YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE FINISHED YOUR MACMILLAN BOOK BY THE END OF THE DAY. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE IN THIS.

here are some cheeky panels from it. the story's about a magic dog who can't spell. it was going to be called god the dyslexic dog but then it turned out that there was something all ready going by that handle. boo. also, it might have been a little offensive to religious types. double boo.

888

podcast time! oh my god. girl on guy with aisha tyler is totally my jam. i would quite like to be her when i grow up. this episode is with the director of bellflower, a super homemade movie that's an apocalyptic romance. er. i haven't seen it, but it looks super slick and hearing about creative people getting creative is always a blast.

PUT IT IN YOUR EARS RIGHT HERE.

GOOD MORNING CAMPERS!

oh my stars and garters are we in the thick of it now. here's some fmp stuff.

yesterday, fourteen hours were spent trying and sort of not totally failing at running it through after effects.

that was… an experience.

many thanks to eileen, katie and amber for their endless patience and tolerating my total inability to grasp that program.

aaaaaand in other news, FINALLY got around to making amends to the bloody chamber brief. more on that soooooooon. hopefully.

SNEAK PEAK!!

but enough about those things. other folk are doing some crazy cool shit for this fop malarky. do yourself a favour and take a goosey gander at some of these works in progress:


http://abimoulder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/brother-sun-sister-moon-help-please.html

http://edensworkblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/sideshow-freak-banners-fmp/

http://bydionnekitching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/screenprint.html#comment-form

NOICE!

podcast plug! do you like listening to people rip the shit out of shitty movies? if so, give this episode of HOW DID THIS GET MADE a spin. up on the chopping block this time round is burlesque. and it is glorious.

ADIEU!

FRIENDS. THE END TIMES ARE NEARLY UPON US.

that's right. in three weeks time, middelsex illustration's class of 2012 are going to be done (sort of) with this degree business . good fucking gravy.

asides from getting all misty eyed and nostalgic about the good times, that also means IT'S TIME TO HIT THE GAS AND FLY BY THE SEAT OF YO ASS.





so for my FINAL MAJOR PROJECT, i was going to try and turn the first part of toby barlow's sharp teeth into one of those super cool, free flowing digital comics a little like this:

http://www.ryan-a.com/comics/sarahandtheseed01.htm

and this:

http://emcarroll.com/comics/outthedoor.html

(but really you should check these cats out anyways- they really do put the awesome in awesomesauce.)

aaaaaaaand then you realised that adapting 50+ pages was a little ambitious and it was maybe going to be some sort of animated thing instead? ok!

after a whole lot of hmming and hawing, finally figured out how to draw the damn thing in week eight of this 12 week project. awesome. BUT THAT MEANS I CAN JUST CHURN IT OUT TOTALLY IN TIME FOR SUPER FINAL DEAD LINE, RIGHT?

totes.

so stop writing this clap trap and get back to work.



(p.s. if you like stories about organised werewolf crime in nourish LA with wereolves, you should pick this book up. you two will be very happy together: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharp-Teeth-Toby-Barlow/dp/0099512467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334985771&sr=1-1 )

(p.p.s in other news, TURNING TIGER CAME OUT ALL PHYSICAL LIKE THE OTHER DAY!!!



for those of you going "aahhhBWWAAAHH???", this is the comic i did with richmond clements for the good folk at renegade arts like three years ago? it's got robots. and heart. if you fancy snapping up a copy or even just spreading the word, that would be holyshit levels of amazing…

you could get it here.

or maybe even here.

and i even got to go on one of those podcast things to talk about it here.

#ABLAHBLAHBLAH

so roughly this time 365.25 days ago, we were gearing up to send our entries off to the macmillan prize. this year some of the more masochistically inclined of us decided to go toe to toe with it and well... let's just say i'm nowhere near dotting the i's and crossing the t's on that one this time round. ack ack ack.

but it's totally gravy because you've got three weeks to do 9 dummy pages, colour three of them in, pull some end papers and a cover out your ass... and finish your final major project... and make the metric tone of corrections to all your previous project.

fucking cakewalk mate.

ah well, here a throwback to better days when time management was a thing in your skill set:



so yeah, finally got around to making a cover for last year's offering. i don't know, figured i'd finish that bad boy off so we could hopefully sell some copies in order to make some greens for our degree show...


