Still Here - Now With Added Employment!

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

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...

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)

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

Beowolf: A Throbbing Piece of Shit

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

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

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!

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

Safety Pin Scorpion

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!

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?

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...

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

Freakish

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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....