AND NOW FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING!


so last summer, a few of us and our sketchbooks got together and went to the huntarian. let me tell you, there really is no better way to spend a fine summer's day than held up in a dark room with a crazy victorian's collection of pickled things. no, really. can we round up a posse and go once school's out?

aaaaaand speaking of school being out, it's practically two weeks to the hour till our final assessment. what?

but it's okay (LIESYOUTELLYOUSELF). also, here's a song i've been listening to a whole lot. it's quite fun.

GOOD MORNING CAMPERS!

oh my stars and garters are we in the thick of it now. here's some fmp stuff.

yesterday, fourteen hours were spent trying and sort of not totally failing at running it through after effects.

that was… an experience.

many thanks to eileen, katie and amber for their endless patience and tolerating my total inability to grasp that program.

aaaaaand in other news, FINALLY got around to making amends to the bloody chamber brief. more on that soooooooon. hopefully.

SNEAK PEAK!!

but enough about those things. other folk are doing some crazy cool shit for this fop malarky. do yourself a favour and take a goosey gander at some of these works in progress:


http://abimoulder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/brother-sun-sister-moon-help-please.html

http://edensworkblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/sideshow-freak-banners-fmp/

http://bydionnekitching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/screenprint.html#comment-form

NOICE!

podcast plug! do you like listening to people rip the shit out of shitty movies? if so, give this episode of HOW DID THIS GET MADE a spin. up on the chopping block this time round is burlesque. and it is glorious.

ADIEU!

FLASHBACK!

remember that valentine's sale we did? yeah, so this was a card that was made. really, i think it might have just been a cheap excuse for some shit hot punnery YEH BOOOOOI!!!

seeing as we're already totally off topic from Serious University Business, this is probably a fine and dandy time to post some other totally frivolous shit! huzzah!

(i like using people's birthdays as an excuse to draw them. because otherwise it's just a bit creepy really.)

extra kudos to jack (of sketch group 'sad faces' you can follow their antics RIGHT HERE ) and valerie who only went AND GOT MOTHER FUCKING HITCHED. they had a really nice engagement party. which may have been a tricksy way to get us to make a metric ton of wedding bunting. o ho ho ho. how very crafty indeed!

p.s here are some cool things you might want to check out:

NEW YORK'S DEPARTMENT OF RECORDS PUBLISH OVER 2 MILLION PHOTOS DATING FROM THE 1800S AND IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.

150 ARTISTS RE-IMAGINE 150 POKEMON. AWESOMNESS ENSUES.

SEE YOU SPACE COWBOYS!

so last week we got to have a go at pitching ideas for the communication pathway's catalogue that'll be doing the rounds at our degree show. here are somethings my grey matter shat out:









i don't know…. kinda liked this idea (if only because it meant you got to draw a 'ham-era' o ho ho ho) but alas. it didn't even make it to the pitch meeting on account it would wig out all the vegetarians. plus it's pretty friggin' gross.

needless to say, these will not be adorning the catalogue because someone in graphics came up with a totally kick-ass idea involving vhs's. delicious!

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this post's podcast recommendation come way of the nerdiest. again. but this episode is freaking of the chain. mr hardwick and co. sit down with the voice actors from pinkey and the brain and insanity ensues.


and now it's time for a totally unrelated photo.

FRIENDS. THE END TIMES ARE NEARLY UPON US.

that's right. in three weeks time, middelsex illustration's class of 2012 are going to be done (sort of) with this degree business . good fucking gravy.

asides from getting all misty eyed and nostalgic about the good times, that also means IT'S TIME TO HIT THE GAS AND FLY BY THE SEAT OF YO ASS.





so for my FINAL MAJOR PROJECT, i was going to try and turn the first part of toby barlow's sharp teeth into one of those super cool, free flowing digital comics a little like this:

http://www.ryan-a.com/comics/sarahandtheseed01.htm

and this:

http://emcarroll.com/comics/outthedoor.html

(but really you should check these cats out anyways- they really do put the awesome in awesomesauce.)

aaaaaaaand then you realised that adapting 50+ pages was a little ambitious and it was maybe going to be some sort of animated thing instead? ok!

after a whole lot of hmming and hawing, finally figured out how to draw the damn thing in week eight of this 12 week project. awesome. BUT THAT MEANS I CAN JUST CHURN IT OUT TOTALLY IN TIME FOR SUPER FINAL DEAD LINE, RIGHT?

totes.

so stop writing this clap trap and get back to work.



(p.s. if you like stories about organised werewolf crime in nourish LA with wereolves, you should pick this book up. you two will be very happy together: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharp-Teeth-Toby-Barlow/dp/0099512467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334985771&sr=1-1 )

(p.p.s in other news, TURNING TIGER CAME OUT ALL PHYSICAL LIKE THE OTHER DAY!!!



for those of you going "aahhhBWWAAAHH???", this is the comic i did with richmond clements for the good folk at renegade arts like three years ago? it's got robots. and heart. if you fancy snapping up a copy or even just spreading the word, that would be holyshit levels of amazing…

you could get it here.

or maybe even here.

and i even got to go on one of those podcast things to talk about it here.

#ABLAHBLAHBLAH

so roughly this time 365.25 days ago, we were gearing up to send our entries off to the macmillan prize. this year some of the more masochistically inclined of us decided to go toe to toe with it and well... let's just say i'm nowhere near dotting the i's and crossing the t's on that one this time round. ack ack ack.

but it's totally gravy because you've got three weeks to do 9 dummy pages, colour three of them in, pull some end papers and a cover out your ass... and finish your final major project... and make the metric tone of corrections to all your previous project.

fucking cakewalk mate.

ah well, here a throwback to better days when time management was a thing in your skill set:



so yeah, finally got around to making a cover for last year's offering. i don't know, figured i'd finish that bad boy off so we could hopefully sell some copies in order to make some greens for our degree show...


(ta for the photo, eva)



"i can't believe you bound this yourself"- martin ursell



so yeah, if you're interested in maybe snapping one up, shout us a hollar and i'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement...

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so recently got turned onto marc maron's podcast. holy crap. the rss feed for that thing is a treasure trove of wonder. here's an episode that destroyed all my preconceptions about russell brand:

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

and then some shit from my sketch book:

oh final major project. i just don't know what i'm going to do with you. on the upside, today i finished thumb-nailing you (... gosh, is it me or does that really sounds like some dirty off- shoot from finger banging?). on the downside, i have no idea what you're going to look like...

first crack was uber heavy on the inking. grand-high tutor didn't really dig that- thought i should lighten that shit up and maybe go for something a bit more graphic-sy in the vein of the hitchcock posters. bbbbut then i spoke to our tutor from last year and he seemed to be all about keeping it draw-sy. those two's approach to art couldn't be more different than chalk and cheese and i think i might have got myself stuck somewhere awkward between the two...

HO SHIT. ARTISTIC IDENTY CRISIS. WHAT TO DO??????????

crap post is crap.

to make up for it, here's a rather awesome site katie flagged. DO YOU LIKE MAKING YOUR ART LOOK MORE ARTY WITH TEXTURES AND FILTERS? WELL THIS MIGHT BE THE WEBPAGE FOR YOU!!!