Blastos' milk-powered jetpack

I'm considering doing more of these cereal boxes and packaging things just for fun. It's sort of relaxing to work on.

I think that in future I may just use MS Paint or an oekaki board (long overdue!) to do this sort of thing because Photoshop sort of fails a little with it...
Also I am going to try putting more (wonky) backgrounds into things...maybe.

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snake, rabbit redo and workspace

Here is 'RABBIT' booklet's other half.

The words are the lyrics to Katy Carr's song Snake's Kiss. I also altered the Rabbit booklet a little bit and exchanged the words for Florence + The Machine's Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) lyrics. Both still need a lot of tweaking in order to work, though, and all the altering of things these days is making me feel a bit rubbish.

I have a new workspace now at one of our closer campuses (Howard Gardens)... But it has not increased my rate of productivity (actually I think it may be hindering it)... Also I need lessons in how to make workspaces pretty (and inspiring and cosy and encouraging and happy).

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Crunchers and Cartoon Queens

Found something to occupy my mind for the next few days (maybe even a week!). Really just a bit of fun, but also works as part of my Real World module. Here are some of the sketches:

 

So now I'm prepping this for printing, but I may try messing about with it later to make it more entertaining in some way...

Also, I recently had a mess about with animating on Adobe Flash (first time ever) and it was SUPER fun! Unfortunately I cannot share the crap that I came up with because I can't figure out how to make it save as something more shareable than a ".fla"?? ...Any suggestions??

edit: figured out the Flash thing! yay!
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Dissertation: Exploring Dream-Narratives in Film

 

This forty-nine page book represents all of my cognitive processes over the past few months (since about May 2010 to January 2011). I have realised that I wouldn't mind helping people proof-read their work for a little extra cash.

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Retro Sunday: 9

The Big Draw: Postcards from the Future

Last year, on Saturday 9th October 2010*, I attended and volunteered to be an assistant creative coordinator for The Big Draw at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. The theme was:

POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTUUUURE!

And it was really fun!

RABBIT

This is a project I'm working on for my Real World module. After getting my dissertation printed and sending it to be bound(!!), I printed off the file for this booklet. I just cut and folded it MOMENTS AGO!

  

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Les Reines Bleues 01

Here we have the first page of a potential two and a half page comic to express an idea about sense and nonsense.

Not totally satisfied with the speech bubbles... but it was all rather fun to do. I have so many plans and I'm so very excited about just getting on with things. Tomorrow begins great things!

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She Said...

How Did We Get Ourselves So Lost?

I think I'd like to do a screen print of the middle one.

(But then maybe I do too many messy/rough-coloured prints...)

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Retro Sunday: 8

Today I will be leaving on a jet plane... to go to back to Cardiff.

Doctor! Doctor!

"Don't get your gross baby juices all over my new doctor coat."
"B-but I just saw you give that patient a lobotomy!"
"Hahahah! No, no, what you just saw was me putting a cabbage in that man's brain cavity."
"..."
"I am sorry; I cannot help you."

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World Book Day bid

I was working on some illustrations for the 2010 World Book Day bid.

In four phrases, the story is about: a kid, cool shoes, lame shoes and a Celtic wish-granting statue nicknamed "The Sleeper".

I wasn't going to bother entering anymore because I didn't have enough ideas for it and I wasn't sure how to go about tackling the few other ideas I had in the same style that I'd done the above illustrations. But then I saw this guy's amazing blog and was inspired to work really loosely (which is what my stuff looks like before I tighten it up anyway!)! Then I came up with these:

Not sure if the top one is too messy or what, but I still like them both. I might slap a texture or something over the top of them and see how I feel later...

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A tower floating into dreams

Putting together a simple diagram for my dissertation, but I may just scrap it altogether because I'm not so sure if it's doing its job like it should be...

Obviously I was not cut out for making diagrams (also I think the wording is confusing).
I'll fix it later.

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P.S. Look what it's doing to me! ;o;

turning me schitzo...