The Matt Smith and Karen Gillan 'Doctor Who' caricature.

This is my new illustration of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan as Doctor Who and Amy Pond.

I'm a big fan of Who in general but have to say the first episode of the 11th Doctor's first series, The Eleventh Hour, was an absolute corker. Actually I thought it was the best episode of the new series I'd seen since Blink. The second episode, The Beast Below, was equally good and was really great at showcasing the strength of the Amy Pond character. I have a sneaky feeling that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will turn out to be one of the shows strongest pairings. The episode had some nice touches as well including quite strong references to both Star Wars and Terry Pratchett. Dr Who has always been good at pilaging outside influences as part of their stories even old school Who. Only two episodes in and it feels to me like Matt Smith has been Doctor who forever. A big thumbs up to all concerned from this old school Who fan. Roll on the next episode, The Victory of the Daleks, I can't wait.

Anyway being that the new series has blown me away in such great style how could I not depict the two main characters welchtoons style. I hope you like it. As ever if anyone wants to check out the rest of my art please feel free to check out my website.

Film Quiz Art for Chichester Cinema

Crikey! I've just realised that this appears to be my first blogpost for 2010. Well thank goodness that, after the debacle that was 2009, it is going to be a positive one. I've had some good news this week which has been great. The great news is that my artwork will once more be becoming a fixture of Chichester's fantastic cinema at the New Park. I originally exhibited my works there back in 2006 and, at the time, had a fantastic response from the cinema and its patrons. I'm now returning with a series of new illustrations that will be showcased at an event organised by the Cinema. The event in question is a film quiz that will be held at the Upper Brasserie at the Minerva Theatre (opposite Chichester Festival Theatre) in Chichester, West Sussex on March 27th. Chichester Cinema hopes that this film quiz will help them to raise funds for new digital equipment. The quiz will feature tables of 6 named after favourite film stars / directors and, as you've possibly already guessed, I am providing illustrations of the relevant film people. My illustrations will be for sale at this event and will also be available at the cinema shortly. There will also be a raffle at this event which will include prizes of Festival Theatre tickets, Dinner Outings, Cinema Tickets, Champagne etc. This sounds like it will be a great evening and I am very excited about taking part. The illustrations I am producing for this event are as follows...

Woody Allen

Marlon Brando

Orson Welles
Clint Eastwood 

Morgan Freeman

Hugh Grant

Werner Herzog

Peter Jackson

Steve McQueen
Paul Newman

River Phoenix

Anthony Quinn

Robert Redford
Peter Sellers

Emma Thompson
Stanley Kubrick
Sophia Loren
Jane Campion

Catherine Deneuve


If you'd like more information about the film quiz itself then please click the following link to the cinemas website...

http://www.chichestercinema.org/film/739/A-MIND-FOR-MOVIES-FILM-QUIZ

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...