Wesley Riot

2011-10-20T05:51:00.001-07:00

http://ping.fm/NNMgV

2011-10-20T02:31:00.001-07:00

DOES THIS THING WORK NAOW

Further Tests

2011-10-18T07:18:00.001-07:00

Android app yo

A Test

2011-10-16T21:49:00.001-07:00

To see if this app is working...

Awesome

2011-09-15T02:24:00.001-07:00

Testing out the iPhone Blogger app, and so far it's working very well indeed!

Potluck Comics

2011-08-11T12:33:00.001-07:00

My fiancée has a comic up on potluck comics, I'd really appreciate it you'd go take a look at it and share it!

Http://potluckcomics.com/why-is-everyone-looking-at-me

Ash Collins

Cyclops Sketch

2011-07-24T15:46:00.001-07:00

Expect vectors soon!

Storm

2011-04-09T05:44:00.000-07:00

I may have mentioned a while ago that Kei and I did some work on Storm, an animated beat poem by Tim Minchin; and now it’s finally been uploaded to YouTube and it looks great! Major props to Director DC Turner and all the other Kick-Ass peoples who worked on it!

Superman to the Power of AWESOME

2011-02-21T07:37:00.000-08:00

Was just shown this awesome Superman fan animation. The sheer brilliance of it has melted my face and made me realise that I will never be this good. Sob.

Shock

2010-09-20T16:14:00.001-07:00

Invasion of the Graffbots (trailer) from wesleyriot on Vimeo.

After all the animation videos I plug on here, don’t you think it’s about time I plugged one of my own?!

For more info, go here. Enjoy, twats!

More French Bastards

2010-06-04T02:34:00.000-07:00

Yet more proof that all French animators are awesome. The gits.

Salesman Pete Trailer from Salesman Pete on Vimeo.

TESTES

2010-04-20T03:58:00.001-07:00

PixelPipe, work you bitch.

Pruning

2009-12-13T05:32:00.000-08:00

This blog has been knocking around for so long now that many of the links on the sidebar are defunct. Time to hack away at some of the decay and maybe include some new ones, I think.

Also, the other day I was bemoaning the fact that women have much cooler clothes available than men, including hats, but I managed to find a new hat that I liked. Yes, it may be brown and woolly, but it covers my ears and my newly-shaved head (which is important now that the weather is starting to get a bit cold). It may well be a bit of a granny hat, but it does the trick.

Note: my aforementioned shaved-head is so stubbly that it acts like velcro, making removing or adjusting said hat a bit fiddly.

Did I really spent two-thirds of a blog post talking about a hat? You’d better believe I fucking did.

Q: Why would you park a car like this?

2009-12-13T05:14:00.000-08:00

A: because you're a fucking twat.

Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange

Pointless Update

2009-11-30T15:03:00.001-08:00

Last Thursday my back started hurting so badly that by 2am I couldn’t breathe. May have had something to do with falling down the stairs on my back twice in the last two weeks, but whatever. It’s starting to hurt a bit less now.

Also, let’s see if this Flickr plugin thing works:

Hey look at that, it’s my boy!

Video & Waves

2009-11-22T02:04:00.000-08:00

Between us, Kei and I must have taken over a thousand photos of baby Milo since his birth (and the poor sod’s only 8 weeks old!), but yesterday I dug out Kei’s old* mini DV camcorder so that we could capture those moments not quite so suited to digital stills – ie, him flailing his arms and shouting gibberish, like a very small drunk.

It’s been good fun, and I anticipate that soon my external hard drive will be filled with hours of footage that are of no interest to anyone but his doting parents :)

In other news, I finally got a Google Wave invite from Bob! Now I was never quite sure how Wave was supposed to work or what it was supposed to do, but from the moment it was announced I wanted in; mainly because a) it’s made by Google, and b) it’s new. So yeah, me and about 3 people I know are on there. I like it, but it’s hard to describe; kind of like emails, but that can also be public, like Twitter, but with realtime editing and a slew of options for embedding media and such.

This morning I did find out how to search public Waves, so I’ve been talking to random people and finding out how some of the other features work, which is really cool, so it’s not so bad that so few of my friends are on here. I guess the only thing to do is keep playing with it and see how it gradually develops; maybe it’ll grow into something as all-pervasive as Twitter, or maybe Google will give up on it and drop it like a hot bag of shit. Who knows?

*old as in, bought in about 2005. Not really old, but already quite dated…

They Even do Great Pixel Animation....NSFW

2009-11-19T14:32:00.000-08:00

Just saw this hilarious, scatological animated music video. Didn't realise until the end.... that it's made by bloody French people. Again.

