Our Kickstarter closes in 72 HOURS!

Whoop! The Monkey Nuts 2 kickstarter is closing in 3 days, here's more  panels, lineart and concept art from the various books available in the campaign, which you can check out HERE!

Get 'em while you can :)

Lorenzo!

The Art of Stranski 31

Stranski #31 is here! See the original art at full size HERE, and see all the others, many of them ANIMATED LIKE THIS, right HERE!

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw SAUSAGE DOGS tutorial taster

This week's tutorial for The Phoenix looks at How to THINK when you draw SAUSAGE DOGS, here's a taster!

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!

Lorenzo!

http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/links-to-first-75-seventy-five-how-to.html

I'm GUEST JUROR for the CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE!

Very very VERY PROUD to announce that I'm the GUEST JUROR for this month's EPIC Character Design Challenge over at CharacterdDesignReferences.com! The contest is a monthly challenge which regularly gets up to 2000 separate entries, and each month an industry professional is invited to select his or her favourite design, and this month that responsibility falls to me :)

The theme this month is DEMONS and DEVILS, and you have JUST SEVEN DAYS LEFT to enter HERE and be in with a chance to win TONS OF SWAG, and garner the respect of your peers for all time!

I'm looking forward to checking out what everyone comes up with!

Lorenzo!

New MOON MARAUDER vehicle concept art

Here's a quick cab-over-engine Moon Marauder. You can learn to draw a vehicle like this using the following four tutorials:

• How to Draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS
• How to Draw VEHICLE STANCE
• How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS 
• How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES 

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw LAVA tutorial

Our Monkey Nuts comicbooks take place on a VOLCANIC ISLAND, to here's a tutorial on  how to draw LAVA! Check out the KICKSTARTER HERE (9 days left :)

If you want to know how to draw LOADS more stuff, here's a link to
MY FIRST SEVENTY-FIVE 75 TUTORIALS!
 
And if you want EVEN MORE, here are links to more recent tutorials on...

• How to draw MONSTER HEADS
• How to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS
• How to draw COMIC COVERS

 There are NEW TUTORIALS COMING EVERY WEEK, keep up with them on INSTAGRAM HERE and on TWITTER HERE.

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!!

Lorenzo!

MONKEY NUTS 2 Kickstarter closes in 10 DAYS!

Hey guys! The Monkey Nuts 2 kickstarter is closing in 10 days, here's a selection of panels, lineart and concept art from the various books available in the campaign, which you can check out HERE!

Cheers!

Lorenzo!

The Art of Stranski 30

Stranski #30 is UP! See the original art at full size HERE, and see all the others, many of them ANIMATED, right HERE!

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw NOSES tutorial taster

Next week's tutorial for The Phoenix looks at How to THINK when you draw NOSES, here's a taster!

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw MONSTER HEADS tutorial

The second of our of Monkey Nuts-themed tutorials today, to celebrate the MONKEY NUTS 2 KICKSTARTER! Today we're looking at how to draw MONSTER HEADS!

If you want MORE form this world, check out the KICKSTARTER HERE, which has just 15 days left to go!

Cheers!

Lorenzo!

MUST LISTEN! Our ONE-HOUR SPECIAL on how to MAKE IT as an INDIE CREATOR!

We're very happy to announce that we recently sat down with the awesome CHRIS HENDRICKS over at COMIXCENTRAL for a HUGE dissection of the nuts and bolts of how YOU can make it as an indie creator. We do our best to not only offer lessons and approaches that we learned through the process of our careers, but also share a whole load of PRACTICAL TIPS for how you can EASILY improve both the CREATIVE and BUSINESS sides of your comic making.

Listen to the interview IN FULL right HERE!

And if you want even more Etherington Brothers interview fun, there's a BIG new interview with Robin over on the always epic DOWN THE TUBES, which you can read RIGHT HERE!

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw GRASS tutorial taster

This week's tutorial for The Phoenix looks at How to THINK when you draw GRASS, here's a taster!

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!

Lorenzo!

The Art of Stranski 29

Hey everyone, first up, HUGE THANKS to the hundreds of you who came to see our live shows and our table at the LAKES festival, it was SUCH an amazing weekend! You guys are AWESOME!

