Capitano's Corner

Walking Machine.

2012-01-20T07:35:00.003Z

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Experimental animation. First Flash then After Effects.

Wallpapering

2012-01-18T04:07:00.002Z

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Been making some wallpaper style repeats, this guy is not too impressed.

Robert Rauschenberg

2011-12-23T21:16:00.004Z

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Funny, as a teenager I thought this was total bullshit. I saw some of his work in the flesh this year and was really into it.

Collabo Xmas

2011-12-18T11:56:00.003Z

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I did a loose sketch and my son coloured it in and added a whole load of princesses. Merry Chrimboids and a Haurpy Noo Yeaar.

Cat and Ladyfriend

2011-11-24T21:33:00.003Z

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A jumble of techniques, I tried out drawing some things like the hair on a different layer so the highlights were easier to colour.

Taped. Revised

2011-11-24T03:39:00.004Z

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Texture experiment. I accidentally pasted a new texture layer in and thought it looked better with the white troosers.
Original version. Remixed version.

Do the Face!

2011-11-21T11:13:00.005Z

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A funny face painting, for Recoat, all work under £100. This is a marker sketch with emulsion paint base over collaged tape, then acrylics, some watercolour details, gouache highlights and pencil details.

Recoat Xmas show

2011-11-18T15:38:00.004Z

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Been working on some pieces for the Recoat Show, here's one.

updated

2011-11-17T17:07:00.003Z

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Here's the finished version. Oil and acrylic.

Golden WIP

2011-11-17T14:03:00.005Z

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I've been slowly getting work completed for two upcoming Xmas group shows, this is a detail of an oil painting. Still a bit rusty but getting into it.

Broken Outlines

2011-11-08T03:44:00.003Z

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Playing with outline breaking to create some sort of pattern. I need to mix it with characters I think, but I kindo like it as it is.

New Hing

2011-11-06T22:48:00.004Z

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Quick painting from the other day, pen sketch, acrylic base gouache details.

Sweeping on

2011-10-27T22:35:00.004+01:00

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"Streetsweepers, what the f**k would you want to draw them for?"
A line used by my Da' when viewing a painting of mine many years ago.

Circles doodle session.

2011-10-19T04:04:00.001+01:00

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This is kind of an idea for a background gone wobbly. A fair mix of things went into it.

Dragonfly Mural

2011-10-17T16:56:00.004+01:00

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Just finished a small set of mini-murals at Dragonfly Cocktail Bar in Edinburgh, these are the bigger of the paintings and the most detailed, was good to try out the style on a bigger scale with acrylics. It was a slight update on the mural I painted there in 2005, commissioned by Red Bull.

The Captain

2011-10-10T01:16:00.006+01:00

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...and his whiskers.
Old sheet music cover, found a few treasure troves of these.
Wonder what type of bike he rode?

re-Cycle

2011-10-07T00:48:00.002+01:00

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Wow, been actually drawing. This is a watercolour fill pen drawn lines thing I've been doing lately. With some digital collagey stuff too.

Ganghuts part 2

2011-10-04T19:22:00.003+01:00

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Got one coat of paint on, need to put better walls on in the inside and another window, then tidy up the wood outside add a few wee bits and it's painting time. Will post up some photos when the whole thing is done.

Tiny Hoose on Wheels

2011-10-04T01:21:00.003+01:00

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Whilst looking for a shed/studio type help video, I found this short clip of Jenine Alexander and Amy Hutto building a tiny little house. It's like ganghut building by grown ups, (well, grown ups that can actually build). They have a blog where they post up the progress of various projects and also there is more information on their site.
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I nearly finished building the ganghut I started to build for my son, got the roof felted and just need to put walls on the inside and paint it before I stick up some photos. I think I am more excited about it than my son.
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Nice slides

2011-09-03T09:40:00.005+01:00

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In the summer my and I were over in Nice for a good friends wedding, whilst we were there I took a bunch of daft photos, I've been trying to think of a way to show all the typo-signage, building stuff that I photograph for a while, usually it's taken as reference for fonts I'll never make, so at least now it's out there. Click the pic to go see the photos.
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UPDATE - You can also access the photos via this page where I will add more photosets.

