just a regular day in class

my computer has keeled over and decided i can’t scan anything anymore, so while i’m giving it surgery to bring it back to life here are other things that aren’t very good:

the last of the january monsters will be up once my computer is.

also, february 1st (this tuesday) is international hourly comics day organised by john cambell from pfsc. i think you should do it, it is nice.

i also came across a blog by a lady called stephanie tillman and i can’t think of anything anyone could ever make that is more perfect than it.

this one is messy but for some reason i like it, it’s my desktop background at the moment

today’s lesson: don’t draw boxes before you draw the picture because your palm will smudge the bottom corner.

i made two versions of this that i almost couldn’t decide between. click here to see the other version.

this is a page of my note book that i quite like. done with quill and a pot of ink (i felt very edwardian).

(click for more zoomed in and also an upside-down version so you can see everything if you want to). also:

for some reason i got a formspring. i don’t know why. but if you ask me a question i will read it and most likely answer it, so do that.

number 10 is my favourite so far.

number 11 is my least favourite, i drew it when i was very tired and now i want to kill it with fire.

my computer is being a complete phallus at the moment, so this is a big update in case it throws a hissy fit and dies. here are things:

(i tried out wheatpasting)

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i’m not doing much nice drawing at the moment (those things are relatively old) because i have a bunch of exams which i have to revise a lot for, and when i do have spare time i’ve been working on a long comic. at the moment i’m just storyboarding it, it’ll be a while till it’s done. this is my favourite panel so far:

and finally, the january monsters:

pretend this says 2011. (i am easily confused.) thank you andypants for pointing that out.

everyday in january i’m drawing a monster. here’s the first six:

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my favourite is the second one.

i made this after attempting to screen print. turns out screen printing is harder than i thought.

the screen printing is because a lot of people have asked for t-shirts, so i’ve given into their quite reasonable demands. the design i’m thinking of at the moment is this:

which is loosely based on one of the dinosaur stereotypes that i drew a while ago.

EDIT: someone just asked me “is spissing a word?”, which filled me with fear. the word’s meant to be ‘spiffing’, i just do my f’s a little oddly. what word does it look like? this is kinda very important to me, i don’t want to make t-shirts with people seeing the wrong word on it.

also: january is a busy month for me so i’m sorry if things slow down.

also also: i hope 2010 was friendly to you.

i got oil paints for christmas, so i made this. it was the first time i’d ever used them, i think it went ok. they’re nice to use, i think i’ll do more.

also, i found this blog and i like it, you should read it.