tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68245042769644673322024-03-14T13:03:36.099+00:00Thrusting PensSuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-24328014379309870512013-06-09T15:06:00.003+01:002013-06-09T15:07:19.583+01:00I gone done made an animation <br />
Check this shit out. It has moving parts and everything. Probably won't make any sense if you're not familiar with Metal Gear Rising's plot, but - you're going to enjoy it anyway. Or else.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fENM1KtcMcA" width="480"></iframe>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-3548867982640473992013-05-03T22:10:00.000+01:002013-05-03T22:10:55.410+01:00Oh! One last thing - I set up a page on <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/">Redbubble</a>, so you can now buy Tshirts that I have digitally scribbled on. Click this sexy promotional banner to see my page:<br />
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I should be updating it with new designs pretty soon, so keep an eye on it.
Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-7662673719966427252013-05-03T21:49:00.002+01:002013-05-03T22:30:56.669+01:00Rebirth!This page was looking a little decrepit, so I decided to spruce the place up with a colour change and a nice new banner image. Look how the banner Image glistens and sparkles with awesomeness! (If it’s not glistening and sparkling, your monitor is probably filthy dirty, rather than there being a lack of awesomeness on the image’s part). <br />
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Anyway, might as well throw some artwork at you, now I’ve got you gawping at me.<br />
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More <a href="http://brindlebrothers.blogspot.co.uk/">Brindle Blog</a> illustrations:<br />
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Both are somewhat sexually perverse. For this, I ask that you blame the articles they were designed to punctuate. You know I would never draw something unsavoury of my own volition, of course!<br />
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Oh, and here’s some character designs I did for a friend’s student magazine. I’d link the ‘zine, but it was print only. Ah well:<br />
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I’ve also been sketching some pictures for music site <a href="http://www.crackintheroad.com/">Crack in the Road:</a><br />
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The first is a depiction of Justin Beiber signing Anne Frank’s diary, for an article written about how <a href="http://www.crackintheroad.com/music/21167-feature-beliebe-in-yourself/">historical figures could take inspiration from today’s pop music scene</a>. The second image was for a post entitled <a href="http://www.crackintheroad.com/life/21385-feature-five-things-you-could-waste-a-fiver-on/">‘five things you could waste a fiver on’</a>, shamelessly plugging CitR’s (now) monthly live show. You can follow the Callum Booth, the writer of both articles, on twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/c_r_booth">@c_r_booth</a>.<br />
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Lastly, I threw together a compilation of the banner images I made for the Eurogamer front page when I was doing work experience there. Not very arty, but it showcases my photoshop skills I suppose (careful, it's a big file):<br />
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Though it may not look like it, most of the images have been quite heavily photoshopped to make them look good in that aspect ratio. So, basically, CHECK THIS OUT POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS.<br />
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Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-10600456656039864042013-02-07T01:17:00.001+00:002013-02-07T17:52:21.089+00:00ARTS<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So recently I've dabbled in this thing called 'traditional art'. See, i hadn't heard of it 'till recently, but apparently you don't use Photoshop and - get this - you don't even use a computer. you just smear liquids over paper like some sort of mentally challenged child who's developed an unhealthy fascination with their various bodily discharges. Though once I'd gotten used to this (frankly prehistoric) mode of expression, i think i managed to churn out some vaguely passable pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two i made for my girlfriend with watercolours. if you can't tell, they're of Withnail & I and Fassbender's sex addict character in Shame, respectively:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And these pen illustrations are currently adorning the wall of my houseshare living room. the middle picture is of Alice Glass (of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Castles_(band)">Crystal Castles</a>), while the bottom-right one is a landscape of submerged tower blocks in a future of rising water levels, though it doesn't really come across well without colour.</span><br />
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Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-51672985915115551482012-12-26T03:07:00.001+00:002012-12-26T03:07:14.389+00:00THINGS<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you got lots of expensive presents, ate your weight in fancy flavoursome food and cracked all the crackers (and put on the silly hats you got from cracking the crackers). My parents have gone to bed, and being back in the ol' family home I'm now sufficiently bored to actually update this fucking blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a while I've been a fairly regular artist for the <a href="http://brindlebrothers.blogspot.co.uk/">Brindle Blog</a>, assisting John Brindle and his numerous siblings in their intellectual forays into the relatively uncharted depths of video game critical theory. Blog banner images are pretty fun to do, as the small image size isn't too demanding, whilst still allowing for a lot of creative freedom. Here's what I've done for the Brindles so far. Clicking them will take you to the relevant blog post (with the exception of the first, for which no article exists):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And this is the first image I did for the Brindles, drawn to accompany <a href="http://brindlebrothers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/sneaking-on-d-pad-why-metal-gear-solid.html">an article I wrote</a> about how Metal Gear Solid learned some important lessons from, of all games, Pac-Man: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh, and here's a banner image I did for my<a href="http://uraniumburger.blogspot.co.uk/"> friend's blog</a> (which you should check out, because it explores some really intense and interesting shit about cold war culture): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So yeah, that's my bi-annual update done. Now I'm going to crawl back into the fetal position. Ciao. </span>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-23614575592151784742012-05-23T17:18:00.000+01:002012-05-23T17:22:04.932+01:00The Wall Post<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
