| It came from a typo |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|09:26 am] |
but it could possibly be the best art i've ever made after optimus prime holding a boombox
And this is my official X-Mas jam right now by a band fittingly named "SLEIGH BELLS" listen to it if you want to give your ears booming pleasure:
I am way into Aya Takana right now.
If this is "Superflat", this is really what I want Seedless to be like. Going to start making adjustments. |
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| ugly whippet and linky links |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|12:15 pm] |
Last night I was tired and brain dead, so I did some winding down by drawing an ugly whippet in a dress.
Some links!
I got a wonderful e-mail the other day from Cynthia Shelton, who lives on a boat with her dog and makes comics about it!. Not am I only very envious of her boat and trying to figure out a way to go visit her on the California coast, the comics have a real warmth to them that makes me want to go and trawl through all her archives.
A great Shiny Shelf review of David O'Connell's Tozo comic. And have a look at the daily panels he's posting over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tozocomic!
Russian Christmas postcards from outer space
Lovely Scott Campbell drawings
Nicola Linder has made some fab Very Literal Dresses.
(Thanks for those three, web designer Dan Fone)
Some very dodgy Santa photos
Garen Ewing just posted a link over on the Super Comics Adventure Squad to Patrice Aggs' new comic, Midnite Owl.
Some great things going on with Stitch and Bitch London. Read a hilarious interview with Derek the Sheep here! (And you can win a signed copy of his book!)
 And Morris the Mankiest Monster reviews!
Comics artist Kate Evans wrote:
Morris the mankiest monster is a huge hit with my son. We went to Morrisons the mankiest supermarket the other day, and he was pretending to buy belly button cordial from the juice section.
... Ha ha!
Morris also had a review by the Madhouse Family here.
The illustrations are brilliant too - brightly coloured and intricate enough for you to notice extra details every time you read it through. As it's relatively short and written in rhyme, young non-readers will soon pick up at least parts of it and join in as you read along. (Read More)
And The Daily Mail wrote here:
Never underestimate the thrill young children get from books full of slime, smells, snot and stomach-churning scabs. Fortunately, this celebration of squalor makes Shrek look positively antiseptic and will provoke squeals of disgusted delight as its bold yellow ogre beams out his joy at life. Lovely pacey rhyme and bright illustrations will make this a favourite for years.
I can't believe I'm posting a cute kitty video, but here you go:
YouTube link |
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| Death And Uncle Bob |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|08:24 am] |
I've written a number of stories over the years about Uncle Bob. In which, the aged Robert Merrison tells tales of his extraordinary long life, to his two nieces. I gave up writing them a few years ago, disheartened by my lack of success in getting a publisher interested. The stories are possibly too dark and violent for the average nice middle-class children's publisher. Kids seem to love them though.
This short tale is unusual in that it doesn't involve Bob telling any sort of story
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| I want to punch shrek in the face |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|10:37 pm] |
I am so frustrated with zbrush
It feels like it could be an AMAZING program if I could just figure it OUT.
I really like how the tools feel, but the technical aspect is so frustrating. I want it to work like clay, but the program works like a program. How do you even save?? I tried to save something, but it duplicated it on the screen and I don't even know what it did or why it did that! It said it saved, so I exited and came back but the thing did not save at all! So I lost my project
Also, when I sculpt a sphere thingy, you can't push it out too far otherwise the mesh gets all choppy, so I go to add another sphere thing on top of it, like glopping on more clay, right? No! It doesn't let me edit this new sphere at all. I can't even rotate anything or anything
I have NO idea what I am doing! See how it gets pixelly the farther a shape is pushed? why :(
What is the best way to learn about zbrush? Most tutorials I find will tell you to do things (hit this, press that, push this) but won't even tell you *why* you're doing things, like what you're doing as you're doing it. So frustrating!
I just want a tutorial that is like "Now we are going to do this, and I will tell you why so you understand!"
I should just... get some clay :( |
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| Life Meter Kids! |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
Hey guys,
My afterschool workshop ends tomorrow, after 10 long weeks! One of the assignments I gave the kids was to draw a submission for Life Meter, and you can see their results in this entry! Won't you please check them out, and maybe leave some feedback? The kids would really like to hear some outside opinions. They're all 11 years old. :) |
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| comics jam session |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|09:22 pm] |
One of the girls at the James Allen's Preparatory School came up with this guy, he's such a dude.
I made up this sheet this weekend and tried it out on today's classes after talking to them about how to create interesting characters. If you want to try it out, you can download a PDF version of it here for the next 30 days. Let me know how it went!
( More under the cut ) |
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| the school trip |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
I spent today leading comics workshops at James Allen's Preparatory School in Dulwich, southeast London. I'll post some more photos later, but just had to put up this great comic by Molly Jones, passed on to me by her librarian mother, Nicola Jones. So funny!
I love the bit about having to sit on the bus next to Fungus, who throws up. My sister and I used to ride a bus that went all the way around an island with the curviest-ever roads for over an hour before coming back to the mainland and dropping us off at our bus stop, and there was always someone getting queasy. One guy puked over my sister's saxaphone case, and it seeped inside so badly that she had to have her sax professionally cleaned.
( Read the other three pages under the cut ) |
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| Pain & Pleasure Go Good Together |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|06:37 am] |
Yoyo is Lere's off-again-on-again girlfriend. Once a month or so she breaks his heart into tiny pieces, or sells his organs to the underground city, or cashes him in for the mob's reward. Sometimes they have good times, good enough for him to forget that she's probably using him for something. She's very pretty, has an interesting past, and, yes, pink is her real hair color. Jane would love to give this girl a good smack for all the times Lere came home in the morning, having been sent packing without any breakfast. "I'm not sad, I'm good in bed. I'll stay well fed in the morning".
