Sunday 13 November 2011

Granny on the boat!






















If you have a mum who lives on a narrow boat and you have just bought her a chicken sculpture made of rusty steel for her birthday, please feel free to download and print this birthday card wot I made

How do you make a duck sing country?
Stick it in the oven till its bill withers!
- Intermediate Dad Joke No 407

Never explain your own Dad Jokes; it’s akin to returning to a lit firework!

Friday 21 October 2011

Thursday 20 October 2011

Real life 3D modelling!

Sometimes you have to build stuff in the real world - it helps you build in the virtual - honest.
You dont have to build a kennel - a Tamyia kit will do.








Q. Why do the Elephants have Big Ears?
A. Because Noddy wont pay the ransom!
- Intemediate Dad Joke No 131

Friday 7 October 2011

annuvver white paper concept


White Paper Games

This isn’t about me!

Its just a quicky but it really was done for Ben and Pete –they’ve set up a company and they’re gonna make an episodic game! Its just in its infancy but have a look if ya wanna know more http://whitepapergames.wordpress.com/

Sunday 25 September 2011

sort of for Pete and Ben!

Painted as fast as my little fingers can work! Not that I have little fingers - what! I'm not saying Ben and Pete aren't worth spending time on. They are I'm sure - I just didn't. Peas. Out. What! - ive not even started drinking yet! That in itself needs sorting - I'm off to my Irish themed drinking shed to celebrate. My beetroot pochin must be safe to drink by now!


Whats happened to the Dad Jokes?

Friday 23 September 2011

Side Track - Fantasy Guff!


This was s'posed to be a mood piece for Ben and Pete - it hasn't ended up anything to do with them and their game - ME ME ME - again?

Tuesday 20 September 2011

A Slice of some world - somewhere - what? yes? why? dont touch that! Get off my lawn!


3d test/exercise - for me, not you! It has nothing to do with you. Not everything is about you!
Testing modelling and normal map skills cos ohhhh do i not like 'plastic wrap' environments. If ya know what i is on about - Nuff! Peas! Out!


This is about me -
Me, Me, Me - get over yourself - GOD!

"Ooooh, lost valley of the dinosaurs" - tell me where that comes from and you win a... a.... virtual back pat! or summut!

Sunday 4 September 2011

Friday 5 August 2011

Quick paint whilst boys watch three Shaun the Sheeps and a Scooby-Doo!


“The atmosphere was in-tents at The Annual Scout Jamboree”
- Intermediate Dada Joke No 38 (Dad word-play)

Tuesday 19 July 2011

A very Quick and Silly Dinosaur in Six Easy Steps

Step 1
Draw, in Biro, a silly dinosaur on a soon to be demolished kitchen wall. Explain to small children that you should never draw on walls and that Daddy had been a bit naughty!



Step 2
Take a picky of the drawing, import it into a drawing package and make the drawing layer a ‘Multiply’ Layer. Explain that it is not just Biro that you should not draw on walls with – it’s all pens or pencils!
“Crayons?”
“No, not crayons either”


Step 3
Create a ‘Normal’ Layer under the drawing Layer and block or blob in your colour. Explain again that in hindsight Daddy had been very silly and should never, ever, have drawn on the wall.



Step 4
Create an ‘Overlay’ Layer above the colour Layer and using black and white, create some shadow/depth to your image. After further questioning, feel the need to point out that it is not just walls that you should not draw on!


Step 5
Create another ‘Normal’ Layer on the top of all the layers to add in the stuff you want to ‘sing’ like the eye, teeth and claws. At this point you may want to tidy up any scruffy stuff on the other layers and point out that; on no account should you ever draw on furniture!


Step 6
Find a (royalty free) texture on the internet without much colour information (greyscale) and use it in an ‘Overlay’ Layer, rubbing out the bits you don’t want to create a bit of texture – a leather texture in this case. Add your poncey signature and explain that because daddy was silly and drew on the wall, the wall now has to be demolished!


Thursday 26 May 2011

2nd iPad pic



And test to see if you can blog from an iPad
I tell ya - I'm Cutting Edge me




Tuesday 24 May 2011

Fridge of the Future - not on Ice!

We pay a visit to our old friend Professor Simon Sommerville in his underground laboratory in the Faculty of Food and Aeronautics at the University of Central Calrissian to check on the progress of his Fridge of the Future ‘Fridge 209’.
“We have had some teething problems” explained Colonel Sommerville “Fridge 209 tends to over stock itself with Chicken Dippers. As such its recipes and menu suggestions are fairly limited” Lord Sommerville went on to say “Fridge 209 sent me a text message late one night earlier this week. It was garbled and looked more like swear words than a temperature update but it does show that we have achieved some reasonable level of AI function. Bizarrely, the next morning, we found sixteen empty Stella Artois cans hidden in its salad drawer – Hiccups are to be expected with a project this ambitious”
We shall be returning to check on developments with Sir Simon and his Fridge of the Future in the coming months so ‘watch this column’.
Reporter – Catharine Scat-Harness

Thursday 12 May 2011

Thursday 21 April 2011

Had to do summut!

Tiny five minute number to keep me from going mad!


"Wall's have ears!"
- Intemediate Dada Joke No 108 (word-play deployed in vacinity of someone eating a sausage)

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Stop gAp!

Arm not better - worse! Pain killers changed to help me float through the day!

Tuesday 12 April 2011

nO pOsTing? What tHe fliBbin' eck's goIng oN?

Ive got a torn tricep! I have big pain killers and a sling! I feel like a dog with one of those silly cone collars!
Might try to dig out some old stuff as a stop gap

Friday 1 April 2011

What big teeth you have Grandma

"How do you get to the end of sleep? Is it going to take ages?" - Harri Taylor 1/4/2011

Tuesday 29 March 2011

No Posts

that cos ive been too ill - even too ill to draw this week!

So there!

Thursday 10 March 2011

It’s two for one on ‘EPIC’ Sci-Fi Guff!

Get um while their hot, two for one, I’m not making anything on these – just gotta get them shifted, you couldn’t ask for a better deal!
With foreground or without foreground?
I’ve never done a painting like this before so dunno!
Where’s my Mooney, he’d know what was de rigueur.


































Dad -   “Red sky at night…….”
Child - “Sheppard’s delight”
Dad - “Red Sky in the morning……”
Child - “Shepherds warning”
Dad -   “Minced lamb, mashed potato and peas……..”
Child - ‘the face’
Advanced Dad Joke No40 (deployed on seeing a red sky or when having Sheppard’s or cottage pie meal)

Wednesday 9 March 2011

The MooN, muShroOms aNd a tree

Some old country saying I found and a tree!

What's the deal with these crazy racer things?

I honestly don't know!

"Never use a mouse to create your 2D artwork, always use a graphics tablet or scan".
- says me constantly.

This was done with just a mouse.

What a hypocrite!

Tuesday 8 March 2011

A-nuver Fast Fing!

wiv more straight lines for Pete



It's like a fast thing of the future
like a Saxo in 2035?
Sort of
Would it have neon sill lighting?
Get Lost!

Sunday 6 March 2011

Saturday 5 March 2011

Cheep Sheep Bandit!

Some iPhone paintings wot i did on my iPhone that I did;

























"Has one of the Queens Corgi's died?"
 ....wait for 'the face'
"It's just that your trousers are at half mast!"
- Intermediate Dad Joke No 90 (deployed when child has grown out of clothes)