WALLS. The unsung heroes of domestic privacy. Without them, we’d be forced to witness the disgusting habits of our neighbours – and they, in return, would bear witness to ours. I, for one, am extremely grateful that Henry Wall discovered the wall in 1869. And that’s why I feel compelled to draw all over them. </div>
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First off is my most recent foray into WALLART. I drew a giant skullbot thing on my wall and - for your viewing pleasure -compiled the process into a timelapse video. </div>
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And while I’m at it, I may as well show some previous wall murals I’ve painted. The first one is a giant Elmer, and the second a tree full of birds. Both are for childrens’ bedrooms, so I restrained the urge to add some crazy mech shit, or make all the animals cyborg death-bots, or something.</div>
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<br /></div>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-73675039783767375572012-04-19T16:30:00.007+01:002012-04-19T16:38:10.806+01:00Valiant Return<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;">OK, so to the impartial observer it may seem as if I’ve been lazy and haven’t updated this blog in over half a year. To such individuals I would say this; while you may be technically correct in your assertion of the lateness of this post, your assumption of my laziness is not only incorrect but hurtful. I have been incredibly busy.<span style="font-style: italic;"> Incredibly </span>busy. I would love to tell you why, but unfortunately I cannot, because I am lying. </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="arial">Well, now we’ve got that out the way, let’s get on with some HARDCORE ART. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;">At the tail-end of last summer, I decided to try my hand at Tshirt designs. It was fun, but incredibly difficult to come up with a bold, witty design. Y’know, the kind of design that people would actually want on a Tshirt. And then I got a job and kind of forgot about doing them (<span style="font-style: italic;">incredibly busy</span>). <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But here are the ones I managed to get to a near-finished state. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimg7FjetwHzn5E0CAh8SW5fA8p_537OT-wotuCF-zup8-quu39zsPnCm3faEdYSNQDE_qZ_gFURA1R-UZMmdLeBbWy4iwWbKJZ-8Vrt7pfDNw6KcElYFp7e32s-Fi41ZRyjz0HjF6ROzE/s1600/Opiums.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimg7FjetwHzn5E0CAh8SW5fA8p_537OT-wotuCF-zup8-quu39zsPnCm3faEdYSNQDE_qZ_gFURA1R-UZMmdLeBbWy4iwWbKJZ-8Vrt7pfDNw6KcElYFp7e32s-Fi41ZRyjz0HjF6ROzE/s400/Opiums.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733135177290272578" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">This is the first design I attempted, and is probably my favourite. Opium’s coming back in a big way. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0miMUXGgrmV8z8YT5m7OAyqU3wvzXA0STf_ZT0p6YF5yuo8reZJNO3dbU0pp7JNXUsuWs8-1LnZsDQKMrQqripSno07L0oqGeyMRbC6oMjeD6Qp6BEyIv7jvaj6sI4ahgE-9DIzn3T0/s1600/Threadless+image2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0miMUXGgrmV8z8YT5m7OAyqU3wvzXA0STf_ZT0p6YF5yuo8reZJNO3dbU0pp7JNXUsuWs8-1LnZsDQKMrQqripSno07L0oqGeyMRbC6oMjeD6Qp6BEyIv7jvaj6sI4ahgE-9DIzn3T0/s400/Threadless+image2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733135376201157554" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">This one went through a few revisions before I was happy with it. The tricky thing about designing with the possibility of print in mind is that there are often colour limitations (I submitted most of these through <a href="http://http//www.threadless.com">Threadless</a>, which require a limit of 8 colours, including black and white). Mind you, the benefit of this is that it really makes you think about what colours are necessary, and what colours go together. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_RKLM9xu7iACJw8b-yX6bAiZ1OmQ3Z2VprHyfqDNQAaxzwL6lhEhQeUgmBAdVrSvvqu1oNtUGO622Bh4MyZmsLYmPA_ui8GPa4TuZVqJIN9L0Bpu7vapHbnyM2X91kGeyc0HB5SbEa8/s1600/SubmissionNonFlash.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_RKLM9xu7iACJw8b-yX6bAiZ1OmQ3Z2VprHyfqDNQAaxzwL6lhEhQeUgmBAdVrSvvqu1oNtUGO622Bh4MyZmsLYmPA_ui8GPa4TuZVqJIN9L0Bpu7vapHbnyM2X91kGeyc0HB5SbEa8/s400/SubmissionNonFlash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733135473252336098" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, the Mega Drive didn’t output in a high enough resolution to depict such realistic visions of Sonic’s demise. This Tshirt is an attempt to rectify that. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dbMH2HnteJeK7l1Q5gtrI5JAe_w_zsEzlXDagT9xeiVNRw8lFL6StNw8xyRQaWDPLxckisfqFP4_QCDqkQ4-CDCREeYJ2mp_wLN8SVHjOX8YL2RYD90Wg-2wSIaFobTVOHJg0VvSNds/s1600/critique.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dbMH2HnteJeK7l1Q5gtrI5JAe_w_zsEzlXDagT9xeiVNRw8lFL6StNw8xyRQaWDPLxckisfqFP4_QCDqkQ4-CDCREeYJ2mp_wLN8SVHjOX8YL2RYD90Wg-2wSIaFobTVOHJg0VvSNds/s400/critique.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733135563180366722" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">This one wasn’t actually finished, as I was going to change the hands, and possibly swap the newspaper for something else. But, you get the idea. HE’S A SPIDER HAHAHAHA </p>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-74885215958776450002011-08-14T18:52:00.008+01:002011-08-14T20:04:05.661+01:00FIRST POST-GRADUATION POSTAh, to be a graduate. I’ve really earned the blissful emptiness of these days; the freedom to lounge and relax; the gentle caress of the sun on my face and a light breeze on my skin. These summer afternoons are my reward for three years of hard work.
<br /><p>…</p>OH GOD I’M SO BONE-ACHINGLY BORED<p></p>But look, I was productive and motivated once! Here’s all the stuff I did in the last few months of uni! I’M NOT A LAZY ASS, honest
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<br />First off, comeeeks. I made one for each issue of my student paper, for the whole year I was games editor. I'll post the first one again for good measure, but other than that, these are all new to this blog (as always, click for full-size):
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<br />TA-DA. I think you’ll all agree that my little mini-series ended with a striking commentary on the state of modern student life. Plus there were aliens. Badass aliens.
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<br />Let’s move on to some of the Fuse covers I did. You may recognise a certain character in two of them; this is because I’m <strike>too lazy to think of more</strike> experimenting with different styles. Yeah.
