tezoar illustration

well I’m pretty tired just now, I’m gonna listen to some of that good ole haddock ska while I write this post then I’ll crash. Deal? DEAL!

First, new stuff: this is the initial sketch for a new tattoo design (not for me this time), which will probably have to be re-jigged owing to my drawing pad springing a leak - it was the weirdest damn thing, I used this pad for inking a couple of months back and it was fine, I ink the spacegirl and it felt like I was using a sponge. But anyway, here she is:

I’m not sure if the gun is phallic enough for that 50’s vibe, we’ll wait and see… In other news, I have ballsed up, already joined the amazing Kate Beaton’s new supergroup livejournal community thing it is time for history, which could be a good place for me to make stuff up off the top of my head and see who falls for it. Was that last bit meant to be struck through? Guess not! For the terminally lazy my comic-based contribution is right here:

Okay that was the new stuff, here is some of the old stuff:

this is the real reason they outlawed hobnobs at sea. I’ve been looking for the sketchpad these drawings are in for *months* now, it’s been so long I have absolutely no idea what the hell was meant to be going on here:

best suggestion wins a prize*. Next up, yes I know this is a slightly bloated post but there’s just one more then you can go, I promise:

Am I going to hell yet? YES! This cartoon was brought to you by people who think other people should just shut the hell up sometimes

*Prize may not be very prized.

- well it looks like this will be my last post for maybe a couple of weeks on account of me moving to Edinburgh, but to make up for it there are pictures. Starting with:

I gots more tattoo! It needs one more sitting to put the colour in and then it’s done - anybody know a good Edinburgh tattoo shop?

I have also recently found an art shop that does more than just black printing ink. ‘ve tried a bunch of other ways to get round the just-black-ink problem, but they all died horribly cause of being too thick or thin to print with. This, though, is much more promising:

Ooh it’s getting late and I have been busy, hopefully once the move’s done and everything’s re-connected (I have a nasty suspicion I should have arranged way more stuff than I have so far) I can get back to writing coherent posts. For now though, there’s SPUGBOT:

One last thing while I remember, sorry Tony but I have discovered your secret. Take this photo:

Just a scene from a normal flat party yeah? Tony is the guy in the middle. Look closer:

VAMPIRE!

- Here’s what I was on about yesterday, some character drawings from a project I’m working on:

some of these people may or may not be cannon fodder…

- Twenty-seven in a series of wrong:

As well as this one, who I saw in a dream one night. The main focus of the dream was that, if I was lucky, I might wake up before this little bastard gutted me. Lovely eh? For some reason, he always appeared front on. Probably because that’s the best angle for gutting people, I don’t know. Here he is:

It’s always the last one you’d expect that tries to gut you eh?

- I think it was half past four this morning when I drew this, sleep’s been happening later and later for a week now and it’s finally caught up with me, I didn’t feel tired till about five minutes before I got up again… but anyways, I’m off to pour more coffee in my eyes, here’s today’s sketch:

I’ll be back tomorrow or so with some tattoo sketches again. I think. The way things are going so far I might end up sitting awake all night again, drawing pandas having a dance-off with some hippos or something

again…

- This is stretchhead. I don’t know what happened to his eyeballs, but he probably won’t be around for long so you shouldn’t worry:

And here’s the pencils:

The trees just didn’t loom enough, they had to go…

This one here sums up how things are going right now:

I think that turned out okay:

this morning’s sketchiness:

brother and sister character sketch, I’d been trying to make him a jock but it kept on coming out a bit anonymous… I’m gonna ink this one I think, I’ll put it up later on.