I got around to finishing something! Action shot:

and this is the result:

I’m liking these shopping bags, it’s a temptingly huge print area to play with. If anybody’s interested in one, you can see the other colours here:

So that’s the difference between daylight and my desk lamp, eh? Cross my palm with five shiny pounds and one of those tasty bags will be yours, complete with your choice of lino cut. It’s a win-win deal!

BREAKING NEWS:

I love Oompa Loompa season.

I’ve got to tell you, the last couple of weeks haven’t been so good on the drawing front. The dayjob’s been getting me more worn out than I’m used to, and I’ve just come off a set of early early shifts that would have left me plenty of time for drawing if they hadn’t also turned my brain to mush. Well, I’ve just got my first decent amount of time off since March and I’m using it to go on my holidays. I’ll be back in a week, with any luck my brain will have had a chance to un-mush and I can get back to the stupidly long to-do list I’ve built up. Till then, here’s a couple of sketches and work-in-progress hints as to the things I’m halfway through just now, as well as what’s been happening in general:

First thing that’s happened is my boots have died. Big deal, yes? Yes! They were about four or five years old, with nice hard toes for the many times a day I drop heavy things on my feet. I’d even managed to stop them smelling too much like there was something dead in there, and then the soles go and crack on me. I can put up with a lot, but boots that squeak like somebody’s squeezing a hamster with every step just have to go. RIP boots, you were awesome. Next up:

These pictures are all from my camera, on account of my scanner getting really shy all of a sudden. Now here, I’ve been mucking about with Zombie Kitty, there’s gonna be some news about the miniature bastard soon. Next!

Drawn watching an old Hitchcock film the other night. Lastly!

I probably shouldn’t have watched Batman Begins in quite that state of mind…

See you all in a week!

No scribbles today, seeing as I don’t have any projects anywhere near the stage where I can show you things. Instead, here’s a couple of photos to show how much of a mess I make of this place on a regular basis:

Printing up some t-shirts last week.

Oil paint spatter. This stuff is invincible.

You might remember that right before I moved to Edinburgh I got a big (by my standards) upper arm tattoo. Well it only took me two years but I got it coloured in today:

Woo howdy!* The colour is Monthly Red, I’ll let you make your own minds up over that name. I’ll try and get better photos tomorrow, it’s not easy taking a decent photo of your own shoulder…

I’m still making that lino feel very sorry for itself, here’s an action shot as I forget what exactly I’m meant to be doing:

There’ll be another update later when I’ve gotten everything all inky.

As part of a shuffle towards being more of a respectable artist (whatever that looks like), I’m going to start using my real name on the internet. So, here’s my first post as Ryan S. Thomason:

I’ve been cutting lino today. I’m really pleased, so far, with the one I finished:

I’ll be printing this tomorrow, come back and check it out.

This is from my last day off, where it looks like somebody’s trying to hide Edinburgh…

This pretty much sums up my weekend:

There’s no drawing for you today. Why? Take a look:

Normal service continues with Zombie Kitty tomorrow. I need to find a pin…

Looks like I survived the weekend there. I seem to have forgotten to post anything on Friday though, so here’s something from my Christmas TV binge:

Oh and this is me today:

Zombie Kitty tomorrow, yes?