Another test, this time of vPost

2009-11-17T08:51:00.000-08:00

Franimation Again

2009-11-17T03:32:00.001-08:00

Yet more French people being good at animation. Those bastards.

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER from THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER team on Vimeo.

Email Post

2009-11-15T08:32:00.000-08:00

Just a test, folks.
Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange

Let’s pretend that Shrek never happened

2009-11-14T06:45:00.001-08:00

Let’s face it, Dreamworks haven’t exactly made a lot of great animated films. Kung Fu Panda was fantastic, but that was a rare blip in a history of ok (Monsters vs. Aliens) and terrible (the Shreks) films.

But lo! Here is a trailer for a new Dreamworks offering that not only features some nice animation and non-hideous character models, but also seems to not completely rely on dated pop-culture references.

Just a shame about the terrible voice acting of the lead character, really.

Blah Boobidy Baya

2009-11-10T15:23:00.001-08:00

Day two of Argos training: complete. Now I know the mysterious inner workings of the big place where they keep all the stuff that you buy! It’s not bad so far, pretty straightforward like. It’s a shame that it’s only for the Christmas period. I don’t think I have the will to look for another job afterwards.

That’s all I have to say really, other than that I feel really, really, really tired, and that my showreel is taking longer to finish than it really should.

Curse you Frenchies

2009-11-07T02:15:00.000-08:00

In terms of animation, and art in general, French people seem to inexplicably kick arse (look at some of the stuff coming from Gobelins…). Just look at this trailer I found – I’m assuming it’s French purely because the people involved in creating it are called things like Charles Lefebvre and Thierry River – how do they bloody do it?

BAIDIR
by slimTUGG

Bloody French people do it again

EMPLOYMENT(?)

2009-11-06T05:17:00.001-08:00

That Argos interview must have gone alright – they said they would call everyone later in the afternoon to let them know whether or no they had been successful, and sure enough, come 6:51pm, they called to say I’d got the job.

Or they would have if I hadn’t been using the toilet.

I got the voicemail message, and tried to call back (as they asked) to discuss contracts and start dates and whatnot, but couldn’t get a fucking answer.

I tried calling again this morning, again to no avail. I will try again this afternoon. But as far as I know, I am now employed. See the look of joy upon my features:

Argos Again

2009-11-05T03:52:00.001-08:00

I have another interview at Argos today.

Another?

Yes well last month they phoned me, twice, to ask me about my application, and even invited me for a group interview.

I didn’t get anywhere with this, but then yesterday they asked me to come to the big branch in the retail park for an interview.

So fingers crossed, ‘cos I really need a fucking job now.

Epic Win(dows)

2009-10-27T12:16:00.001-07:00

Kei finally went and got a new PC (that she will actually be able to get some work done on, rather than needing to use my laptop). It’s a Packard Bell quad core beast, that comes with the brand new and shiny Windows 7 (64bit).

And what can I say? Other than, it’s nice. I think someone at Microsoft sat down and finally listened to what people thought, and designed a UI that doesn’t feel like a labyrinthine insult to the end user – even if it does look like a Vista update rather than a replacement. It’s made me want to shell out £59 quid to install it on my computer now, thought I can’t find a job and the job centre have neglected to pay me any jobseeker’s allowance yet, so fuck knows how long before that’ll happen.

Sweet Jesus

2009-10-20T04:27:00.001-07:00

Anyone who knows me, knows how little respect or tolerance I have for organised religion. Christianity in particular is like a childish joke to me.

But without the story of Jesus Christ, there would have been no inspiration for this amazing animation.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… Jesus 2000.

JESUS2000 from jesus 2000 on Vimeo.

Whew

2009-10-19T08:01:00.001-07:00

Well, had my interview. Thankfully it was pretty short as interviews go, and I think I did OK.

Until I got to the door, tried to put my jacket on, and got my watch caught in a tear in the lining of my sleeve…. as I do every single time I put the damn thing on. I must have looked a right tit.

I just don’t think sometimes.

I had a chuckle when I arrived at the shop though - I had just told one employee I had an interview, when Boris, who works in the warehouse, came over to say hi. The other guy turned to me and said, “do you knows this ‘tard?”

INTERVIEW TIEM PLZ

2009-10-18T04:57:00.001-07:00

Ohhh shit I have an interview at Currys tomorrow.

Thanks in no small part to the recommendation of my friend Chris who was worked there for years now… but I’m still nervous. Look, I know I’m good for the job ok? I just happen to really suck hard at interviews.