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpY04lNhvVqxeC3Pltvs6XjhEmouED7n199MIRc-zqYarKwV97NWLq0OCso27b8aIbZXMHOIFTONKxRsm9PvXFgPrv5RMwocSJtk3ywNx34nK__0_CE9HVYRN_sR4aABWu13Xx44U0UJ8/s1600/PerfectGameCover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpY04lNhvVqxeC3Pltvs6XjhEmouED7n199MIRc-zqYarKwV97NWLq0OCso27b8aIbZXMHOIFTONKxRsm9PvXFgPrv5RMwocSJtk3ywNx34nK__0_CE9HVYRN_sR4aABWu13Xx44U0UJ8/s400/PerfectGameCover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640786712646735746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhENIb3bB4C7XZbhyphenhyphene-oId_064dOdU1z98dsanih5OX0_jUiQUg12_Fudy6qh4os_GTeC8kd79CtUf6SE8GN0Up8aDxoV7sbrBihE8hRR40UZ6HKyY32aKHlJKkb3280ljiJkv8ROpRJsg/s1600/ReadMerged.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhENIb3bB4C7XZbhyphenhyphene-oId_064dOdU1z98dsanih5OX0_jUiQUg12_Fudy6qh4os_GTeC8kd79CtUf6SE8GN0Up8aDxoV7sbrBihE8hRR40UZ6HKyY32aKHlJKkb3280ljiJkv8ROpRJsg/s400/ReadMerged.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640786712280473682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBr1zTQzXHZp8ZUgrZ6gpk2Z3Mxy_xmpt6KSEST8ysLhOmkFvlHf16ObGpp-y9jP3sO2mOJKNLOO7LAsSCmm7hrlcxYYVppmvbSMBc_cKYWYPiDPZ6ujAMr783X8RxOs2ATFEJGjTKTFU/s1600/BestOfCover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBr1zTQzXHZp8ZUgrZ6gpk2Z3Mxy_xmpt6KSEST8ysLhOmkFvlHf16ObGpp-y9jP3sO2mOJKNLOO7LAsSCmm7hrlcxYYVppmvbSMBc_cKYWYPiDPZ6ujAMr783X8RxOs2ATFEJGjTKTFU/s400/BestOfCover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640786713740741506" border="0" /></a>And here’s a header I composed for my friend’s blog, <a href="http://thedeadlyrhythm5.blogspot.com/">The Deadly Rhythm</a>. He said I could do what I liked with the design, so naturally, I thought of a bizarre flesh-forged guitar headstock bursting forth from a man’s chest while a French lady looks on with an unexplained sexual lust. What can I say? My brain is a complex place.
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9bG_RP2P9cL2or-9CLkohndGb9U00Kesr7o8E5BGfsd5qG_wQHuYU-wPXGYl5dYjbpKKzH65SpU7f8ZC1jztXWe2lnOgbKw9Vzhcpoh7oWToxEvE9IEMW7YKriLdfq7jqaSuCAwm_Cc/s1600/GuitarBlack.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9bG_RP2P9cL2or-9CLkohndGb9U00Kesr7o8E5BGfsd5qG_wQHuYU-wPXGYl5dYjbpKKzH65SpU7f8ZC1jztXWe2lnOgbKw9Vzhcpoh7oWToxEvE9IEMW7YKriLdfq7jqaSuCAwm_Cc/s400/GuitarBlack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640786961905286066" border="0" /></a>Oh, and here’s a sneak peek at a Tshirt design I’m working on at the moment. It involves a Victorian gentleman and copious amounts of opium. I'll leave you with his creepy, smacked-out face as a kind of final mark of punctuation for this blog post. HE CAN SEE YOUR SHAME
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82vGvE6scJbr3h0E7Zrcnj2DmdDK-tNGLykvWA8L8arVq0d_R9-coctm-bx3HtRaPaZOHss7KLeuKGdDDaOv_P-vMcN0UTyRd6-WoM8IFI2Do_OqNyzI0d8FfJr7oIe5O3HzouXhxIT8/s1600/Opiums.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82vGvE6scJbr3h0E7Zrcnj2DmdDK-tNGLykvWA8L8arVq0d_R9-coctm-bx3HtRaPaZOHss7KLeuKGdDDaOv_P-vMcN0UTyRd6-WoM8IFI2Do_OqNyzI0d8FfJr7oIe5O3HzouXhxIT8/s400/Opiums.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640787758212737922" border="0" /></a>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-49956662368705633702011-04-02T07:35:00.012+01:002011-04-02T08:09:10.857+01:00Belated Christmassy Update 2: Comic Bewk.Okay, so in my last blog post I said I’d make a follow-up update ‘probably on Boxing Day or something’. It’s now, um, April 2011. Time flies, huh?<br /><br />In the meantime, I’ve not been up to much. Other than, y’know, FREAKING OUT about my dissertation. Note that I don’t say I’ve been writing it – this would be incorrect – I’ve been freaking out. There’s quite a big difference.<br /><br />Anyway, last term I was doing this great English module, Dystopias and Utopias. Apart from being really fun in of itself, one of the assessments was a creative project to be undertaken in a group. So our group came up with The Anglican Republic:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0jE5avNi0jE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="260" width="410"></iframe><br /><br />Pretty cool, huh? In addition to contributing to the general development of the idea, most of the photoshopped images in the video above were done by yours truly (oh, and I’m in the damn thing, obviously). But what I put the most amount of time into was a comic supplement, which you can find in its entirety below:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNfJESMyNLdTnDtQoWOPfQbkvK8mgugunX7iJOKxJToWKtvLWPCjZ7jrm7ExYuYXZpjShK_zMgoE1T7cBhLm2ZZARZZPlv5NAx1FfmQ7q00vcXqTcFSlsKBQCvqAN0na0-s9s-9P2FQg/s1600/AnglicanRepublicTransparent.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNfJESMyNLdTnDtQoWOPfQbkvK8mgugunX7iJOKxJToWKtvLWPCjZ7jrm7ExYuYXZpjShK_zMgoE1T7cBhLm2ZZARZZPlv5NAx1FfmQ7q00vcXqTcFSlsKBQCvqAN0na0-s9s-9P2FQg/s400/AnglicanRepublicTransparent.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590878289791258226" border="0" /></a><br /><center><a 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It’s not perfect – I particularly dislike almost all of the dialogue in the first half, and the drawings are rushed due to time constraints – but it felt so good to actually hold a bundle of A5 comic books you’d made yourself. If I didn’t need a looming deadline to actually get anything done ever, I’d probably do another comic sometime in my free time, but really make it perfect. Unfortunately, all I really seem to do with my free time is waste it. 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A few more months and I’ll be cast out into the real world, forced to scrape a living from society’s great, shit-covered boot. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been hugely busy lately, so there’s a lot to show and tell. Rather than compiling a colossal blog post to rival the splendour of gods, I think I’ll break up my recent work into a few updates. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">First up, we have Space Invaders in my uni living room. Basically, I made a giant Space Invader with random cassette tapes and sprinkled a few smaller, Hama-bead ones around it. 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Boxing Day or something). Try not to get too excited that you forget all about Christmas tomorrow – I’d hate for my blog update to overshadow a festive event. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Anyways, Merry Christmas to one and all, etc! </p>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-62960466216570030262010-10-11T14:53:00.009+01:002010-10-11T15:30:29.813+01:00The Death of SummerOh, hello! Long time no see. This place has gotten pretty desolate of late seeing as I’ve been so negligent with updating it. I had to prune back a wall of ivy just to get into the admin area, and I swear I saw a badger in the ‘about me’ section.<br /><br />The main reason for the lack of updates is because I’ve been in Brighton for the summer, and I did sweet flip all with regards to artwork. Of course, now that I’m back Shef-side and the weather is returning to its naturally bleak and drizzly state I’m sure I’ll be a lot more productive.<br /><br />First up, I did a Fuse cover for the final issue of Forge Press before the summer holidays. I was trying to make it a tiny bit more stylised (hence the ridiculous proportions of the policeman and the slight blush on the girl’s joints). All done in Photoshop, of course:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMx8ug-z8eb9SPgIBF8DVb2aFZTJ0zq4SN9DOeYe7ecTwrD7Fxf-4T5vtS9X5oGCQnTNaZj_rToGqSnfhwLrEmED_4WBRdpltRZsWci8SgvM5BTpPgm_TqvC-QPey6JdRM86nXNJU0aqQ/s1600/Summer+lazing.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMx8ug-z8eb9SPgIBF8DVb2aFZTJ0zq4SN9DOeYe7ecTwrD7Fxf-4T5vtS9X5oGCQnTNaZj_rToGqSnfhwLrEmED_4WBRdpltRZsWci8SgvM5BTpPgm_TqvC-QPey6JdRM86nXNJU0aqQ/s320/Summer+lazing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526793245344556178" border="0" /></a><br />The latest cover I designed – for the first Fuse of this university year - was slightly different, as I pencilled and inked the drawing on two sheets of A4 before scanning them in and colouring the whole thing in Photoshop. I liked how the colourised buildings turned out; I think they look a lot better stylistically than my <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICY04d6qCGG-TpnrOcP34YZchnG_iF8JgIonQohiglZ21qhLAYzt8KMBmmP_hR41klO2fnaRV36rt2AUaUGysRj7FUN3pex1B-k8CEr3ZA8XSRSC77MJ6PxH27DT9eQKJzFf6HPGQCS4/s1600-h/Blue.jpg">last attempt</a> at depicting Sheffield structures.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKpd5JOHyC-iY6H5Hci8f0pM0xOuOEKyY4DjrWyx6eJC3m3K2Rvcm81oSJLZfVc01T8rP1fX-jMI1WkxZZduIOjVPkWfXqBFL4W302lK-H5JMvektNwPjicCSAHjqOJcwahxmE3BDNGg/s1600/Intro+Week.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKpd5JOHyC-iY6H5Hci8f0pM0xOuOEKyY4DjrWyx6eJC3m3K2Rvcm81oSJLZfVc01T8rP1fX-jMI1WkxZZduIOjVPkWfXqBFL4W302lK-H5JMvektNwPjicCSAHjqOJcwahxmE3BDNGg/s320/Intro+Week.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526794464228623234" border="0" /></a><br />Most recently I’ve started writing and drawing a fortnightly comic to go in the back of Fuse. The first one is a six-panel introductory comic, whilst the second – and all further updates – will be short, three panel jokes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxqdRurfdoAQ1LAr6EyGGlcA9V3jR43P-mka1GyI1ZPUBi6Ww3jG-Ky9ubHPQumvM4vJh8B75QO8xdUEA96oUtffpY-oCsswnwAB_uljc1fpIIa9PZBSVLPvObBGRRdUnSkZgkAMX3Ks/s1600/01+-+beginnings.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxqdRurfdoAQ1LAr6EyGGlcA9V3jR43P-mka1GyI1ZPUBi6Ww3jG-Ky9ubHPQumvM4vJh8B75QO8xdUEA96oUtffpY-oCsswnwAB_uljc1fpIIa9PZBSVLPvObBGRRdUnSkZgkAMX3Ks/s320/01+-+beginnings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526794868589487794" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI8LQrzhvC1Hp78BPPBoAeqvLnsXC67tq49MbstHkJJdsB6MUBzod_E76OwMJEuVxmUXTEfs447qFHo9M7isbSVpTbjIXxuCxWCnSqFZXSiGTyt8jKEOabyqMKINfWz2N5ku8OqSJdurU/s1600/02+-+mad+kate.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 121px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI8LQrzhvC1Hp78BPPBoAeqvLnsXC67tq49MbstHkJJdsB6MUBzod_E76OwMJEuVxmUXTEfs447qFHo9M7isbSVpTbjIXxuCxWCnSqFZXSiGTyt8jKEOabyqMKINfWz2N5ku8OqSJdurU/s320/02+-+mad+kate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526794981744528786" border="0" /></a>I really like the look of the characters, design wise. I tried to make them unique both in the shapes of their figure and the colours involved in their appearance, and I think they all balance each other quite well. The most challenging thing is the writing – making a comic funny is harder than you’d think. Whilst the first one is okay, I’m not really pleased with the humour in the second strip as it lacks a satisfying punchline. As with anything, however, there is a learning curve and I’m sure I’ll improve as the comic progresses.<br /><br />Finally, here’s a poster I made on the request of my girlfriend. It’s based on the <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html">‘Get Excited and Make Things’</a> poster, which in turn is a variation of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On"> ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8k3KRRUpIdZqPhoFtWVMPY-0WhbbNU7uCNvfr2rCbnbSgB2zKSKaZRIup5xcIhAcY3nmcewdSjJPTx8jPMX6LQT7cLOHs9t7w5uyejYlQZZK3OHy-xIebicFwFYYDWZ1zRKf49PQCsmY/s1600/bake+things.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8k3KRRUpIdZqPhoFtWVMPY-0WhbbNU7uCNvfr2rCbnbSgB2zKSKaZRIup5xcIhAcY3nmcewdSjJPTx8jPMX6LQT7cLOHs9t7w5uyejYlQZZK3OHy-xIebicFwFYYDWZ1zRKf49PQCsmY/s320/bake+things.