Oil on water

2011-09-01T04:48:00.004+01:00

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This is the first bit of painting in a while, well the background at least! I tried out a technique of putting down some strokes of Vegetable oil on painted card and then adding some layers of watered down acrylic, the results were the background of this drawing, just wiping it back now and again I was able to keep adding texture.
I'd like to try it on a bigger scale to see if it works, but just need to work a way of not using my cooking oil.

Chill Spot Boogie

2011-08-18T20:49:00.002+01:00

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Everyone needs a chillspot. Everyone needs a boogie.
Booking my flight now.
Cheers Rob!

Rad Dad Collective

2011-07-21T19:09:00.002+01:00

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Click the pic for some new images over at the Rad Dad Blog.

Monsuta Mashine

2011-07-21T17:36:00.003+01:00

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Digital doodling mecha sketching.

Dream doodle.

2011-06-28T20:10:00.003+01:00

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first bit of drawage in ages, at least not connected to animated stuff. It was super loose then had a bit of a play in photoshoppe.

Been learning animation (HD) n that.

2011-06-18T03:16:00.003+01:00

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For the last few weeks I've been working on some animation stuff, a mixture of Cinema 4D and After Effects. The last time I did animation, or mor like motion graphics was a long time ago so a lot has changed.
This animation was a test to see if how to export C4D to After Effects and keep the 3d motion, which is shown by the moving text.
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I'll post some new drawings soon too.

VNA Interview

2011-05-28T17:08:00.003+01:00

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I recently did an interview with VNA and the magazine is now oot. More info on their Blog.
Pretty good to been on the cover line-up, can't wait to see the magazine.

'I'm New Here' - Gil Scott Heron - RIP.

2011-05-28T16:03:00.006+01:00

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"Turnaround turnaround turnaround,
And you may come full circle,
And be new here again"
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When I ever made it to Motherfunk on a tuesday many moons ago, 'The Bottle' was always on request if it didn't get played. Such a upbeat tune about alcohol abuse.
On par with Bill Withers 'Better Off Dead'.

Always liked his lyrics too, like this one from Winter in America.
"Yes, and you was out there on the corner
When being cool went blind."
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Rest up some.

Crackled XP Blue

2011-05-28T15:53:00.003+01:00

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I've been learning Cinema 4d, here's a test render from a quick animation I made.
Structure/Destruction.

Mess.

2011-05-26T11:49:00.003+01:00

BW Sketchbook 2- On sale at Recoat.

2011-05-18T17:00:00.004+01:00

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The zine that I made for the end of the 1133 show at Recoat is on sale over on their store now.
Click image or link above to see more pages.
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I also produced a screenprint that I'll post up tomorrow, with a link.

Ganghuts

2011-05-18T01:25:00.004+01:00

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Shed/ganghut design for my son. Going to try and use all scrap wood except for the frame.

2002. Doze Green

2011-05-15T04:15:00.002+01:00

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Yes.

Shop Update

2011-05-13T18:32:00.004+01:00

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I put a few small paintings on my shop today, they are A4 size. Some recent playing around with gouache and acrylic with a varnish image transfer too. Link here.
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Haven't been posting as much since getting sucked into Facebook. I'll get some more stuff on here soon.

Nasty P - Intense Impressions

2011-05-12T11:13:00.001+01:00

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Years ago I used to work a cleaning job in a hospital, the guy who'd got me it was Nasty P, who also was living large emptying the rubbish at the same place. He was saving up to get Technics, a task that seemed impossible as they cost so much.

The other night I was watching MTV, which I never usually have on and I was surprised to hear a tune I actually liked, then as I looked closer there was Profisee and Nasty standing with Akil from Jurassic 5. Bonus.

BookFace

2011-04-23T01:34:00.005+01:00

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I know have an artist page on Facebook. link here.
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I've been trying to do one of those photos that people do where they make themselves look really slim and 10 years younger so I can put it on as a profile pic. There won't be much of that really, just most of the same stuff that's on here except it'll be totally on Facebook and obviously much more exciting.

