“Hello Castle!”

“… Hello Mountain!”

King Louis’ Carriage

All hail Emperor Wills and our illustrious Queen Kate!
A lot has come to pass since my last blog post. There was a royal wedding, Team America found Osama bin Laden, Playstation Network decided to give away my credit card details to some internet ninja, I went on my first ever stag do (failing miserably to keep up – sorry Aid) and I decided to bestow upon my son an honour worthy of yet another public holiday.
Louis now has one of the most over embellished strollers I have ever seen. If you look closely at the pictures, you should be able to make out the battle damage it has already suffered in just one outing around our small one bed flat!

Completed with Posca pens. I’ll try to get a picture up of the unit in use. Until then!

Ewan
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*edit: see below for one happy small boy! Tim Westwood, eat your heart out!

inkygoodness – Colour Me Totem

Hello fellow babies!
I spotted an utterly fantastic project at the beginning of the week, and have entered it with gusto. Its called Colour Me Totem and is being organised by the super beings over at inkygoodness. Despite not getting picked to feature as one of the initial 50 illustrators whose work will be heading off to Pictoplasma’s Character Walk, I’m hoping I can still get involved in my own special way with the submission of my very own design.

His name is “Ol’ Man Timber” (like old man River, but he’s made out of wood n’ stuff). His hobbies include yodeling, star gazing and Yoga. His least favorite things are dogs, ghosts, and Bushfire.

Ewan

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Chappers!

I’ve finally done it! After months of jumping from one project to another, I finally got my act together and put the finishing touches to my first kidrobot Munny figure! I started work on this back in September and initially found it quite daunting drawing on something other than paper. Never the less, I am extremely happy with the final result. As soon as the paint was dry, I had him back in his box clutching onto a £10 note – and promptly handed it over to a close friend for his very very very belated birthday present (sorry Mark)!

Now, back in September (when I originally posted my intent to carry out my secret task) I mentioned that I was hoping to document my progress. I can’t say that any of the following words will be very helpful, but what the hell – here goes!

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1.) I started by taking a picture of the Munny figure and printing out an A4 sheet with the figure repeated a jaw-dropping 18 times 2.) I then started to work very quickly with pen to “doodle” some initial ideas down 3.) until I had the full set. This really helped me get over my initial jitters, and allowed me to really experiment with a few concepts before touching the figure.

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4.) I then grabbed my Munny and started to roughly draw the idea I had settled upon onto it. Now – a word of warning! If you’re after a simple line with no colour, then you’re probabaly going to be fine just drawing onto your Munny with the pen that’s included in the box or similar (I used a Sharpie). If you intend to get a better finish, or apply paint – I would strongly advise you use a primer before you start out. 5.) I started out with the head first, 6.) until it was all done and dusted.

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7.) I finished the rough line and started to apply some acrylic paint to the figure. 8.) I then decided I didn’t like the colour scheme too much so changed it, and also (seeing as though I hadn’t used a primer in the early steps) used the acrylic as a crude substitute.

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Now, a period of time passed and I decided to change my initial idea – so I boldly went forth with my beloved Poscas (black, white, gold) in hand and 9.) mixed things up a bit. 10.) Here’s a detailed shot of the front (notice the gold belt buckle & tooth). 11.) And here’s the back!
Hope you find this useful, I now have to go and entertain my lady. No more typing.
Ewan
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Eating Ice Cream in the Park

This drawing is EXTREME! Look at this wanton fellow. Reckless! Bold! He is truly lewd and audacious!

So what are you doing still here? Quick! Get outside! Loosen your tie! To the park! Go! Sweet Jesus, go man!

Ewan