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526795156232729010" border="0" /></a><br />I may also make an update in a while based on the recent feature pages I’ve been designing for Fuse and Forge Press, as not only is the role of games editor keeping be busy with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_InDesign">Indesign</a> but I was recently duty co-editor of the whole of Fuse. It’s probably not that interesting, but I figure that I don’t really have any readers to lose (seeing as I have no readers in the first place).Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-61514708761218047842010-05-06T02:20:00.007+01:002010-05-06T02:41:27.235+01:00Pandas, Pripyat and PrettinessFirst up; prettiness. My custom N64 was <a href="http://kotaku.com/5524988/the-prettiest-custom-nintendo-64-youll-see-today">featured on Kotaku</a>. That makes me famous and awesome and stuff.<br />Next, Pandas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-FMrx8MztskeVEYN-snyF1I3Qh3JSVwYSInw6EdLhWAy61kUMbIAOvvJNwF6abrsQOtVnNUpRfRowE8rzmmjv8lxGekH7hLcfj0XgOiGrVyUkMnlm5R36TNAfD9v68wCsDLAbDrZwhcI/s1600/PANDA+FIGHT%21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-FMrx8MztskeVEYN-snyF1I3Qh3JSVwYSInw6EdLhWAy61kUMbIAOvvJNwF6abrsQOtVnNUpRfRowE8rzmmjv8lxGekH7hLcfj0XgOiGrVyUkMnlm5R36TNAfD9v68wCsDLAbDrZwhcI/s320/PANDA+FIGHT%21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467962758975546690" border="0" /></a><br />This is a picture I made for my girlfriend's birthday - it now rests, posterfied and glossified, on her wall. The theme, as you can no doubt see, was 'pandas fighting scantily-clad women'. Her idea.<br /><br />Finally, Pripyat. As the new games editor for Forge Press / its 'Fuse' pullout, I decided to run a little experiment involving <span style="font-style: italic;">S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat</span>, in which I explored playing the game with no saving, loading or checkpoints. You can read the first part of the article <a href="http://www.forgetoday.com/page1664/Feature-STALKER-One-Life-Part-1">here</a>, whilst the feature pullout (which is going in the next issue) is below:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIgpZa3PgWXOD3axz2LoSgfKlFSuLK0vDco7ZrRNwEKLTCQS6xtYEu02fIzes9CpOK3zEIR29OxkRQx9S5jc6ishnV2N1idfknDE6USyY04C_Cct8XkXbvX9Qog2UAL1a3KdmNUkG4dg/s1600/Stalker+Feature.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIgpZa3PgWXOD3axz2LoSgfKlFSuLK0vDco7ZrRNwEKLTCQS6xtYEu02fIzes9CpOK3zEIR29OxkRQx9S5jc6ishnV2N1idfknDE6USyY04C_Cct8XkXbvX9Qog2UAL1a3KdmNUkG4dg/s320/Stalker+Feature.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467964455188701154" border="0" /></a><br />With the exception of the map and the Stalker figure, everything was compiled from photographs I took in and around my house. I quite like the depiction of the ruined Arts Tower, myself.<br /><br />Having the main Fuse feature also meant I could do the cover:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNiZDmoZbEN2GdBT_LHM8ypk8TYo6mUwPez8lQb3zL5cJxNIb-AjoUfGBT7Ze0lM2hdFyC_9ME2URdLLlN0FGht9nL1u4hRXBSBO8AcJc_VuLoeA9DGxfb1LDc9M-plpcdKcbN3Xi1F88/s1600/STALKER+front+page.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNiZDmoZbEN2GdBT_LHM8ypk8TYo6mUwPez8lQb3zL5cJxNIb-AjoUfGBT7Ze0lM2hdFyC_9ME2URdLLlN0FGht9nL1u4hRXBSBO8AcJc_VuLoeA9DGxfb1LDc9M-plpcdKcbN3Xi1F88/s320/STALKER+front+page.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467965222767344258" border="0" /></a><br />...and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I was trying a new colouring technique whereby I actually tried to use Photoshop properly. Crazy, I know! I don't think it looks as good as it could, but if anything that just shows that I'm still improving.<br /><br />Anyways, I'm off to sleep. xSuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-44128356371148749432010-03-27T01:38:00.002+00:002010-03-27T01:47:33.092+00:00Spring CleanHmm, the thick layer of dust building on my last blog post seems to imply an update is in order. So, here’s a couple of things I’ve been working on recently:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_5Wb_htsniAfS_YhsQIFeTtfItDu0n8gCkBSyEITpc208KyYGkcMa7mrNx3IDoKvqMPTucoe0rwUvsDYgQLG9ZtfSvo4XTlf67Inack_DpC-O7EYe3DRs27xDEIAi1WsGAm0GVjuFJU/s1600/CharChoose.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_5Wb_htsniAfS_YhsQIFeTtfItDu0n8gCkBSyEITpc208KyYGkcMa7mrNx3IDoKvqMPTucoe0rwUvsDYgQLG9ZtfSvo4XTlf67Inack_DpC-O7EYe3DRs27xDEIAi1WsGAm0GVjuFJU/s320/CharChoose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453123381262046034" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The above is a pixel art piece I did for the cover of Fuse, in Forge Press. Anyone from Sheffield should recognise the IC and the Arts Tower – digitalising them such a crude and isometric manner took far too long. The IC, for instance, took literally hours. I have immense newfound respect for any pixel artist, because I now realise the religious-like devotion these people have for their craft (because it is a craft – you are not painting, you are building, square by square). I can only imagine there is some intangible pixel deity to whom they pray, as I cannot see another reason why you would devote so much of your life and sanity to mere artistic achievement.<br /><br />The article to which the picture is related can be found <a href="http://www.forgetoday.com/forgemedia/forge_press_viewer.kmod?cardid=1385">here</a>; it’s an attempt to catalogue some of the best freeware games you can get from the internet, and I wrote most of the summaries. Unfortunately I didn’t have much room for flair in my writing, because we needed to keep the wordcount to a bare minimum to fit as many games into the feature as possible.