1133 - Opened

2011-04-18T15:00:00.006+01:00

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Click photo for Facebook images
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The show at Recoat opened on Friday, the turn out was good and folk got pretty merry, there are numerous photos on the Recoat Flickr and Facebook set.
As ever the Recoat gang went all out on looking after me with Philly suppers and a lot of caffeinated drinks to keep us going through the nights. Cheers to everyone who made it out to check out my scribbles.

I'm planning on making a print and zine for a small event in the final week of the show, possibly with a talk, but that is still in the planning process.

The individual work will be online for sale here on Recoat's Shop.

Things done Change

2011-04-02T03:31:00.002+01:00

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More doodles, was trying to do some drawings of the Bigmeister, gotto get some better reference.

Ken,,do

2011-04-01T18:10:00.003+01:00

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Been good to use a pencil, but have been finding the paintbrush a lot better these days and any sort of shading makes my hands ache like a metherfinker.

In progress

2011-03-29T13:26:00.001+01:00

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Been working on this the last day or so and a bit.

L'Ennui - 2005

2011-03-28T08:57:00.005+01:00

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This is the illustration I did in the C215 blue book, can't believe it was 2005 when this came out. It's apparently still available here. It was quite mad for me being in that book with so many artists I was inspired by at the time.

Let downs, don't let up...

2011-03-28T01:15:00.004+01:00

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Opposite of 'winning'.

Server/Site/Emails

2011-03-26T18:30:00.004Z

My site has been transferring over to the new server today.
So far it's worked okay, few issues to fix and my emails may be down of for a while.
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Will post an update when all issues are fixed.
UPDATE: All appears to be running ok.

Mr. Bilbo Baggins

2011-03-23T12:25:00.003Z

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I've been scanning in some old drawings from primary school, so here's a out of proportion Bilbo drawing from 1985, for some reason he appears to be a giant, not a hobbit. Saw some photos of the set from The Hobbit film the other day, gonna be bingo.

1133 - HM2 Dodge version

2011-03-17T03:52:00.005Z

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This is the alt flyer, with a radio-op on it.
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There is now a page on Recoat's Facebook if yer so inclined.

1133 - Image

2011-03-16T06:18:00.005Z

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Here's the idea for the flyer. Still needs a bit to finish, but it's nearly there.
The painting is a Sharpie sketch with acrylic overpaint base, then details added in gouache and watercolour.

1133 - Recoat April

2011-03-15T23:10:00.009Z

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I've been pretty slack with getting this out. Next month, pretty much a month from now. I have an exhibition at Recoat in Glasgow. it's called 1133, I'd like to to pretend it's for some deep and meaningful reason but really it's because it's 2011 and am now aged 33. There is a tune called 'Falling Down Blues' by Furry Lewis that was a B side on release 1133 from Vocalion and I was going to call the show that, but it's a bit wino.

So it will be a mix of small scale gouache paintings, a little bit of wall painting, photography and some crude attempts at sculpture. I hope to have a small zine for sale too with sketches in, a bit like the BW book I did a while back. Possibly I'll do some limited edition prints, but that really depends on how much painting I get done between now and then, I still have a fair amount to go!

I'll post up some more info over the next week or so. Free Booze obviously.

Uptown Print in Shop

2011-03-14T19:33:00.006Z

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Click image to go to shop.
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I found a copy of this old print I did in 2009, there's only one I have here and it's on sale in my shoppe.
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It's sold noo.
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Also I've been updating all the labels in the archive, all done now. there's a lot of missing images to find though.

Materials

2011-03-13T21:58:00.007Z

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Tidied up a bit. Found loads of old pens and paint. I have a show coming up at Recoat next month so will post details very soon. The show they have on at the moment raised the bar a fair bit, if you get the chance get doon there!

Shattered 400%

2011-03-12T21:44:00.003Z

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Found this on an snowbound adventure today.

Tidy up.

2011-03-08T13:56:00.003Z

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Finally made a bit of a dent in tidying up the mess that is my studio, in a bid to actually have a surface to draw and paint on. the above pictures are some pieces I found.

Analogue Books moved to a new Shoppe

2011-03-03T23:26:00.004Z

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Analogue Books moved to a new Location, not far from the old place, infact less than a minutes walk, so go check it ooot and feast yer eyeballs on the books and zines they have. Or visit their fancy online store.

