John Welding

@johnwelding.bsky.social

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Pen and ink drawing, comic strips and sketchbooks. Currently drawing the adventures of reanimated war robot Chuffin' Billy. https://johnweldingdraws.blogspot.com/

An ink and watercolor film sketch depicting a scene from "La Espera / The Wait (2023)". The artwork features a bearded, middle-aged man shown in right profile, sitting outside on a simple metal-framed chair. He has a somber, downcast expression, looking out toward a stark landscape. Behind him, a weathered wooden fence post wrapped in wire mesh stands next to him. The background is dominated by a bright, hazy sky and sweeping, textured ink lines that give the impression of a dusty, parched Andalusian landscape, with a simple rectangular building or wall visible in the distance. The foreground is dark with detailed grass textures and white ink splatters mimicking dust or low-lying light catches. Image shows a clean, direct digital scan of the artwork, featuring the artist's initials "JW 2026" in the bottom left corner and the handwritten title "La Espera / The Wait 2023" in the bottom right corner.
process photos of Chuffin' Billy comic strip page 9 panel 1. Loose blue pencil drawing of an angry little robot called Chuffin' Willy shooting at pigeons with a sci-fi blaster attached to his arm along a London road, causing mayhem. The blue pencil under drawing is being inked with a black Pental Colour Brush Pen.
A brush pen, watercoloured drawing of a crow on a rock pecking at an orange, discarded face.
Black and white brush pen drawing in a sketchbook of a tree in a park.
The photo shows a brush pen and watercolour drawing in an A5 sketchbook. The remains of Sandal Castle, West Yorkshire are in the background. Text reads ' visited Sandal Castle to meet a friend and collect my Christmas dinner from the castle Cafe. A stranger in the car park shouted that I 'needed to wear gloves in weather like this!'
Black ink. Brush pen drawing. Sketchbook. Old rope.
Photo shows the PDF montage cover to John Welding's Mundane Diary PDF superimposed over his work desk which contains a black and white drawing in his A5 sketchbook and the tools he used to create it which is a pencil, traditional dip pen and black Indian ink. Photo contains orange wording 'FREE PDF in the link below...'
Cartoon by John Welding from 2017 based on the film Frankenstein (1931) showing the then Prime Minister May standing over the living corpse of Great Britain declaring, "It's alive... and strong... and stable!" mocking the Tory slogan of the day.
Black and white brush pen drawing and notes with a grey scale textured overlay (from the artist's own photo library). He watched the film 'Protein' the other night and quite enjoyed it. Enough to draw characters from memory at least.
Photo shows an A4 page of drawing and notes of vegetation and a robot using a black Pental Colour Brush Pen. I am trying to get back to basics. It's been a weird year for my drawing. It kind of peaked using a computer and I wasn't able to sustain or replicate the results I was getting. With all the Ai shenanigans going on at the minute, my response is to go back to basics and draw freehand with a brush pen. Drawing direct. Using as little guidance from artificial means like a light box or computer software to edit the image.
Black and white sketch of a futuristic fascist Mega City Judge threatening consequences for the crime...of not having ID.
Close up of sketchbook pages drawn in black ink with pilot parallel pens and coloured with water colour transparent paint. Amongst the visual rambling is the robot in a parka, Chuffin' Billy.
Page one of a five page comic strip titled 'One Man Short'. Introduced by the tale talking Will Skoggin's Skull. Timothee Lee gets enlisted by three tall, dark strangers in carrying a coffin. Drawn by John Welding, Written by Ben Haggarty and published in The DFC comic 2008.
A series of pen and ink and watercoloured panels arranged A4 Landscape. The handwritten text reads: "Having lived in Wakefield for a number of years, walking through The Ridings has become part of my regular route through the City Centre. Sometimes it's a shortcut. Sometimes like today, it's because I am on a mission to buy a birthday present." "There is one place I go when faced with the challenge of shopping or entering shopping malls in general. It's a place that orientates me to the City Centre environment." WH Smith. "I don't even have to read a magazine anymore, a glance at the reassuring shelves of magazines and stationery is enough. Part of a shopping ritual for me..." "I have been doing this in various towns throughout the land for 33 years." "WH Smith founded 1848 by William Henry Smith and Son." © John Welding 2013
Pen and ink, muted watercolour sketch of a World War 1 steam powered robot. Spindly scaffolding for arms and legs protrude form his armoured, battered torso as he marches through a bomb blasted, smokey landscape.