Saturday 31 December 2016

Happy New Year.

Is it weird that I kind of wish 2016 was a person, so I could then beat it mercilessly with a plank, and then back over them in a car a few times, maybe, and then finish by setting 2016 on fire and burying it in the woods late at night? Or is that just me…?

Hope everyone had a good Christmas last week, and a Happy New Year for tonight. I myself have been spending my Xmas holiday thusly:

Catching up on Game Of Thrones: Where my unhealthy Melisandre Of Asshai crush thickens. One of my New Year resolutions for 2017, I fear, must be to stop crushing on mean girls.

Wondering how long a chest infection can humanly go on for: If you are currently suffering one, too, I’ve found sucking on a really strong cough lozenge while having a super hot shower helps… well… for a little while, anyway.

Watching people play the beta on youtube of Friday The 13th: Also watching people play Dead By Daylight and Lakeview Cabin. Man, it really is a golden age for Slasher video-games right now.

While I, like many people, won’t be sorry to see the back of 2016, it has had some highs also. It’s been great to launch Babayka Land this year and move Babayka-Lives forward. I’ve also enjoyed branching out and starting to work with other artists and models, which is something I wanna keep going in 2017. I have at least one big project coming working with someone else next year, and possible some more models and monsters pin-ups in the pipeline, as well as one or two side-projects. I can’t really make any promises right now, as when working with other artists\models, stuff can and does fall through, so all I can say is watch this space.

Also, there’s only a few more instalments of Babayka Land to go, as we head into 2017, before I take a very short break in the New Year, and return soon after that. Until then, tune in to Babayka-Lives this weekend to see if Newton and his sister can safely escape with their new friends.

So HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE… I very much hope 2017 turns out to be the lifeboat fleeing the shipwreck that was 2016.

Sunday 25 December 2016

The Stash.


I think we can all agree you can judge whether someone has been a good or bad boy that year by the quality of the presents Santa brings them on the big day. So here’s how I made out this year.

Clearly Santa was going for a bit of a Slasher theme this Christmas.

Saturday 24 December 2016

Merry Xmas 2016.


The good news is, like Santa, today I come bearing gifts. The bad news is, also like Santa, first I insist you sit on my lap, and have been known to randomly turn up in your house in the early hours of the morning looking for milk of cookies.

Gift One: Since it’s the season for sharing, I thought I’d share this photo of a pin-up I’m currently working on, which is halfway through being inked. As you can probably see, this new piece of art features the return of The Skinny-Dipper Ripper himself… Uncle Gnaw. A character I’m trying to develop a little in my spare time. No doubt readers have probably notices I’ve been flirting pretty hard with the Slasher genre this year.

Gift Two: Because nothing says Christmas more than mercenaries trying to wipe out a pack of wolves with a flamethrower, here’s this weekend’s Christmas Eve edition of Babayka-Lives (which, FYI, has nothing to do with Xmas). Will this bold move be enough to save their lives? Tune in today to find out.

So it being Christmas Eve, I should really wish all readers a Merry Xmas. Hope you all have a good one, and get a chance to detox a little from the mind-fuck that was 2016. I will be about over Xmas if anyone still wants to get their feedback in at the usual address. Fair warning, though, I’m now officially breaking out the booze, as it’s both the weekend and Christmas.

P.S. Does it feel weird that Brides Of Babayka ended just over a year ago now, folks? Feels weird to me.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Three Years Old Today.

As mentioned previously, today is the third birthday of my horror webcomic series, Babayka-Lives. This third year has been a lot more easy going than the first two. During the first two years I had to deal with losing my internet connection twice for long periods for no reason, until the only way I could fix it was to change internet provider. And of course the biggest set back was in January 2015, when my site was hacked beyond repair, and had to be moved and rebuilt. Therefore compared to 2014 and 2015, I have to say 2016 has been a lot less stressful. I think the closes I came to missing an update this year, was back in January, when I was so chilled out from resting over Xmas and New Year, that I forgot what day it was, and thought a Saturday was a Friday, and didn’t realize my mistake and post that week’s instalment till lunch time.