The Legend of the Dragon Smashers

2011-03-03T23:06:00.006Z

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Gouache/Watercolour. View linework here.
This is an idea I had a while back to make a swords and sorcery adventure story about a group of 3 friends who go on a quest to kill a dragon to steal it's gold. Simple enough, but I hoped to tell it in a 3 panel strip format like newspaper style, so it would be quite slow.
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I've been trying to do some comics on and off for about a year and it's really hard to get into, so I thought this would be good training to start me off. I'd get the Fonts better and make it pretty much 2 colour so it was quick to do and release weekly.

Sculpt basic - Stage 1

2011-03-03T18:52:00.005Z

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I've played about with some cardboard things like in the past, but this is a small test I made to hopefully make some more bigger ones. The arms and head can move a bit, unlike the one's I've made beforet.
My mate Bernie has a proper table saw so maybe we can get down to more detailed looking bits in a while.

Stricly Biz

2011-03-03T10:55:00.006Z

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I made a stamp of my logo a while back and needed to make business cards because I go to a lot of high powered meetings with oil tycoons and investment thieves in the big city. They are quadruple matt laminated on 400gsm oak with Spot UV and Process and cost £9000 for 100.

I figured if I could draw them and then stamp the details on the back it would be easier getting them printed. I could only find a blue ink for the stamp that looked too bright so i painted over it a bit.

That diamond mine isn't going to buy itself.

Broom Broom

2011-02-23T03:57:00.003Z

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Using some of the textures I've been making lately, quick colouring and quite rough, but I'm happy enough with it.

Redbull Stereopticon - Live Paint

2011-02-22T14:45:00.005Z

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I'll be doing some live painting this thursday in Edinburgh for Red Bull as part of their Stereopticon nights. The painting will be projected onto the McEwan Hall which should be pretty mad.

It will be on from 6.30pm-10.pm.
More info on the Facebook event page.

Spaceshuuuuuuup

2011-02-21T13:36:00.003Z

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A wee space doodlage.

"Looks no bad as a background..."

2011-02-21T02:14:00.004Z

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This is a quick test of a character on the background, (bad drawing) I created using a few different layers of paper. There's a bit of photoshop going on here and some scale issues, but in final illustration will be much busier content wise so I think it will be okay. Definitely going to explore this process further.

Texture n that.....

2011-02-19T12:43:00.003Z

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Been playing more with making rough backgrounds in real life instead of on the computer, will be a pain to scan in though, he he.

Travis Millard 2004

2011-02-19T12:38:00.002Z

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Well digging this. Travis Millard's stuff rules. From the Face of Fecal.

Pano street mini

2011-02-18T07:56:00.002Z

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The background textures on this are an experiment to create a base to then add the linework and colour. Then I should be able to block in some areas and work more detail into the rest, will post up some pics when it's done.

New painting in shop

2011-02-18T03:54:00.005Z

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Just added a small painting to my shop.
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Click the image or here to view the page.

Bike and Maschine.

2011-02-17T03:34:00.004Z

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The red and yellow one was a sketch from a small doodle, the letters are bad, but it was mainly to try out the style with a character mixing in. Been playing with layering up the acrylic bases before I lay down the watercolour and gouache on top.

Al Columbia interview

2011-02-15T15:23:00.006Z

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There's a great interview with Al Columbia over on InkStuds, I got Biologic Show from a bargain bin when I was younger and could never find any more of his work. The drawings looked quite innocent at first glance then they had this underlying eerieness seeping through, then it would be outright terror, but I couldn't stop looking.

The interview is nearly 2 hours long and gives quite an insight into the mysterious artist/musician/film maker.

Listen here. Heard it twice now already.....

Coffee

2011-02-14T16:33:00.004Z

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Well it's cheaper than buying beer, at least the basic stuff I get.

Paint sketching

2011-02-07T23:53:00.004Z

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The last few days I started doing some larger paintings on paper, I never really have much room for big canvas's and always find it hard to start a big painting on them when I do, so I decided to try these giant sketches, so far they have worked okay. Recently finding a way to varnish the detailed gouache drawings has helped progress a little too.
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This one is mostly acrylic, with a spraypaint sketch underneath.

