Wall of Type project (now known as the Tetris project)

The idea is to create a giant 3d letter to put up in the Studio at uni, my concept... Make giant TETRIS!!!
Making these boxes was a extremely tedious task.

but then I had to glue them together...

 

and then there was painting them......

and after two days of patience GIANT TETRIS WAS BORN!!!!! DUM DAH DAH DUMMM DAH DAH DUM DAH DAH DUMM!  .... and so on....

Under Milk Wood eBook cover.

Mrs Ogmore -Pritchard. - Under Milk Wood

It only made sense turning Mrs Ogmore who'd been widowed twice and prefers it that way, into a Black Widow.

Butcher Beynon - Under Milk Wood

I used scans of pig skin for the texture of the background.

Aye aye Cap'n!!! translated : Miao miao, miao mee MIAO!!!!

Captain Cat has been finalised(i think).

Under Milk Wood

Brain : It's been a while since I spoke to you blog, I do apologise for the neglect but I'll dress you more often from now on I promise I'll make it up to you.
So... Been back to uni working on new Under Milk Wood project coming up with new ideas to interpret the radio play by Dylan Thomas. I must admit I found it difficult to be stimulated by this play, but never the less I might as well get interested because its not gonna go away.

I based my three final ideas on protagonists;
Captain Cat - dreams of his dead sea fellows,  and also sometimes plays the narrator of the play.

Butcher Beynon - whose wife dreams of him being persecuted for selling owl's meat, manchop and dog's eyes,

Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard - Widowed twice and dreams of speaking to her two dead husbands. Excessive clean freak and actually prefers her husbands dead because they can't make a mess.

As long as there are Runts, there will be war!

Here are the first couple of pages of my 6 page runts comic I did for my Colourstory brief. I chose to do this strip purely because of the title of the project, since it was called colourstory I thought that making a narrative piece would go great with the theme. My biggest dislike about this project was that I spent months on the cover and first few pages, it was more a learning curve those first few months, getting use to adobe, learning about adobe, struggling with adobe. I then found that all the time I spent on the first few pages meant I had no time for the rest of it therefore regrettably I had to rush the rest of it in order to hand in on time. The blogger uploader doesn't seem to like these big files. Maybe I'll put the rest up another time.

URRGHH!!!!

Myself as the undead. If you can't kill 'em, Join 'em.

Recently I've been catching up on reading the ongoing Walking Dead series. I never was really into them to start with until comic book guy delivered me a deal I couldn't refuse, so I ended up buying Book one of the big hardback editions and I think it's one of my best investments yet. I've already ploughed through book two and even bought Dead Rising for my Wii just to keep the undead feeling continuous throughout the day.

The Walking Dead series has revived my faith in the horror genre, for a long time now I feel like the horror genre amongst the film industry just sucks!!! I haven't enjoyed a good horror movie since 28days later and I must've been about 15 back then. After the Saw movies  got milked for all it's worth (I never watched past the first film.) I felt like the genre had already reached 2 thirds down the downward spiral and had lost faith. Maybe it's just because I've gotten older and less desensitized to such unpleasantries but I decided that I generally preferred a good laugh oppose to having to buy new underwear.

Saw, The Hills Have Eyes etc... I felt were nothing short of a snuff movie and I'm afraid I have no interest in the constant gore and shock value that they had to keep topping after each film just to get bums on seats. I stayed well away from horror movies for many years now and the new ZomCom genre that now exists thanks to Shaun of the Dead I feel has tickled me in just the right place. (Providing they're done well)
Zombieland is one of the best films I've seen in a long time, perfectly executed the jokes were I thought and what more? It's finally due that they got Woody Harrellson to play another charismatic badass.

Anyways that said........ back to The Walking Dead. After reading the second one I noticed they had a different artist after the big chapter one, Charlie Adlard took over after Tony Moore's fine work in chapter 2. Adlard had adapted very nicely to the style that Moore had developed to this series but I feel that Adlard's pages are more grittier, and creates more of an atmosphere to the drama (not that i can complain about Moore's artwork at all!!).

The Walking Dead has truly gripped me by the baby maker, and made it's way to the top of my priorities list. It's so buried in my brain that I can't go to sleep without thinking about ways of keeping out zombies and tactics of how to defend myself and those important around me, sometimes I even wake up believing I'm part of the plot. It's worrying I know. I'd definitely recommend it as a fantastic read, and you never know... it could come in handy having experienced the apocalypse before through these brilliantly thought out characters. Read it or eat it!

Scribble here, scribble there...

WarTurtle!

Cute lil bot.

This is What I'd look like as a Lion.

You can beat-up whoever you want, as long as your wearing spandex.

Grey markers are awesome. This one is a present for someone who made a BIG impact on my life.

Still struggling with photoshop as you can see...

How can I resist drawing superheroes?

Ink Painting

My parents came back from thier holiday in China and brought be back some calligraphy inking gear. I'd like to learn to paint chinese ink paintings but it takes like years of experience. Got's to start somewhere I guess...

Alien marathon gave me an idea for using my ink.

Magpies.

Creeps.

Sometimes the soul of a human being is scarier than what's underneath the bed.

I just love my brews.

Vincent the pathetic excuse of a despicable human being.

Good morning, feeling rough?

These things aren't as pleasant still kinda funny.

Just for a chuckle.

It sucks to be THAT guy.

BLUERGH!!!!

ARRRGH!!!!! IZZ GAW ZILLAAAA!!!

Ultimate game-rage.

It's good to put smiles on faces, some of my jokes are more pleasant than others. It's understandable if they're a bit difficult to understand, I'd be lying if I said I could explain myself.

Random sketches old and new.

What can I say? It's a Skullfish.

Mr. Lee

Michael Keaton as Batman.

Musical food for thought.

Some of the most iconic music logos of the century. (This piece used up a lot of my posterman markers)

One of the most awesome bands ever! The Misfits, Famous Monsters album gave me the idea for this piece (plus, I had bits of lino lying about).

oof!!! This is a late start...

Sheesh! It's been a hectic summer, being broke, need a job, moving house, going home to work for rents back to Hudd, back to Crotchdale, back to Hudd even ended up in freakin' Wales at one point!
Now that my blog is up and going I'll be catching up with all work and interests that has been sticking to me this summer.

Ken xx