Artfuel

replica mag

2009-08-14T16:04:00.002Z

a lovely experiment in collective journalism and publisher of this picture..

heepsters

2009-01-23T09:00:00.001Z

Grawww

2008-12-22T12:07:00.000Z

Room 01

2008-10-27T10:17:00.004Z

taking over a solicitors' office in Dalston for some exhibition shenanigans...

Room 01

Moleskine sketch number 14495743

2008-08-29T13:34:00.001Z

skeletons

2008-07-16T21:02:00.003Z

I was about to close down this blog for good - so long has it been since I posted here, but my good friend Parasputin has convinced me to keep going with this rather fun collaboration. Poem by him, picture by me.

almost 2

2007-09-03T14:10:00.000Z

and so it came to pass in October of 2005 I started this small artblog. In the early days I posted a how to on stencilling with a pic of Douglas "no legs" Bader. As we approach the second birthday it seems appropriate to show this version of Doug "no body" Bader.

Old skool tie

2007-08-30T18:47:00.001Z

actually.. that is my old school tie. I hadn't clicked about that until now.

60 years since the end of the Raj

2007-08-19T20:10:00.001Z

60 years since the end of the Raj, and boy does he look it...

music in ma ears

2007-08-12T11:44:00.001Z

another skull with poor dentition

2007-08-08T20:01:00.001Z

- heroes is on..
hold on

magnets for magents

2007-08-06T19:50:00.001Z

Erik Lensherr got nothing on me...

2007-07-02T20:22:00.001Z

next magnet in the series (and apologies for the obscure title)

magnet moments

2007-06-24T11:15:00.000Z

magnet number 3 - and the first to be mass produced. small "how I did it" coming soon

midge fagnets

2007-06-20T08:07:00.000Z

option 2 in the magnets -

new projects:

2007-06-19T11:16:00.000Z

one in an occasional series of hand-drawn and -inked fridge magnets designed for street level distribution.

tentacular spectacular

2007-04-17T09:51:00.000Z

killer robots getting down

2007-04-02T10:36:00.000Z

The new flyer for Dr Dystopia this Easter Sunday - it's gonna be fun, and you'll have a whole Monday to recover.

Hair girl

2007-03-27T12:10:00.000Z

made by staining a dried mash of plant-fibre with solvent-based dye...the old fashioned way

2007-03-20T09:27:00.000Z

Remember back in the day, when the whole blogosphere went squidmad? No? Just me then. Somebody has put the squid to good use finally and used them to raise funds for the tsunami-victims.

This one's called Benedict.

They seems pretty expensive for a stuffed animal but, hey, good cause n that.

Adopt a squid

new flyer

2007-03-02T12:10:00.000Z

A new night at Lost Society in Clapham - hopefully should be good. The flyer is a collaboration between K80 from stickerthing and myself.

You're all invited.

thing #2

2007-01-29T21:21:00.000Z

Five Things: thing#2

I have an online doppelganger. Actually more of a doppelnaamer, really. Somebody who shares exactly the same first and last names as me and who works as a cartoonist and illustrator. He has the .com of our name/surname combination.

I don't have a particularly common surname, certainly the only moderately famous person I've ever found sharing my surname was a member of Spiritualised and even then, not really famous. So it's a bit strange finding myself online already doing my dream job.

A friend has advised me to give his (our) site address out to impressionable young things to increase my chances of impressing said things, after all I can prove it's my name up there in pixels. She was a little deflated when I pointed out the necessity of an internet connection for this plan; not likely in the kind of places one tends to find young people in need of impressing these days. Also: how many people want to shag a website? Apart from the pR0n ones, obviously.

succumb to the meme

2007-01-28T16:22:00.000Z

I think the eyechild may have been cheating by tagging 5 blogs for the "5 things" meme, but hey I'm flattered, so I'll go with it.

I don't often write things in this blog, it's supposed to be about the drawing. So I'll dealing with my 5 things about me in cartoon form.

Thing #1:

I think I might be addicted to teh interwebs. No really. I get restless if I can't logon at least 3 times a day. Whenever I have nothing else pressing to do I have a very powerful urge to "check my email" or whatever it is I make the excuse of having to do. It's really just a need to escape. I have an ex-girlfriend who once accused me of "having a reading problem like other people have a drinking problem", I've just switched from the soft (cover) gateway drug to the hardwired real thing.

