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pretty pictures, pretentious storywriting AND sounds!
it's got everything really...
here's a (low-res) taster:

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:33, archived)
It's worth it just to get parts of the comic read aloud.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:43, archived)
I clicked the link, and read it in my head in "pompous graphic novel narration" voice.
It's quite good, actually.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:52, archived)
You've got to get the voices right or you could be just reading Anything.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:05, archived)
I'm loving the atmos. You've been at it with a putty rubber then? I could very much be wrong.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:36, archived)
i actually used a hard rubber for a nice hard edge to get some sharp rub marks.
amazing how much rubber you get through when you press hard with your 'rounded' end and repeatedly attack the 'sharp' end with your stanley knife!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:38, archived)
never could get it to work right with a hard one- nicely done.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:40, archived)
it always seems to fall apart in my hands
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:46, archived)
I think it's just different strokes for folks.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:49, archived)
Still, nice strip though, although some of the smaller text was a bit hard to read.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:38, archived)
it's what i do best :)
and the whole thing's a lot easier to read in the flesh. well paper.
whatever.
go to the st martins end of year show and see for yourself.
27th til 31st
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:41, archived)
It's more of a passive appreciation than anything.
But the bash is on the 31st so I'm sure you can force everyone to go see it, or put it up on the b3ta calendar or something.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:54, archived)
this is about a level 4 of pretentiousness (on a scale of 1-10) at my art college.
this is why i'm escaping to bournemouth to do animation next year...
as for adding to the b3ta calendar.
no thanks.
i get called a cunt enough as it is on here...
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:00, archived)
I really wanna go there when I go to uni.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:02, archived)
I wanna design album art and concert posters and the like. :]
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:07, archived)
fine art's more about context and bollocks like that. ;)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:18, archived)
S'what I thought.
What do you study?
Also, is it actually a good place to go?
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:22, archived)
so we got to try a bit of everything, and then i chose fine art media.
it's a good place yeah, BUT you have to be the right sort of person to go there.
as much as most of b3ta thinks i'm a pretentious fool, i actually can't stand it there.
it's the kinda place where technical skill is almost discouraged, because it's all about 'the idea'.
which infuriates me, becauce the concept is only half the battle. it takes a lot of skill to actually Make it.
but in terms of being 'the place to be' it's great
because there's lot of oppurtunities to get your name out there, make connections, which is basically what the art world is really all about.
especially if you want to do something commercial like making band covers and posters.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:43, archived)
that all doesn't surprise me, oddly. I went to the museum there one time. It was alright, really. Some...odd stuff there. Heheh.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:46, archived)
Then he ended up deferring, doing a cram year of biology and chemistry and then going to university to be a doctor, I never knew why though.
He was sort of inbetween, where he would have some fairly flippant and strange reasoning but the product would always be good. Like massive oil paintings of Saddam Hussein surrounded by rotting meat and stuff.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:49, archived)
lovely nice. And what a fabulous reason for me to pea my train station.
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(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:39, archived)
it's like working with paint and canvas without the mess.
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I like it. But I'm a mere amateur compared to what people do with it.
www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/gb/en/Product/1166553885783
when you buy it, it even comes in a paint tin.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:53, archived)
nice stuff
i dont really like using graphics tablets
i like to be able to see the pencil marks coming From the pen.
but one thing.
were those drawn freehand?
cause i'm always suspicious of people using computer programs who can draw accurately like that.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:04, archived)
by freehand. With a tablet you either drew it or you didn't and if you didn't then I guess you used software to do it for you. I do trace stuff and I do use photo reference but every strike is done by hand.
As for accurate? the things I posted are hardly technically accurate, very far from it.
You can make some nice drawings with a tablet if you put your mind to it and not have people who prefer graphite look down their noses at you. Tablets are just cleaner and facilitate a faster way of working.
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(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:09, archived)
you misunderstand
i'm not looking down my nose at you
it's just that with a computer cheating is a lot easier. but then that's not to say it isn't a skill.
it's just one i don't really enjoy cause i can't get the hang of it.
i agree it's much easier and cleaner.
assuming you know the program well. i always get frustrated by not being able to do things i could do in less than three seconds with a pencil and paper... but i guess that's just learning the software.
what i meant by freehand was... do you start with a blank canvas and start drawing on it, or do you put some stuff in as a background layer and trace over it.
which isn't to say tracing detracts from it at all, it just becomes a different set of skills. for example exemplifying the hair like in your picture here to give an unnatural effect, but a nice one nonetheless (assuming you traced this one... i dont know...)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:16, archived)
I do draw from my mind's eye. I'm working on some concept characters right now and have my anatomy books scattered about.
quick things like seascapes and landscapes don't take a minute to brush in either photoshop or anything else and I can knock them out all day.
Portraits I will trace the basics because it is quicker, more precise and I do it for the result and not an excersise in how well I can observe something.
My days of art class are long, long behind me.
I know what you mean with frustration at not knowing a program well enough to get the result you want. I was like that with photoshop for years before I decided to get to grips with it.
I'm currently being frustrated with Maya but I will work on it, especially having seen that this guy uses it to base his fantastic work on.
www.raycaesar.com/
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:26, archived)
as much as you can instantly get something nice looking if you trace
it's more about training your eye
it's kind've essential for Anyone doing visual art of any kind.
if you can draw perfectly freehand, it's not that you have a pointless skill that can be undermined by tracing... it just allows you to do everything better.
i'd recomend life drawing to photographers.
but they look at me funny :)
also that IS some mighty nice drawing!
although people like that just make we want to give up with their stupid mastery :(
mind you... i AM only 20... this guy's probably been practising a while longer than me...
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:34, archived)
and have been drawing technically for my work for years.
I can sketch well, and I can paint in any number of mediums. I just don't.
All it comes down to now is a little hobby and I make pictures to please me and if someone else happens to like them then all the better.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:37, archived)
clearly you've had enough practice in your lifetime especially if you draw technically for your work...
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:56, archived)
I have this on my desk if it makes you feel better that I'm not totally digital.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:59, archived)
i dont have a problem with people using photoshop. there's stuff on there you just cant do on paper, which is clearly a good thing.
i just can't be arsed to get to grips with it just yet...
i will one day, just you wait n see :)
i'll be all...fwofff! rasterize!
...or something.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 2:11, archived)
But you already know that. Damn your preternatural self-assurance.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:49, archived)
these.