<br /><br /><embed src="http://4073935190783741571-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/thrustingpens/home/content/junk.swf?attachauth=ANoY7crMuB1mmsJwQz0GWRCOqTREiC1K10RyU0grawI6PZo8hNx1ilZUVyXdlDqQEti7P60WzABmT1zKK9uFZDVaEDtv4I1eJquaTuQujBwsAC55FFHnQM3CHt6mYeUnTP8-FltI8MpTqnncHpFxY0or2_j7IgPQa8TRXG5urh01P-UYiF_MEaUmfPdJ-TceE-zqDbI0leH8ULtwqSBDhk_KzbeBSR7ntQ%3D%3D&attredirects=0" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="300" width="300"></embed><br /><br />This is a little animation I’m working on for my friends’ club night, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=236590032466">JUNK.</a> I really enjoyed making it – animating melting flesh is more fun than it would seem. It’s not finished, and to be honest I’m not really sure what we’re going to do with it anyway (perhaps chuck it on a website?), but I’m quite proud of it.Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-34696932017662505022010-01-20T21:50:00.007+00:002010-01-20T22:41:02.403+00:00Oh! You Pretty ThingHappy 2010 and that. How was my Christmas? Pretty good, thanks for asking. I got a shiny new <a href="http://www.wacom.com/intuos/">Intuos4 graphics tablet</a>, though I haven't got anything to show for it as of yet... I'll get around to doing some doodles soon enough, I'm sure.<br /><br />Right, down to business. I thought I'd share with you lucky, lucky people my latest forray into the sticky world of acrylic paint. The narrative plot goes like this; my girlfriend wanted an N64, so for our anniversary I decided to go one up and make her a custom-painted <a href="http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/">Cath Kidston</a> inspired N64. The result is what you could call a travesty to mankind everywhere. I'm pretty sure Obi-Wan heard millions of masculine voices cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced or some shit.<center><table><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0t0gmlevFgJWXvH00irkukHqtJGIk_65JGUhL6oe34W8OQ-4tu51d413ExQVz09GohhVuLMHp5bhO7Z0U6Owo8Rey6feJ1VWnsFuSdf5tyw4_qo1tXWNjgqEOxY2-eWTbY5oZaM-2raI/s1600/1+-+early.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0t0gmlevFgJWXvH00irkukHqtJGIk_65JGUhL6oe34W8OQ-4tu51d413ExQVz09GohhVuLMHp5bhO7Z0U6Owo8Rey6feJ1VWnsFuSdf5tyw4_qo1tXWNjgqEOxY2-eWTbY5oZaM-2raI/s1600/1+-+early.jpg" width="120" /></a></td><br /><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Qw9jNYkfi2yRS7gORciK1KHIgJ8EaSb0J5tvHOOQOTcr-QDEG4qPqvKgxd2IljKr_sanvGe4i5-cfgBmHtmpdaxwQTu-YXtdxMibC9fykqewIOn_OsFRuHFpQHcge_NXsQxPrS02-yc/s1600/2-+front.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Qw9jNYkfi2yRS7gORciK1KHIgJ8EaSb0J5tvHOOQOTcr-QDEG4qPqvKgxd2IljKr_sanvGe4i5-cfgBmHtmpdaxwQTu-YXtdxMibC9fykqewIOn_OsFRuHFpQHcge_NXsQxPrS02-yc/s1600/2-+front.jpg" width="120" /></a></td><br /><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4_yLq9aVLoBk0RMqA_aJxDxMuRqIHKhIZ1Ef8-NM0QbTKSAJWsfr4Ibt5Lu7B6J98Fp4w_wD74rvxcGnocpLPMunzOfyuKgaRYARsUSVo50yJRoK_YSYcH8uGI39_IWvlwUcTExPuls/s1600/3-+top.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4_yLq9aVLoBk0RMqA_aJxDxMuRqIHKhIZ1Ef8-NM0QbTKSAJWsfr4Ibt5Lu7B6J98Fp4w_wD74rvxcGnocpLPMunzOfyuKgaRYARsUSVo50yJRoK_YSYcH8uGI39_IWvlwUcTExPuls/s1600/3-+top.jpg" width="120" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></center><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNErUZ9SFDyY4c5RasY0u65Ux0fAxMF3XI4ENLn3-yxeaXjs6FOYdOz72ODy_Y6ZAWClMqROWm06BJexTOD8VVi5k4UUG671rsePtohjz9WmSgSYCmDvQ-GUVIk-_bNNVgLCptgOaopEs/s1600/4-+side.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNErUZ9SFDyY4c5RasY0u65Ux0fAxMF3XI4ENLn3-yxeaXjs6FOYdOz72ODy_Y6ZAWClMqROWm06BJexTOD8VVi5k4UUG671rsePtohjz9WmSgSYCmDvQ-GUVIk-_bNNVgLCptgOaopEs/s320/4-+side.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428946838832505122" border="0" /></a><br />The great thing is, it doubles up as a fashion accessory. Carve it out, and use it as a handbag. Put a chain on it, and you've got yourself some neck bling. Not many people can say they can boot up Starfox 64 from their jewellery!</p>Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-86894280589338461782009-12-20T17:41:00.006+00:002009-12-21T00:09:08.309+00:00Skullbot!<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">On Friday I rocked up to a house party hosted by Dan Boaden of Synthdromes fame; though there was a terrible bargain to be made at the door. Entry into the dark, damp, womb-like enclosure and the harmonious howling of electro dnb music it contained cost you the hefty price of your </span><i style="font-family: arial;">soul</i><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">And by <i style="">soul</i> I mean the ethereal spark within us that leads to art and higher understanding - or rather, if you don’t believe in that stuff - <i style="">creativity. </i>In other words, you had to bring a house decoration. I should also note, out of politeness’ sake, that his house is neither damp nor dark. It’s very lovely actually. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">I decided to do a painting based on this sketch:</p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QNQD3IZRKJoJz7LpLGsl3UGQZLsWsQ_Bp8DstjXdMIplyhg545C3Bp627_qM9p6_fsjUFvQQCbUeKRAaKxO37Lvwy2uf3mms5uKN3T2R5dxbP_rL8eLyBU_9WZeleJ9Xu20rAMpyc94/s1600-h/0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QNQD3IZRKJoJz7LpLGsl3UGQZLsWsQ_Bp8DstjXdMIplyhg545C3Bp627_qM9p6_fsjUFvQQCbUeKRAaKxO37Lvwy2uf3mms5uKN3T2R5dxbP_rL8eLyBU_9WZeleJ9Xu20rAMpyc94/s320/0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417363896682787090" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">The idea being that it’s some sort of... robot, with a... skull... and vinyl. So I sketched it up on a large piece of hardboard, and after pondering whether or not to simply go over it in black pen, I decided to go all the way and paint it in acrylic. At this point I should note that I’m not actually any <i style="">good</i> with acrylic, as rigorous testing beforehand proved. But, out of laziness and foolish optimism, I decided to just attack it with the brush anyway and hope everything went well.
