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.

- I got a day off! Yesssssss! I’ve successfully managed to do pretty much nothing so far as well, other than this piece of monsterness for  this competition from Order of Tales, which is the shiny new project from Evan Dahm who does Rice Boy

this is what I reckon somebody called Warlord Shureg should look like. I would guess his grasp of social skills is tenuous at best, but who cares about that when your favourite hobby is impaling people in the gizzard*?

*if gizzards are unavailable he has been known to club his differently-specied subjects to death with a passing folk singer

- Well with absolutely no thanks to BT I’m except-for-random-disconnectings back online! From Edinburrrrrrr! Due to spending about a gazillion hours waiting for buses each day last week before I figured out what the good ones are, I didn’t get as much drawing done as I wanted, but I’ve comandeered the kitchen table till I figure out where the hell I can squeeze a drawing desk, and I got a few smaller pieces done:

The whale will be relevant for a really stupid idea I had last week, I’m gonna see if I can get a comic out of it before I do any more postings on the subject, nurr nurr! Next!

If you can come up with a suitably idiotic caption for this one I’ll send you something dumb in the post. It’s a genius plan! More stuffs:

And inked:

Okay that’s enough, I’ll post more stuffs later this week - I’m currently working nine days out of ten but this weekend is a bit more relaxed so I should be good for some proper work, and I should be able to get my internets fitted through some wires instead of this blatantly doesn’t-work-in-a-tenement wireless shite. But anyways, I’ll see you suckers then

the walrus is getting interrupted and so is everything else - I’ll be offline till the 28th at least it would seem, I’ll see you all then hopefully…

- 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!

- well to tell you the truth there are no buns in space, but I did try some more drawings for the kids today:

I could really do with a bacon roll right now. No particular reason, I just have a strange yearning for sliced pig.

- I’ve had a practice at customising shoes, which is just another way to say I found something new to cover in paint:

I also has more tattoo! I’ll get a photo up in the next couple of days when it stops being so crusty…

coconut must FEED!

- as I think I mentioned in the last post, I get to draw stuff to keep the kids from tearing too much shit up. This weekend: dinosaur eggs!

I had a sharpie that I stole adopted, but it was not to be and it vanished in the night. Which is why these are done in permanent marker, a surprisingly unsuitable pen for anything other than writing on people with…

- I had the first sitting for the tattoo just there:

Two or three more sittings to go, aw yeah! I can’t believe how fecking itchy it is… but never mind that, I saw this today on a main road and it made me smile:

I’ve started drawing at work as well, which is ace cause it’s for kids’ storytime so I get to just muck about with a sharpie then the kids (and whoever’s in the staffroom later) get to colour them in:

there’s some more I’ll post as soon as I can track them down. This one here, however, has precisely nothing to do with kids’ storytime because wild haggis can be hella dangerous. He might look all helpless and jiggly but he’ll rub skittles in your eyes till all you can see is food colouring: