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  • Listening to: triple j
  • Drinking: coffee
Shit, haven't been on here in ages. 3000 bits and pieces in my inbox, that might take a while to go through.


I've been uploading heaps of shit to my tumblr ( [link] ) but i think I'll have to start popping them onto here tonight too. So expect to see a bunch of shit coming up from me over the next few days.


So how are you guys, anyway?
  • Listening to: Birds of Tokyo
  • Reading: You'll be sorry when I'm dead - Marieke Hardy
  • Watching: adventure time
  • Eating: weet bix
  • Drinking: honey & lemon tea
So yeah, I started a Tumblr account

[link]





Still on Twitter all the time too: [link]
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Birds of Tokyo
  • Reading: You'll be sorry when I'm dead - Marieke Hardy
  • Watching: adventure time
  • Eating: weet bix
  • Drinking: honey & lemon tea
I've been on it for ages, but never posted about it here, so if anyone is interested in following a guy who mostly posts pictures of food he's cooked and complains about the weather they should click here: [link]

I do occasionally post arty stuff there too that I don't do here. Very occasionally.

Don't forget to add your own Twitter link too!
  • Mood: Pride
  • Listening to: Architecture in Helsinki
  • Reading: Peter & Max
  • Watching: true blood
  • Eating: about to chow down on a big steak
  • Drinking: water
It's been a while since I've done something like this, and I figured it was time to bring it back to life. The One Character Lineup is back! For those of you who have no idea what I'm on about, check out this gallery which features the previous few OCLs we have done: [link]

The basic idea is that I put together a collection of different artist's interpretations of a particular character. It can be a redesign, or just your version of the existing design, you're free to have fun with it!

For the returning OCL I thought it could be cool to do Captain America with the new film out and whatnot. If this takes off I'll definitely be keeping them going with a different character each month (or so...)


So what do you have to do? Simple! Just draw your take on Captain America. Redesign him, draw a specific version of him, draw him as a beaver, whatever!

Guidelines:
:bulletblue: Draw your character on a white or transparent background
:bulletblue: Your character should be a minimum of 700 pixels in height. I'll probably make them smaller, but keep them this size at least anyway
:bulletblue: I'll start a new OCL in September if this does well so try to get your entries in by the August 31. I will still take entries after that though.
:bulletblue: The pose you draw your character in doesn't have to be a boring static one, but remember that it will be in a lineup so don't do anything too nuts.
:bulletblue: Have fun!

So that's it. Easy, really. There's no prizes, no voting on the best entry or anything like that, just good ol' drawin' superheroes!
  • Mood: Pride
  • Listening to: Modest Mouse
  • Reading: Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Watching: Mad Men
  • Eating: Cereal
  • Drinking: Coffee
I've created a Facebook page for my Daily Characters. So head on over and Like it if you're interested. I'll probably pop up some polls and get some input into future characters on there soon too.

[link]
  • Mood: Eager
  • Listening to: Sigur Rós
  • Reading: wicked
  • Watching: Community
  • Drinking: lift
I just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone who has been fav'ing my stuff lately. Too many to thank individually, but it's really appreciated.



On another note, the new job I spoke about a couple of journals ago is going amazingly well. I haven't been this happy in work in a long, long time. Designing toys is just way too much fun.
  • Mood: Euphoric
  • Listening to: cold war kids
  • Reading: wicked
  • Watching: the office
  • Eating: corn flakes
  • Drinking: water
For anyone paying attention, I've been uploading some new character pics over the past week or so featuring some iconic character types which I'm calling an A-Z of Awesome (for now)

A is for Astronaut [link]
C is for Cowboy [link]
F is for Frankenstein's Monster [link]
P is for Pirate [link]

I'm thinking of doing these for a poster later on, but I've hit a bit of a snag with some of the letters. I have ideas for every letter but some I'm not 100% happy with yet, so any suggestions for any of the following would be great:

B
D (possibly dragon or dinosaur)
E
G (ghost, gladiator)
H (hunchback)
I (I'd like to do ice-man as in a frozen cave man or something but the name doesn't work...)
J
O (ogre?)
Q
T



They don't all have to be characters either I guess since I'm thinking of doing UFO and X-Ray. So yeah, thoughts?
  • Mood: Euphoric
  • Listening to: jonsi
  • Reading: wicked
  • Watching: come dine with me
  • Eating: nuts
  • Drinking: coke zero
So I just got hired as a designer for Beanie Kids. I'm pretty damn happy right now.
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Modest Mouse
  • Reading: wicked
  • Watching: the office
  • Eating: toast
  • Drinking: juice
Wow, I haven't done anything on here in ages. Things have been crazy of late with a 6 week trip around the USA and all sorts of nonsense going on. In the new year I've decided to get myself drawing more again and to get Blah Blah Blah Creations headed somewhere.

The first part is the easy one, so I've been doing daily drawings at my Blogger account. Check it out! [link]
  • Mood: Irritated
  • Listening to: office chatter
  • Reading: random comics
  • Watching: Breaking Bad
  • Eating: lunch time soon!
  • Drinking: water
I just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone for watching me, faving my stuff or adding it to collections lately. There have been a lot of you lately and I haven't had time to get around to thanking you individually. So thanks a lot guys! Hopefully I can find some time to update a bit more often soon enough
  • Mood: Amused
  • Listening to: the rain
  • Reading: Fables
  • Watching: Breaking Bad
  • Playing: poker
  • Eating: lunch time soon!
  • Drinking: water
I'm getting sick of seeing old journals on my front page, so here's a pointless one to fill in the gap.

And hey, why noy go buy some awesome stickers and stuff? [link]
  • Mood: Daily Needs
  • Listening to: regina spektor
  • Reading: masterchef australia cook book
  • Watching: Pushing Daisies
  • Playing: rabbids go home
  • Eating: the best chicken EVER
  • Drinking: About to crack open a beer or four
[link]
Hiya! I've just uploaded a character lineup of the girl monsters for my next book (Little Monsters is not the title, I just don't have one yet so it will have to do for now).

Check it out at the above link and reply here or there with which character you like the most out of them all. I'll be getting input from all over the place on these guys and girls, with the most popular characters appearing in the book more than others. Each page of the book will reveal a new monster, with it building up from one monster per page to ten, so the most popular will be in it all the way through.

And keep your eyes peeled for the boy characters coming in the next week or so :)

Blah Blah Blah Creations

Sun Dec 13, 2009, 10:18 PM
  • Mood: Daily Needs
  • Listening to: Green Day
  • Reading: Sandman
  • Watching: Pushing Daisies
  • Eating: Chocolate Muffin
  • Drinking: Water
www.blahblahblahcreations.com.au

Hey guys,

Time to get that old journal off the front page, so why not replace it with a plug?

www.blahblahblahcreations.com.au will be up and running early in the new year (I hope!) so keep your eyes peeled for that. Join the mailing list to be kept in touch!

For now you can head over to my eBay store to check out the available products or become a fan on Facebook.

I'm putting up options for custom paintings on eBay soon so I'll keep you informed here.

Photoshop (?) help.

Mon Nov 23, 2009, 5:21 PM
  • Mood: Frustrated
HeroCorp Fanart and Trades



Hey all, I need a bit of help with putting together something for work. I have been told this can be done in Photoshop, but I'm struggling to work it out. See the pic above there? Basically we want to set up a standard bedroom shot and then be able to easily apply different bedding designs to the shot. The photo above has the same bed shape, background etc and the actual designs are then just applied to it. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

I'm currently playing around with Displace mapping, but I'm not sold on that being the answer yet.

HELP!

Blah Blah Blah Creations

Sat Aug 22, 2009, 3:06 PM
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Lisa Mitchell
  • Reading: USA Travel guides
  • Watching: iron chef
  • Playing: crazy planets
HeroCorp Fanart and Trades

Hey hey!

