what's this? another holiday we're trying to cash in on? GET OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUT.

reportage book project stuff. sorry for the drips and drabs-ey nature that these are going to go up in, but my blog seems to wig out when you try and put more that five images to a post. a booooo.

cover wrap -


page one-


wwwwwwwhich are totally going to get swapped around when it comes to re-jigging this thing. and that'll have to happen sometime before our super final assessment because this thing is chock-a-block with rushed visual faux-pas and things that made my tutors toes go a little on the curly side. aw yeah.

but in the mean time, a "new" release from neutral milk hotel? oh my god yes. their front man's touring this year- how i would have given my eye teeth to go see that. except i think we're going to be in antwerp when that's going down. and tickets are, like, £300.
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oh well. you'll always have your ipod.

hur hur. so the whole up-dating the blog thing hasn't really been happening too much over the last few weeks. i would like to blame mid-year assesments- but now they're out the way, we've got a whole week to back peddle and squander as we see fit. HOOHARR!

got some more illustration-y stuff to put up but hey, everyone loves scribbly naked people, riiiiiiiiiight?




aaaaaaaaand here's a total stop-motion animation sensation. if only all fight scenes were conducted with such majesty...

IT'S DONE. IT'S FINALLY DONE.

oh man. everything about this took about a bajillion times longer than it should have but that's the brighton rock comic finally lick. phew.






well, that's two projects down. only another two to go. BOOYAH!

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.

so the hitchcock poster project got wrapped up a while ago. hurrah! would have posted it here soon but i've been scrambling to get on top of all the other work (least of all the disastertation draft that needs to be in for uncomfortably soon) to acctually get around to doing that. boo!

but oh well, here they are in all their updated glory(?)




(according to the back of the dvd, THAT shower scene took seven days and ten as many cameras to shoot. c-r-a-z-y. also, hitchcock totally poo-pooed the piece of music (you know the one) that bernard herrmann penned to accompany it and didn't want it in the film. fortunatly, hitchcock went off on holiday and herrman slipped it into the final cut. TRUE STORY.

aaaaaaand these old bits of news- NOW WITH ADDED SHITTY TYPOGRAPHY! AWWW YEAH!




was debating adding colour but i don't know... kinda like the black and white. what do you think?

so with that whole christmas thing round the corner, i guess it's probably SEASONAL BLOG DUMP TIME.





so as part of our efforts to make the green to cover the degree show, our year set up shop for the last week of term. folk made a whole ton of funky festive themed stuff. one of the things we put together was an advencalendar. ok, so we didn't choose the most time effective way to put it together, but it ended up looking pretty tight! not to mention all the artwork everyone did. here's my offering:






asides from that, people also made a tone of cards and decorations. check these out!:

fredrick eden's christmas cards. perfect for animal lovers everywhere.

eileen kwan's totally dapper cards and labels.

these hand made decorations abi moulder put together. whoar

aaaaaaaaand here's the art for the cards i whipped up:




well that was that. MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TOMORROW! oh man, i hope you all have a great one.

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

although this is looking a whole lot like "INTENSE EYES AND FEET: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL EXPERIENCE", these roughs are actually based on a section of graham greene's 'brighton rock'. man, what a taunt wee thriller that is! if you like totally despicable protagonists, you and this book should probably get together some time.

huh. these are a heck of a lot more detailed than the glorified scribbles and stick men that normally constitute as roughs. i'm actually in the middle of light boxing these. holy moly. what a time saver that is. thinking i might defiantly have to get my mitts on one of those bad boys.

oh, and note to self: please could you GET YOUR ASS INTO GEAR AND FINISH THIS PROJECT LIKE RIGHT NOW PLEASE? thank you.

right now we're trying to juggle four projects that need to be in by the end of january.HOLY SHIT IT'S FLYING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS TIME. one thing i need to do is put together an artist's book about the area i live in. i think i got waaaay too carried away by the prospect of doing out and about sketching though; turns out your BRILLIANT plan of just drawing a load of random shit and hoping that it would slot perfectly together with the help of a little photoshop it a load of old hooey. aw yeah.

i think this video perfectly encapsulates my fantastically methodical approach:




and some random sketch book stuff.