The clinical definition of addiction requires habituation, in which increasing doses are needed to stave off withdrawal, this has been true up to a point for me, although I seem to be plateauing now, hopefully. Also included is the gradual diminution of pleasure derived from the dependency, which explains the hours of dysphoric clicking on delicious, or this post from back in the day

The funny thing is, I've never really watched TV much and despise it for it's ability to suck up entire hours of my life; yet I can happily spend those same hours sitting in front of my lappie laughing at pictures of cats. Perhaps I'll have to start rationing my hours on this thing too.

myspastic

2007-01-16T14:44:00.000Z

Instead of having, like, a real picture on myspace, I was clever and painted a (fairly realistic) portrait.

2007-01-15T12:52:00.000Z

My portrait, after the first coffee of the morning.

sketches

2007-01-03T21:53:00.000Z

pen and ink

festive flat festival

2006-12-20T19:50:00.000Z

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

2006-12-12T19:17:00.000Z

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

2006-10-28T23:08:00.000Z

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

2006-10-15T17:57:00.000Z

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

2006-10-12T07:17:00.000Z

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

good morning

2006-10-02T17:28:00.000Z

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

2006-09-18T11:15:00.000Z

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.

2006-09-15T10:19:00.000Z

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

Banksy strikes again

2006-09-04T21:05:00.000Z

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

2006-09-03T12:43:00.000Z

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

2006-08-27T09:40:00.000Z

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

a quiet night in

2006-08-21T13:53:00.000Z

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

2006-08-16T17:58:00.000Z

I'm really steaming through the colourations this week.

judo guy

2006-08-15T07:10:00.000Z

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

faces in the crowd

2006-08-14T18:10:00.000Z

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

2006-08-10T19:28:00.000Z

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

2006-08-05T09:49:00.000Z

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

2006-07-26T20:39:00.000Z

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

2006-07-11T12:11:00.000Z

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

2006-07-06T06:32:00.000Z

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!

2006-07-02T18:47:00.000Z

hiiiii

cycloribbons

2006-06-30T11:35:00.000Z

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

2006-06-26T09:32:00.000Z

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

2006-05-31T20:33:00.000Z

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

Fro

2006-05-31T13:52:00.000Z

first sketch of a (decent, clothed) new character

ongoing sleaze

2006-05-29T13:25:00.000Z

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

2006-05-22T07:17:00.000Z

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

2006-05-19T10:18:00.000Z

A sexy doodle from the moleskine.

Tentacles in the house

2006-05-17T06:38:00.000Z

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

2006-05-15T09:49:00.000Z

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

2006-05-12T21:45:00.000Z

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

2006-05-10T13:18:00.001Z

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

cascade

2006-04-26T20:59:00.000Z

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

2006-04-25T19:15:00.000Z

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

iconography

2006-04-22T10:31:00.001Z

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

2006-04-19T13:39:00.000Z

huh?

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

colouring the monster

2006-04-08T17:37:00.001Z

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

2006-04-08T08:26:00.000Z

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

2006-04-06T20:12:00.000Z

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

2006-04-03T19:56:00.000Z

a little moleskine sweetie with spraypaint overlay

elentacle

2006-03-30T19:49:00.000Z

another in the tentaphant series

hey doppelganger

2006-03-29T17:33:00.001Z

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

new team member at stickerthing

2006-03-28T15:35:00.000Z

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

2006-03-27T11:49:00.000Z

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

yay!

2006-03-23T22:34:00.000Z

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

2006-03-23T18:28:00.000Z

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

2006-03-04T13:01:00.000Z

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

2006-03-02T18:27:00.000Z

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

inked elefool

2006-02-20T19:13:00.000Z

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

binocular vision

2006-02-19T21:18:00.000Z

Now for the first in an occasional series of binocular monsters, with tentacles and trunks. This is the first sketch...

burning monk

2006-02-15T19:44:00.000Z

This is a 2-stage stencil using a the frame of the stencil as partof the image and some very blobby black spraypaint. The image is a famous one of the buddhist monk who set himself alight to protest against the government's religious persecution (which went on to become the cover of a Rage against the Machine album). Taken by Malcolm W Brown in 1963.

I'm not sure the image is famous enough to warrant instant recognition and the stencil lacks enough detail to be easily recognised for what it is, but I like the way it turned out.

I originally thought the monk was protesting against the Vietnam war, when I made this, and it was meant to have an anti-Iraq war message but I suppose the religious tolerance message is as pertinent now.

monocular misfit

2006-02-12T08:05:00.000Z

Another monocular moron. ink on paper in front of Angel series 1 (again)

Cyclodudes

2006-02-11T21:43:00.000Z

OK I admit it, I've not updated in about 3 weeks, and although I have an excuse, it's not good enough. So here is a selection of my TV doodles.

