some LLLLLOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGG over due character sketches i promised someone. i know this particular dead horse has been reduced to mince meat by this point but FUCK. there are not enough hours in the day.

old, cold leftovers from the christmas project. we had to come up with the perfect gift for a famous person picked at random from the festive fez. i got orson welles (who was a total DUDE!) so i gave him a snow globe featuring a scene from his glory days in theatre.

also, i may have just figured out how to embed videos into posts. to celebrate, here's a wonderful song on the subject of that most polarising of toast toppings; vegemite.

more pencil work for the new york editorial piece.

in other news, the illustration department's taking us out there next wednesday. HOLY FUCK, YOU COULD TECHNICOLOUR ME EXCITED.

more book marking. check these out folks, they're pretty damn niffty!

http://www.dutchuncle.co.uk/illustrators/du/tavis-coburn/portfolios/bafta-2010 -travis colburn's posters for the 2010 baftas. there's one for each of the five movies up for best film. mmm-MMM! love those old school aesthetics.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/22/cool-stuff-brandon-schaefers-movie-posters/ - god, i WISH the folks who churn movie poster out would take a leaf out of this guy's book.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/16/cool-stuff-the-lost-art-of-inglourious-basterds/ - un used art work for inglorious basterds.

i think pretty much all this stuff was pilfered from the /film website.

pencils for the bits of the final part of the editorial project. they gave us an article about this guy's love affair with new york and it's doing eeeeeeeeeeveryone's head in.

needed to throw these up as a reference because i'm to damn lazy to flip back and forth between pages.

editorial project! now with 99% more colour!

pandemonium was meant to be the word behind this one, but looking at it, others seem to come to mind.... hmmm... i think they go something along the lines of WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY, MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE CITY TO SEE A MARCHING BAND and so on and so forth.

huh, if i ever get around to making that illustrated song book i've been wanting to do for FOR-FUCKING-EVER, this would probably be fair game for that particularly emo-tastic ballard...

yeah, totally abused this for the sake of drawing gnarly monsters but oh lordy lordy was it fun.

(i'm also maybe a little too please with this one)

storyboards

blargh, i totally ran out of time on this one BUT YOU TOTALLY CAN'T TELL, AMIRITE?!>but yeah, i ended up cobbling these to optical atrocities together on the world's bumpiest train to edinburgh (on that note, if you ever want to make a 7 hour train ride wizz by, get yourself a super massive project with a deadline that's about 16 hours away and you WILL FLY BY THE SEAT OF YOUR GOD DAMN PANTS).
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a-booooooooooooooo.

o9/o9 of the highrise illustrations.

and that's that. taken from the very last bit of the book where laing, having weathered the process of decay and degeneration, looks on as the process starts anew in the neighbouring highrise.

gosh, j.g ballard sure knew how to write a jolly yarn. but all snarky comments aside, this was a damn good book. if your itching for something a little icky and feeling particularly cynical about man kind, this'll go down a treat.

yeaaaaaaah, those unintelligible yellow blobs in the other building are _meant_ to be torch lights but i think someone had lost the will to put any effort into this by that point. shame on me.

found a couple more glamour doll storyboards kicking around so oh well, what the hell. the shoot wrapped a couple of weeks ago although they've said they need to do a couple of reshoots so maybe watch this space for more rent boy/drag queen action?

and WOW, these are some weak sauce drawings. doing work at two in the morning of deadline day is so frigging futile.

just some stuff i wanted to book mark because there's too much groovy stuff out there on the interwebs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9_Cw
- wonderfully dark music video for depeche mode's wrong.


- video for spacious thoughts. OH MY GOD IT'S PRETTY.