Idea's they do so a flow some ....

Working on a new tattoo idea, I don't ever draw animals so this is a First for me. Gonna try a couple of different things with it but the main idea was a stag with tentacles ...

Its Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

It's been awfully quite from me, sorry about that, working in retail, Christmas is the only time you get really to make extra money ... by working shit loads, which is what I've been doing. Currently my brain is overloaded with idea's that I will be starting come the new year, so hopefully you'll all be patient and get ready to Have. Your. Mind. Blown ... in 2013. Peace and Love for your holiday season.

Everytime .....

Weezer + The Muppets

=

Smiles

Everrrrrrrrrrry Time

Inked ....

A friend of mine asked me to design a tattoo for her, 

So I did,

And there it is,

On her skin ... Forever

Tattoo Artist kinda wimped out on thickness though

Oh well

Cool Story Bro?

Its here ....

So there it is, my first print, ever. I had a few made, it's little story about a guy and his broken heart and saying sorry when it's too late ... better Late then never right? Right??? Its only a dinky little one but work on my next book has already begun. To begin with i was going to sell these for a couple of £££ with the profits going towards charity but then that felt a little like I was doing this ...

... So for now, Im making a plan, I hate selling my work. Not sure why. Just always have, I was recently offered money for a print of mine ... I just gave them the original. I think if I ever got paid for doing this sort of shit, it'd become a job and then it'll become a pressure. Sure that may be a bleak way of looking at it but I'd rather work a crappy job 40 hours a week to fund doing what I love with the rest of my week. I will keep posted on what happens, if anyone even reads this now I've gotten rid of Facebook from my life ... That is another blog for another day though. Love, peace and respect

Ghosts ....

Its 5.30am, and like everyday for the last six weeks I've woken at 5.11am. You see I have a ghost, not a cool kind either. If I had a old woman that at the same time every morning shook her coin purse ... not a enthusiasm ... or some other fright educing action I could live with that. I would 6th Sense her ass, solve her eternal struggle and close my squinty small eyes and sleep. But alas, this is not one of those ghosts. This is a spiritual ghost bound to me, you see at this exact time a little over six weeks ago, I fucked up, and I saw someone leave my life and never return, I knew the exact time because what else could I do but stare into the abyss of time and nurse every dark and flailing thought I had.

So why wake me everyday? Working nights the last week I thought had solved it but it seems not, well I don't have answers. Perhaps if I wake myself everyday at the same time I can train my mind to travel to different days and I can find myself where I need to be to save myself like a 90's television sci-fi? Perhaps ... More likely, I'm not ready to move on, I know it but am to scared to admit because the scary truth is, where do we move on too? History has a habit of not staying in the past, she likes to repeat.

How many goodbyes do I need to say before the only thing I get to say is 'Hi, welcome back, take a seat, keep warm and let us never say goodbye'

Being that it is 5.46am now, I can probably sleep again, thanks internet for being the only person I know that will listen to me in the cold, cold hours. As long as I can afford my bills you'll be my lover

Some Hipster Shit ....

A new phone means new things to pass the time while I'm on my break at 2am in the Morning, so rather than update facebook and twitter I use Instagram to keep my thoughts physical before they disappear into nothingness. I know its a very hipster thing to do but I don't mind Hipster's, except when they are being hipsters ....

A little bit of me ...

Just a self portrait, based the image on a drawing in a X-men comic. Done in pencil then Ink. With a pinch of soul

A little piece of Mel ....

Used Front magazine and Future Wife Model Mellisa Clarke as the basis for this idea, was told it'd be a good idea to tweet her it as she is lovely and may well appreciate it, which she did. Needless to say it made my day ... year ... life? No not life, that's a little extreme ... decade? Yeah Decade

Breaking Ink ....

Walter White of Breaking Bad, Just another quick Ink, I'm finding my form as I literally used to hate using brushes, they always felt so detached from me, its seems detachment is what I need in my life right now. Who'd of funk it???

Na Na Na Na Na Na Naa ....