(ta for the photo, eva)



"i can't believe you bound this yourself"- martin ursell



so yeah, if you're interested in maybe snapping one up, shout us a hollar and i'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement...

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so recently got turned onto marc maron's podcast. holy crap. the rss feed for that thing is a treasure trove of wonder. here's an episode that destroyed all my preconceptions about russell brand:

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

and then some shit from my sketch book:

HOLY SHIT GUYS. IT'S WEDNESDAY. TIME TO GET ALL ARTSY FARTSY WITH NAKED PEOPLE. AAAAAWWWWW YYYEEEAAAAHHH.


bonus round; i haven't played a video game in like forever, but for some reason i just can't get enough of kumail nanjiani and emily v gordon discussing them over on their podcast at the nerdist. in this particular nugget of entertainment, they chat about racism in games. hilarity ensues.

more old and irrelevant sketch book nonsense. because you guys totally love glorified stick figures, AMIRITE? acctually, i REALLY need to go back and revisit this project because my first crack at it was some total weaksauce bullshit but omigod. there is so much to do. this fact is defiantly not helped by the fact that our studio is slowly turning into one big jam band. OO ERRR.





BONUS CONTENT!

i wish i was better at keeping up with what's going on in the world. i really do. for instance, the euro crisis. what's up with that, right? well, this episode of staple favorite on this blog, 'this american life' dose a better job of explaining it that clarissa. PUT IT IN YOU EARS SON!

more from the muswell hill book;



ewww. when this thing gets it's much needed revamp, any halfway graphic elements are going to be the first thing out the window. this thing would have worked a whole lot better if i'd either gone hard-core one way or the other. me thinks you should have stuck with the sketchbook look. mmm yep.

oh viaduct. i have wanted to go a-drawing round here for forever. many thanks to this project for allowing me to indulge.



*BONUS ROUND*

have you ever wondered where all our shiney things come from? this episode of 'the american life' is a fascinating, if not utterly harrowing account of what goes down in the sweat shops of shenzhen.

so one of the projects i'm currently trying to nail down is this book about all the old shops in muswell. what with everything turning everything into yet another supermarket or ubber bougie hair dressers, they're becoming something of an increasingly rare breed.

anyhoo, some in process stuff. i apparently learnt NOTHING from the last talk with the tutor about this because we are still very much in 'AAAAHHH, LET'S JUST DO A LOAD OF SHIT AND CHUCK IT AT THE WALL AND HOPE IT WORKS' vein of things.


(warning. high levels of funky perspective can induce brain aneurisms)







hopefully going to get the brighton rock project licked today. this is not a lie i tell myself.



p.s. recently discovered you made it weird, another wonderful show on the ever expanding nerdist network. holy shit. this show. it's pretty much just pete holmes sitting down with a fellow stand up and rapping for an hour but oh my stars and garters, is it good. HERE'S A LINK TO A PERTICUALRY FINE EPISODE WITH TJ MILLER . put it in your ears, son.

a little work in progress. the (still unfinished) brighton rock comic project was getting dangerously close to turning me into a full blown manic depressant... so i opted to do the sensible thing AND TOTALLY BLOW IT OFF. NYAH!

in the mean time i thought i'd try and totally blitz one of the smaller projects so i've, you know, actually got something finished. so yeah, hitchcock posters. so far this has been a blast, AND an excellent excuse to watch some totally ace films. got to design four of these using three colours. once i've got the lot of them drawn out, i'm going to start twiddling with the pallet and lettering but so far we've got:

north by north west


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lifa3aEBEfM


and the birds


god, this SCENE. shit's so tense. this film also makes me totally take back all the smack i may have said about hitchcock tending to screw the ending after watching psycho and nxnw. what a totally creepy last shot.

aaaand now all the unrelated crap;

sketchbook junk:


a totally rad episode of the nerdist podcast with penn jillette. hot dog. this guy is just a fountain of great stories.