In any case, expect to hear how it went soon. If it turns out to be another rejection, expect some drunken incoherent posts instead…

Stuff

2009-10-17T02:42:00.001-07:00

I don’t really have anything of any interest to write today, but I’ve just downloaded Windows Live Writer and am trying it out on my blogs. I know, it seems a bit redundant to have a dedicated program for writing blog posts, which you can use offline, when you need to be online to post them anyway, but it’s pretty cool. For a start it’s a lot more flexible when it comes to post editing than the standard Blogger interface, and lets you interface with multiple blogs. I’ve also been using Windows Live Mail to manage my manifold email accounts too, so I guess I’m one sep closer to becoming a total Microsoft whore (though I will never, EVER use Windows Media Player – not while it’s a hamfisted, bloated and unusable piece of crap anyway.) Writer also has a plugin which automatically creates a Twitter entry when you write a new post, which is great too.

So that’s it really. In other news, I have an interview for a job at Currys on Monday – I’m confident that I’m suited for the role. I just suck at interviews.

I’ll leave you with this image that demonstrates what happens when you leave me with a baby and a webcam:

Brief Update

2009-10-15T05:25:00.000-07:00

Just looked at that post where I said my Grandfather was ill - yeah he died in like July. Completely unfair of course; I could name about one hundred people more deserving, but there you go.

And my son was born in September, so he missed that by only a couple of months. Anyway, baby Milo is great, he's the picture of health and growing fast! His mother is recovering well, and I'm struggling with unemployment again. Only back in Wales now.

So that's it from me.

Fuck you all.

Dilapidation

2009-06-11T16:51:00.000-07:00

Wow. Looks like I've completely forgotten about this blog. Well, it's not so much that it's forgotten, just that I've been busy uploading stuff to my art blog, and so there doesn't seem to be much need to update this one. And of course I'm mostly active on DeviantART. Although I had forgotten how therepeutic it can be to just type a post full of nonsense.

So what else is new? Still working at Forbidden Planet, for the time being. Still drawing, though I really need to be animating more. My cat is trying to eat a stale chip covered in barbecue sauce. I have just discovered an awesome band called Bury Your Dead (their back catalogue turned out to be of great comfort during the hellish Tube strike over the last couple of days.

That about covers it I think. There's other stuff, but I don't feel like going into it now...

IT LIVES

2009-01-10T03:20:00.000-08:00

Doubt anyone comes here any more, but stuff has happened since the last post (of course). So, for your enjoyment, here is a dainty list of bullet points:

Saw the Mighty Boosh live, and it was good
Lost my job at doof thanks the credit crunch (now a full-blown credit crisis)
Got a Christmas job at Forbidden Planet
My grandfather fell ill, and it turned out he had a tumour in his stomach, which he is now getting chemo for
I got a contract with Orange for a Blackberry, so now my wish of emails on the move has been fulfilled
Christmas was good, and I finally watched Dark Knight (Heath Ledger sucked, by the way)
2008 became 2009
Kei and I looked at a new flat, because we gave notice to move out by the end of January
None of the Christmas temps got kept on, so now I'm unemployed
My birthday rolled around, and I got Guitar Hero 3
Now we're waiting to see if we get the flat, and I'm looking for a damned job again

I think that about covers it? There's probably more, but that covers the main events since October. Shit happens. And now, I have things to be getting on with....

Trapped in a Box by a Cockney Nut Job

2008-10-12T14:53:00.000-07:00

Okay, 18th October I'm trekking back to Caerdydd to see the Mighty Boosh. Live.

In the spirit of things, I'm dressing up as the second greatest boosh character... the Hitcher!

I already have a black coat (thanks to Kei); on the weekend I bought a spring-loaded retractable toy knife and a fake thumb (which was the base for the giant thumb in the top photo); I ordered gloves and a top hat (which I will glue polos to!) from ebay, and I'm also waiting for the boots to arrive.... I've made my solo polo peeper out of masking tape, cardboard and papier mache (see bottom shot!)

Now I'm waiting for the wig and face paint to arrive.....

p.s. This will also be my halloween costume hahahaha
p.p.s. The greatest character is of course Rudi van Disarzio, but his afro is too mighty to even begin to contemplate!

It's all coming together....

2008-10-11T16:42:00.000-07:00

Alright you bastards, I'm going to see the Mighty Boosh next Friday, and in preparation have been putting together a Hitcher costume. Today I bought toy knife (retractable), a fake thumb (needs some papier mache) and some PVA glue (needs Polos). My hat and gloves arrived today, now I'm waiting for the boots and need to find the right face paint....

Shortcomings

2008-09-26T07:50:00.000-07:00

It amazes me to see artists, who are actually a bit rubbish, getting paid to draw cartoons for publications or similar. Seriously, without trying to be egotistical, I am much better than some of these people (and by the same token there are hundreds of thousands of artists who make my work look like absolute dross). It makes me realise that I could probably achieve a lot more if I were to make the effort.