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<br /><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58AKjZRd9y38Gxvp7ZI8BCO8rSP23Zj6mURA-FyUStp2WhfnxAD-_xJUMLHBnAdGiKjrApDbHzPEt3ElQda2uVlXOz_yTJI4MQEX7Gyla__xnL61hp20A4DRKipysDT33BXXhhyphenhyphenQhTQU/s1600/3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58AKjZRd9y38Gxvp7ZI8BCO8rSP23Zj6mURA-FyUStp2WhfnxAD-_xJUMLHBnAdGiKjrApDbHzPEt3ElQda2uVlXOz_yTJI4MQEX7Gyla__xnL61hp20A4DRKipysDT33BXXhhyphenhyphenQhTQU/s1600/3.jpg" width="120" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></center><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">
<br />In short: it did. By being careful and <i style="">trying really hard</i> I managed to make it look suitably shiny and robot-like. You can see some of the stages above. The finished piece is here:</p><p></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2Z5oyEldYY9Hs6VZlfoRqL-Iak8gAD1d9NfgWoxF5LEifU0RLcD77pJ4axFJ8w3UzpFnvg-Qc6_quHUPu3sktuZFCCDSSTLyxsRAE-hnzi6WECZ6u8dr7nNDRHy4jxT73-u_w9zKuQY/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 372px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2Z5oyEldYY9Hs6VZlfoRqL-Iak8gAD1d9NfgWoxF5LEifU0RLcD77pJ4axFJ8w3UzpFnvg-Qc6_quHUPu3sktuZFCCDSSTLyxsRAE-hnzi6WECZ6u8dr7nNDRHy4jxT73-u_w9zKuQY/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417363921226529314" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">And I’m pretty proud of it. I’m not sure what it represents exactly – perhaps it demonstrates how Dan’s brain could be salvaged after his death and combined into some crazy four-armed DJ machine, trapped eternally in a cycle of swapping tunes and dropping beats? </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Anyway, they took the bait and I was let into the party (though I was pretty worried they’d find fault with the shading and throw me out on my ass). It turned out to be super awesome. Highlights have to include Mitchell's Non-gay Lads Bike Room, described in the invite as being a place to hang out, “talk about weights, bikes and paxing a man with the side of a mic”, though in actuality it turned out to be an empty room with horrendous porn plastered up and down every wall. Definitely a strong par. The DJ lineup they had in the main room was absolutely epic too – in addition to Dan B and Ed Key, fellow DJs took to the set and really tore the place up. Here’s a picture of the main room:</p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8OIYsEXU7NjotOUC118i24H_eyozYNqqCqiXzBCUbWnnDxjpW5GZCQSQwL0dRPODeCzrgAsA8-fgzblTcznKCIv3Mx8uMVqP7Ubo9LwYWdQWRfOR0-oA7p4xZ3Thjh_Kb0d7VIy9_P0/s1600-h/monged.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8OIYsEXU7NjotOUC118i24H_eyozYNqqCqiXzBCUbWnnDxjpW5GZCQSQwL0dRPODeCzrgAsA8-fgzblTcznKCIv3Mx8uMVqP7Ubo9LwYWdQWRfOR0-oA7p4xZ3Thjh_Kb0d7VIy9_P0/s320/monged.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417382562774948722" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">You can see me in the bottom left with my hood up, looking monged off my face. I also managed to nab one of those <a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFrg6JHJhhUQevvPHVSsQpD4r9O0IFkA9_jirPvYuXzaLJwP7qCCAwr1lJK-zQoTkAP6_R-ABLk4Na5_4yA_pczKHGCU3AmYisQmdqRshZ2DYa60nx6Nsfh7WIj1xHN5v-vR7UwCR7lE/s1600-h/junk.jpg">“Junk” posters,</a><style="font-family: class="MsoNormal"> which my bedroom wall is very happy about. The artwork’s done by Ed’s brother, and I really love it. The mix of grotesque inking and clear colours really works well.. </style="font-family:></p><p></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Alright, that’s enough from me. x</p>
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<br />Suihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824504276964467332.post-77905909705369960572009-12-03T23:58:00.010+00:002009-12-04T01:52:34.875+00:00BeginningsHeya. How's it going? I apologise about the state of the place, I was having an imagination block and, for some reason, decided that taking a picture of a snapped pen and superimposing words onto it would look cool. Evidently I was mistaken. Perhaps I'll produce something pretty for the site later - something with garish primary colours and simplistic swirly lines that means nothing and reminds you of every crappy club flyer you've ever refused from a fashionable person.<br /><br />Anyway, here's some artwork I've done. I use the term 'artwork' loosely; mainly because it's quicker to type than 'amateur Photoshop scribblings". They were all made digitally with my somewhat inadequate graphics tablet, and while they're pretty simplistic at the moment, I'm working on improving my style. That hasn't happened<span style="font-style: italic;"> so far</span> but I'm guessing it's only a matter of time, right?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAkJIk2I41aMMYgp3oGhHasbGaoFlMQ0W6hHvNvkC83KFd0yB00b89nGTd6JTQlsMhcvxTnVZLiF5u3SEnPJ15emiH3mxPdr2F4ktgcgbpzuEK4OagOVaN1Z1hte_icRUOIkXR_RkPGs/s1600-h/Director.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAkJIk2I41aMMYgp3oGhHasbGaoFlMQ0W6hHvNvkC83KFd0yB00b89nGTd6JTQlsMhcvxTnVZLiF5u3SEnPJ15emiH3mxPdr2F4ktgcgbpzuEK4OagOVaN1Z1hte_icRUOIkXR_RkPGs/s320/Director.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411171885441570850" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This was a cover I submitted to <a href="http://www.forgetoday.com/">Forge Press</a> (my university paper) because they needed a cover for their FUSE pullout. It was about directors, as you can no doubt guess. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out - especially as it was my first attempt at doing a big photoshop drawing - although the paper didn't actually use it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICY04d6qCGG-TpnrOcP34YZchnG_iF8JgIonQohiglZ21qhLAYzt8KMBmmP_hR41klO2fnaRV36rt2AUaUGysRj7FUN3pex1B-k8CEr3ZA8XSRSC77MJ6PxH27DT9eQKJzFf6HPGQCS4/s1600-h/Blue.