the for final pages for the macmillan project... god damn. bitch and moan as i do about never wanting to draw another building EVER AGAIN, i totally miss working on this. defiantly going to try and get the whole thing done at some point:



ugh. this was the last page drawn and boy, dose it show. composition and colour go to shit once we cross the gutter. maybe pick a more harmonious back ground colour and not that gross neon-cream? also, that last drawing maybe needs to be a wee bit smaller... and not total ass.

don't mind me, just talking to myself.




things to take away to the crit:
∞ STOP KILLING THINGS WHEN THEY BECOME FINALS. loose + sketchy= iiittttt'sss aaaaalllliiiivvveeeeee!
∞ digital colouring dose not help. it's cool because now i've got a colour reference to work from but yeah...
∞ so try water colouring it. scoring some big-ass water colour paper and putting it through the laser printer is pretty high on the list of to-do.


MMM! I AM ALL KINDS OF EXCITED TO DO THIS THING!

GOOD MORNING!





so yeah, end papers. MY. someone was feeling mighty imaginative when it came to designing that star map...

page spreads for the book project. the idea of this was 10x10. the two sheets would be stuck together so you'd unfolded the pages to form half a square/ a really tenuous multiplication grid (do those things even exist? i'm pppreeeeetttttyyy sure i pulled that one out of my ass).

happy new year y'all! hope you had a good one!

our last project started very innocently with picking a number out a hat. a few people got 1, a few a hundred, others anything between. it was all good fun until we were told that this would be the subject and number of books we had to make by thursday and thursday was three days away.

...

i'd got a hundred. at lest it could have been a little worse. 500 and 1,000 were a potential option for some very unlucky person.

these were finished at pretty much 59 minuets and 59 seconds into the 11th hour. i'll post interiors... sometime. many thanks to the uni buddies i embroiled into a production line to get this shit done.

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aaaaaaaaaaand that's all the pages from the 'drawn from memory' project. fortunately, the last day was the only day when scotland decided to live up to its reputation of being a rainy son-of-a-bitch. good thing too. rain was so damn heavy it's a miracle we didn't drown trying to get to inverness and our water proofing proved to be A MASSIVE LIE. lo, see what a bunch of drowned rats we were by the time we reached the end point.



still though, it was waaay fun. i was in inverness last month for the con. seeing the castle that photo was taken from was so very surreal.

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i'd like to thank a combination of ball bust levels of work and shit internet for the lack of updates round the parts. shit internet has been sorted! wish the same could be said of the criminally long to-do list...

more from the book! yes kids, drinking brown smelly water is never, ever a stella idea no matter how much the locals tell you it'll do you a world of good.

LIES!

still, despite the onset of massive gut rot, that bit of scotland was. so. pretty.



PLUGGERY TIME! oh man, there is sooooooo much good music out there. recently got my mitts on the soundtrack for where the wild things are. so. so. so. SO. GOOD. there is no way in hell you can feel blue after listening to that thing; it's crazy levels of energetic, but then i guess that's what you'd expect from karen o (front lady of the 'yeah yeah yeahs').

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ah yes. turns out that flora is not an acceptable replacement for butter when it comes to cooking. seriously, it's a miracle we didn't come down with botchalism after chowing down on that. hail to the chief!

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from the book project. this page is a little bigger because the bit at the top was actually done as a flat. gimmicky, i know, but that hill just did not stop. literally, the mo-fo looked like it was levelling out and then the terrain remembered it hated you and wanted to crush out your life and there was still half a mountain to go. so traumatic was this experience that we had to make up a little ditty riffing on a popular tune of the time. it went a little something like,

*what's that coming over the hill? is it a- oh wait, it's just another hill.*

GOOD TIMES!

and with that all said and done, here be some funky stuff from the internet. it's a wee animated film that's just a little bit unsettling.

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seriously, we came back looking like a particularly lumpy batch of porridge. seeeeeeeeeeeeee-xy.

this is the first time i've picked up acrylic paint in so long. DAMN, i forgot how much fun that stuff could be. it's so fun to be able to really work into something since with water colours it's totally a case of less being more.

in other news i was all like 'MAN I AM TOTALLY GOING TO FINISH TURNING TIGER TODAY' until i realised i'd LOST the second last page. slow clap. there was a moment of raising the fists to the heavens and yelling 'WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY' in a manner that was just a little melodramatic but then i started redrawing the page. MAN, i'd forgotten just how much i love doing this shit.

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i'm going to warn you now, the production on this thing is absolute balls. also, the spelling gets increasingly funky as you get deeper and deeper into this thing. blame that devil may care attitude that tends to kick in and fuck everything up on the tail end of projects?

but yes. always make sure you take sensible walking shoes. by day two my blisters had blisters. in fact, i think i can rustle up some photographic evidence...

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hoy hoy!

people, be wary of all you can eat chinese. that stuff is a recipe for wicked food poisoning.

aaaaaaaaaaaanyhoo, going to be putting some stuff up from our latest project at uni. the name of the game was to make a story book based on an experience from your life. god, some people put together some really amazing things for this one.