League of Extreme Gentlemen

Introducing the 'League of Extreme Gentlemen' , an international team of gentlemen Snow Boarders, Base-Jumpers, Parkour specialists. Fully able to take things 'to the Max' (providing there are no ladies present, and everyone is in appropriate attire... )

They may also use their Mad Skillz in defence of Queen and country, and to defend the right minded people of western Europe from the threat of the anarchistic machinations of miss Pankhurst and her kind... Nothing will get between the Gentlemen, and their mission to live fast and die young, while entirely in upstanding male company.

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Not even Bromide can stifle this Bromance!

an old sketch I dusted off, primarily as I wanted to brush up on using pen tool shape artwork in Photoshop, I guess it's not true vector art, but sure is less faffy than Illustrator. Quite like how it turned out, original biro sketch below:

Monkey Business

Hmmm, been a bit of a bitty week in terms of getting stuff done, but one of my objectives was to delve into flash a bit more and learn/relearn a few bits. Mostly it's been boring stuff, but here's quite a playful little sequence I did in about an hour today, I'd forgotten how much fun hand drawn animation is! I quite like this as although it's digital, the white on black reminds me of animating with scratching bleach on film much like the amazing and utterly touching work of the 'home brew' animator Helen Hill

(To all those who don't know about Helen's life and works, please do take a few minutes to check it out -utterly spell binding and unfortunately touched by tragedy.)

Anyway - back to the monkey!

Biro doodlin'

Phew! Been a bit of a mad week, mainly pre-occupied with interviews for a couple of positions, both contract and full-time. Has been a great experience (as it's always nice to be asked) but I've spent the past week and a half either prepping for interviews, or travelling to and from meetings... Anyway due to this madness I was massively enjoying having a Sunday reading the paper and doodling in the sketchbook, while listening to some old 90's compilation tapes and drinking coffee. Definitely should do this more often...Life permitting.

I love biros for drawing they really occupy a place between pencil and ink for me, great for construction like a pencil, with some of the permanence of ink. I suppose the flip side is that the biro ink is slightly iridescent so doesn't scan so well, and it's never as crisp and clear, but for sketching I think they're brill. I think i'm going to experiment on scanning and seeing what I can push with biro sketches in Photoshop.

Fun game: take the Sunday paper pick a few faces, from the sickeningly aspirational lifestyle sections. Turn them into monsters/mythical beast!

Iliara continues!

Been trying to put in a bit of a push toward getting some more sprites together for Iliara, the mobile/browser game I've been developing with Total Monkery, currently it's maze, rpg game, based around a living cave painting. (More info here and here.)

Over the past year (its been a side project) we've been getting sprites and functionality in all higgledy-piggledy, and the art direction has subsided somewhat SO I've been trying to re-infuse the art with a more organic style as we hope to get a wee promo video together soon.

Anyway I've been doing lots of traditional media stuff and scanning and dropping into the build to see how it's working, think it's starting to get there plus i've really enjoyed actually getting my hands dirty (plus my scanner...argh) More below;

Can't wait to get some builds out to people...Or get it finished.

And it it to be good.

Man we've got a lot of work to do...

Hmmmmm...Pi.