while pimping out the shiny macbool i had haemorrhaged a gout of cash on coral painter. OH MY GOD. HOW CAN SOMETHING SO INTANGIBLE COST SO MUCH!?!?!?

but i think it might have been worth it. holy fuck, this thing runs rings round open canvas. it's ridiculous how much more organic working in it feels.

this was just a dry run. i think it may have come from spending too much time in the tube surrounded by posters for that circ de solie show and the _shit tone_ of avatar marketing. huzzar for blue people!

more cover thumbnails, where in you act like you know something about graphic design!

so very, very tempted by the one of the guy going for a little pavement diving but yeah, not terribly universal. it's an ittsy-bittsy, teeny-weeny part of the book and not all that integral (other than hinting that things are going to hell in a handbag rather sharpish and illustrating the despondency of the high-rise residents). oh well.


in other news, i think we're off to see 2012 tonight. i'm praying for a shit-fest.

gggggoooOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!

more stuff from the current project they've got us working on. since all the interior illustrations are all VERY character-centric, i wanted the cover to have something to do with the setting. besides, something like that seemed more all-encompasing than blah blah blah blah.

that first design is total milk toast. maybe it could have been worked into something a little more interesting.... but we'll never know since it's totally getting blown off in favour of the 'HO SHIT PERSPECTIVE!' idea.

albeit with slightly nicer lettering, obviously.

blargh. i sat down to colour page 17 and for some reason i ended up speed painting the clouds outside.

in my defense, they were very pretty clouds.

mmm, wonky! a pretty crudely done illustration for bach's 'air in G'. 

did you know that despite composing more than 1,000 pieces of music during his life time, it was only after his death that people started to recognize bach as a composer?

#THE MORE YOU KNOW!#

just some prep work for the GIANT (okay, it's only just a tad over half a meter but what can i say, clearly i'm easily impressed by my own handiwork. sometimes. when i'm not being crushed into the ground by my own towering sense of artistic inadequacy.) cardboard man now looming over all the junk cluttering my work space.

uh... wtf did all the male genitalia go?

oh, silly naive alex. the net idea was never going to work.

and while we're on the subject  of antlers...

did you know that the antlers of the giant irish elk were the largest ever recorded? these things could measure up to twelve foot tip to tip. the more you know!