Bear AFK

Been away for like a whole week. Sorry about that. Just slipped my mind. As a peace offering here is a comic what I did.

Chicken & Bacon cover/poster

I was feeling a bit bored so I whipped together this book cover/poster.

Chicken & Bacon 2

If you haven't seen Porco Rosso yet, well...do.

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On The Global Frequency

Hello there! Sorry for the lack of updates this past week. I've got hooked on Stargate Atlantis.

I've been trying to put together some Graphic Design pieces using some software I'm not particualarly familiar with. In part to familiarise myself with these pieces of software, and also in part to get design job somewhere, as I'm sure the pay will be better than my current level of income (ie nada).

Here's a cd cover I devised using Photoshop (which I know like the back of my hand) and Illustrator (which is mostly a complete mystery to me). The unimaginatively named fictional band 'The Global Frequency' (after the Warren Ellis(?) comic) and their even less imaginatively titled album 'Party City'.

Chicken & Bacon No. 1

Illustration Friday - Memories

Memories
One of my fondest memories as a child was making feeble BMX jumps over (more across really) a particularly nobbly bit of tree root with the kids down the street.

I got a bit bored colouring this in. Probably finish it later.

Gotta Keep The Devil, Way Down In The Hole

D'angelo teaches Walt and Bodie how to play chess (click to full size it)

The Wire is the best show on television.
Considering how voracious my appetite for entertainment usually is it's a small miracle that I've never seen it before recently. I bought the season one box set after Charlie Brooker went painfully out of his way to demonstrate how good it was.
And he rarely compliments any show.

The Wire is about a group of cops tracking down (mostly with the eponymous wire taps and other surveillance measures) an organisation of drug dealers (and then later port officials and then bureaucrats...) But it's more complicated than that. Each character is trapped in their existence, betrayed by the institutions they thought they could trust.

I think I like this show best for the same reason I usually talk to every villager in RPGs. There's a lot of dialogue (which if you miss you're screwed) and a lot of characters get fleshed out and developed. You believe that you're watching the real city of Baltimore, and not a bottle version like so many TV shows that traditionally have a main cast of about 5 and a million of interchangeable extras interacting with them.

I wish I could do the show more justice (both in my urrgh fan art, and in my 'review') but it's hard to do.

Just go watch.























McNulty and Greggs drive by Stringer and Barksdale

The Office Workers Are Happy

Probably because they're raking it in. (click to fullsize it)

This didn't actually come out too bad I think. Even though I didn't actually bother with any shading.

Illustration Friday - Routine

I wanted to experiment with watercolours one last time. I'll probably try to move onto colouring exclusively in Photoshop now.

(click to show at full size)