Perks Of The Job

Hello everyone!

Hope you’re doing well, are you excited about Christmas? i am, I’m exciting about finishing all these bloody commissions :P obviously i am joking, I have been given some great jobs which i am very grateful for one of which returns to one of my favourite subjects Zelda :)

Here’s Link having a wee toot on his ocarina!

I had mega fun painting this! I promise i’ll make an effort to post less geeky stuff in the future!

oop! i have new little feature on my blog, just down the right side there’s a little subscribe box, if you by any chance like reading my nonsense pop your email in and when i update this you’ll get a little e-mail about it, cool!

In the meantime, wrap up warm!

nx

Winter Adventures!

Bonjour!

Hope everyone’s well and wrapping up warm. I must apologize for not updating this in a wee while I’ve been a bit of a hermit whilst getting work together for college and my Christmas commissions.
I had a little stall today in town, and it was absolutely lovely, i couldn’t have thought of a better to spend my Sunday afternoon than to have a gab with some crafty people and fellow robot fans, although unfortunately I had to say goodbye to some of my favourite pictures, including the zelda one :( !

But don’t worry i still have a good number of paintings left, most of which are in the lovely maisonette shop in the west end, don’t they look comfy!

Thats not all though there’s plenty more in the shop as well as an amazing mind boggling exhibition by my good friend Gary MacLennan who i previously posted about here.

Garys new exhibition is all about tiny people and their tiny lives, and to emphasize the point,the exhibition is actually all miniature and is to be viewed with a(given) magnifying glass!

Here’s me having a peek.

For more about the wonderful Maisonette and how to get there please look here

My work will only be there till thursday so hop-hop!

Just before I go i’d like to thank everyone who came along to mono today, I was totally flattered by the people who came to see me and stopped to say hi :)

Have a great weekend!

Nx

A monster and some news!

Hello!

Hope everyones doing well, I’ve been getting stuck into my Christmas commissions this week, I actually don’t know how I’m going to finish them all!

Anyways,my first task was to paint some monsters for a close friend, and one of them really stood out to me, his name’s Jeff, He’s a toxic blob monster from Jupiter :)

If you’d like to make your own blob monsters i made a little tutorial a while ago.
In other news if you live around Glasgow i have a little stall in Mono in King’s court next sunday from 1 till 6pm.

Also from Friday till the following Thursday I’ll have a lot of new prints, postcards and paintings in the lovely Maisonette which is an absolutely beautiful new shop in the west end, for more info please go here

Wrap up!

nx

My New Robot.

Hello!

No new art today im afraid, just me (a 22 year old man) blabbing about my toys :)

Earlier this month my good friend(and band mate) Ben went to Japan, seeing a robotic opportunity i entrusted him with my weeks wages to bring me back a cool Japanese robot,and this is what came back!

It’s only a bloody golden gundam bot! ok so he’s not actually real gold but he’s amazing and fits in perfectly with all my wind up bots, transformers,star wars droids and early learning centre dinosaurs :)

That is all!

Nx

A Link To The Past

 

Hello!

As some of you may know im a massive computer games nut, and my favourite series hands down is the legend of Zelda!

So to pay tribute to this i painted a little scene from ocarina of time (widely known as the best game ever.)

This is Link vs Volvagia!

I honestly had the most fun in the world painting this :)

In other news i have some exciting stuff going on over the Christmas period, more about that soon :P

take care!

nx

Night night Herman!

Hello space fans!

Today was quite a sad day, as many of you know I have a wonderful pet tortoise called Herman, he’s the bestest pet ever!

And as it’s now winter(where does the time go?) he has dozed off into hibernation and wont be getting up till spring time.
Here he is in his little box.

I find it quite fascinating that some animals can sleep for months at a time with no food or water, by the time Herman wakes up he wont have eaten for 6 months!

He’ll be missed dearly :(

nx

The Alien Art Student

Hello!
Hope everyones well!

During my surfing on the internets today i came accross illustrator Chuck Dillons blog, As well as freelance illustrator Chuck is also an art teacher, and during his teacher career he has compiled characatures of some of the stereotypical students he has came accross of the years,
It does sound quite a nasty thing to do but looking through them all i think some are bloody hilarious and so true to the kind of people i see around college.
Out of his characters i think i fit into the Loner/Alien student catagorie, here’s me!
If only there was some facial hair it would be a spitting image :P

For more check out his post here, definately worth a look!

nx

Is it…..a Dinosaur?!

Just a quick little painting today, I was having a little flick through some of my sketchbooks and found a doodle of this, at the time i was wondering if in millions of years robots will come across fossilized humans and put them in museums etc(yup that’s the kinda stuff I think about.)

I’m sure It’s entirely possible :P

Have a nice day!

nx

Another little Comic

Hello!

Here’s another little comic I made today, It was for a college project, and as you can see ive done it digitally which isn’t usuall my usual medium but im quite happy of how it turned out!

And yea,I guess its along the same lines as chris ware’s stuff but i really liked the idea of an old man skydiving, you’re never too old yknow!

nx

Starting Again.

Taking a break from college and commissions (and all the stuff i should be doing),I decided to take the day off and paint for myself, and this is what came about.
I guess it’s about wanting to get away from everything, almost like that ‘need a holiday’ feeling although i also wanted to delve a little bit into possessions and if you’d be the same person if you put them all in a big fire.

Hope you like it!

nx