Blogging the blog solo blog.

Yep this is turning out to be a one woman show. On the other hand, I'm a genius and heres my editorial image for an article about the unsustainability of canvas bags over plastic when we don't re-use them.




Yes, I made that mofo.

Zodiac Collaboration

Heres the first six of the horiscopes for Exeter Uni paper. Marcel did concepts and sketches and I did the grunt work so essentially he should be putting these up.. but we'll call it collaboration.

Agony Anto

For the sake of the day someone other then max is reading.






And some silly things

I enjoy cheesy buttocks.

Things which may or may not ever be finished.

But I like them anyway. (well the orange one is finished.)

The penis pig

(firstly, why is this underlined? piece of shit blogger)

Ok. some paintcchat with faye.
I drew the dragon, faye drew the person in front.
2nd picture was my bit in a Gurren Lagann collab. But some guy drew Vince Offer, from slap chop. Which was awesome, so i had to keep it in the picture.
peace out.

(damn this undrlining is annoying

HAND COW

Self explanatory really



Edit - i need to figure how to save/resize painter pictures better. I think photoshop might be aliasing out alot of the texture and brush stuff when i resize and save it. :S
Also - let me know what the colour/darkness is like. On my main monitor its good, but on my second monitor it looks reaaly dark and desaturated. i trust my main moniter the most tho...

This is what you do in Dublin

I don't know what Andy's been wasting his time with, but me and Faye have embarked upon the best culinary collaboration the world has ever SEEN.

Here was the situation: Faye's friend Connor was due a surprise party, and there we were with a cake, our baking skills and painting talents. Three tones of buttercream, some bourneville chocolate and all kinds of awesome later we made THIS:



FACECAKE. I hadn't even met the guy and by the time we'd finished this I felt like we were related. WE HAD A BOND.


Needless to say, everyone was suitably impressed (including Janine, who started with false praise until she saw it the right way round). Connor was a lot less chocolatey in real life, but arguably as charming. It's inspired me to level up my cakes (maybe even add a third dimension to my decoration), and I think inspired Faye to learn how to cook. Maybe.





As an added bonus, we also got to eat a whole load of leftover buttercream for the next few days! MMMM, SICKLY!

Edutainment for the masses

I was just going to link this to Andy, but thought it was a useful enough breakdown to put up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radiomaru/3872906862/sizes/o/

Bryan Lee O'Malley's blog may not be as resource heavy as someone like Brandon Graham's, but it has a few gems. Both O'Malley and his partner Hope Larson's comics are well worth reading, especially since they both look at comics from different angles, but still get satisfying reads out of either.


If you don't like Bryan Lee O'Malley then you're no friend of mine!

Better!

I did some tests with this whole custom brushes, using all kind of this and that.
And im kind of night finding its me. I think that something more akin to traditional painting is where i need to be.
so.. my next attempt
Its gonna be all wet, lots of shiny. Drips from the roof onto big robot, and wet hair for everyone.
But well see. My opening sketch had a much darker/moody rain feeling going on.



And wow. I need to sort out my colour configuration or something. Theres a difference between Painter IX (which it was done in) and Photoshop. Then when its put onto the internet, and i see it on a different moniter :S cant imagine how you guys see it.

My test i did, for like 15 mins

Junk in dem Trunk

Well. Yeah.
I know what i what i want to do. But im definitly still finding out how i want to go about doing it, in terms of process. I feel like im messing about too much and doing alot of things that arent needed in the process of painting. I watched a David Levy video and was looking at some other good digital painters, and i like they way they seem to be getting it down first time, no messing.
Im layering up too much and im loosing something. i think i had something at the beginning within the simplicity and lost it. With this in mind, now knowing what im doing - im gonna start again, trying to be simple.
Still dont know whether i like to do drawings to start with either....

also. Faye foreground, marcel on the left, me being heroic at the back. Its gonna be in the sewers too, all cyberpunky grimey. The water theme i lost alot in the process too :(



Ill be back for more by this evening for sure
i feel like im really learning something everytime i put down strokes.

Unbelievably angry.

I've been happily working on that pchat doodle the past few days, playing with the concept, trying to see how well I could work up a finish and... Saving a jpeg for a CA critique thread I LOST THE LARGE FILE. I don't know if I'll work on it any more, but this is how it looks now. All 600px width of it.




I also made a book. PLEASE crit the hell out of it, I'd like to figure out whats wrong with it besides the unavoidable fact that its 'cute'. It might be unintelligible, its getting lukewarm reviews. So if you can figure out how to improve it I'll be happy, it'd be nice to have something small and dinky worth selling at babahogs.

Click:



Much love, and always check before you save.