Batman mode for halloween .... all original work by me done with pencil and ink, Batman first, Bane second, I felt I could mix Bane's comic persona with Chris Nolan's realism but it didn't work so well and is my least favourite of the three. And of course The joker. Hope you like

Pictures and words .....

So Today i made a picture book, I just need a cover image but 12 hours of straight work and I am spent. It's an idea that has been in my head for months but decided if I didn't do it today, when would I? So I did some doodling, scanning and typing and now it's complete ... perhaps I will get a couple of them printed ... perhaps no-one will ever see it. Lets leave the cards on the table

I'm still alive ....

Im still alive, am currently sitting on 666 page views but still don't have anyway of uploading any of my work onto the blog site, actually have a stack of black ink paintings ( my new love ) and an actually collaborated project coming up that is so hilarious you will laugh your pubes off, pinky promise. Will sort out some device soon, got paid for the first time in six weeks today. boom.

Challenges .....

So at the moment I don't have a camera, my scanner is on the blink and my fancy pants phone is gone. So this blog has turned more into a personal diary at the moment, but I'm OK with this because it will pass. It appears I have met my Everest , from the ground it looks like I am almost at the peak but from way up here, the oxygen is getting thin, sometimes it is hard to breath, it's cold and it gets lonely. My walkie-talkie will crackle every now and again with comfort but for a lot of the time it might as well be off. The view from here is beautiful but only intensifies the fear. I can see the peak and I will keep climbing. Frostbite around my eyes and a chill down my spine that never dies. If i had wings I still wouldn't fly this is a journey I must take ... for when I get to the top and place my flag I will have completed redemption, closure and acceptance. I hear that the journey back down is a pain in the ass too but I know I packed enough supplies to see me through and my reception will only get better the closer to level ground I go ....

Now put that shit in your metaphorical pipe and smoke it HARD!!!!!!

A little break ...

Im going to be spending some time with family and friends so wont have much time at home so this Blog will more than likely be quiet for a week , probably less though but i will leave you this....




Doesn't that just look awesome, I think it i had to scrape my pennies together and buy either this or the new bioshock i just wouldn't know what to do ....




Until next time ....

Home Made Art Box ...

Today's little project, something to carry my sketchbook and pens around in, didn't turn out as pretty as i imagined but I've never really worked with Duct tape before. It was a crappy little box my printer instructions came in so I made it stronger, will probably put some kind of button lock on it at some point but the smell of Poundland duct tape has made me whoosey

It's a Living ....

Forever, forever, forever, forever, forever ....

But doe's it make it worth living for? There seems to be this belief with most the people I know that you hate your job and you deal with it. I guess my problem has always been that I question that notion. Why? Why must we be content spending 40+ hours a week doing something I hate. Not dislike. Hate. I've settled to the fact it is going to take me a long ass time to find a job I love but to pay the bills, grab a cheeky take-away twice a month and occasionally branch outside of window shopping and sometimes actually do some shopping I'm more than happy to settle for a job I like. Liking something at this point in my life is a massive bonus in any situation. So right now I'm focusing on myself, getting a new job, getting better at this blogging thing and not being haunted by a moustached mouth telling me it's gonna be this way .....

FOREVER

FOREVER

FOREVER

FOREVER

FOREVER

A little Mountain Music ...

'Never Quite Free' from 'The Mountain Goats' album 'All Eternal Decks'

I didn't make this nor do i own any copyright

It's so good to learn that right outside your window

There's only friendly fields and open roads

And you'll sleep better when you think you've stepped back from the brink

And found some peace inside yourself, laid down your heavy load

It gets alright to dream at night

Believe in solid skies and slate-blue earth below

But when you see him, you'll know

It's okay to find the faith to saunter forward

With no fear of shadows spreading where you stand

And you'll breathe easier just knowing that the worst is all behind you

And the waves that tossed the raft all night have set you on dry land

It gets okay to praise the day

Believe in sheltering skies and stable earth beneath

But hear his breath come through his teeth

Walk by faith

Tell no one what you've seen

It's so good to learn that from right here the view goes on forever

And you'll never want for comfort and you'll never be alone

See the sunset turning red, let all be quiet in your head

And look about, all the stars are coming out

They shine like steel swords

Wish me well where I go

But when you see me, you'll know

A few words of inspiration ...