Secondly, Stranski #29 is UP! See the original art at full size HERE, and see all the others, many of them ANIMATED, right HERE!

Lorenzo!

500% FUNDED! Thank you!

Hey guys, just wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to you all for joining the MONKEY NUTS campaign, Robin and I are SO BLOWN AWAY that we're 500% funded, and we're really looking forward to sending you all your packages!
 
Lorenzo!

MASSIVE selection of art from our Monkey Nuts Kickstarter!

Scroll down for a selection of Artwork we've been showing on social media from all the books and series available as part of our MONKEY NUTS KICKSTARTER!

Lots more to come, and just 22 days left for you to see LOADS more art, and support the campaign HERE! 

Lorenzo!

How to THINK when you draw MONKEY NUTS JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS tutorial

Kicking off a MONTH of Monkey Nuts-themed tutorials today, to celebrate the MONKEY NUTS 2 KICKSTARTER! Today we're looking at how to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS.

If you want MORE form this world, check out the KICKSTARTER HERE, which has just 23 days left to go!

Cheers!

Lorenzo!

All our offers and stock list for LAKES COMIC FESTIVAL, PLUS which titles are almost all gone!

Hey guys! here's the FULL LIST of the stock we'll be bringing to THE LAKES INTERNATIONAL COMIC ART FESTIVAL this weekend!

IMPORTANT! Quite a few of our titles are now running low, including the original HARDBACK of BAGGAGE (just ten copies left outside the kickstarter) the original small paperback of MONKEY NUTS 1(for those of you that are collecting that format) and The Art of Stranski books (which come with THIS FREE A3 PRINT exclusively at the show) are dwindling too, not many left! 

We'll also have a VERY LIMITED NUMBER of my two big sketchbooks with us, and you get a FREE A4 ORIGINAL piece of ART from my sketchbooks with each one sold. The sketchbooks went reeeeally fast at Thought Bubble, so get to our table early if you want one of those! No pressure :)

PLUS! if you buy one or more of our books at THE LAKES FESTIVAL this weekend, I'll do you a free A5 head sketch of one of our characters from one of the books you buy.

The exception to this rule will be that for families that attend who have several comic-loving children, they'll EACH get a sketch :)

Oh, and don't forget we're doing a LIVE COMIC MAKING SHOW on the SUNDAY!

Scroll down for a massive list of the stock we're bringing to the show, as well as all our other offers!

How to THINK when you draw CATERPILLAR and TANK TRACKS tutorial taster

This week's tutorial for The Phoenix looks at How to THINK when you draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS, here's a taster!

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!

Lorenzo!

The Art of Stranski 28

Stranski #28 is UP! See it at full size HERE, and see all the others, many of them ANIMATED, right HERE!

Lorenzo!

Wonderful Stranski musings by Nick Prolix, Panel x Panel and ReaditDaddy!

As our new Kickstarter is well underway (THANK YOU everyone for giving it such an amazing start!) I wanted to share with you guys two wonderful pieces written about my previous Kickstarter, The Art of Stranski. MASSIVE thanks to ReaditDaddy and Nick Prolix, for not only taking the time to share their feelings about the books, but also for communicating their own versions of what Stranski is to them in such a beautifully descriptive  and compelling way. Stuff like this is what keeps me drawing at 3am in the morning :)

You can read the Readitdaddy review HERE!

And Nick's review appears in this month's copy of PanelxPanel magazine, and you can read it on his site HERE, or you can scroll down for a sample below!

Enjoy!

And Stranski will return :)

Lorenzo!

MONKEY NUTS 2 + MONKEY NUTS 1 EXTENDED EDITION KICKSTARTER is NOW LIVE!

RIGHT! Here we go...

The Book

"Monkey Nuts 2 is the madcap sequel to The Etherington Brothers' all-ages comedy adventure comic book Monkey Nuts. It is a 76 page full colour softcover book measuring 11.6 x 8.2 inches. The series follows Sid and Rivet, a Monkey/Robot crime fighting team doing their best to defeat a never-ending stream of crackpot weirdos on an island smack-bang in the centre of the Bermuda Triangle. It is the most ridiculous series we ever made. Both Monkey Nuts books were completed nearly a decade ago, but book 2 has NEVER been published … until NOW!"
You can read a BIG chapter from Monkey Nuts 2 for free RIGHT HERE!