2006-02-03T17:34:00.000Z

This little beauty is the reason I've been silent for a week, cos this and Ableton Live are gonna rock my world for..oooh..at least 5 minutes. See ya!

OK, kids, THIS is how you draw....

2006-01-25T19:28:00.000Z

I should stop reading sketchblogs, they just make me depressed. God this guy's good: Alessandro Carloni

chinese mage props

2006-01-25T08:02:00.000Z

you know, I like that last picture so much that I can't bring myself to post another..it may not look like much but its something I didn't thik I could do at that stage

chinese mage

2006-01-20T12:19:00.000Z

this is also A3 in size, inked with watercolours, I can't bring myself to finish his hand though, ideally it would be glowing or summat

Batgirl meme out in the wild

2006-01-18T19:04:00.000Z

It spreads from psychbloke outwards - nice one eyechild

batgirl meme leaps from livejournal

2006-01-17T21:22:00.000Z

okay, everyone must have seen the batgirl meme thing (thanks psychbloke

and this is the artfuel version....look eyechild...colours!

of course it..um..she is the result of terrifying memetic manipulation in the fetid artfuel imagination, but hell

stickerthing

2006-01-16T19:13:00.000Z

after an interesting (ie no-one actually saw any of it) filthy themed week over at stickerthing, this week is gonna be a little more family friendly and cute

swordbot

2006-01-16T10:31:00.000Z

This guy is A3 in size, mainly playing with markers and trying to draw at that scale.

another stencil

2006-01-14T18:08:00.000Z

This time cut freehand into blank xray film and sprayed onto board

Buff

2006-01-11T09:07:00.000Z

Buff character in existential mode

cyclobear

2006-01-10T09:58:00.000Z

see I told you there were more of them

sticker love

2006-01-09T22:08:00.000Z

My new log is over here at stickerthing

cyclocritter

2006-01-09T14:21:00.000Z

Over there indeed lil critter

*edit*

no sooner do I spend days drawing cyclops critters (more to come) than mother nature starts copying me. Creative commons sucks.

wz?

2006-01-09T10:22:00.000Z

huh? sketch: ink on paper

2006-01-06T10:43:00.000Z

this is my cottington fairy, originally designed as a tatoo, which ended up as a guardian for the record shelves

buddha stencil

2005-12-24T19:40:00.000Z

this is a buddha stencil graff made in a similar way to the Doug Bader pic only without the photoshopping and from my own drawing.
Of course I'm far too middle-class as to actually paint on other people's walls and so it's on board

thoracic cavity

2005-12-24T18:40:00.000Z

the thoracic cavity (chest) and the relations of the major vessels and organs are tricky to remember, so when studying the region (again, medical education is a lot of repetition), I made a model in 2d from card.

The background (black on white) is the vertebral column (spine) and the first and second ribs.

In front of this lies the oesophagus (gullet) in orange which is only visible as a thin line to the left of the trachea (windpipe, in black and white) here, but it passes down through the diaphragm into the abdomen where it is obvious.

I said to the left, which is true in anatomical terms, it's the patient's left -so it's on the right of the picture. Simple huh?

The threads are nerves, green is the vagus which runs down over the stomach but also throws a looping branch up under the arch of the aorta which runs back up to the voicebox - my favourite nerve -the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The orange threads are the phrenic nerves which move the diaphragm.

The red arch is the arch of the aorta taking all of the blood form the heart to the body. The light blue are the inferior and superior venae cava, returning the blood to the heart.

The black and dark blue are the pulmonary arteries and veins, to and from the lungs respectively and the black blob is the heart itself.

I suppose this must have worked as an aide-memoire 'cos I can still remember all this rubbish, although I wasn't asked any of it!

It's not the most polished of presentations because I wasted enough valuable revision time as it was on the thing.

mooo

2005-12-24T18:33:00.000Z

these cows and their cow-planet were painted with acrylic on board

more mindflayer action

2005-12-10T11:10:00.000Z

buffer than your average 'flayer, and not as well inled as the previous pic. One day I'll get around to colouring these things.

dissection sketch

2005-12-07T18:16:00.000Z

left temporal bone dissection sketches from the moleskine

MIndflayer

2005-12-04T10:43:00.000Z

another monster, this is the mindflayer, tentacles and human anatomy combined -whats not to like?