sketch book stuff from that time we went to europe.

god damn. i want to do something with the rollerskate girl. maybe i can, WHAT WITH ALL THAT FREE TIME I'M KICKING ROUND LOL LOL LOL.

there were all these painted bears dotted around berlin. i guess they're kinda like those elephants that were all over the show earlier this summer (except, you know, without the cuthulu levels of mind-melting terror). that one was hands down the most bitching... but then, i'd love anything with a big, fat, old skool moustache.

underage drinking? OH ALEX. YOU'RE SUCH A NARC.

took some time out the other morning to do something for our doodle caboodle blog because i'd just got back from bestival the night before and acctual work was totally beyond me.


(this is like the easiest where's wally ever)

oh my god. that festival fragged me, BUT IN THE MOST AWESOME WAY. please, for the love of all things holy, go next year. i've been to reading and t but this was a totally different kettle of fish. so much crazy cool stuff going on in the periphery and even though we didn't catch a whole load of band, it didn't feel like ticket money went down the drain.



in conclusion, rating: FANTABULOUSE.

more... ah... 'thumbnails'.

i bought some totally sweet paper from faulkeners yesterday (+ a book on how to book bind so i don't get totally eviscerated by our tutor next year). me and the pencils and inks and paints are going to GO TO TTTTOOOOOOOWWWWWWWNNNN!!!!!!

we had a meeting about The Show the other week so i had to do some tighter thumbnails (note to self. things probably stop being thumbnails when you draw them on a3 and try too hard). god, little miss foul mouth is pretty horrific. totally need to retweek that shit.

the good news is that we've got a load of space to show this stuff in. the gooder news is that everyone else's work is looking totally rad.

you'd better bring your a-game, fool.

bear boy post traumatic water colouring. these guys are going to have to be redone anyway since i've been banned from doing any tinkering in photoshop. the initial plan was to do them super big and then scale them down and put them all together with the help of mystical, digital powers but alas, that cannot be.

oh well, it's all good practice, ammirite?

because wonky angles totally make it look like you know what you're doing.

a photo from that trip to berlin. if you ever get the chance to check out abandoned radio stations in the middle of nowhere, you should totally go.

man, i can't wait to get one of those proper super sexy cameras. i think i'm single-handedly keeping the disposable industry running.

okay. so maybe i didn't totally butcher deer boy... BUT BEAR CHILD HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL TO GO WRONG.

spoilers for real life. i'm acctually looking at the painted version of bear child now and he's... kinda okay. i am coming to tearms with the fact i clearly don't know how knees work though. sigh.

p.s- whoar, so cool http://www.ninjavspenguin.com/blog/2007/09/14/artist-martin-klimas/

OH ALEX. YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE SUBTLE ART OF DESIGN.

in my defence, that gnarly, grey square's there because i don't think i should be telegraphing information about a PRIVATE event. huh. go figure. and that doesn't excuse the rest of it.

invite for The Show. we've been batting round the idea of getting everyone to wear masks. somehow that worked its way into my totally ass proposal for the invite design.

OH GOD. THIS THING IS A CRIME AGAINST ART. I WILL TRY AGAIN. OUT OF TOTAL SHAME.

bear bears, yo!

helping out with some character designs. good lord, these are rough. so very, very rough.

and that was that.