1) The original used a font, this time I wanted to use 100% original text drawn especially for it.
2) I redesigned the tea bloke. No odd censor bar anymore and he hasn't been knocked up in ten minutes flat this time. He's going to have a bigger role on the new website.
3) Tea N Crumpets Version 2 should hopefully be ready for around March 2010, which is when I'll be at the UK Web + Comix Thing in London, so I'd like to sell this as a print there.
So far I'm not 100% sure if this is final, I need some Critique on it so I can get it as good as I can. I re-drew the hand holding the mug a hundred times but I'm still not sure about it, and the area to the right of him (where the E of Tea and the N of not are) seems a bit bare. I have a alternative two-tone version below, to see which one peeps prefer.
EDIT: Added a .co.uk to the box he's standing at. Does that make sense or will people think the address is AF.co.uk?
I'm not one to just slap someone elses' Youtube video up and call it a day (not too often, anyway), but this really deserves all the exposure it can get if you ask me. I've watched it multiple times just to take it all in, so much is crammed into 3 and a half minutes and it's an absolute riot. The music is funky as as hell too. I love how each scene has it’s own main colour, so when they all start to crossover it’s clear which is from where even if it’s moving so fast. While you're at it check out the directors website, some sweet illustrations and more films there.
The Pingwings DVD from the Dragon's Friendly Society. Early 60's Oliver Postgate series set on the grass by his barn starring early-clanger like penguins. You just cannot go wrong with good ol' Postgate, bless his soul.
Some DS games including the elusive My Japanese Coach. May as well see if it motivates me to learn even a small hint of the language considering how many Japanese lanuage games I seem to own. So far though it's just making me hit gohphers on the head that are holding words up like 'Kamikaze' and 'arigato'. Hmm. That's only within the first fiver minutes though, so we'll see. Also Little Red Riding Hood Zombie BBQ. Does that sound badass or what?
Also the Simon's Cat book from my sis, some Sonic toys, a nice sonic wallet to replace my battered up Zim one, some shirts yadda yadda yadda. You're not interested in this stuff, are you?
The last week I've also been moving from my small old bedroom to a bigger room in the house. I had been in that room since we moved into the house when I was about 1! I have no idea how I got all my stuff in there, it was rather claustrophobic but now I have enough room for all my junk including that bulky Mega Drive rotating stand thingy and even a new double bed I bought. So comfy! :3
What a nice surprise from my mate Xyionan! Here's his own design that puts me in a rather different classic Mickey Mouse type get up, and even has me in colour on one half and black and white the other! I guess my rambling about that Epic Mickey game while watching one of his Livestreams' influenced this design. :)
I noticed Stacey had a rather nice massive archive of her old and new art up on Live Journal, so I thought I'd have a go at that too! Why not? They give you 1GB of space for images which has been a lot more space than I expected, and I've been uploading tons of stuff over the past week, going mainly by year but there is also tags for things like fan art and some projects like Lucy Lolly. Furthest back I'm going is 2002 for now, might do 2001 as well though. Been finding and scanning some stuff i either forgot I did, didn't finish or pulled from DeviantArt ages ago. Incoming self indulgent history of how my drawing has gotten less and less frequent over the years!
2002. Ah bless! High school, mainly using MS paint, big time into anime, and getting my first computer at home. A lot of my spare time this year (and some of the next) was spent on a fan game called Sonic Switch which got a little too ambitious in the end (so in turn was never completed) but had a lot of my first experiments in animating on a computer for the first time, long before I discovered Flash. My Interwebs alias at this time was 'Manga-Manic'.
2003. Discovered Photoshop! College begins! My website Manga-Gaga was my main focus, as a lot of the art will show, and there was some other things like art I did for a fan game called Chaos Control by a friend who went by the name of MJ2 (and is apparently now a professional Basketball player!) as well as a planned game spin off to the comic Gagapow. Still mostly animu/Sonic stuff here then. This is the largest folder of stuff so far, funnily enough.
2004. The year my art started to shift to pretty much how it has stayed since, all goofy and silly, with the anime style stuff on the side. was really enjoying mucking about with paints for backgrounds and using this paper that I've never found out what it's even called that has a nice texture for inking biro onto.
2005. Darn, what was I running on this year? I don't think I've ever been as active drawing as I was in 2005, there's quite a bit of variety of stuff here and typography dominating images became a thing with me for a bit. This was the year my final college project Tea N Crumpets began 9and starting Uni was also this year) so I wanted to really boost my portfolio. Was also really quite giving this year: lots of gift art for friend's birthdays on DeviantArt.
2006. Animation started to take more of my time than before for Uni and in my spare time so the illustrations start to slow down a bit here. Not much to say as it was a pretty event-less year in this area..
2007. Again, not a lot of individual illustrations here as my main focus was animation projects like the Howdooyoodoo and Lucy Lolly, so a lot of it is concept art and sketches from those.
2008. Lucy Lolly was pretty much the first half of this year, and the other half was er...not a lot. Yikes, my drawing productivity has really gone down the drain by this point..
2009: Where we are now and hopefully some more will get in there before the year is over. Again I have an excuse in that most of my drawing energy went into Cool 2 Chil which as I've mentioned before was around 800 or so inked pages.
God dam, why did I just write all that? I could of just linked you to the page and be done with it but I ended up with this long rant. Ho hum!
Check out this art I did for the guys over at the Dreamcast Junkyard for the latest game to be released on the system. This was Tuesday Night's livestream. Click it to go over to the DCJY blog where you can download it as a wallpaper is various sizes (don't normally put my art out online as big as the biggest wallpapers of this. In case you're curious about the game you can read up about it here.
Just a quick update to inform you that Cosmic-Hero.com is back up and running meaning Tea N Crumpets (and Manga-Gaga) are back up too, hooray! Thanks Ace for sorting that out! Just need to re-update Tea N Crumpets as the back up used is missing the most recent update. Will get onto that in a short while.
A remake of this: [link] for several reasons:
