festive flat festival

A picture of the business end of the liverpool festive flat festival, taken before Testcard showed up with their kit. As you can tell, we take this whole "making a racket" thing very seriously.
Thanks strcs

Brute

My time has been sucked into the black hole of ableton Live once again.... hence the abysmal posting rate of late. but I'm back... with an old picture. Go figure.

No I'm Banksy - and so's my wife

I wish I'd thought of this, and then given one to everybody in Bristol to wear for a day. Kinda like V and the masks in the plot-twist-with-no-relation-to-the-Alan-Moore-original-and-which-therefore-sucked in V for Vendetta.

the one-eyed man is king

So after some unseemly begging over at mjar's blog hooked I snagged a copy of the HOOKED 'zine, which is all a zine should be: photocopied, strongly designed and free, with many sharp designs in various modes, not all of which suit the unforgiving and blunt instrument reproduction of the Xerox.

My favourite is this one,by Eight-bit but only because it plays into my well documented cyclops obsession (oh well if you're going to insist on links...here and here and this one too.)

The cover, which I think was done by mjar itself is also a thing of beauty.

doppelcybermen

I spotted these lurking in Woolies, and they made me think immediately of doppelganger

good morning

I suppose this one is for my drooling webquaintances Billsworth and Doppelganger. For myself, I take refuge in the centuries-long tradition of the nude in Western Art, so I'm definitely not a perv. THIS IS ART DAMMIT, STOP SNIGGERING AT THE BACK.

rage against these machines

So I managed to ahem...inherit these beauties last week, lugging them back through the tube was a real (literal) pain in the arms but aren't they sweet? That's what you call oldschool hardware.

The top is a hardware signal filter and the bottom just makes sine waves. hell -all that hardware for a signal I can make in 2 seconds in pd! I don't want to bow to doppelganger's new porn obsession , in this case it is all really about the knobs.

A watercoloured dwarf with a gun...what more could you want?

Banksy strikes again

Finally someone's posted the Banksy remix of Paris Hilton's CD. Only the pictures unfortunately.

The artfuel verdict:
artwork - bad "worth 1000" photoshoppery
taglines - Banksoid drollery of the better variety
sheer genius of doing this - priceless

via headphonesex

I knit dead people

oh this has got to be the best craft idea *ever*

better than the knitted squid, better than yawn of the dead...

knitted Zombies

lucy

going for the aw shucks vote/ hallmark option with this one.

a quiet night in

another attempt at grown-up sketching (and yes; I know she's not nekkid, billsworth, you'll just have to imagine that coming later in her evening)

candleman

I'm really steaming through the colourations this week.

judo guy

A fairly old pic which I just got around to colouring.

faces in the crowd

I draw a lot of faces. Not from life, just starting with an eyebrow or a hairline and building other features together. Sometimes this happens all at once, like this one.

sprayclone

A spraypaint stencil sticker for my stickerbox, should have been stuck on a wall somewhere but y'know: middle-class pale male here. I just can't bring myself to. much.

paperwork

So despite all promises to the contrary the on-going disaster area called "my study" has discouraged me from posting these past few days, but I wanted to show you the paper cut out group portrait of some friends I did a year or so ago.

oh dear lord its good to be back

I swear I didn't know how bad I had this interwebulator bug until BT (my wonderful service provider) decided not to reconnect my broadband until 2 days ago. The first week I was seriously jonesing, but after the second week I just felt...normal. Not superpowered with the ability to know any fact within instants, not able to chat with people on the other side of the world, not connected to the very pulse of the machine...

As William Gibson said I fell into the prison of my own flesh.

Which was just as well else the new flat would still look like a construction site. (It's literally just up the road from the old one, Eyechild). But I'm back now. thank god.

I wish I'd put the time to better use and had a raft of new pix to post, but I don't. What I do have is some very very old ones, including the first time I started trying to draw again after stopping for 4 years (age 13). And a very funny religious comic, which I shall imperil my mortal soul by laughing at. in public.

milkrobotics

Petr Sorfa's started posting drawings on his blog again, which is good. Not that I've got anything against photos of beautiful Goth girls in duct tape on the streets of New York y'unnerstan. Which is the other thing he posts a lot of.

gimp

ok I've been mad busy at the moment with catching up after holidays and packing for a house move - so no drawings for a while now. This is very old and really needs colouring. As a result of my crayons being packed somewhere at the bottom of a big box and the usual service swapping shenanigans the artfuel experience may be a bit intermittent over the next week or so.

hiiiii!

hiiiii

cycloribbons

Inspired by the return of the cybermen over on Doppelganger's pages... strange how I missed them. I've found some old life in the cyclopoid meme from way back.

excuses excuses

and this is the reason there have been no updates since may, because I've been looking at this view from my horizontal position on a sun-lounger for the past 2 weeks -dreadful innit.

fro2

and this is the 'fro girl after a touch of the pantone magic. as usual done on Moleskine paper.

