Almost there...

Ok,
so...
I heard the new
Lucinda Rosa
track yesterday and it
sounds amazing.
It's taken them a while
to get the exact sound
they wanted but things
are definitely coming
to fruition and its definitely been
well worth the wait.


Their myspace site is up and
running and the new track and
band details will posted up very
soon. At the moment the site
just features some of
the art I've been doing for them
which is obviously well worth a look...
...heh, heh, heh!!

New Worthing comic shop!!!

Uncanny Comics
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

It isn't very often that a new comic shop
appears on the high street but Worthing
has had something to celebrate over the
last few weeks. I had the pleasure of
visiting this shop the other week and
had a whale of a time. Sadly I didn't
have much money available to me at
the time so I wasn't able to support their
cause that much but if I had there would
have been no stopping me. Rather spiffing
collection of Silver and Golden age comics
as well. Very nice!!

Check them out...

Uncanny Comics
3 Station Parade (opposite West Worthing station)
Tarring Road
Worthing
West Sussex

Tel: (+44) 01903 500888
Website: www.uncannycomics.co.uk

And if you're wondering what I bought...

...I've got a bit of a thing for Gold Key at the mo.
It's a nostalgia thing!!

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

Shock Rocker in cartoon shocker!!
(Try saying that 10 times quickly!)

The Flying Man

The Flying Man
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

Strange bit of animation
inspired by david lynch
I did a few years back.

(Its ok...
...you can slag it to bits if you want to!)

It only took me a couple of hours to
do on a Saturday afternoon.

I just did it for kicks really.
This was created using a mixture of
After Effects, Photoshop,
Videoshop and Poser.

The music is mine too.
Check out
Lava Banana
for more musical atrocities!!

New Lucinda Rosa art...

Lucinda Rosa are a music project
that I have become involved with.
They are heavily influenced
by the likes of..

Joy Division,

The Pixies,

The Cure,

Depeche Mode,

early U2

and

The Smashing Pumpkins

among others.

They are friends of mine and I will
be doing a lot of artwork for them
and a bit of marketing as well as helping
them build a website presence.
They were formerly known as
Black Mountain College
and played quite
extensively around the
south of England including
London and Brighton.



They were also,
as Black Mountain College,
championed by
Steve Lamacq of Radio 6 music
for a while.
Anyways I'm currently
putting together some bits
of artwork
for their Myspace site.

www.myspace.com/lucindarosa
(music coming soon)

Here is the latest piece of art...

I'm Back!!!

Ok...so...no one really reads my blog, do they?
Ok I have one comment from Mr Petch
and a number of page views but, to be honest,
I figure that's mostly just me and I'm mostly alone in
this part of cyberspace. No worries though as
I kinda like it like that weirdly. More space for
freedom of speech and all that. Anyways if you
have popped by to see me here you may have
noticed that this blog disappeared for a bit.

I'm not sure why.

Actually Google completely disabled my account
for a whole week. Again not sure why. Actually I
was racking my brains trying to work out if I'd
broken any of the laws of blogging on Google but
the few blogs I've written on here either just link
to my artwork (which is obviously all mine), my
websites or other legitimate websites. Paranoia
was starting to set in and then...
...as if by magic...
...its all returned to normal!!
No explanation just 'normal service has resumed'.
Not complaining though...its good to be back. I
don't write much on here but when it disappeared...
...I missed it!!

In the meantime I have a new toon.
Another zombie pic this time of Will Smith.
It's kind of a play on the 'I am Legend' film.
My interpretation...'I am Zombie!'.

Mark Kermode, David Cronenberg and David Lynch caricatures

Just recently I've become addicted to
Mark Kermodes film reviews that feature on
Marks blog on the bbc site....
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/

and also the show with Simon Mayo on Radio Five live....
www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml

For this reason I figured
I'd do a toon of Mark.

I thought the idea of a toon
featuring a film critic and two
directors would make a good
subject.

The fact that two of Marks
favourite directors, David Lynch and David Cronenberg are actually two
of mine makes no odds to nobody!!

Phantasmagoria...

I
don't
want
to say
to much
about this
as I just
happened
across it when
I jump linked on
Youtube.

I love where this
is coming
from even

though it
wears its
influences
on its sleeve.

I love the fact
I don't
really know
what its about.
Most of all
I love the
atmosphere
and the style.

It's intense.....

Another day, another zombie....

I've been doing a few more toons recently.

Slightly different style this time.

Everytime I do a toon

I feel a need to make it as dark and as sinister

as I possibly can.

Don't know why I guess

it just makes the artwork more interesting for me.

I quite like the idea

of my art being about more than

just straight pictures of people.

This is why there is always a slight slant on my toons.

Anyhoo I sat around wondering

what to do next then it finally came to me...

...Celebrity Zombies!!

If Deadset could do it to Davina why couldn't I?

Here are the results so far.

Gary Numan and Ade Fenton are first

to get the Zombie treatment of course.

Also,
just for kicks,
my mate Ed Fielding

gets a bit of Zombification!!

Watch out, the next one could be you!

The Stonecutter

Excellent five minute documentary by Jamie Tolagson. Features one of my favourite artists, Jon J Muth.

41 days ago...

...I finished work on a toon of...

Gary Numan and Ade Fenton.

This was kind of a milestone for me
as artistically it did everything I set out to do with it.

I've been doing these toons for a while now and I'm
constantly trying to progress the style although not always succeeding.

This particular toon did
a number of things in my mind.

For a start it looked menacing
and sinister which is totally correct.

If you've ever heard any of these guys music then you'll
know that anything connected with them should have this feel.

Secondly it blended my photography
with my art without looking obvious.

Finally the image, for me, kind of created an atmosphere
and in a sense almost feels like you've wandered into a scene of some kind.

This is hard to explain but
other people
have noticed it too so it seems to work.

The idea is that you are peering at these two guys through a keyhole in a door that looks out into a corridor or other room.

I was keen not to have them just standing there but to have it look like they had just been interrupted from a conversation they were having.

Almost like they had heard a sound or had sensed someone was looking at them.

I think it works.