oh man. my internet's decided that actually, working part time is a waaaaaay cushier deal so i've only really been able to get on it for like five minuets at stupid o'clock in the morning for the last week or so. hence the lack of stuff going on round these parts. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMVS, AMIRITE GUYS?????


that and i've been keeping kind of busy with stuff like this. i'll quit being all mysterious once we've got everything all ironed out bbbbbbbuuuut i might be taking part in a business venture which would be totally cool if it works out. more on that later. hopefully.


aaaaaaand the summer project. oh god, the summer project. you had like what? HALF A GODDAM YEAR to do this thing? and you've done what? two drawings.
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two. drawings.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT??!?!?!?!

i am alex's crushing sense of dissapointment in one's self. hopefully i'm going to get the one this thumb's for wrapped today and there's another that just needs to be put together in the old photoshop but in an ideal world, i'd really like to get another four done. at least. there are two weeks to do it.

I SMELL A CHALLENGE!

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ew. that veered off into self self pittying county just a bit, didn't it? sorry. HERE'S YET ANOTHER ROLLICKING EPISODE OF THE NERDIEST PODCAST (FEATURING THE DELIGHTFULLY LOL-LARIOS AISHA TYLER) FOR YOUR AUDIBLE ENJOYMENT.



also, i can't decide if this is the greatest or worst thing ever:

pencils for another bit of the print project. my god. do a happy song already. shit's starting to get a wee bit to emo, yo.

on another note, dead man's will by iron an wine sounds SUPER dishy on the ukulele.... but that might just be me being a little bit bias. hell, i'd probably go nuts for thrash metal by way of one of those retarded little guitars.

another piece for The Show. ugh, i am currently paying for the sin of charging in head first with this. SILLY RABBIT. ONE DAY YOU WILL LEARN TO THINK THESE THINGS THROUGH.

... oh who are you kidding, alex. you will forever be a slave to short-sighted foolishness.

AAAAaanyways, sorry about the quality with this one. had to take a photo of the bugger since it's a big one. man, a B2 scanner would be totally sweet right now.

on a lighter note, i think this might be my most favorite thing in a long time:

Death Buy Lemonade from Cartoon Brew TV on Vimeo.

my body is a cage- arcade fire



so flavour of the month over at doodle caboodle (http://thedoodlecaboodle.blogspot.com/) is songs. there's like 9.2 billion things i'd like to draw for this but there's never going to be enough time. sad face. was listening to arcade fire's my body is a cage and this rather emo-tastic image popped into my head.

it's meant to be a dude trapped under a film of skin but... eh. the hands lack anything close to conviction. a booooooooo. lesson learnt? alway, always, ALWAYS draw that shit out on paper first. you have a fantastic tendency to forget how shit works once you boot up painter.

MUSIC!



this isn't one of my favourite songs of theirs but god damn, these guys know how to write a tune. they also hit my weak point for big ensemble pieces with lots of strings and horns for super massive damage. aren't they currently working on a project with spike jonez? oh my god, that shit is going to be tight.

*GASP*  what!? moar throat slitting art?!? how utterly delightful!

but yeah, illustration for an article on refugees. this was going to be a whole lot more ambitious, shot at an angle with a tone of hands clutching at the fence but then 1. there's not a whole lotta space for the illustrations so the tiny reproduction would most likely be unreadable and 2. there was a little matter of meeting the deadline.

BLEGH!

on the topic of emo-tastic, here be the second folio cover. this term's theme is sanctuary...

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rrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiight. you were bang on the money with this one. totally should have gone with the holding house idea but nooooooooooooo, someone wanted to be all artistic and abstract.

... i'm guessing i can't really get away with blaming this debacle on listening to too much 'my body is a cadge' by the lovely arcade fire, right?

lol, so emo.

but yeah, kinda sorta preliminary work for a crappy little sculpture i made (watch this space) based around Orestes little run in with the furies. for more on that, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mythology) or http://threepennyorchestra.blogspot.com/2009/02/oh-those-crazy-greeks.html and oh dear, i think i just fragged the text formatting on this post.

did you know that coffee is a wonderful artistic medium? it's true!

#THE MORE YOU KNOW!#