LATERZZZZZZZ

a wee snippet of a business card for a friend. if his website were up and running, i'd be linking the shit out of that thing because what that man can do on the spur of the moment with a saxophone is CRAZY.


aaaaaand now that back to school time is in full swing, here's an episode of 'this american life' that'll make your university's party scene look like a wet ballon:

HOLY MOLY. YOU FELL RIGHT OFF THE KEEPING THE BLOG UPDATED WAGON, DIDN'T YOU?

in my defence, we're back at uni. it's pretty intense. i've yet to follow my tutor's advice to cut sleep from the schedule, although pretty much everything else has been scrapped BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE I TOTALLY GET OFF ON THIS SHIT.

and now, naked people:




i totally suck at keeping up with what's going on in tv land, but apparently amanda (the model) was duking it out on "come dine with me a few weeks ago. c r a z y. i hope she kicked some culinary ass!



p.s. not so long ago ben folds was guesting on this episode of the nerdist podcast. hot dog. what a talented chap. the last 25 minuets of this made me so incredibly blue that i had to sell my ticket to go see him last time he was in town.

more summer project tomfoolery. huh. if you replace "places" with "the internet", you might get something that resembles a half truth.

all half ass-ing it aside, i don't know if i'm incredibly late to the party but holy moly, is reggie watts one talented mofo. if the singing, beatboxing and mad improvisation weren't enough, man can work magic that loop peddle/synth of his.



he also recently guested on the second half of this episode of the nerdist podcast. hot dog. what a cool dude. i will forever be in awe of folk who can just splurge awesome music.

some things that are currently cooking for the summer project. this might be starting to turn into a desperate scrabble for the finish line.

aaaaaaaaaaand here's an episode of aisha tyler's hi-larious podcast. although actually in this one they get all crazy philosophical on how to feel/deal with having careers in the creative/entertainment industries. it put me in a fantastic mood.
http://girlonguy.libsyn.com/girl-on-guy-07-paul-f-tompkins

what's on the drawing board today....




hopefully going to get the rest of the pencils licked and slap on some water colours before the end of the afternoon... #OPTIMISM?HOWCUTE

far more exciting (please note that the word 'exciting' is about to be bastardised because i'm about to launch into a totally boring anecdote and bitch-whine like a total bitch) though is the means to which these photos were brought to you. in case you hadn't noticed, i really fucking love taking snaps of things (namely creepy ones of you when you're not looking) and then waste away hours of my life tweaking them in photoshop. when i got an iphone at the beginning of summer and discovered instagram it was like freaking christmas all over again. NOW IT WAS EVEN EASIER TO TAKE PHOTOS OF UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS! AND YOU COULD ADD A HIPSTER DOUCHBAG FILTER AT THE TOUCH OF THE BUTTON! OH CALOO CALLAY!

but then the latest update happened. the tilt shift tool was way less malleable and the gotham filter was gone. GONE. again, total first world problems, but LOL WUT????????? THAT FILTER WAS MY HOMEBOY! unlike instergram's other black and white filter, it was great at giving your pallid snaps a shot in the arm and transform them into something crazy bold and striking...



RIP gotham. you will be missed.

so in the fallout of this most tragic of losses, i was pottering around the internet to see what everybody else thought of this gross miscarriage of justice and came across a link to an app called snapseed.

oh wow.

this thing... it's incredible. contrast, focal points, filters, textures... the extent to which you can tinker and fine-tune your photos with this thing is NUTS. and it's only like £2.50. for a mini version of photoshop in your palm, i would STRONGLY RECOMMEND getting your grubby little mitts on this.

THE END.

god. so sorry for that. here's a podcast. it's about comics. and if my sense of humour could be anyone, i'd hope it would be these two.
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