Robot Carnival - Trailer

2011-02-01T04:33:00.003Z

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Gotto get this, looks bingo. Quite a mix of styles.

New shop stuff

2011-01-28T14:14:00.003Z

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Added a couple more paintings to my shop.

All the old Fonts

2011-01-27T05:57:00.011Z

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Over a lengthy period - where often I lose enthusiasm as kerning and resizing of typefaces is pretty dull - I have been updating all the fonts I've made. Also finally getting around to making a few that never got finished. The software has improved a lot so that's a bonus.
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A lot of them had missing characters and punctuation as they were mostly made for title purposes, so I'll add all them and also sort out some kerning problems too.
Might not happen tomorrow, but I'll post each updated version here and post links of where they are available for download.
There should be a around 15 or so which isn't too shabbers,
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The image above is of a font I made called Aulden Times, when I made it I didn't know how to import the shapes properly to Fontographer so all the letters were at different scales, this will be fixed in the new version.

New Painting

2011-01-25T22:16:00.006Z

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New painting for the start of the week. I'll be adding this and some more paintings to my Shop in the next few days.

Three's a crowd

2011-01-19T12:12:00.003Z

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Just placed together some recent sketches, been quite enjoying sketching with the Biro and then shading with the watercolour. There's a fair whack of photoshop in this though.

Square City

2011-01-19T05:09:00.003Z

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The original version I made of this much cleaner and brighter and the colours were clashed a lot more, but settled on this instead.
I'm going to do some more drawings that will suit the crazier colourschemes this week.

Holy High Fives...

2011-01-12T16:55:00.003Z

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Just wondering how Batman is going to get down. Foond on the interpipes.

Prokudin-Gorskii Photo Collection

2011-01-07T08:30:00.006Z

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Click image to visit the archive or here.
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The images in the archive were taken by Prokudin-Gorskii using a camera of his own design, with a RGB photography technique, taken between 1909-1915.

The archive is pretty vast with 2606 images, the colours produced are great too, as with a lot of photography I like the inconsistencies and misalignments that produce the super vibrant colours. The high resolution versions are available too at a giant 45 megs each. There'll probably be an App for that soon. Just kidding, don't copy that idea I'm working on it myself...

I'm a sucker for giant archives of images, I think this is what the internet was invented for, the site it's hosted on has loads more cool stuff, pilots obviously and much more. Geek oooooon.

Angular Jaeket

2011-01-06T13:59:00.004Z

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First proper bit of paintin for the new year, this one's for Marina, hopefully we possibly will produce a garment like this, later on in the year.

Happy New Years

2011-01-03T00:24:00.004Z

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Here's some animated intestinal jazz for no good reason. All the best for 2011!

Sugar Man - Sixto Rodriguez

2010-12-27T23:35:00.010Z

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Well into this tune.

Removal Service Print

2010-12-23T17:49:00.004Z

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I added an old screenprint to my Big Cartel shop, first new product in 4 years! There is only 2 left as it's from a giant edition of 5. click the image or here to visit the page.

Over the next wee while I'll try and add some paintings to it.

Brrrrrrrr

2010-12-21T14:01:00.009Z

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Cold cold cold Steve Austin in his chicken suit.

Street Colourwash

2010-12-15T00:58:00.004Z

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New A4 painting. Watercolour/gouache.

Comic Test

2010-12-14T03:43:00.000Z

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This was just a play around in Flash to try do something like a comic, the buttons at the top control it, it was some old code that can move a movie around the X and Y via button clicks. I found some of the code on a forum and reworked it, you can download it here. It's a Flash CS3 file. With a bit of tinkering I made a version that can move the clip on the X and Y and also scale it. Have a wee look here.
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I know you can do it now in HTML 5 and it's all exciting and whatnot, but I only learned Flash because the programmers I knew couldn't do what we were asking them to.

GP 2010 - Edinburgh - Glasgow

2010-12-07T17:02:00.009Z

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Click image to view tour details(Image from Paul Pope poster)
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Alternative links to individual event pages on Facebook:
Thursday 9th Edinburgh, Sygn and friday 10th Glasgow, Recoat.
The Glasgow night has an after party with location still to be disclosed.
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I'm pretty chuffed to be showing alongside Syd Mead and Paul Pope.