In any case, I'm still plugging away at the daily sketch thing, but I've yet to sort out all my drawings and scattered files, so the blog is a bit empty at the moment (this is a knock-on effect of the big move to London in June). I'll keep you posted.

What Felony Are You?

2008-09-22T06:54:00.000-07:00

I think you should take this test. It seems pretty accurate.

You Are Arson

No doubt about it, you have a serious destructive streak. You can't help it!

Sometimes you just get so frustrated with the world, and you have to let your aggression out

You have a notoriously bad temper. You are obsessed with getting your revenge.

You are obviously a pyromaniac, whether you realize it or not. It feels great to watch something burn.

What Felony Are You?

Still Here - Now With Added Employment!

2008-09-12T04:33:00.000-07:00

In case anyone actually comes by here anymore, I'm still alive! Nowadays I mainly use my other blog, for all my artwork and animation, which actually helped me land a job as a Flash game artist designer at Doof! It's a Flash social gaming website, so if that sounds like your kind of thing, click the link and take a look!

Here's me hard at work:

Them's the Breaks

2008-06-03T14:27:00.000-07:00

Things have progressed since my last post. I did indeed travel to London on my broken foot. Yes, last time I said I had broken my toe, but I've since seen the X-rays and it's a fracture on the fifth bone of my foot, right at the base, so really it's my foot thats broken (hence the stupid cast). More on that later though.

So on Saturday, the four of us went to meet our landlady, sign some contracts, and hand over ridiculous sums of cash. Or rather, Kei and Allyn did, seeing as Alicia and I are skint. In any case, we now have the flat! Romana - the landlady that is - and her husband explained all the boring bits about heating, showed us the post box, handed over the keys and fucked off. All we have to do now, for the time being, is decide what lovely cheap furniture we're going to get from Ikea (we also have to set up Direct Debits, arrange internet access and telephone lines and all that business, but that can wait!)

It was absolutely crippling, though. Due to the stupid half-cast thing on my foot, I couldn't put any weight on it, leaving my to lurch from tube stop to tube stop on a pair of crutches that were mangling my hands - probably because I'm to fat to support my weight on a pair of plastic handles.

I'm alright now though! I went to the hospital today and had that cast taken off, and now I have a metatarsal slipper. This is basically a small open-toed cast with a rubber sandal, so now I can walk on my foot but I look like even more of a tit than before! At least it will be easier to get round London this Saturday to go furniture shopping....

A Visit From the Broken Foot Fairy...

2008-05-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

As I may or may not have mentioned, I've been looking for a flat in London, to share with my fiance and a couple of friends. Whilst in London last weekend, looking at some places, I managed to break my toe. I was running to catch up with Kei and Allyn, and twisted my ankle. Or so I thought. After a visit to the hospital last night, X-rays revealed a fracture in the base of my little toe, and I was given a semi-cast type of thing. See how fucking ridiculous that looks? This happens to be the first bone I have broken. Ever.

In any case, the flat we are having is very nice. Look how nice it is. Want to see some more photos of it?

Job Satisfaction (2006)

2008-05-07T13:29:00.000-07:00

My second year film. Still haven't figured out why Youtube throws my sound out of synch.

Beowolf: A Throbbing Piece of Shit

2008-04-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

For anyone who hasn't seen Beowolf yet, don't. I only recently saw it, and I have to say that it sucks cock. If you did see it, and enjoyed it, fuck you: you have shit in your eyes.

Also, if you're wondering how they came up with the idea to design Grendel as a dorky looking deformed retard, I've worked out the equation:

Domnique Pinon + Keith Richards=

+ =

Grendel!

365 Days of Sketch

2008-04-24T01:56:00.000-07:00

I've just joined in with this Project 365 thing... basically, I'm drawing an posting one sketch a day, every day, for a year. I'm on day 4 now; keep up with the action on my Sketch 365 blog.

New... Kind Of

2008-04-16T03:55:00.000-07:00

Another comic?! What??
Well, I actually started this one last year. Only I didn't finish it until yesterday, and now it's up!

New!

2008-04-14T04:13:00.000-07:00

That's right bitches, Brutal Comics is back in action! I strongly advise you to sample its metal flavours right now!

Safety Pin Scorpion

2008-04-01T06:33:00.000-07:00

I love receiving packages in the post. Yesterday I got my second ever package from the good ol' Yew Ess of Ay.

What was in it though? Well several months ago there was a competition on Bent Objects: write the best limerick about the Safety Pin Scorpion that Terry had made, and win it. I entered and guess what? I won (that must make twice in my life now)!