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICY04d6qCGG-TpnrOcP34YZchnG_iF8JgIonQohiglZ21qhLAYzt8KMBmmP_hR41klO2fnaRV36rt2AUaUGysRj7FUN3pex1B-k8CEr3ZA8XSRSC77MJ6PxH27DT9eQKJzFf6HPGQCS4/s320/Blue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411173932358830786" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This was the first FUSE cover I did which was actually published. I like the way I used colour in this one, although I was getting extremely tired by the end of drawing this and as a result the detailing of the little people (I bet you can't even tell they're people) around the Sheffield buildings is appauling.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuubILmJjQ2MsB8n_KCuhnBN2neIRp-CSn06fdsR87yUUN8nB3r4vtkXN29uqMRKnJwD_Y2WB30Ru6aeQvz_aTrA9AQg6icTt4RkIDZW9QzhyphenhyphenKuNnu3asYiOhXVXB1RHeLkUcFgKHiroQ/s1600-h/GRIN.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuubILmJjQ2MsB8n_KCuhnBN2neIRp-CSn06fdsR87yUUN8nB3r4vtkXN29uqMRKnJwD_Y2WB30Ru6aeQvz_aTrA9AQg6icTt4RkIDZW9QzhyphenhyphenKuNnu3asYiOhXVXB1RHeLkUcFgKHiroQ/s320/GRIN.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411174687920396994" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Another FUSE cover, which was about the GRIN comedy festival in Sheffield. First person to guess who all the comedians are wins <span style="font-style: italic;">nothing.</span> I'm experimenting with nihilist prizes, you see.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzEatXNZf7Au9lDoiKMJJfKDsC-HnaW9UhXEO9G38Ry30hcVtmOW0chZK8G8FvsRgHAdvvXdioeKpimRRGsDZzOlhw6kO-djnjowGIBXJ3GpIXZNdlGPTdNAoJJwHmvqizbtlOAEexTg/s1600-h/Games.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzEatXNZf7Au9lDoiKMJJfKDsC-HnaW9UhXEO9G38Ry30hcVtmOW0chZK8G8FvsRgHAdvvXdioeKpimRRGsDZzOlhw6kO-djnjowGIBXJ3GpIXZNdlGPTdNAoJJwHmvqizbtlOAEexTg/s320/Games.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411175967266796146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The latest FUSE cover I've done. It's depicting the London Eurogamer Expo, or rather, what the London Eurogamer Expo would have been like if the consoles on show had relinquished the limitations of their binary technology to become sentient beings, spawning abhorrent lifeforms from the nether which were inadvertently manifested through their distorted, subjective view of reality; videogames.<br /><br />I tried a different method of drawing this time around. Rather than inking the picture with simple lines, colouring it, and then shading it with additional colour, I incorporated the shading into the actual inking process (resulting in comic-book style shading). I'm not really sure whether I prefer the results. What I AM sure about is how much I hate the bland blue background. Perhaps if I were less lazy, and actually pencilled the whole drawing beforehand instead of jumping straight in with my crappy A6 Wacom, I'd have been able to manage the space a bit better. Ah well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLiqIePnvIhreF3UvHmKcFEC8PfkqoeV6zeTi2Gujg1qvuSaijDMIKLqLeLDXzVnztGkr4IrmKrF7JbCFFPVh2VAplqxFrdqYOpfqoFEp17xUOn4IcQa8j_aPOoDf7Pe4eTz2z3XM23q8/s1600-h/DBDIOB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLiqIePnvIhreF3UvHmKcFEC8PfkqoeV6zeTi2Gujg1qvuSaijDMIKLqLeLDXzVnztGkr4IrmKrF7JbCFFPVh2VAplqxFrdqYOpfqoFEp17xUOn4IcQa8j_aPOoDf7Pe4eTz2z3XM23q8/s320/DBDIOB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411181677831567090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Some artwork I did for some friends a while back - must have been a year ago by now. Looks okay, but the background's pretty simple. They're both DJs who met at university, and after they recovered from the shock of realising how incredibly awesome each other were at their chosen craft (that is, the craft of <span style="font-style: italic;">audible bliss</span>), they decided to collaborate. The spawn of such an unholy alliance was called Synthdromes; a name which, I believe, refers to the <span style="font-style: italic;">synthesis</span> of <span style="font-style: italic;">dromes</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAXWMRblmNsdjcN7x03GDchpQBwPrL3KoheNjzg1SOMPFDa9teLTLcQjFXlJ56mYAhZzXwopceRA93C-CSNVYBQPdcOjsyvyW9ddKwP-fGjKXKG_DOatJzmaBIEvwCpTDKsN6cSzD1II/s1600-h/Winter+Mix.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAXWMRblmNsdjcN7x03GDchpQBwPrL3KoheNjzg1SOMPFDa9teLTLcQjFXlJ56mYAhZzXwopceRA93C-CSNVYBQPdcOjsyvyW9ddKwP-fGjKXKG_DOatJzmaBIEvwCpTDKsN6cSzD1II/s320/Winter+Mix.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411182136738987138" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is some artwork I recently finished for Synthdromes' new Winter Mix. Drawing flesh being torn away from a tormented skeleton is about as much fun as you can have with a graphics tablet. The skeleton is actually an edited acrylic painting I did, which pretty much proves how terrible I am at acrylic painting. You can see a couple of the layers I used <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_w8kIy6U25LUYrsxQxmJ745YVvn3dyVqlaAVM-3YW5l70537Mf6Ujzfi_n2G5O8AFV_GHFIG2OTnnhc36HMUEMKV9KpRrJIm9hYI-PVhe_4amvMbA9NbqWTrSGNeYG2MtJXjZ1MOAs3s/s1600-h/winter+mix+explained.jpg%20">here,</a> which I uploaded for... y'know, kicks. While you're at it you should also check out the Winter Mix itself; you can grab it from the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/synthdromes">Synthdromes MySpace page</a> or from co-member <a href="http://danboaden.blogspot.com/">Dan Boaden's blog.</a><br /><br />Anyway, that's enough from my thrusting pens for now.<br /><br />Ciao xSuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432967168728309223noreply@blogger.com0