Fro

first sketch of a (decent, clothed) new character

ongoing sleaze

Well, since K80 has put the dampers on the ongoing sleaze theme at Stickerthing by threatening us with womankind's greatest weapon, the scatter cushion; I've elected run off and hide in the corner that is artfuel, where her soft furnishings can't get me.

And to keep posting slightly risque pics.

This one was inspired by an artist called Audrey Kawasaki who has a blog here. I love her stuff, love it. And if she's allowed to do lots of nekkid pictures, well then so can I (only not quite as pretty).

Damn, I've got to stop linking to people who are better than me at this drawing malarky.

Nervous Disposition

As an ongoing series (other bits being the thoracic cavity and abdominal cavity(tbc), and as a cold shower to Strcprstskrzkrk's excitable nature; this is a learning aid from my last set of exams showing the exact courses and relations of the Mandibular Nerve and Maxillary artery and their branches.

Really obscure, but the type of thing I was obsessed with knowing in great detail. The image is seen looking from within the mouth outwards, the little blobby bits in the bottom right corner are the lower back teeth. The purple wedges are two muscles, the pterygoids (means "winglike" in Greek) and the yellow strings are the branches of the second part of the Trigeminal nerve as it exits the skull.

stylised nekkid

A sexy doodle from the moleskine.

Tentacles in the house

I have to admit to a certain thing about drawing tentacles, as regular readers will know ( yes, all 3 of you) but this young woman has taken it to the next level. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the felted squid [via: MAKE]

progression session

The problem with stencils is the tempatation to redo the picture over and over with ever-soggier paper...although I quite like the Warholic results coming out of the process.

Smoulder

Smoulder is a new picture for some close friends of mine who LAT (live apart together) created with stencils, very simple but I love the strength of the lines. I aim to make 2 mirror copies, one for each of them. And if you're reading this you two, well...umm...SURPRISE!

Speaktacle

This is a rough draft of a logo idea for strcprstskrskrk coloured with pantone markers.

cascade

a doodled series of faces ink and pantone on Moleskine paper.

I suppose I got the idea from Dave Shelton via Drawn

Can I also just say that I had a long fight with my conscience about acknowledging Dave because his drawings are so good and I didn't want to look bad in comparison. I lost.

my blog hell

I'm tired of you lot (eyes doppelganger /billsworth/ eyechild) making me wait for your posts all the time.

iconography

I stumbled across this great site courtesy of Drawn, Filled with characters of all different types, descriptions and media.

GO Mojizu go!

Better get some of mine polished up and ready to go!

quizzical angel

huh?

sorry about the poor picture quality -scanner problems should be able to sort it aht soon though.

colouring the monster

With some helpful tips from this guy I've begun to teach myself to colour in Photoshop, and this is the first effort. Of which I'm strangely proud.

You can see the original un-coloured version here

Cities in the sky

I don't link to a lot of other posts on this blog, but this guy is fascinating. The ultimate urban planner, he has been creating an entire city from nothing, in his head. His having Aspergers Syndrome ("high functioning autism") might help. (Yes, it's what the main character in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime has.)


Welcome to Urville. Pop. 11.5 million. or 0, depending on how you look at it.

awesome joy buzzers

so this 'bloke died and left me some comics in his will. This is my favourite, with a slightly Jamie Milligan sensibility and frankly bonkers (even by comic standards) plot.

moleskine pretty

a little moleskine sweetie with spraypaint overlay

elentacle

another in the tentaphant series

hey doppelganger

Hey!Deadly doppelganger! I see your spooky steel horse-thing and raise you a *possessed* spooky horse-thing.

new team member at stickerthing

Pro photographer K80 has joined the crew at stickerthing with cool shots from London's East End (the trendy parts), only one is up but more are to come. Or so she says.

blueskin

I don't know who she is, or why she's holding her sword the wrong way up.

yay!

okay! and now it's started working again.

This guy is an old experimnet with colour, his specs are actually reflective paper, but I guess that doesn't scan too well.

grrr

I know I've been a little slack of late, I have tried to upload about three times but the script keeps sticking...grrr

loads more pictures to come

Commissioned work

This is a small part of some work I did for a pre-clerking form for the UCLH head and neck centre (watch this space for the website). It's a stylised view of the larynx (voice-box) for mapping tumours. The images have to be simple and survive multiple copies being made by photocopier.

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And this is an view of the neck for mapping nodal deposits of the cancer in the neck

fingercreep

this stalks the nightmares of lonely people, walking on its fingers like a spider.

inked elefool

and once you've put some ink on the sketch...it looks no better