Get ALL our HARD TO FIND TITLES in ONE PLACE!

Many of our books are very difficult to get hold of if you live outside the UK, so to help you complete your collection, as part of the Kickstarter you can also get…

- MONKEY NUTS 1 NEW EXTENDED EDITION (72 pages, softback, full colour, 11.6 x 8.2 inches) 
- LONG GONE DON BOOKS 1 & 2 (both 64 pages, softback, full colour 9.7 x 6.9 inches) 
- BAGGAGE (64 pages, LAST of the out of print hardbacks, full colour, 11.6 x 8.2 inches ).

You can read BIG chapters from ALL these books for free RIGHT HERE!

Shipping costs for customers outside the UK.

For UK customers postage is FREE, but if you live outside the UK you'll need to add a shipping cost when you pledge, as detailed in the boxes on the right. I'm sorry it's expensive, but these books are HEAVY.

A huge thank you for taking the time to watch the video and check out the campaign!

Now just scroll down to choose your rewards...!

The KICKSTARTER is soooo close...!

How to THINK when you draw COMIC COVERS tutorial

Today we're looking at how to draw COMIC COVERS! You also can apply many of these ideas to other forms of illustration, from vignettes to single panels to t-shirt designs and on and on :)

If you want to know how to draw LOADS more stuff, here's a link to
MY FIRST SEVENTY-FIVE 75 TUTORIALS!

There are NEW TUTORIALS COMING EVERY WEEK, keep up with them on INSTAGRAM HERE and on TWITTER HERE.

PLUS!!! GO HERE to get 4 weeks of tutorials, plus 140 pages of incredible COMIC for £1!!

Lorenzo!

A3 STRANSKI GIRL vs TANK PRINT FREE to first 20 customers who buy The Art of Stranski at LAKES COMIC FESTIVAL!

Following the awesome reception our Stranski print offer got at Thought Bubble, we're pleased to announce that the FIRST 20 of you who rock up to the Etherington Brothers stand at the LAKES COMIC FESTIVAL on the 14th - 15th of THIS MONTH and buy a copy of The Art of Stranski will receive a FREE A3 (11.7 x 16.5 inches) print of Stranski #10 (GIRL vs TANK) signed by me :) This print will be on heavy, 350gsm stock, a true work of art! :)

TONS more news on what we're bringing/doing at Lakes coming in the run up to the show which takes place on 14th - 15th of THIS MONTH, including our location on the floor, our LIVE EVENT and other exclusive offers we'll be running over the weekend! Keep it tuned to the E-bros!

Lorenzo!

Links to first 75 SEVENTY-FIVE How to THINK when you DRAW tutorials!

Hey guys, here's links to EVERY ONE of my first 75 how to THINK when you draw TUTORIALS, now in ALPHABETICAL ORDER! Enjoy, link, pin, share! Cheers!

Lorenzo!

How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS
How to draw BIRD HEADS
How to draw BOOKS
How to draw BREAKING GLASS
How to draw CABLES and WIRES 
How to draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS 
How to draw CHARACTER SHAPES
How to draw COMPOSITION 
How to draw EARS
How to draw FABRIC 
How to draw FEET & SHOES
How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART ONE
How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART TWO
How to draw FOREGROUND MIDGROUND BACKGROUND     
How to draw GIRL'S HAIR
How to draw GRASS 
How to draw HORSE HEADS 
How to draw IMPACT DEBRIS 
How to draw IN 3D 
How to draw IN-WORLD TYPOGRAPHY
How to draw JUNK HOUSES
How to draw LIGHTNING and ELECTRICITY 
How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS
How to draw MUSHROOMS and FUNGUS
How to draw MONSTER TENTACLES 
How to draw NOSES
How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES
How to draw PLANES 
How to draw ROBOT ARMS 
How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS
How to draw RUNNING FIGURES
How to draw SAUSAGE DOGS  
How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS
How to draw SQUIRRELS 
How to draw TREE BARK 
How to draw VEHICLES 
How to draw WATER 
How to draw WOODEN HOUSES