Now i didn't make these words but they are words that make a lot of sense, so I took the words and made them pretty, used a canvas coupon I had gotten several months ago and am now awaiting this bad boy to come in the post. Then the words and the pretty can sit on my been-blank-for-seven-months wall. Good times

Doh'

Picture sums it up ... Its meant to say bed. Been ill. Stupidly ill. Bad times

nothing to declare ...

Been a slow week or so, nothing positive has come of it and Im sure nothing will. Just got to keep digging ....

Distracted ...

Getting off topic and behind faded crazes

Inspiration....

Sometimes you find inspiration in the strangest of places. Randomly stumbling through the internet and I found this Shakespeare quote. It may not seem like a lot but it opened up a couple of ideas for my graphic novel. Still working on a title though , and a middle. Beginnings and ends are far to easy

peak-a-boo

Just a little sketch of what im working on at the moment, it originally started a short film idea but grew when I added another couple of ideas I had into it. Im guessing i'll be looking at a graphic novel really, that seems to be the way it is writing itself. It's quite a personal tone, regarding your own demons, your families demons and secrets and what would happen if these demons were to actually manifest themselves. Its got a little violence, a little bleakness and a little love so it evens out. Just trying to pick back up darker images and drop my cartoon bubbles. It ain't so easy ....

In the Closet soon hopefully

A little shirt design I will be finishing in coming months, need to find a high quality printer though. Best get my Google dance on then .....

Been Shopping ...

Its been a busy week, managed the beach, the cinema ... TWICE, work as usual but most importantly got together some pennies to buy some new supplies! Will hopefully get on the drawing wagon soon and post a couple of tests and stuff, but I'm not dead or anything. Just busy

Because of your eyes

Listening to some Bonnie Prince Billy and drawing inspiration from my ever beautiful girlfriend ( freckles and all ) did another drawing with some Sharpies and a couple of kids colouring pencils. I really need to invest in some real art supplies soon ... or at least a sharpener

Oddles of Doodles

Just a little test to try and get my hands back to work, just some markers and pencils. Got the idea from another blog that I would love to reference but I realized two things whilst doing it, Im rubbish at Documenting the process and im also rubbish at Bookmarking. As time goes by i hope to add to this list of things Im Rubbish at

Let Me Introduce You to Someone

This is Handsome Mike, he doesn't bite

How Time Flies

It is truly scary looking back at how old this film is, it's so old it is even hosted on our Myspace page and that is saying something. Written, Filmed and Edited in under 48 hours for the 2 DAYS LATER film competition
( http://www.2dayslater.co.uk/ ) , we managed to make the final 13 but walked away empty handed but got to marvel at one of our little nuggets shown on the big screen ... biggish screen, in a genuine theater ... As time goes by ... single tear rolls down my cheek

In the meantime ....

Been busy with work and pleasure at the moment but am planning on having some new stuff up here soon, in the meantime some sketches of random internetz peoples that asked me to draw them on a forum. Dont know any names or anything, they are lost in the interweb ...

Promo Poster unfinished

This bad boy was going to be a poster for a short film we shot back in the day called 'H.G'. Its a brilliant script by Phil but we just messed up the shooting and never went back to it. Shame really but a good script never really dies

I do dogs ...

Sometimes I take Snappy Snaps of dogs too, they are much nicer than peoples most of the time

Phoning in sick already

Heading off to London for a couple of days so some photos to tide my motivation over until I get back

Splattered Heart

Another little Photoshop throw together, initially was going to be a canvas for our flat but the colour scheme changed a little, its a woman's prerogative

A little something something

A Little blast from the past featuring the ever lovely Ivory Moon with photography and effects by me