Not only did Terry send me the Scorpion - complete whith tiny plastic bubble which also contained a tiny replica hundred dollar note - but he included a packet of Circus Peanuts, what he describes as "Crap American candy"!

So I'm feeling very lucky today, even if it is April 1st (hahaha no one fooled me yet!). Click on the pictures to see more, or click here to go to be severely impressed!

Aliens, Robots and... Seals? OH MY!

2008-03-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

Hurrah, another contest entry!

This time it's for a contest being held by Wildwillowoods on DeviantART. The contest is called Aliens, Robots and... Seals> OH MY! Here's the rules:

"There are three topics ^_^ for triple the fun!

1. Aliens who like ice-cream
2. Robots who like to roller skate
3. Seals who like to shave
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The goal is to convey the statement in a clear but creative way.

You may combine the topics into one pic.

You may make a pic. For each topic (but you may not win more than one prize)"

Guess which one I went for?

Free Sketches?

2008-03-10T04:40:00.001-07:00

I'm doing this thing on DeviantART where ten people can get a free sketch from me. Yusecki was one of the first to tell me what she wanted: a swamp dragon (it's a Discworld thing). So here he is!

Sketching Again...

2008-03-06T03:33:00.000-08:00

After the all-colour blow out of the last post, I though I'd put up something that I prefer - sketches. I don't mind doing full-blown inked and colured stuff, but I find that I tend to kill the drawing in doing so; my real strength lies in loose, quick drawings, that capture some kind of energy and immediacy. Well, I think that's the case anyway.

This one was done when I was at Imagimax in Thailand. They wanted us to do some concept art, taking a set of characters from Thai mythology and redesign them for a video game. This is one of the sketches I did of a Garuda.

This next one is just a sketch of a character I've been drawing on and off for a couple of years, and which I'm still trying to develop. This one's okay, but I think I'd prefer a looser, more 'cartoony' style.

What do you think?

That's Super, Man

2008-03-03T15:28:00.001-08:00

Freakish

2008-02-20T17:53:00.000-08:00

See that Feedjit thing over there on the right? It tells me what website people have come here from - usually Google. When I click on the links, it turns out that people most often find my blog by searching for "Lego Terminator" or "Mighty Boosh tattoo". Fair enough, these thing exist on my blog. Slightly more worrying, though, is the fact that someone found my blog by searching for 'little red riding hood porn'... perhaps stranger still is that one person searched for me by name: '"ash collins" bass'.

Quite bizarre...

Speaking of bizarre, look at this video of Phill's cat!

Phill's Freaky Feline from wesleyriot on Vimeo.

Continuing to Exist

2008-01-26T07:37:00.000-08:00

I'm still here! I've been too busy in Bangkok ti carry on blogging here, but I am still going on my Tumblr blog (it's easier to update), plus I've got a Bangkok blog, although I'm way behind on putting stuff up there!

If you fancy, check out some photos from Thailand on my Flickr page:

Christmas

2007-12-24T06:56:00.000-08:00

Yeah, Merry Christmas everyone. I know I'm particularly Non-Theistic, but I do enjoy Christmas as an excuse to give/get gifts and generally get pissed. As I've mentioned, I already got the main gift I wanted (th new phone), but I'm just happy that I managed to find everyone a gift. Tomorrow I'll be visiting the disparate elements of my family with my fiance, and eating two (count 'em, TWO) dinners. I hope everyone else has such a jolly time!

And yeah, I have no new art to share. Apart from this picture I drew a while ago: Caron asked me to draw her a robot cow (I won't go into it....)

See y'all on the other side of Crimbo!

Spiders & Monsters

2007-12-07T18:05:00.000-08:00

First, an accidental Spider-Man sketch (I was trying to draw something else at the time!):

Also, while digging around me hard drive, I found and finished off these neon monstrosities:

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

2007-12-05T07:08:00.000-08:00

Look, real artwork, as promised:

This is an entry for the Kincat club on DeviantART, a new club formed by my fiance and my friend. This month's theme is 'Joy'...

I'm also thinking of giving this blog over to purely artistic pursuits; create an online portfolio of sorts, perhaps. Wordpress looks pretty tidy, maybe I'll use that to vent my garbage everywhere.

Flick It

2007-12-04T08:18:00.001-08:00

I finally succumbed and got a Flickr account, which is probably a mistake considering that looking at all of Huw's photos has got me hankering after a new camera again. At the moment, my account only has pics from my Sony Ericsson. Like this:

I swear, my next post will have some actual artwork on it. Honestly.

Holy Jesus Day!

