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I don't think I've drawn so little in my life.
My night off tonight..... boys are with their mum, I have wine, a crap pen and lots of crap paper, neon bible on the stereo and a great great film on dvd with the sound turned off. .. (got some hula hoops too).

Here are some drawings as the film plays through.... just letting the pen do the work. I've tried to be as honest as I can and only ran one through photoshop.

Yes its the red one.

Also, some of you may know already I've become a partner/director in Freakishkid pictures. So me is now we. Website is up now http://freakishkid.com/. very exciting to work with the amazing talent that was Greykid pictures. Lots of great things to come.

Also been offered to direct a half hour film after Wibbly Pig. Something so cool I could burst.

Fingers are crossed it happens.

pen...spot blacks! Oof! Bottom fella has the same old photoshop blue thrown on.

caffeine was kicking in i think..

Here's a few while waiting for my train. Breaking in some new characters. cheap pens on cheaper paper.

This is more fun.
Clucky grabs!

Looks boring I know but it actually fun.... this is an animatic. 10 minutes worth, cut in a day and a half...ish. The tedious bit is scene numbering and typing in notes.

Just wanted to say hi. I'm still here
Above pick is a scribble from a cab ride a few weeks ago. Not much to show I know.
My pal Steve Horrocks has put a site up at last. Take a look http://www.stevehworks.com/

Show is marching on. Animation is full steam ahead and off-lines are coming through. Long way to go!

Have a great new year!

Heres a few more doodles from my travels. Got to keep my eye in. Spending most of my time typing emails.
I've not fiddled with them too much so you can see the ink.

Heres a few monkey doodles from one of my many train journeys. The grey tone was added later in PS. At the bottom are a couple of post it note pictures. I don't get much drawing time so I have to doodle when I can. These were done waiting for After Effects renders. I love my Pentel AQUASH pens. Yes... I am a brush pen geek!
Big hello and thanks to Ale and Alf . Amazing talents!

We've been back a while now but me n Claire had a great time in barcelona. Went to Can Piaxano http://www.canpaixano.com
Very cool place. Drank too much Cava and ate too many sea creatures. Hotel 1898 was ace! Rooftop bar cost a few quid though.

Works going great. Heres a not very good drawing of Yoda for a CN idea I did a while ago. I made the huge mistake of drawing his saber the wrong colour. I'm surrounded by geeks!

The show is going well, very busy in pre-production. Got some great people on board. Very exciting.
The shorts I was working on before this have been comped and done. Not seen all of them as yet but what I've seen is amazing. Nick want more. Which is great news but obviously I'll not be so involved with them.

Just catching up on some emails today then off to Barcelona. Again. Just can't get enough of the place.

When I'm back it'll be even more full on as the show gets into first gear. I wont be posting as much but anything cool crops up I'll put it here.

See you soon

I was pleased to see the Weetos ad on telly this morning. Nice.

Its where I sit......all day long. Even when its really sunny, and there's lots of people in the park having fun.

I'm not exactly twiddling my thumbs but the shows prolonged start is dragging. Still crewing.

I've a couple of little design and board jobs going through. Above is our pal Dexter pressing a button. Not an unusual thing for him to do.

I've just watched the first two completed Nick shorts. Stu and his team have done an amazing job on these. They certainly look like the budget was a lot bigger than it was. I'm a little shocked to not have the usual feeling of crushing disappointment. I think they're great.

Anyway, hopefully they'll be airing soon so everyone can see them.

Well done to Orsi and Stu on the arrival of Sienna-Marrie Elizabeth Gamble. Good work folks.
Still waiting on the show......Contracts as ever hold things up. The deadline sits there, unmoving. Got some nice design work going on though, so I'm keeping busy.
Drawing is a doodle done sitting by a river in the sun with my two boys. Its was a lovely day. Passers by must find it disappointing when they look over my shoulder and see something like that. They must expect some proper art. A water colour or something.

I'm 41 today. Blimey! The pictures today all come from a mildly drunk drawing session. I've been working on a made up metal band as a back story for my friends new show. We're trying to give them a bit of depth even though they are very much BG characters. They look nothing like the images here but it's what happens mixing metal and merlot. To be honest I kind of re-discovered ELO that night too...and Boney M. Must be the strings! Hail Satan!