Please help print and launch “Kinds of Blue”, a comic anthology about depression. I contributed by doing the art for a 5 page comic written by Guan Un.

We’re trying to get it printed and put on the shelves but need funds in order to do so. So project leader extraordinaire, Karen, has started up a funding campaign where we’re offering certain things for donations towards the project. All the details are here:
http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/1092/description/0/0

How it works is that if you wish to you can propose a donation and only if the entire estimated budget is reached do you actually send the donation over. So if the campaign ends without the target being reached you don’t pay anything.

Here’s a link to the comics in the compilation online if you’d like to see what’s in it:

http://hivemindedness.com/kindsofblue

and here’s the comic I did with Guangyao Un called “The Suit”:

http://hivemindedness.com/kindsofblue/the_suit/

If you think of anyone you might know who’d be interested in supporting this project please feel free to pass the information on!

Been sketching a bit more for myself than usual. Saw a conceptart.org daily sketch group thread for the ‘Cutest Dragon Ever’ and had to have a go. So! Here is my go:

Nice to do a full-ish work on the old sketchpad. Reference was used.

I also was super lucky to get some colouring pencils for my birthday! Here’s my first pic with them (was so tempted to fix the whole angle of head thing but decided to leave it so that, for once, I could post an untampered picture!… okay I admit it, I leveled out the colours so the background would be white… but the image itself is still the same image!). Daww, cutesy widdle birdy thing jig.

Did a quick DSG sketch:

DSG 1569: Creature • NON-HUMANESQUE ALIEN EXPRESSION COMPARISON PICS

My aims and possible results:

(1 – standard alien for comparison)
2 – a good laugh (but from another angle… he could be choking?)
3 – surprise (but from another angle… calling out with enthusiasm?)
4 – conniving/plotting (but from yet that other angle again… wise old guy/cool dude?)

After last night there’s a story about this pic! There must have been something about this prawn thing that twinged in my brain because I had a ‘wake me up out of fear’ nightmare last night involving a creature that had great similarities to the head of this alien (pictured below from what I can remember). I was exploring an abandoned house with my Dad in the dream. The room we were in had a slanted ceiling and I was sitting on a bed with my Dad standing close to the opposite end. Suddenly! This creature, about the size of my palm starts scattering across the ceiling with a loud takka takka takka noise and proceeds to move above my Dad before dropping off the ceiling with the intention of landing on him! As the creature was unknown and clearing trying to get at my Dad for something I panicked calling to Dad to look out! Luckily he side-stepped the thing before it could land on him… but, oh so happily lands on the end of the bed, swivells around and comes scattering my way and proceeds to run over my stomache before the shear horror woke me. It was so fast that I couldn’t sweep fast enough to get it off me! FREAKY MAN!

Yeah! Imagine THAT at the size of your palm running towards you at super speed and you having no idea why O_______O

I need to work on expressions more…

Why such a depressing kind of picture? Well, it’s not based on a story or anything really that’s meant to be depressing. I’ve been thinking of Mother’s Day and the whole ‘what mother’s go through’ thing. Combine that with a recent read through the prison and torture section of the book, “Shantaram” and bam! Depressing picture! W00T!

Oh oh! And I stumbled upon a pretty nifty tutorial! Been a while since I’ve found one to post 8D:

IFX Strike a Pose Tutorial by Warren Louw (A South African chap who openly talks about the Law of Attraction =D First one I’ve come across!)

Time for bed!

Theme – Fairy Quest.

Question is: Did you see the cat first or at all?

Why? Because I’ve looked at it too long and know the cat is there but don’t know if others can see it 8-<

Ah… to bed… to dream… to be in happy tomorrows.

Never the less! A throw together for the day – ‘nother Daily Sketch Group attempt:

DSG 1553: Creature • FREAKISHLY FRIGHTENING GREEN-GLOWING TRANS-DIMENSIONAL BEAST

Been doing some sketching too but will save those for another day ^_^ *sleeeep*

Man! Been seeing some good movies lately – recently watched Kick-Ass which equals Pretty Dang Awesome and also saw How to Train Your Dragon which I LOVE!! I want a cat like Toothless… so cute… and useful >=3

DSG 1547: Alien Creature • FREAKY ANIMAL HAS QUALITIES OF BOTH OWL AND GRUB:

And here’s a snippet for something else I’ve been working on just because I like it XD – go go STARE!

Time for bed, WONDERFUL BED

Been up to lots of late! Recently started a new job as a Static Artist and am stoked about it. Have been trying to train myself to get used to getting up early again. Haven’t been able to do too much on the side but will have to knuckle down and finish some of the side projects otherwise they’ll never see the light of day >_<

I sat in on a Bobby Chiu livestream on Saturday morning which was loads of fun. Besides watching him paint an illustration live, we were challenged to draw/paint/create an image under the theme of “Creepy and Cute”. I knocked up a cute mousey mousey and couldn’t help but finish it long after the stream had ended XD Went a bit berserk with colour but meh!:

Will probably post some making of pics in the next post but depends on if I remember :S

Oh oh and I finally got a scanner for my Mac XD What a shamozzle that was! Never the less, now is the time for random sketch scans. Inspiration by Chris Sanders (who’s done character and storyboard work for “How to Train Your Dragon – an animated film coming out at the end of March that I am very keen to see):