That washroom IS FILTHY. One can only imagine the terrible events that are about to unfold for our glassy-eyed hero.
Here's a marker drawing of her I did on the back of a bank statement.
Also, here's a crazy country girl with a key around her neck. I'd love to draw her body some time and perhaps the door that belongs to that key.
Busy busy busy. Busy. I'm busy. Look at me coloring doodles instead of the things I'm supposed to be doing. Well, I'm supposed to be getting up to go to work in half an'hour. Mmmmm. I live the good life. |
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| FREE MAGAZINES: FINAL ROUND |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
The great Nick Magazine send-off is in the final stretch. Please help me save stacks of magazines from the recycling bin!
Choose from the following:
-Individual stack: 4-5 random issues of Nick Magazine for you, your family, or friends.
-A box of magazines: About 30-50 random issues of Nick Magazine packed in a box. Perfect for schools, daycare centers, and shelters!
-A bound volume: A year's worth of Nick Magazine, nicely bound in a hardcover book for preservation. Perfect for libraries, schools and people who want to help keep an archive of Nick Mag for future generations! Supplies are limited!
UPDATE: We also have a few bound volumes of NICK JR. magazine. This is a great magazine for toddlers and parents of toddlers who like do creative stuff! Lots of recipes, activities, cut outs etc.
Email me for more info: yaytime [at] gmail [dot] com
For the boxes and bound volumes, I need complete addresses and PHONE NUMBERS. Thanks!
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| london climate change march |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|11:31 pm] |
Over 50,000 of us dressed in blue marched in London on Saturday for The Wave, as politicians gear up for next Monday's climate summit. Stuart was amazed to find himself really enjoying the event and offering to carry my sign. People were all very friendly and the afternoon had a lovely carnival atmosphere, despite the seriousness of the campaign.
Stuart waffled about whether he should go or not, seeing as he sort of is the government on climate change, but I convinced him he should come, since he's not actually in Copenhagen. And it wasn't so much a protest as more of a positive 'don't you let us down, politicians' encouragement sort of thing. (Which will turn into a massive, angry protest if they mess up and spend the whole time bickering over trivial things.)
 
I wished I'd had more time to think up a really clever slogan for my sign but, well, at least it was homemade.
  
( Lots more photos under the cut ) |
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| EYE station: nobra |
[Dec. 5th, 2009|07:34 pm] |
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Hello,
I turned 33 this week.
to celebrate I ate cheezeburgers in front of the first 3 hours of 24.
murder and torture and cheeseburgers.
I found a comic I'd drawn a couple years ago as a note to myself.
Really personal stuff about my deepest fears and hopes.
I planned on doing something like that this year but it devolved into this:
Stokoe came up with the --leg of their own book title joke.
Origonally it was going to be about me going to meet the gods of comics.
I was going to draw them as big mount rushmore faces of Tezuka Herge and Kirby.
(my pal corey did a good comic where the comic god looked like a giant transformers head)
The bathtub stuff was all a lead up to meeting the comic gods but then as I was penciling it
I realized I needed to turn in another KC back cover. so it became one of those.
This will be on issue 8.
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Meanwhile Marian has been in her secret lair (living room/studio)
playing the video game Dragon Aids and making comics about it:
I always imagined Klingon warnog to be like xmas Eggnog but made out of the
blood of your fallen foes.
The blood of your fallen enemies is hella fattening.
Oh, also for my birthday Marian and her mom gave me this futuristic science fiction
coffee replicator device.
It has a brew pause button on it.
I'm calling it Dr brew Pinski
or Brew-ba-papa
That is meant to be J jonah jameson of spiderman fame with a kid and play
cut and hammer pants.
And something else out of my sketchbook.
um-pum indeed.
And here's some Appleseed ish I thought was cool.
I've been all about pre computer art Shirow this week.
even more than usual.
I like this 4 page thing he did that came out a couple years ago
in a book called A decade of darkhorse.
It feels like a Shirow heavy metal story --tits and robots and all.
It's funny how a dude who is so adamant about details --how a swat mission
would realisticly go down and all that--never has any problems with characters
showing up for combat shit in pink ballerina outfits.
That and a bunch more good shirow is up here:
http://www.motorballer.org/shirow/exon.html
One thing I found out about on that site that I was tottaly unaware of is
a whole Ghost in the shell book that Shirow drew by hand before he
decided to just make glossy computer porn for robots.
And it's been out in english for years. SHIT!
I like how nerdy the tittle is--
Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor.
NERD!
I do dramaticly prefer appleseed to Ghost in the shell stuff
but the technical ability is still there.
I am excited. here's some pages I pulled off the internet.
I'm into that backflip on the top left. how it leads you into the next panel.
And here's some Naoki Urasawa thumbnails.--20th century boys i think
And some old stereo ads with that rock manga To-y that I am so fond of.
boys don't rush to be men" you listening--
Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD The eastcoast family?
oom do do do da ayye ayye yiiiiiiii
oh look, old japanese Dune book covers--
the sleeper has awoken
And a valerian page I thought was cool. I like how Mézières did the shadows on the water.
LUMCAR!
and some other old japanese magazine stuff I liked.
This guys stuff reminds me of Rockin jelly bean.
I like his mazinger z lady.
more of his stuff here:
http://oprince.no-blog.jp/
And a video from the french comic TRAMP
And a Tony Jaa video my pal Corey Lewis did a million years ago.
This video is really like watching coreys soul
Aight im off to harass my dear sweet lady.
oh also I wanted to mention the fine dudes at Comicsforserious
have been doing Beast week talking about Marians book.
http://comicsforserious.blogspot.com/
BEASTWEEK! |
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