Truth be told, I was a little nervous going into Book 2 this year, as I was a little worried a lot of readers might jump ship after Brides Of Babayka ended in late 2015, but was happy to see that wasn’t the case. So a big thank you to all my regular readers throughout 2016. From spooky Babayka back-story lore, to poor, lone, Canadian, lesbian hockey players being taking out while fleeing on the moors of Krayvengrad, to Wolfpacks being burnt to a crisp by a mean, bearded mercenary with a flamethrower… No one can say it hasn’t been an eventful year over on Babayka-Lives. And hope people are looking forward to 2017, and travelling deeper into Krayvengrad.    

And for anyone wondering… yes… there will be an instalment of Babayka-Lives this Christmas eve. So tune in for a day early Xmas present this Saturday.

Thursday 15 December 2016

From Motel Hell.


I have no idea if this Vincent Smith (in killer pig mask mode) from Motel Hell figure is real or fan-made, but I think it’s very cool, none the less. I actually only saw Motel Hell for the first time a couple of years ago, when they put it out on Blu-Ray here in the UK. I kind of like that it has an unofficial Texas Chainsaw Massacre spin-off feel to it. Who knows… maybe their real family name was Sawyer, and they change it to Smith for safety? Isn’t Smith the first name people think of when they have to think up a fake second name?

While I don’t really collect many, if any, action figures myself (because of lack of funds and space for them), I am a big fan of the look of a good action figure, however. Like I’ve said before, I don’t think a characters made it in pop culture, until he\she has been turn into an action figure. Readers might well remember I got so into the idea, I even drew a mock-up Yana action figure in box back in 2015. One day I may well get around to doing a Babayka one, too, if I ever get the time.

Be sure to tune into Babayka-Lives this weekend… where the wolfpack onslaught continues.

Friday 9 December 2016

Feedback Wanted.

I thought since I haven’t put a call out for feedback for a while now, I’d sneak in a quick one before Xmas. We’re almost at the end of another year of Babayka-Lives action, what with the series hitting its third anniversary on the 20th this month. So it feels timely to do so now, and I’d love to hear readers thoughts on Book 2: Babayka Land. So if anyone has any thoughts, comments or questions, as always, you’re very welcome to send them either via Note through my Deviantart page, or to the usual email address.

Possible feedback topics could include… Is there anything that’s come up in Babayka Land that has left readers perplexed? Who’s your favourite character from Book 2 and why? Scariest or favourite scene thus far, perhaps? Anyone you’d like to see return from Book 1: Brides Of Babayka?

Or even non-Babayka related feedback is welcome, if you have thoughts, questions or feedback on other recent artwork of mine. Is there any pin-ups you’d like to see a follow-up to? Any horror or peril theme you’d like to see me tackle in 2017? Would you like to see more models and monsters mash-ups, maybe?

As always, I do make an effort to reply to all non-troll-y feedback. So if you have any, I’d love hear it, or answer any questions you might have.

And don’t forget to tune into tomorrow’s instalment of Babayka-Lives, where we find out what happens when wolfpack meets flamethrower. Only one can prevail… find out who this weekend.

Wednesday 7 December 2016

Currently Reading.


I always knew sooner or later I was gonna give this book a try. Just as a fan of both lead characters, I found them being apart through most of Book 2 and 3, and then knowing they’d never properly be reunited kind of a bummer. You can clearly see that wasn’t where the relationship between them was meant to end, at the end of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest. Honestly, I would have preferred if someone had finish off the 70% complete forth Stieg Larsson book, and kind of hope that still happens one day.

I’m not really gonna give this book a massive review, as I’m only 167-pages into it so far. While it does clearly lack that Stieg Larsson touch, I am kind of enjoying it. I’ve notice there seems to be less love and story for supporting characters, like Erika Berger (although this might change later in the book), as the pacing is more like that of the movies.

I have to confess, I still don’t know how I feel about the idea of authors’ characters being carried on after their deaths. As of right now, I’m leaning more towards ‘necessary evil‘, to keep that character (or in this case ‘those characters‘) alive. I can see why, and in many ways am, one of those people who want to see new adventures starring Blomkvist and Salander.

Saturday 3 December 2016

Dirty, Stinking Mutts.

It’s not often that an instalment of Babayka-Lives has so little dialogue in it, you could fit it into the title of a blog post… but today’s update is one of those rare occasions.

Enjoy… as things start to heat up in Krayvengrad.