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Froudian Slips
I remembered today, while correcting a freudian slip in a job application that, at least according to Google, I seem to have cornered the market on the term “Froudian Slip“, where a goblin-esque face...
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Today’s DeviantArt Additions Roundup
Been a little bored, so scanned a few things and mashed them through some editing software to post online – collected in one foul swoop for you all then: Profile2 Construct Sketch Wyrmtrace v2.0 gives...
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Artwork Evolution I
Stages of Development As may already be patently obvious I’m always developing and playing around with pieces. There’s a few I’ve done where it hasn’t started out as a trackable before and after series...
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Artwork Evolution II
Observers Comparison I can’t find the original biro sketch that this would have come from, but the piece on the left has only minimal post-scanning work done on it to clean up odds and ends. The second...
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Artwork Evolution III
Side by side of original digital sketch and final version of Portrait The image on the right is currently gaining attention on Deviant Art, so I thought I’d share the original digital sketch on the...
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So I Got A Tattoo
As I sit here, wrapping Christmas presents and wondering why most of my US-based friends are acting a bit odd today it suddenly occurs that I’ve not updated in a week or so and I’ve actually had quite...
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Home Decorations
While sorting out odds and ends for table decorations for the wedding I saw a couple of items in the warehouse and my brain went ‘click’ – I’ve a small collection of crysals and semi-precious stones...
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The Homemade Wedding Album
Its something of a work in progress but while we continue to try and get everyone else’s photos so that we can do something interesting with them, I’ve been taking a kind of scrap-booking approach to...
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Costume Developments
We spent a good portion of last weekend making papier mache and experimenting with acrylic paints and ink and I have to say the results are starting to look quite good. With the rest of the costume...
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Sketches and Stuff
This is a doodle in one of my notebooks I doodle pretty much all the time, which has led some to query whether it is actually doodling or conscious art. My general attitude is: something I’ve started...
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Fiction Fragment: Board Meeting Announcement
Doodles and writing I’ve just been transcribing from my notebooks and found this scrawled next to a sketch of some kind of alien (nothing unusual about that if you’ve ever looked at my notebooks or...
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Slow but Steady
I’m not saying my day was slow, but I had time between customers, book wrapping, stock control and making hot drinks to doodle a bit, well quite a lot. If nothing else it distracted a number of people...
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Sketches and Stuff
This is a doodle in one of my notebooks I doodle pretty much all the time, which has led some to query whether it is actually doodling or conscious art. My general attitude is: something I’ve started...
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Slow but Steady
I’m not saying my day was slow, but I had time between customers, book wrapping, stock control and making hot drinks to doodle a bit, well quite a lot. If nothing else it distracted a number of people...
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Inktober Seventeen and Eighteen
So, after nearly a week’s break, we’re back with the Inktober round-up of posts inspired by the list below: Fortunately I’ve generally been able to keep broadly up to date with the pieces despite being...
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Inktober Nineteen and Twenty
We’re on what feels like both the final approach and yet still a long slide towards the end of the month with the Inktober project. All month I’ve been inspired by complex and hyperdetailed ink...
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Inktober Twenty-One and Twenty-Two
And so here we go into the last ten pictures for October and this amazing challenge. Last year I didn’t complete the whole thing, largely because I came into it by accident and didn’t even know where...
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Inktober Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four
I was just starting to feel unwell as an unpleasant bug that’s doing the rounds decided to take a run at my immune system. As a result, I had a couple of days where I didn’t keep up with the pace of...
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Inktober Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six
We’re nearly there folks. I took a couple of days break at this point in the challenge due to health but quickly sketched these two before we headed out to the hotel for the weekend at MCM. These are...
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Inktober Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight
These are another two that didn’t get done in their respective days because we were at MCM London Comiccon Fortunately they were both really simple as inspirations go, so sitting down to do them when...
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