2007-12-03T03:49:00.000-08:00

Yeah, it's December, meaning that Christmas is hiding round the corner and is ready to jump out on me when I haven't finished my Christmas shopping. Arse.

As you can see, I'm well aware of how long is left until C-day thanks to my kickass Doctor Who Cyberman advent calendar. Not only does it contain bits of chocolate with Daleks and TARDISs and shit on, it has a number of "surprises" too (I'm guessing crap Dalek toys).

As far as gifts go, I've already had two; money for my passport from Mam, and my snazzy Sony Ericsson K550i from the eternally lovely Kei (which I've been using for photos lately). Yes I am spoiled! I asked my Dad to get me a M2 memory card for me phone, as 64mb just aint enough.

Back in the real world, the last two days of SAND were quite cool. Thursday belonged to Studio AKA, who blew me away with work like Love Paintballing. Love those guys. Friday I arrived late (and missed a talk about porn in anime, boo) but arrived in time to hear a talk about reflections and stuff in Ratatouille, which was quite boring. My interest was saved when Shelley Page from Dreamworks turned up and showed us a bunch of her favourite shorts; some good, some a bit arse. The best by far, however, was (unsurprisingly) a film from Gobelins called Okatapodi. I'll get a link to the actual film as soon as they put it online!

Also, Iwent back to Alicia's to get my tattoo coloured in (whilst actually watching the Mighty Boosh!) - it would have been finished, but I had to leave to catch the last train....

Monstrous

2007-11-27T05:32:00.000-08:00

Well I'm Hooked

2007-11-26T14:27:00.000-08:00

Anyone who glances at my Twitter box over on the right there will see
that I attended animation acting workshop by Ed Hooks at SAND. I'm too tired to write up the experience now, but I will say that he was smart, enthusiastic and above all funny - all key factors in good teaching. Expect a full update tomorrow; in the meantime have a look at the picture of him that I plucked from the internet.

Also, have some art:

Before I forget, here's a photo of my new (unfinished) Mighty Boosh tattoo, as inked by Hunchcat!

Mmmmm..... Cheeseburger

2007-11-21T07:40:00.000-08:00

The only drawing I've done lately is character development doodles for work; and I haven't scanned them yet so I bring you this:

Yes, I've been playing with the Lolcat builder, using pictures of my cat, at I Can Has Cheez Burger. For most of today. To be fair though, I've had a lot of downtime, as I've been waiting to see Robin Lyons at Calon to get some feedback for our storyboards.

If I'm lucky, (and a good boy) Kei might be getting me a new phone for Christmas. It's a Sony Ericsson k550i, and I wants it. I think it will be handy for taking pictures and blogging when we go to Bangkok in January.

Also, I've been using Firefox a lot lately.
It's only because it's the default browser for EVERYTHING on my work PC, and I haven't been able to figure out how to change it. Although I've come around to it a bit more now that I've discovered how easily I can download and install new themes and add-ons. Really though, Internet Explorer does the same as Firefox... but better.

The Boosh is BACK!

2007-11-16T06:18:00.000-08:00

Is everyone aware that series 3 of The Mighty Boosh started last night? Once again it returns to BBC3..... at 10:30 in the night. Seriously, you'd think with the gargantuan fanbase the programme has acquired, it would get a better slot!

Anyway, I'm pleased to say, it's awesome. Howard, Vince, Naboo and Bollo return, this time working in Naboo's shop, Nabootique (how very lol). In this episode, Naboo and Bollo bugger off on a stag weekend, leaving Howard and Vince to run the shop....

The best way to describe this is "the same, but different". It's the same mix of surreal humour and ridiculous songs, outlandish costumes and rubbish props, but judging by the little bits of crap CG creeping in, they've been given a bigger budget to work with. There are some well-loved secondary characters that return, as well as old faces in new guises. In short, it's the best thing since teflon elbow patches, and EVRYONE needs to see it. If you missed it, there's a repeat on Sunday at some point. If you miss THAT, I suggest that you use the intrawebz to illegally download it (NOTE: I do not endorse illegally downloading shit).

In more artistic news, here's a Flash picture what I done. The original sketch was done by Liquid-Genius on DeviantART, and he asked me to ink it. I drew the whole thing using the straight line tool, and am quit happy with the results.

More Robotzzzzzzz

2007-11-14T06:03:00.000-08:00

This seems to be all I can draw lately. It's not too bad though, lets me work on poses and such.

Bangkok is coming closer..... we're heading off on January the 11th, and yesterday I got a suitcase and my combined Typhoid and Hepatitis A shots (I'm happy to say, no ill effects.... so far).

