more cards. man. those are some lazy ass backgrounds. i hope your proud.

in other news, The Show was last week.



there were drinks, a whole lot of people and some redicuosly fly work (that in turn, flew of the walls. kudos, people). i wish you could have been there.

last of The Show stuff. phew. in the middle of lugging this stuff up to the framers and oh my gosh, this art business is kinda expensive.

for The Show. just finished off everything for it this afternoon. CALOO-CA-FREAKING-LAY.

you should come along. more info on that can be found here->http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163808180300318&ref=ts

a section of the other holyfreakingcrapwhydidyoumakethissobigit'snotlikeitneedstogocrushtokyo painting. i should be working on it right now, but i'm totally blowing it off to play with the blog.

HORRAY FOR PAYING FOR IDLENESS LATER!!

also, goddamn, this movie looks like waaaaay too much fun. that found-footage gimmick will never get old... unless it's got anything to do with that craptastic paranormal activity piece of ass.

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.

another piece for The Show. man, i'm thinking inking with acrylic is totally > than inking with actual ink. it's _way_ more messy and you can get all sorts of fun textures out of it, making for more lively work. HOO-HAAR!

MUSICAL INTERLUDE!

currently bopping through sea wolf's leaves in the river. it's pretty fun although i'm shamed to say that i only discovered this band by means of twilight. so very, very shamed. god, the sound tracks for those movies are 100,000,000 better than they have any right to be.

CAL

for The Show. eugh. the background on this thing is bugging the ever-loving crap out of me. curse you, visible lazy pencil work. my smudging-fu could not vanquish you.

do over of those wee beastie boys (and, uh, girl). sticking this up here in it's as of yet un-ravaged form because this could all go horribly wrong in a minuet.

OH GOD WATER COLOURS. DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DO TO ME!?!

more... ah... 'thumbnails'.

i bought some totally sweet paper from faulkeners yesterday (+ a book on how to book bind so i don't get totally eviscerated by our tutor next year). me and the pencils and inks and paints are going to GO TO TTTTOOOOOOOWWWWWWWNNNN!!!!!!

we had a meeting about The Show the other week so i had to do some tighter thumbnails (note to self. things probably stop being thumbnails when you draw them on a3 and try too hard). god, little miss foul mouth is pretty horrific. totally need to retweek that shit.

the good news is that we've got a load of space to show this stuff in. the gooder news is that everyone else's work is looking totally rad.

you'd better bring your a-game, fool.

bear boy post traumatic water colouring. these guys are going to have to be redone anyway since i've been banned from doing any tinkering in photoshop. the initial plan was to do them super big and then scale them down and put them all together with the help of mystical, digital powers but alas, that cannot be.

oh well, it's all good practice, ammirite?

okay. so maybe i didn't totally butcher deer boy... BUT BEAR CHILD HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL TO GO WRONG.

spoilers for real life. i'm acctually looking at the painted version of bear child now and he's... kinda okay. i am coming to tearms with the fact i clearly don't know how knees work though. sigh.

p.s- whoar, so cool http://www.ninjavspenguin.com/blog/2007/09/14/artist-martin-klimas/

OH ALEX. YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE SUBTLE ART OF DESIGN.

in my defence, that gnarly, grey square's there because i don't think i should be telegraphing information about a PRIVATE event. huh. go figure. and that doesn't excuse the rest of it.

invite for The Show. we've been batting round the idea of getting everyone to wear masks. somehow that worked its way into my totally ass proposal for the invite design.

OH GOD. THIS THING IS A CRIME AGAINST ART. I WILL TRY AGAIN. OUT OF TOTAL SHAME.

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

more of that brain storming business....

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