Forget Romance

Vote For A Shirt!

One of my designs is being voted on to be made into a shirt on Threadless.com, click the link above, sign up and vote, I wont win but ill continue to make shirts that i could do with your votes and help with so signing up isn't the worst things in the world, right?

Peckish?

Braaaaiiinnns.....

Buy a Shirt!

You can now buy t-shirts with some of my designs slapped on them! Ive started up an account on Threadless.com too and ill post a link as soon as my designs are accepted and what not. The shirts are so expensive cos i wanted a ridiculous royalty rate, I've gotta pay for my drug habit some how...

http://http//www.zazzle.co.uk/dead_already_tshirt-235494790751469064

I'll you know when I add any more to the collection

Tshirt Design

I wanted to try a different style and play with some really flat colours, I'd quite like to do some t shirt designs, i think something like this would work nicely, I'll add some more when I get round to it...

Easter

Zombie Batman & Joker

This was going to be a Halloween post but I never got round to doing it, I really wanted to draw batman and the joker as zombies, these are taken from rough ass sketches I did and I fiddled about with them in Photoshop. I love Batman so much, and I love zombies, why not merge the two...

Blood & Rockets

I've missed updating a few months of the Cheltonian but I was pretty pleased with the style of the last two so I thought I'd pop it on here. The editor is a surprisingly easy going guy for someone who runs a classy magazine, he let me put blood, violence and a rocket in a horse's arsehole for recent issues so he's a stand up guy in my books.

This was the issue during which the bankers were taking massive bonuses so I drew shadow chasing down bank mangers with swag bags and chopping them into bits. Political satires brilliant isn't it...



The editor came up with the horse's name Sphincter Surprise which I was shocked and delighted by.

Where The Wild Things Were

To promote the movie adaptation of 'Where The Wild Things Are' a Yowl Booth toured the country. (Yowl is like a howl and a yell, makes more sense if you see the film...) Inside this booth kids or adults would go inside and 'yowl' as loud as they could at a large TV screen which showed a tranquil woodland scene similar to that in the movie. The louder participants yelled the more destruction would impact the forest, at the end the people in the booth was given a marks out of ten and told how loud they yowled.

You can see an example of this in the link below or at the top, tho I find screaming children extremely annoying so i wouldn't recommend watching for too long.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wildthingsyowl

Screaming kids locked in a booth sounds sinister but at Nerv we had to make the visuals for the on screen animation. Below is some screen shots from the final animation I made, the images don't really do it justice as hundreds of leaves and branches whirled around in an intense way but just being involved with a Spike Jonze film to this tiny degree was awesome! Though animating it did nearly kill me, still im better now....

Im in print baby!

I got the opportunity to draw a monthly cartoon for the local Cheltenham based magazine 'The Cheltonian.' Never having done this kind of thing before i leapt at the chance, and the money! A huge thanks goes to Mark Boston and his talented wife Alice for passing my details on to the chief editor and getting me the job.




Initially the comic was to be a monthly satirical observation piece. Based on the postal strike, which was a hard hitting issues at the time, I made up a dog character bored waiting for the postman which the editor liked and only asked that the dog be based on his own dog and it be renamed to Shadow, i suppose basing a comic strip on your own dog is the sort of powers you have when your a top magazine editor. Above you can see my credit in the front of the mag as well as a photo from the final image.



This is a digital version of the first issue's cartoon.


this was the original dog character design, it was later dropped so that the dog could look more like the Editors mutt.




This is a sneak peek at next months issue, the style has changed and it all looks a bit more shiny, id like to say that it was for creative reasons but i was in a massive rush and this is just what came out. Consistency really isn't my speciality, either way I'll post each months cartoon issue on here.