Othwerwise, I'm so annoyed. In August I took a letter from Cyfle to my local council, and asked would we have to pay council tax, or pay less (seeing as this is a training scheme and not a fully paid job). They had no idea, said they would look into it, and shortly sent us letters saying that our property was exempt from tax until 2008. In October we got a letter asking for proof that there were students living in the house in order to claim tax exemption; a little strange considering we'd already been told that we were exempt. I went back to the council, and some blonde bitch had a poke round, called somone up, and now we're supposed to be getting different forms to fill in; these will apparently 'disregard' us from the tax stuff, but will still make us pay something on the house. WHICH IS RETARDED.

On top of all that, my bank is an arse. If you have a Student account, you can automatically have a Graduate account when you graduate. I never had a student account, so I asked if I could get a graduate one anyway. Sure, they said, just bring in your graduation certificate. So I did. Now some other person tells me that since I did not have a student account, I need the certificate AND proof that I have a job. Unsurprising, really, given the amount of utter crap I've had to put up with from this bank before.

Licensed to Sketch

2007-11-11T13:57:00.000-08:00

The latest craze on DeviantART, and you can thank Stixman for that!

Starvation

2007-11-10T14:44:00.000-08:00

Next item on the list. All done in Photoshop. It's not very good...... but then I need the practice don't I? So there.

For Sale....

2007-11-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

Basically I want to sell my old bass guitar. It's a black Tanglewood rebel 4-string, fairly good condition, active pickups. I don't need it as I have a Cruiser 5-string.
I shall post photos of it when I get home. Anyone interested?

In the meantime, got all inspired last night and drew this:

Mobility

2007-11-08T03:47:00.001-08:00

Here are some photos I managed to get off my mobile phone last night, shortly before my computer suddenly decided that the phone didn't exist anymore....

Back with the Drawz

2007-11-04T17:25:00.000-08:00

I've been snowed under with work stuff lately, and haven't had time to do any nice drawings. Well that didn't stop me fucking out bunches of sketches, some of which are here. These are of a character I designed when I was about 16, and have been developing since; unfortunately it now bears a striking resemblance to someone from Ben 10. Shit.

Anyhow, went out twice for Hallowe'en this year, once as the Doctor and once as Eddie from Bottom (with my friend Allyn as Richie), while Kei made it as Little Red Riding Hood and the Queen of Hearts respectively. Much drinking ensued! And photos will soon follow.....

In the meantime, click below to see an Hilarious .gif!

A Monster For Terry

2007-10-22T08:27:00.000-07:00

Just a quick sketch today. This is for a little competition that Terry is doing. Basically the details are thus: "Draw a portrait of this....thing: (head n shoulders), based on the following words:Alien, monster,skull, evil, ears, teeth, smile."

Lego Terminator

2007-10-17T02:56:00.000-07:00

Found this on the interwebz today, and it's fucking awesome:

Go here to see more of it

Breathe Again

2007-10-15T06:51:00.000-07:00

Yo yo.
Another thingy for the list on DA:

Below is the original inked image, along with another version I was going to use:

Tradez

2007-10-09T13:54:00.001-07:00

This one is for my darling Kei; it's a picture of her character Cole, with an iguana that I have chosen to name Fred. Yet another art trade on DeviantART, i started it at around 11 this morning and got it finished by 5. Phew! That was hard going. And this is between finding out more from the company about our impending trip to an animation studio in Thailand, as well as trying some of their computer games.

Keeping the Juices Flowing

2007-10-08T08:14:00.000-07:00

I'm excited because I've ordered a US import version of Phantom Hourglass, which should not only arrive before the game is released in this country, but was also a whole £10 cheaper; but i'm also quite anxious about it becasue there are apparently Royal Mail strikes going on this week =(

Anyhow, here's some art:

This here's a piece I did for an art jam on DeviantART, to draw yourself as a zombie (accompanied by some development sketches).

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And this here's a pic of good old Cosmo, done for an art trade with Chip14 on DA. And some sketches, of course.

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Ripping Piss In Colour

2007-10-04T03:02:00.000-07:00

Coloured version of Ben Gets the Piss Ripped Out of Him. Enjoy!

Also, this review of Halo 3 was shown to me by someone on DeviantART. Take that, fucking Halo fanboys!

Rad Savij Inks

2007-09-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

A Stormy Number 50

2007-09-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

Yet another item from the list: "In The Storm". Done with inks, I'm trying to get back into it and this time actually get good!! Oh yeah, and this is the 50th psot on my blog, so I waited to upload something good rather than just random doodles!

See below for more random sketchness (just to get the juices going)...

Ben Gets The Piss Ripped Out Of Him

2007-09-13T02:25:00.000-07:00

And so does Evs!!

