper declared him a schoolboy genius. He studied at nottingham school of art; and while working for Boots pure drug company in the early 1920's; Watkins' first published artwork appeared in Boots' staff magazine; The Beacon.
Eventually Started design and illustration for the Dandy in 1937 letting lose an incredible amount of work and entertainment for people of young ages.
He worked on many characters one of which was biffo the bear, who went about causing mischief to other inhabitants of the comic book world, he also had a human friend called buster, who would sometimes join him on his antics. Watkins drew biffo from the characters debut in 1948 to his sudden death on 20 August 1969; after which David Sutherland replaced him.
Dudley D. Watkins drew Biffo from the character's debut in 1948 to his sudden death on 20 August 1969, after which David Sutherland replaced him.
The family surname Broon is the Scots for standard english " Brown " as indicated by the nameplate that occasionally appears on the front door of their flat. Also, when a family member is addressed by a non-scot i.e an englishman or an american; he or she is addressed as Mister or Miss Brown.
Most of the humour derives from the timeless themes of the " generation gap; " stretching the money as far as possible; and the constant struggle for each family member to live in a very small flat with the other nine broons. In the end; the family always supports one another; getting through life with a gentle good humour as they argue amongst themselves.
Recent Artist
Andy Park started his professional career as a comic book artist at Extreme Studios, a division of image comics. He Penciled both interior work as well as cover work for several titles; most notably, " Avengelyne " and glory/Anglea: Angels in Hell. Park took a hiatus from comic books to study illustration at art centre college of design. In 1999; he returned to comic books to illustrate the new Tomb Raider comic book series written by dan Jurgens and published by Top Cow Productions and was noted as one of the top 10 artists in the industry by Wizard Magazine. Tomb Raider #1 was the highest selling comic book of 1999. After Issue 20 Andy began working at marvel comics as a cover artist and interiror artist on titles such as Excalibur, weapon X, New X-men, Mutopia X and Uncanny X-Men.
Recent Artist
Andy Park started his professional career as a comic book artist at Extreme Studios, a division of image comics. He Penciled both interior work as well as cover work for several titles; most notably, " Avengelyne " and glory/Anglea: Angels in Hell. Park took a hiatus from comic books to study illustration at art centre college of design. In 1999; he returned to comic books to illustrate the new Tomb Raider comic book series written by dan Jurgens and published by Top Cow Productions and was noted as one of the top 10 artists in the industry by Wizard Magazine. Tomb Raider #1 was the highest selling comic book of 1999. After Issue 20 Andy began working at marvel comics as a cover artist and interiror artist on titles such as Excalibur, weapon X, New X-men, Mutopia X and Uncanny X-Men.
This is some of the notable work of Andy Park. He had the chance to work on the god of war games and he took it and provided some incredible pieces of concept art.
God of war was a third person adventure game developed by santa monica studio and published by sony entertainment. First released on March 22 2005 for the PS2. it is the first installment in the series of 3 so far.
Loosely based on greek mythology it is set in ancient greece with vengeance being the main motif for the game. the player controls the protagonist named Kratos, a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian gods. The Goddess Athena tasks kratos with killing Ares. The god of war, who is responsible for kratos accidentally killing his family. As Ares Besiges Athens out of hatred for Athena; kratos embarks on a mission to find the one object capable of stopping the god; the legendary pandoras box. After an epic quest; kratos is successful and replaces the defeated Ares as the new god of war.
Andy's work is extremely in depth and detailed, and clearly shows depth and great use in colour and shading surrounding the details of the character are several different shades of red, green, black and grey. on this layer designed a incredible concept art of a character for God of War.