Just a quick note to let you all know that the Blah Blah Blah Creations website is up and running (sort of, we have our under construction/coming soon page up) but from there you can link to our eBay store, Twitter and Facebook pages to keep in touch. So if anyone is interested, head on over, join the mailking list and stay updated for any new product developments. The webpage will eventually have an online store and some other fun stuff on there but that will wait until we get a few more products finished up and ready to go. There will be a few new products going into the eBay store next week too.

:)

  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Dananananaykroyd
  • Reading: Superman -Kryptonite
  • Watching: ratatoiulle
  • Eating: bacon & eggs shortly
  • Drinking: water
HeroCorp Fanart and Trades

Just a quick journal to let you all know that I probably won't be around here much over the next few months. I've got a few jobs to work on and I really need to knuckle down and get some designs done for Blah Blah Blah Creations. I'll still pop my head in once or twice a week to check out what is going on, but I really don't have the time to do much more.

I'll keep you all posted on what is going on with the business in the near future. :)

July Jam - Autobots Lineup

Mon Jul 20, 2009, 6:06 AM
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: pulp - common people
  • Reading: young avengers
  • Watching: attack of the show
  • Drinking: water
HeroCorp Fanart and Trades

For the next two we'll be doing something a little different. The lineups will not be featuring just one character, they will be Transformers themed. For July we'll be doing Autobots, August will be Decepticons.

Who's drawing who:
~piotrov Arcee
*striffle Beachcomber
*QueenBex Blacker
~LilBlackenedBunny Blades
~satchwar Bumblebee
~EnigmaticEmpress Chromia
~JacobDobson Cliffjumper
~Gonzocartooncompany Eject, Rewind, Steeljaw, & Ramhorn
~omegar112 Grimlock
*thelegendofjer Grotusque
~deviant526 Hot Rod
*striffle Hot Shot
~DF16 Huffer
~DF16 Ironhide
~jakester2008 Jazz
*MarkDobson Jetfire
~VOLT-reborn Omega Prime
=mangaangel Optimus Prime
~DF16 Prowl
~CubaNectie Ratchet
~Malicious-Alice Roulette
~joey-the-bald Seaspray
~Stegoceras Snarl
~fryguy64 Striker
~Hartter Swoop
*Mr-DNA Sunstreaker
~roadkillroy Tracks
~theshadowranger Ultra Magnus
~NuclearConvoy Victory Leo
~DF16 Wheelie
~LovgrenO Wheeljack
*Gpapanto Wreck-Gar

:thumb129080178:

Here's how it will work:

:bulletred: Each person wishing to take part should name THREE Autobots they wish to draw. Your number one choice will be taken if available, but if it is not available your number two and so on. So first in best dressed!
:bulletred: If you need some help in choosing characters, head on over to the a href=[link]">Transformers Wiki Here is a link to a list of Autobots, but it might not be all of them still [link]
:bulletred: I will list all of the characters and who they are assigned to in this journal so you can see who has chosen what, but there still may be people that contact me via note or not in a journal reply so please list three characters so you don't miss out.
:bulletred: Since there are multiple versions of a lot of the characters I will only accept one version of each Autobot. This way there won't be four different Bumblebees etc.
:bulletred: Once you've drawn one character, feel free to pick another to draw but don't go too nuts and take all the good ones early.
:bulletred: Please draw the characters in their robot mode. They'll all fit together much better this way. I may allow some exceptions to this rule with characters like the Dinobots etc. Ask me first though!
:bulletred: You can choose characters from any Transformers franchise (Generation 1, film, animated, etc)
:bulletred: You can draw the characters in any style you'd like
:bulletred: I might accept entries for some human characters if people want to take part but don't want to draw a Transformer.
:bulletred: Since this is a lineup, full bodied pictures only
:bulletred: Entries should be on a plain white background.
:bulletred: Entries should be at least 800 pixels in height.
:bulletred: I'd prefer your entries to be in colour, but it's not the end of the world if they aren't.
:bulletred: Anyone can join in
:bulletred: Have fun with it!