Coping

2007-09-11T04:53:00.000-07:00

Claire came over last night to drop off a software CD that Phill made for us, and she drove us to get a takeway. I rather foolishly had a kebab and was up at 2am screaming my guts into the toilet. Thanks Claire.

I just found a picture I did when I started at Cyfle, and I couldn't use the Wacom because it was configured to dual monitors. I've fixed it now, but compared to my one at home it's still crap!

This un's a pic I did a while ago for the 100 list I'm doing on DeviantArt, under the title "Dying".

Moving on, Tomato Dragon is holding a competition on DeviantArt to draw his Tomato Dragon charcacter as a supehero/villain. My entry is the Hellboy one, but I couldn't resist doing Spider-Man as well!

Guerilla Death Lizard

2007-09-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

A recreation of a character I drew in my foundation year at uni, but which my idiot tutors threw away.

THIS ISN'T SPARTA!!!!!

2007-09-05T15:34:00.000-07:00

My entry for AngelCrusher's competition on Deviantart...

Kei's Cats Ink

2007-09-05T08:46:00.001-07:00

The inks for a picture I did for my fiance before I ruined it with colour.....

Colonel Emo Trousers

2007-09-03T16:00:00.000-07:00

Stupid emo kids with your skinny jeans

YOU LOOK LIKE GODDAMNED EEJUTS.

Sketchizz

2007-09-03T03:27:00.000-07:00

Look, I can still draw proper! Lately all I've been doing is Flash scrawlings, so I recently got a new non-full sketch book and did doodles on the train.

The List Continues

2007-08-29T15:25:00.000-07:00

I've finally hit 30 out of the 100 list on DeviantArt. Well, I'm at 31 now. I started off and did like 10 in the first week, but lately I've been so busy with Maya and what not that i just ain't got the time. Anyhow here's one of the drawings. You know what, tomorrow I'm gonna put up some actual rough sketchy junk. Oh yes. I'm also quite excited about going out for Claire's birthday on saturday - even if it means I have to go out and buy proper shoes to wear to fucking gay dance clubs like a huge SQUARE. Hopefully I'll find some shit-kickin' boots.

Here's a Robot I drew for an art trade with Chip14:

The Dorks Behind Penny Arcade

2007-08-28T08:55:00.000-07:00

This is an awesome article about what goes on behind the closed doors at the Penny Arcade office. If you don't know what Penny Arcade is, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK CLICK THE LINK!!!

Penny Arcade is the greatest of all webcomics (in my humble opinion), and it's fantastic that these guys make a living off the back of this geeky comic about videogames. not only is the comic so consistently funny, it is probably the single biggest influence on my artork. So massive respect to Gabe and Tycho, and long may their empire continue to reign.

AngelCrusher Again

2007-08-27T16:42:00.000-07:00

AngelCrusher

2007-08-26T18:15:00.000-07:00

A picture I did for Leigh of his charcter Angel Crusher.

White Noise

2007-08-23T06:48:00.000-07:00

I guess I like the cleaner versions better!

Tattoo

2007-08-23T04:41:00.001-07:00

So I had my tatto done on in March this year, but I only recently took a picture of the finished colour. Enjoy!

Are You Challenging Me?

2007-08-23T02:48:00.000-07:00

So here's the latest picture for my 100 Drawings challenge on Deviant Art. The guy on the left is my dear friend/Pokemon trainer Allyn.

More From the List

2007-08-12T13:01:00.000-07:00

Hundreds O' Things

2007-08-06T01:30:00.000-07:00

On Deviantart there's this thing going around where you have this list of 100 words/suggestions, and you have to do a picture for each one. I've recently got on the bandwagon, and because I've been using Flash managed to do 10 in two days. Here's one of my favourites.

Take That Allyn!

2007-08-03T06:31:00.000-07:00

And this is why!

Showreel 2007

2007-07-30T14:53:00.002-07:00

Digital Storytelling

2007-07-30T14:53:00.001-07:00

Eisteddfod Animation: Part1

2007-07-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

Digital Storytelling: The Shredder

2007-07-30T14:51:00.000-07:00

Pierced

2007-07-23T01:33:00.000-07:00

So yeah, I've been wanting to get my lip pierced for a couple of years, but I couldn't becasue I was working at Tesco, and Tesco suck and won't let you have cool piercings. So now that I've quit, I went ahead and treated myself!

The Graduate

2007-07-19T06:16:00.001-07:00

Check my bad self: yesterday I graduated in BA Animation. I got a 2(i).

HARHARHAR

2007-07-10T05:25:00.000-07:00

Go on this site, it r00lz!

Don't Fuck With The Spetsnaz

2007-07-05T04:27:00.001-07:00

Russian martial art: brutal.