Got my OctoPuss tattoo a few weeks ago (I know my bro will disapprove so I apologise if you're reading this) and I'm chuffed with it! Colours are really bright and it's looking sweet, just need to go back and get some shading done when I can afford it. Took about 2-3 hours or so by Cal at Trackside in Heaton.
Linework.
Just a reminder that you can still buy my T-shirt from Native Skate Store, I don't get any cash from it but it's cool to see people wearing my shirt! I made this little banner thing for the blog a while ago but have only just got around to sorting it out and putting it on the site now.
Think I'm pretty much finished with this now, I had a few other ideas I wanted to try out with this technique but I think I'll draw something else for it:) Quite happy with how the textures turned out, you should try it sometime it's ace!
Sketch of a new character I'm working on for a sort of comic style idea I've had, really like his round little happy-head!
Experimenting with textures. For some reason the final image has came out a bit smaller than I'd hoped but I'm hoping it's just the way I've exported it. Still need to add some more detail but I reckon it's came out alright.
This is another story and picture from my childhood. The image has faded a bit but check out how all the people look phallic!
I can't actually make out whether I've drawn the monster in the bottom right or whether I've drawn the monster eating someone....
Recently I've been buying loads of poscas and paints for some Russian dolls I'm painting, and since the box has been lying around on my desk I've started doodling on it. I haven't really used posca's much but they're really fun for doodling...really!
Here is the first story from when I was a child!
I know the picture is very unrelated, but I really wanted to blog about this. It seems Laupside a skater built skatepark's been demolished recently by the council, check the article over at French's blog. Normally I wouldn't be so fussed as it's not somewhere I've ever been to/cared about, but we've got a something similar in Newcastle in what is known as the wasteland. The wasteland is, as it sounds, a bit of land where there used to be a factory years ago, and over the years people have came and built different things there.
Oh yeah! Guess which bit I drew!?!
...blog.
I took this photo recently whilst enjoying my time spent not at college. Apart from kite flying I'm spending my time applying for jobseekers' and skating at the moment, while I look for a more permanent job (so please, feel free to offer work!). It's my graduation next week but I doubt I'll be attending as I haven't sorted out gowns et c. yet and it's not really my thing.
Me and Ed've been experimenting with embroidery again, simplifying some of our characters to make little emblems for clothing etc. No idea what we're going to make yet, maybe caps? maybe patches? who knows!
Well, my final show for BA (Hons) Creative Practice went as well as could be expected (a bit of a dive), but boozy times were to be had by all! Above is a photo of our main display in our main display....area, albeit a bit desolate without our portfolios etc. on display.
Just a bit of promotional stuff for my new 'OctoPuss' web store!
Nom nom nom nom nom! I'm canny shattered atm, had so much to do this week and atm I'm currently designing mugs and preparing the OctoPuss web store to go live on Monday, hectic!
At something I'm currently slaving over! I've been working on lots lately (including loads of written work for my course!) but I haven't really wanted to post anything as it's all for my final show at college, and I don't want everyone to have seen my work before it goes on display so it's been kept under my hat a bit. Hopefully this will all pay off when the work goes on display!
...now you know...
I've come to an important realisation for anyone who keeps up to date with Scrawl There... via RSS feed. Basically catpaint.co.uk will not be pointing to my blog in the near future, therefore it's possible the current RSS feed will no longer work.
...shit up my sleeves I can't believe it! I've got so much going on atm, I really can't wait to finish my course and start doing *fun* things.
The single most amazing find I made this week!
The new CatPaint website is coming along nicely, I have to say. It's one of my first major creations in Flash (if not one of my first then one of my first in a long time) and I've had to learn a lot of new techniques to make it do the things I want so I'm pretty happy so far. I've not really wanted to post any screenshots or anything as I want to keep everything under wraps until I'm done but I figured most people have seen this cat head and rainbow anyway at college so I may as well post it.
I started drawing this bush the other day for some work I'm doing, not realizing how long it would actually take - this is only about 1 fifth of the bush and it took about half an hour?
Yeah this was like a 5 minute sketch/colour up so it looks a bit naff. Was gonna be a design for this blog but I don't think it'd really work.
You should be able to buy my shirt at Native soon. This is the first t-shirt design I've done so I'm stoked on this, just came in yesterday in white and kelly green and looks pretty nice. I assume it'll be on the website soon (around about here?) and it will most likely be on sale in store now so check it out.
Since I really want to play that new Batman Arkham Asylum game I've decided to draw a picture of Batman so that maybe the people who made said game (I don't...really know who that is) would see my picture and be like "shit that's awesome here is a free game of Batman" since my blog's dead popular now. I've also drawn him with Nike's on and a skateboard because I would like them also.
I've got something pretty cool to post about tomorrow, maybe a bit of good news/bad news I'm not sure but we'll see.
Page of doodles from my sketchbook, some names given to faces and new characters, think I might start doodling comics:) Born to fight dinosaurs and orange pussycat are side projects of mine, one of which should be starting up pretty soon - I'll keep you posted8-|
Possible new character? And by sweet panoramic, I meant sweet for the little effort that went in, Martyn!
Posca pens are fucking awesome!
Still very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd post a little update. I say this a lot, but I plan on just posting batches of posts at a time the next few days, to help me catch up to the current date, then I will most likely just start posting infrequently (as I currently am...*sigh*).
Drew this at college the other day, first thing I've drawn in ages! Still sick of this being behind on the blog date-wise, think I may give up catching up I'm not sure.
I've had this circular notepad for absolute years with no idea what to do with it. Now I think I've found it's calling. Also post coital egg now lives in a little frame, looks pretty awesome tbh
Once again, I don't know why this has been rotated...
Serious, sick of blogger rotating my images funny. Character designs for an animation I plan on doing. Might be shit but who knowsssssssss.
I'm on a losing streak. I wanna remind people though that the titles are the dates when I should have posted, if that makes sense. I'm still updating but making up for lost days.
Seriously, I'm annoyed blogger's rotated this image when I've uploaded it - no idea why!?
