Invasion.

I don’t usually give my artwork titles. To tell the truth it doesn’t even cross my mind half the time until I’ve scanned it and have to name the file. But with this image I think the title would have to be ‘Invasion.’

No Way.

It’s nice to be back online. It’s even nicer to be able to check my emails first thing in the morning when I get up even if it only Play.com and Amazon emailing me at the moment trying to make me buy more things I don’t really need.

My latest nasty habit is constantly looking movies up on Wikipedia. If I see a film on TV or buy a new DVD it not long before I’m looking it up on Wiki. It gotten so bad I’ve even started looking up films I want to watch now. I’ve wanted to watch Maximum Overdrive again for a while now. I saw it years ago and lately I’ve been wanting to watch it again. So for no good reason apart from that I looked it up on Wikipedia and was reading about the movie when I came to the trivia section and around fact number ten it reads-

“While shooting the scene where the steamroller rampages across the baseball diamond, Stephen King requested that the SFX department place a bag of fake blood near the dummy of a young player who would be run over by it. The desired effect would be that a smear of blood would appear on the steamroller and be re-smeared on the grass over and over, like a printing press. While filming the scene, however, the bag of blood exploded too soon and sprayed everywhere, making it appear as if the boy's head had also exploded. King was thrilled with the results, but censors demanded the shot be cut. According to the TNT MonsterVision broadcast of the movie, when King showed the uncut footage to zombie film director George A. Romero, Romero was nauseated to the point of actually vomiting.”

George Romero throwing up at a movie gore effect? I find that hard to believe. The guy who made all those Zombie movies where Zombies eat flesh and people get pulled apart like soggy tissues. In fact he always seem to get off on the gore in his films. I would of thought if anyone on the planet would have the stomach for it, it would be him… But then again it is on the Internet so… I guess it got to be true. Your not allowed to lie on the Internet. There’s probably laws against it or something.

Been listening to 8Bit FM a lot these past couple of days. I used to really be into Internet radio when I first got on the net but don’t really listen to it that much now. One problem is good web radio stations tend to appear then disappear very quickly.

Back Online.

So a couple of week’s back I was awoken by the loudest noise I’d ever heard in my life. While I was sleeping a summer thunderstorm was raging outside and lighting must of struck a little to bloody close. It was like being woken by a bomb going off. And then just as I was getting over that rude awakening the silence was then broken again by the sound of a fire truck honking it horn as it was unable to make it way down the street as cars were parked to far out into the road on either side blocking its path. Why someone had called a fire truck I don’t know. Sure lighting must of struck something in the area but as far as I know nothing was on fire and what the lighting hit I still don’t know. A car outside? A lamppost? who knows? Just glad it wasn’t me.

Anyway that was just the start of the fun. After getting up the next morning I turned on my laptop to check my emails and found it was on battery and when I turned it on at the mains it was still saying it was on battery. Great I thought. The power led has crapped out and I was going to have to buy a new one again. I’d only replaced it about a year and a half ago. “I’ll just quickly check my emails and then switch it off to save the battery,” I thought only to find it wasn’t letting me onto the net either. At the time I wasn’t sure but after a few stressful days of checking with phone companies and Internet companies it turns out my modem had gone as well. For the last couple of weeks I’ve had to check my emails in Internet cafes (nothing like paying to check your emails when you know you’ve got the Internet at home.) It all been very crappy and stressful but I’m back online now (for the moment at least) with a new power led that keeps falling out (really poorly made considering how much it was) and my Brother got me hooked up with a new modem… well a new, old modem. My laptop doesn’t do routers and my Internet provider doesn’t do modems. It was all one big headache.

So I’m back online and trying to catch up on it all. I’ve got emails to deal with and podcasts to download. A few weeks back I kind of got hooked on listening to them when I draw and apart from not being able to check my emails (which I found super annoying, almost to breaking point) I think I missed being able to listen to podcasts as I draw a close second.

Hopefully get some new artwork posted up soon as well. Just as soon as I get a chance to scan them. I put some of my newer pin ups, up on my Myspace profile the day before everything went tits up so check them out if you haven’t already.

Kissy, Kissy.

I think the summer heat must be getting to me when I start drawing things like the image above. Lovesick, hideous Monsters trying to steal a kiss. I blame it on heat stroke.

This image put up a bit of a fight in places and for a while I was a bit worried it was going to get away from me and I was going to end up messing it up. The weird thing is it wasn’t the hideous creature on the right that was the problem but more getting the look right on the women on the left. Actually the Monster kind of fell into place pretty easily even though I hadn’t maybe planned him out as well as I could have. Where as the women (maybe because I just wanted to get the right reaction in her look) I kept having to go back to again and again. There’s always the question of when you should let a piece of artwork go. Especially in comics when sadly time is a big factor. As I look at it now I’m pretty happy with it but knowing me I’ll probably look at it again at some point today and something will no doubt bug me about it.

I really hate drawing in this heat. It to hot and to nice outside not to try and enjoy this rare weather, so when you are stuck indoors it seems a bit wrong. I usually try and wait till night to start doing any artwork but even the nights are boiling.