Another 60th

So my Dad was 60 recently and we had to do him a book for his birthday too. We tried something a bit different by making a concertina book. So that we had two sides, one for this story and another for a walk we were going on with him.

Some of the spreads worked so that you couldn't see both halves until you folded it out.

Procrastination Issues 31. Pugs

I'm busy busy at the moment but that means I am also trying to find time to do a couple of other things too, as you do.

So here are some Pugs in the city, I had been looking on Gemma Corrells flickr and been inspired. I'm sure she will not apporve of my versions of her favorite dogs.


This also lead onto this,

Mr Norman Pickles being Gemma's Pug and Stanley Pickle being Vicky's main character. So Norman Stanley Pickles a merging of two great things.

We're working on andacoffee again

Here's some sketches of a character I created for the andacoffee blog.

He's called La Llebre Negre or Lionel the Black Hare.

Go and see what we've done with him here

Coloured Sketch

I was re-watching The Venture Brothers and drew this. Quite liked it. So thought it could balance out the crappy drawing I did earlier.

Very quick

To get it off my chest. I am an old man now, why do these people go to gigs and talk so loud you can't hear the fantastic band? Sigh.

You can tell they we're art school too. They stood facing away from the band rolling cigarettes. Rolling cigarettes is the only way.

Billy Childish still rocks and its was a fantastic gig.

Happy New Year, March? What happened to the other 3 months?

ok bad joke to begin.



Get it? Not sure if its get-able. Based on a gag from Sorry I haven't a Clue a while back.

So I am trying to sort out a web site at the moment and hopefully will be putting random updates on here as well.

I've been working on this film

If you want to know more go and have a look at it all here

There's some work I did online, woo.

Click the link below to see the whole storyboard on the E4 website
http://www.e4.com/misfits/pictures/storyboard-ep2.html?decorator-index=1
and again
http://www.e4.com/misfits/pictures/storyboard-ep1.html

The horrible thing is I have been so busy I haven't had chance to see them, and the 4OD player won't work for me. Hope it helped Tom the director in the end.

bad joke 001

I was thinking of posting some odd bad jokes. so number one.

I contributed a small part to this

I helped out Tomek Ducki with some animation for his visuals and a music video for Basement Jaxx. Yay.


Tomek has lots of great things on his vimeo including his short film Life Line.


I did some of the dancing bears in these.

Basement Jaxx ft Lightspeed Champion - My Turn (video) from tomek ducki on Vimeo.

Basement Jaxx - My Turn - live visuals from tomek ducki on Vimeo.

Mums Birthday

So it was my Mums 60th birthday a little while ago and so my sister Keely and I came up with this book for her that would eventually reveal the real present which was a trip to Barcelona for the weekend.

Its all printed out Golden Storybook size with a hard cover, yay. One edition only.

Don't know if you can read it all in the photos maybe I'll swap it for the page layouts soon.

It was only when Keely got it back to her flat the night before mums birthday that Aaron pointed out that sixtieth is spelt wrong through out the whole book! Aaaaarrrgh poo. oh well. here it is, enjoy.

Inbetween these pages is a page ripped out. Its basically a joke about us not telling mum about some problems because she'll just worry.

Just a detail shot of Keely and I after the treacherous journey.

There's a card in a pocket. We got dad to write the reply, He has quite distinctive hand writing.

The end.

This is a pic of me ma with the book.
Happy Birthday Mum.

...And this was the card I knocked together for her too. Not great, just quick. Csi refs in here.

alternate

I'm posting here alot at the moment. I'll be back soon, working hard hazarr.

Long break again I know

I'm busy doing little bits and pieces. I'll post something soon. In the meantime look at Elenas Blog