NEW WORK, PEN AND INK THIS IS NOT THE RUNNING ORDER FOR THE NARRATIVE. MORE WILL FOLLOW NEXT WEEK!

Eight Hundred Thousand Hills Cover

Cover for the Eight Hundred Thousand Hills short, Pen and Ink, A3 hopefully this will be made into a short comic book, the story was written by Andrew Kerr and I of course did all the illustration. I was first asked to produce just a nine panel piece, but I felt that the story could be spread out, and would have a better feel if it was expanded visually. Keep an eye out for more work from the Smyth/Kerr team coming in the future.

Today I shall be producing the cover for Eight Hundred Thousand Hills, stay tuned for the result should hopefully be up tonight...

Recent re-design for a Manowar cover, Into Glory Ride, check out the original and you will see why I re-designed it. Pen and Ink A2  

Screen print, War Horse, A3

currently available in Ross's online auction

Above is a guest page I produced for Uproar Comics publication Zombie Hi issue 4, the story was written  by Kevin 'Gio' Logue, and my illustration.

Eight Hundred Thousand Hills

In 1994 I lived with my father, every morning he liked to listen to the radio...
One morning he woke me, looking very scared. He said we had to leave right away, i asked why...he said "they are coming to cut down the tall trees."

As we ran from our village he held the little radio to his ear...behind us I could hear people that I knew screaming.

That night we slept in a ditch outside our village...
Then my father went to find food...he never came back

Later I crept back to the village. The bodies of my neighbours lay outside their houses...being eaten by dogs...

For ninety days I hid in the well behind our house.The water meant i had to sleep standing up...Only sometimes did hunger make me brave enough to try to find some food.
One night I was spotted by some militia men, they weren't much older than me...when they saw me theey said, "look cockroach"...

I ran away...but one man caught me with his machete...I fell down...

...and they took turns raping me as i died...seventeen of them...i counted
Thats how i left Rwanda....The End

 Above, a short story page for Andrew Kerr, this piece is telling the story of a young girl in Rwanda in 1994. Illustration Matthew H. Smyth, words Andrew Kerr