And Where Have You Been Young Man???

It's been a while

Sorry about that ....

Had too much time with too many things none of which were illustrating but I'm back in action,

sort of,

I will be posting more as time moves on but I've moved again and had to sacrifice much to squeeze in.

That includes time.

I've joined the world of facebook, as no one seems to care about you whilst you're not in it. 

They'll steal my art, so let me steal your heart

https://www.facebook.com/Desolart

Its fresh but I'm working on it as we speak

More work coming shortly

Promise

Questions

Well ... Do you?

Posters like .....

I'm back, sort of, well I'll at least be able to update a little more often now so here, have some posters I made ... for shits and giggles

I'll have more soon ... It appears after over a month no internet my Laptop is on its last legs. 

Things. Can only get better. Can only get better. 

Dirty Stop out .....

So I've been without Internet for two weeks and will be for three more weeks.

gosh.

I'm penniless.

But still drawing, drawing, drawing

As my good friend Bilbo Baggins said

'It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life'

Be back soon

Smiley face

Wink face

Tongue out face

Monsters ....

Just some monsters I'm working on ...

I am still working on a new book but I started it when life was a little dark,

right now there is a lot of Light around so its hard to continue 

so I've decided to focus on something else 

and maybe combine the two? Maybe. 

But I'm just going to let them play out and hope for the best

Oh and for the love of Pete check out

http://pourlafrime.blogspot.co.uk/

It's my older brothers blog and this guys my god damn hero

so check it out or you aren't invited to my birthday party

Im having Ice Cream cake

You don't want to miss out on that

A horse of course ...

Of Course ... all I ever draw at the moment is things I'm trying to keep secretive 

or things I don't normally draw to expand my small style, this is the later. 

Another quick sketch for Instagram

Geeking out ...

All I'm working on is my new book and I don't want to post images of that yet so here is Jon Snow ( Game of Thrones )and Luke Skywalker ( Star Wars ) in a little quick sketch I've titled

'Bastards Unite Beyond the Wall'

One day I might make an actual work out of this, the idea of them fighting side by side makes my pants happy

My first trilogy done ....

... well sort of ...

'The Sinking and the Scream'

'The Stalking and the Scream'

'The Seduction and the Scream'

Not sure how to frame them up together or whatever but once I Move early next month I'll be able to actually scan things and not use images from my Instagram account and more then this I hope it's the last time I'll need to draw haunting ghosts.

The future is bright, so bright I'll need to invest in some Ray-Bans 

Boom-shak-a-lakka

Sneak to the Peak ....

Who wants a blurry, dark sneak peak into my new book? You? You? No? 

Oh

Ok just unsee that image then and pretend I haven't been

working on my new work for weeks

I don't think we can be friends anymore ...

Upon Reflection ....

Upon reflection, I realised my last blogging action may of come of far more negative then I intended, 2012 wasn't that bad, I managed to find my way, take in how I'd done wrong and right, found and lost what I thought was a soul-mate, but without the finding of, I wouldn't be here today. I got my first little run print made ... not that it's seen the light of day yet.

I became an uncle

Beautiful right?

And for the first time in many years, I felt

And got a few tattoos along the way, with many more to come

Fair Well Past Year ...

And there goes another year, For me it was a year full of sadness, loss and regrets but I feel like I have come out such a better person spiritually, intellectually and mentally. To quote one of my favourite Bands at the moment

Well this is easier now

I found all the pieces I lost in the flood

And it wasn't that much

And though it's easier now

I will always remember the night that I almost drowned

All alone in a house

And the love that I lost

With all of the shit that came out in the wash

Just a pocket of fluff

I'm not put upon

I am free of from disease, no greys, no liver-spots

Most of the misery's gone... gone, gone to the bone

'Frightened Rabbit'

But I know I'm still haunted and it seems to be my pen that mocks me but I can't control that so I just go with it. This little piece is titled 'Ribcage Revolution' It is in regards to a question I was posed on New Years Eve ... 'What did 2012 teach me?' ... I didn't really have an answer at that point but the morning after, I realized that my greatest lesson was the length that people will go to hide the Fact that they have become a little Lost ... We lie, We create persona's, We break hearts, We fall into darkness  ... because we are so scared to just tell the people, the one's we love, that we have Lost our way. Everybody gets lost. Its far too easy to become it. Especially in the age we live in. Some people will live it forever and my heart aches for them daily. I hope one day they can see that it's ok. Sometimes it takes years, but everyone will find there way ... I haven't yet but at least I know where I lost my way ...That's a start

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