Summer Update...(or List of Distractions Beginning with the the Sun)

A (not so) quick update on the state of various projects and some new studio technology.

The Inkling

1. Ok, so I just spotted a new device from WACOM this morning that I had to have, bought it immediately. It's a small box that you attach to your drawing pad that records what your pen is doing. This is a bit of a God-send really because it allows me for the first time to make a sketch and give it away immediately without having to scan it, it means GETTING BACK TO PAPER, digital as a record only.

Beyond that it seems to record your pen strokes in a format that can be tweaked later on. It's called the Inkling and ...I've now got an Inkling of what it can do. Should be in studio in 20 days. (I've long been used to drawing with pen, so no worries on having to erase!)

Family Portrait
2. My family portrait was a week or so away from completion as the summer holiday arrived, sadly, it's still a week or so away. I need a cabin in the hills to finish this kind of work.

Drawing Collections
3. I've been adding new collections of artwork to my 'bookshelf' in ISSUU. The first was Atwomic, the second a comic book sample art folio (Based on an existing Dredd strip) and then last week I added a collection of illustration examples. The bookshelf will host a wine series soon...

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

Interview
4. Oddly, in looking for Atwomic on ISSUU I turned up an interview I did for SKYLINK magazine.
The interview hosts the first ever showing of an image I made a year or so ago of Mao. All in Czech and Slovak ...I'm afraid and therefore I've no real idea if I've been misquoted or not.

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

5. And Atwomic sequences 1 to 6 should, hopefully be online in coming weeks. There is no support for this work, so if you are wondering why it is taking so long, patience...everybody is finding time away from real work to complete this project.

6. I'm also working on some fanzine art and breaking down in sequential form an excellent film script by some friends (This is the trailer for their previous film, check it out...)

7. And today I'm cleaning up spew...straight out of the blue, one of the wee fella's just came down with a summer flu...or something...hell knows, poor wee soul. (...and no, that's not spew, it's psychedilic wallpaper I made for the Ipad, iphone and desktop computers, but you get the picture. Anyone who wants to sport one of these - leave a comment)

More on all this soon...