there may be musics to follow soon.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:18, archived)
it was actually the single most enjoyable program to use in my life.
because i wanted to do things, and then, like, the program let me do them.
without even faffing about in about 10 different help forums!
ps.
it's not my own music, it's samples and whatnot.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:20, archived)
I've made some pretty freaky stuff in that program.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 1:27, archived)
well done, blah blah, gratitude for your picture and all that. I'm going for a shit
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(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:36, archived)
it was more like "the shamespear".
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:29, archived)
Still, there's always reposts
Woo to your scribbly bosseyed person.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:29, archived)
This time it's Noir Padre!

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:31, archived)
Would you settle for one from the archives?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:32, archived)
Yes to your picture, and no I won't draw you a cat again. I've drawn plenty of cats for you before.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:34, archived)
Also, how fucking tiny is paint's gif palette? It can't even manage grey.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:52, archived)
Had his career taken off, he wouldn't of had to make this DVD.
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(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:26, archived)
with a laser eye, and he wants to destroy us all.

CFB
that's about it. very quick and dirty. sorry.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:18, archived)
It reminds me of a premonition I had about the ultimate destruction of the human race.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:20, archived)
He's pointing at who he wants to f*ck...
He wants to f*ck you!!!!
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(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:00, archived)
Then empty it out of the window onto passers by.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:11, archived)
5 and a half years I'm amazed that you were able to sign up when you were 8.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:22, archived)
FUCKING CLOCK SAYS FUCKING GAY FUCKING SHIFT FUCKING TIME.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:06, archived)
edit: I put up an advert in a shop window today.........
It reads " CATAMITES WANTED, ANY AGE/LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE
PHONE JAMES FOR MORE INFO/INTERVIEW and trial shift: 077860 xxx xxx"
(the phone number and name being those of a total fucking racist, bigot, homophobic, mysoginist cock that I used to work with)
it cost a couple of quid to put it in the window but I feel that it was money well spent
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:18, archived)
and that's my mum. 90%/10% split in Wilton's favour.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:05, archived)
Regardless of it's rhyming loveliness.
Shit, Sinead's on the radio. Time to change the station before I start crying.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:08, archived)
is the captain's mum? The world is all fucking wrong since I've been sober.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:08, archived)
Well, I say a week. I lasted five days, then I had a really shit day at work.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:10, archived)
no booze or smokes. I have a couple of detoxes every year and with the holidays looming nearer where I will no doubt near kill myself again I like to get into a bit of shape ;)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:21, archived)
I'd not be able to quit smoking for that long.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:23, archived)
Not that I have quit, I'm just not smoking right now. I rarely smoke cigarettes and as I only generally smoke cigars when I'm drinking it's even easier right now.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:25, archived)
so I started exercising and took a week off the booze. I now have a developing six pack, but sadly it's still encased in flab.
proof, in case anyone hasn't seen it
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:28, archived)
I bet you were in agony rushing from the camera, setting the timer and then sitting down, sucking in the gut praying for the flash to hurry up and go off ;)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:32, archived)
I know that you understand my pain.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:37, archived)
but my brain's in a very uneasy place now.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 0:20, archived)