One Character Lineup : Wonder Woman

Mon Jun 29, 2009, 5:27 PM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: phoenix
  • Reading: some superman collection I got from the library
  • Watching: Chuck
  • Drinking: water
HeroCorp Fanart and Trades


See something you like? Go fav the original!
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This month's lineup features Wonder Woman. For more details check out the below info:

Guidelines:
:bulletred: You may only submit ONE entry
:bulletred: You may draw Wonder Woman in any style you choose. You can use an existing version or redesign her however you want.
:bulletred: Since this is a lineup, full bodied pictures only
:bulletred: Entries should be on a plain white background.
:bulletred: Entries should be at least 800 pixels in height.
:bulletred: I'd prefer your entries to be in colour, but it's not the end of the world if they aren't.
:bulletred: There's no real deadline. I'll be starting the next OCL at the start of July so the focus will be on the next one after that so try and get entries in by then.
:bulletred: Anyone can join in
:bulletred: Have fun with it!

For examples of the previous OCLs check out the following: [link]

One Character Lineup : Wolverine

Sun May 31, 2009, 5:15 AM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: augie march
  • Watching: rove
  • Playing: guitar hero metallica
  • Drinking: warm spiced mead
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Vote for next month's OCL here.

See something you like? Go fav the original!
:thumb121637056: :thumb121818912: :thumb121891561: :thumb122234602:





May is here (already!) which means it's time for another One Character Lineup. This month, to celebrate the release of the his movie the lineup will be focused on Wolverine. Details below:

Guidelines:
:bulletred: You may only submit ONE entry
:bulletred: You may draw Wolverine  in any style you choose. You can use an existing version or redesign him however you want.
:bulletred: Since this is a lineup, full bodied pictures only
:bulletred: Entries should be on a plain white background.
:bulletred: Entries should be at least 800 pixels in height.
:bulletred: I'd prefer your entries to be in colour, but it's not the end of the world if they aren't.
:bulletred: There's no real deadline. I'll be starting the next OCL at the start of May so the focus will be on the next one after that so try and get entries in by then.
:bulletred: Anyone can join in
:bulletred: Have fun with it!

For examples of the previous OCLs check out the following: [link]



If you have a Joker entry left you can still get that in too, but the focus is on Wolvie now. This lineup will continue on until early June.

ARTJAM : Joker One Character Lineup

Thu Apr 30, 2009, 5:01 AM
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: vampire weekend
  • Reading: Batman Showcase vol 1
  • Watching: underbelly
  • Playing: Madworld
  • Drinking: water
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Just a quick note to let you know that I won't be starting the next lineup until next week now as I'm off camping for the weekend. As for the topic of the next one, it'll be featuring a certain hairy little mutant who has had his very own movie just released today...





Well it looks like the Joker has won the poll, so he's going to be the subject of the next One Character Lineup. Don't worry if you wanted someone else to get the nod, these are going to be ongoing for quite a while (I hope!) so most of the others in the poll will get their time in the OCL spotlight.

For those of you who don't know what I'm blathering on about, Check out these two links for the previous OCLs [link] [link]

Guidelines:
:bulletred: You may only submit ONE entry
:bulletred: You may draw the Joker in any style you choose. You can use an existing version or redesign him however you want.
:bulletred: Since this is a lineup, full bodied pictures only
:bulletred: Entries should be on a plain white background.
:bulletred: Entries should be at least 800 pixels in height.
:bulletred: I'd prefer your entries to be in colour, but it's not the end of the world if they aren't.
:bulletred: There's no real deadline. I'll be starting the next OCL at the start of May so the focus will be on the next one after that so try and get entries in by then.
:bulletred: Anyone can join in
:bulletred: Have fun with it!


The Jokers:
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