So come along and get bevvied, what else is there to do apart from build snowmen.

Found - Etiquette

2010-12-05T17:16:00.006Z

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I just saw this video from Found, it's 3 years old now but it's still barry.
More info here.
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On a geekier note I made a small mobile compatible site (hopefully). I won't link it up until I know it works properly, maybe if you read this drivel you could have a look and give leave a comment as to whether or not it is viewable or not and if there are any glaring mistakes in it.
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Click here to view.

Sequences

2010-12-03T22:46:00.007Z

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A year ago i made a tune for the Advanced Mechanic show called Planky Planky, today I sort of worked out how to recreate the process, but with a simple sequencer and not flash like the previous tune. It sounds very similar to what I made before, but I now have a bit more control over the sequencing.
I can't make music using real life so I have been enjoying making noises on the computer.

Snow

2010-12-03T20:08:00.003Z

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Odd thing happened on the way to the shops the other day.
This weather is messing folk up.

Space Agent

2010-12-03T09:41:00.003Z

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This was a brush pen drawing I did for the Advanced Mechanics show with Lyken,at Pageant last year, just coloured it up in photoshop a bit from the black and white version.
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I've been slowly making a phone version of my site, more of an image sampler really, for folk that are all futuristic and stuff and only view things on tiny handheld devices.

Panoramaaaa

2010-12-02T09:53:00.003Z

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Bit of a play about , I like how the buildings are all distorted, reckon this would work for painting better than digital.

Moebius Tumblr

2010-12-02T04:55:00.006Z

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Comic artist Ian McEwan aka Popjellyfish has been putting together a collection of Moebius images on a Tumblr, there's a load of good stuff there.

Why not check it oot here.

Inkwash

2010-12-01T12:52:00.002Z

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Pretty much snowed in at the moment.

Hastings

2010-12-01T05:32:00.004Z

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Stitched panorama.

Cardbeard Gouache

2010-11-30T05:14:00.006Z

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This was an old marker pen drawing on cardboard that I reworked with acrylics, watercolour and gouache. It was good to try out the gouache on a really big scale, it works really good for outlines.
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This will be on display at the Combat Calligraphy show in Liverpool, full details here.
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Click here to view flyer.

Recoat Bonus Aisle pieces

2010-11-30T00:24:00.005Z

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The pieces from Bonus Aisle at Recoat are online now at their online store.
There's a whole load of artwork on there, all for £100 and under, if you can get through the snow, or do it the new-fashioned way online.

Gamma Proforma GP2010 Tour with Absolut

2010-11-25T10:42:00.010Z

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A collision of music, graphic art and great nights in stunning venues. A one off opportunity to experience a creative 360 event.

Each exhibition begins with an exclusive launch party featuring Gamma Proforma DJs, graphic art and ABSOLUT cocktails. There's also a free GP2010 CD for all party attendees!

12 works from Syd Mead, 123Klan, Paul Pope, Phil Ashcroft, Elph, Simon Page, Nobumasa Takahashi, Rob Swain, Rhys Owens, Jared Nickerson, Alex Varanese and Christopher St. Leger will feature. In addition two of the series artists will collaborate to create an additional ’Lucky Thirteen’ piece commissioned by ABSOLUT for selected venues. If you miss the party you can still catch the exhibition during the following week at each venue.

There's more info and links to each event over here. Or on the Gamma Proforma Facebook page.

Oddbod

2010-11-20T20:44:00.004Z

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Lovechild of Frank Sidebottom, old sketch that I did a quick gouache/watercolour on top.

Dressplode

2010-11-19T04:48:00.003Z

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Playing around.

Digi inking

2010-11-18T21:27:00.004Z

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This was sorto an attempt at digital inking of this sketch. I used Manga Studio to do the outlines, it takes a bit of getting used to, recently with using gouache and acrylic on quite a small scale I think I got a bit rusty with my digital stuff.

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2010-11-17T13:26:00.002Z

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compootaranooooons

Old Hings

2010-11-16T19:29:00.005Z

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Some old sketches found whilst rooting in the bin.

Collectoids

2010-11-12T08:49:00.003Z

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Just a collected jumble of recent early morning warm up doodle paints.