chunk 1!

over view of the backside of the sketch book.

mmm-mmm. listening to frYar's dark young hearts album. god, there is a ridiculously wide range of stuff going on on this metaphysical disc. particularly digging the jazzy, brassy 'novelist's wife'

more for the last bit of the project. oh man. in an ideal world, this is going to be a little book of random snippets. total lack of planning + total lack of time is probably going to result in it being a big, ol' e cluster fuck.
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YAY!

also, inking's so much more fun when you're not being totally anal about it.

but before that train-wreck-waiting-to-happen happens, here's some more random crap from the last bit of the summer project!






(wow. awesome job of scanning that. idiot.)

going to stick all this shit together a la that... uh... 'book' about our hike across scotland because i totally don't have it in me to make a cohesive final piece.

about to go all crazy over these pencils with the paints in a minuet.
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this could god horribly, horribly wrong.

ROUND TWO!

aaaaaawwwwwww man, i still need to jigger the back-side of this thing. resizing/stitching it all together in the old photoshop is more of a drag than dr frankfurter.

ROUND ONE!

*insert the-whole-thing-charades-mime-thing here*

side one of another of those mad, fold-y out moleskins done for the summer project. because i clearly totally hate myself.

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR LIKE 5000 POSTS OF THIS THING DISSECTED UP INTO SMALL, VIEWABLE CHUNKS. OH WHAT FUN.

more of that brain storming business....

holy crap. there is something a little too satanic about that deer-headed dude.

...a little something for the final summer project.

AAAAAAAAAAAAND DONE. WOW. I TOTALLY DID NOT HAVE THE TIME I SPENT ON THIS. PEOPLE FROM THE HOUR LENDERS ARE GOING TO BE COMING ROUND TO BREAK MY THUMBS ANY MINUET NOW LOL LOL LOL.

hooray for self indulgence!

... listening to 'the suburbs' and, correct me if i'm wrong, but i think arcade fire just brought the disco and OH MY GOD. THEY JUST BROKE OUT THE SYNTH-SYNTH-SYNTH SYNTHISISER.

p.s. we are off to see scott pilgrim in 2 hours. i know it's disgustingly keen (shut up america, it only just came out here today) this excitement cannot be contained.

sketch book stuff. wow. it has been so very long since i've had a chance to go all footloose and fancy free over a peice of paper. just trying to hammer out some ideas for a gallery show i'm meant to be taking part in NEXT MONTH. holy crap, it's not even funny how little time we have to get our shit together for it.

background for something. what intense tea-baggery.

COLOURS!

piece for http://www.youtube.com/jonnydarkmusic 's up coming album. you should check it out, yo. i think the plan is that there'll be art to go along with every track on the disc, but this particular one is for pride and envy . got to anthromorphisise a couple of the seven deadly sins for this which was A TOTAL HOOT.

also, just realised how fucking pimp the overlay function is. omigod. i think i'm in love.

boy howdy, is souless composition souless.

just dicking around in painter. need to work out something a bit more dynamic for this pair.

pencils for a gig. oh MAN, was this gig was a blast.i'm not sure if dude with the guitar EVER worked out despite being drawn and re-drawn somewhere around 9,000 times BUT OH WELL. there really does come a point where you just have to accept that not everything's going to be perfect or you start over.

i lacked the will for the latter.

playing with paints for shits and giggles. i really want to try and get back into acrylics. we used to have such fun but then i totally dumped them because i no longer had the time to do RIDICULOUSLY RENDERED PAINTINGS THAT TOOK 90000000 HOURS. i picked them up again last term though and we've been on again off again ever since. things are a little more casual this time around-

-AND HOLY SHIT. BON IVER JUST BROKE OUT THE AUTO TUNER!

er-hum. sorry about that but 'm currently working through his back log on spotify and that REALLY came out of the left field.

one day soon, this will have a hideous, hideous background.

MOLESKIN MOLESKIN MOLESKIN.

seriously though. pole dancing in the tube is a bit of a no-no. you could take somebody's eye out.

last of the images for the ticket project! i should be picking these up from the printers any day now so i should be able to send it off some time next week. boo-yah!

from way back when we went to see evelyn evelyn. hot dog, was that a fun show.


words cannot express my love for this song. THE WORLD NEEDS MORE RAG TIME, DAMNIT!


props to my homeboy photoshop! you really did save this sorry drawing's ass.

b-b-b-brain storming for a gig. needed to come up with some personifications of a couple of the seven deadly sins. holy _crap_ is this fun.

poor doodle caboodle. how neglected have you been! need to get back on board with that shit... in the mean time though, here's an offering for the portrait topic.



i figured it was way too serious though.

more silly things from the moleskin.

anthropomorphisising museum displays is fun!

hey hey! it's shit diy birthday card time! because you know you're to cheap and lazy to acctually go down to the store.

besides, haven't hallmark called kibosh immolation?

for lefki. because our paltry english weather will never be hot enough for her.

... there was a lot of dicking around in the sketchbook while i was gone.

wow. did not hit the ground running on this one. so-so-SO many scrapped attempts.

as fascinating as they are, i think siamese twins are my kryptonite.

hoy hoy!

just got back from bumming round berlin/amsterdam with a bunch of friends for a week. god-DAMN, those are some exciting cities. even though i _hate_ the idea of taking time off and spent most of the time we were there pacing back and forth while keeping an eye out for anything that could be converted into an improv drawing board, i think the batteries were L O N G overdue a recharge. hot dog, am i ready to tear some paper up.

in the mean time, here's some nonsense from the moleskin. this is an idea that's been floating round ever since we had the food stuffs topic on the doodle caboodle. ideally, this is going to go into painter one day and get the shit coloured out of it.