Robots have feelings too

I've done a new t-shirt design that's valentines day influenced. I used the same robot as i used in the Valentines cards I designed.

I have given my design the title 'Robot Love'

My design has been entered into this weeks All Tropical competition and is currently up for public voting. If it wins it will be professionally screen printed and sold online. I'll win some money also :-)

You can visit the page to vote for my T-shirt by clicking here

Look at how cute he is! how could you not vote for him? go on!

There's some other really great designs on there, check it out!

Sir Bert Fountain - People with food names - Part 2

After the popularity of this weeks people with food names post I realised just how much material there is within this idea. A few people sent in new names for me to draw so I have a nice list to work through!


People with food names returns for Part 2 and there will more than likely be a few more to come!


Meet today's new Characters!

PROFILE


Name - Sir Bert Fountain
Occupation - Retired Major and Explorer


Sir Bert Fountain worked his whole life in the army, Now a retired gentleman he likes to fly around in his hot air balloon exploring the lands. He wears a monocle and a suit like all gentlemen should do. Sir Bert Fountain is everything Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Patrick Stewart wish they were.













PROFILE


Name - Candy Floss
Occupation - Pole Dancer


Candy Floss works in a night club as a one legged pole dancer, she lost the other leg in an unfortunate accident involving a sharp fifty pound note. Candy can be very sweet but also very dangerous.











PROFILE


Name - Prof. Itterollss
Occupation - Physics Teacher


Prof. Itterollss is a professor of Physics and teaches at a generic high school in a generic town that no one cares about. He's not shy of the Bunsen burner which is sometimes his own downfall being made from chocolate and cream. His students have given him the nickname 'Chocolate snowman'






 

PROFILE


Name - Mel. K. Barr
Occupation - Opera singer

Mel. K. Bar is strong and tough. an international Opera singer and can sing in fifteen different languages including Geordie. Often works on cruise liners and is very well known for her fashion sense and good taste.











Thanks to everyone that sent a new character name in, if you didn't see yours today keep checking back because I still have more to draw!

If anyone thinks of anymore names please let me know and I will draw them. Also I'd like to know who are peoples favorite characters with food names I have drawn.

If you missed People with food names - part 1 you can find it by clicking Here

Tuesday Trail #004

Last week I didn't do Tuesday Trail, I don't actually have a valid excuse for this other than i forgot what day it was and did something else instead! My apologies!
The good news is Tuesday Trail returns today!

If you need a recap, the other pages can be found here:

Tuesday Trail Archive
- Tuesday Trail #001
- Tuesday Trail #002
- Tuesday Trail #003

The next two pages in the comic were a short story that isn't really Trail related so I'm going to jump to the continuation of the main story. I might post the short story at the end once all the Trail pages are up.

So here are pages 9 and 10

We have a new character, Tony the Scarecrow, doesn't protect his crops very well but is a real gentleman. Have you ever seen a flying Snail?

Check back next week for pages 11 and 12

In other news yesterdays feature 'People with food names' was rather successful and I've had a few more funny names sent in. I'll be drawing these and posting them later in the week so keep checking back to see them.

If you think of anymore let me know and I'll draw them.

If you don't have a clue what I'm going on about you can see yesterdays feature by clicking here

Toby Larone - People with food names

If you listen to the Chris Moyles morning show on Radio 1 you will know all about Toby Larone. If you haven't heard about him yet then I will explain.


Toby Larone is a fictional character made up on the show whilst talking about people that have funny names that sound like types of food or sweets.


Listeners were then encouraged to call in to other Radio Shows and TV programs giving their  name as Toby Larone in an attempt to get the presenter to read their messages out. This obviously has Hilarious consequences and makes for great listening.


Listening to this made me want to give a face to some of the funny names that were mentioned so I had a go at designing some of the characters.

PROFILE


Name - Toby Larone
Occupation - Sleazy Salesman


Toby's head is made up from the first block of a Toblerone, I used the letter T to make up his eyebrows and nose. I drew him with his serious face on, maybe his head's about to melt or something. Toby has the ability to sell anything to anyone for any price.

PROFILE


Name - Mr T.Wicks
Occupation - 70s Dance instructor/Teacher


This is a drawing of Mr T.Wicks in his younger days when he was all hip and wore a gold shell suit. He's now a teacher, has a comb over and wears a tweed suit. Interestingly he's a Siamese twin, this removes the need for a dance partner.

PROFILE


Name - Carley Wurly
Occupation - Hairdresser


Carley is a hairdresser who clearly does her own hair, She officially has the longest hair in the village and is famous for it.

PROFILE


Name - Russell Sprout
Occupation - Student


Russell is a snotty little brat, think along the lines of Dennis the Menace. He's very short in height, sprout by name sprout by nature. When he talks he sounds like Zippy from Rainbow. Great kid, always eats healthy.

PROFILE


Name - Emile Keway
Occupation - Wizard


Emile is a wizard and can do magic things like turn a bag of rubble into a bag of chocolate. He doesn't have legs, just floats around.

PROFILE


Name - Jamie Dodger
Occupation - Hitman/Spy

Jamie is one of the most dangerous hitmen on the planet. He is a master of disguise, no one suspects the giant biscuit in the corner! Then before you know it your covered in jam! Something like that anyway!




I enjoyed doing these, if you can think of anymore I could draw let me know!

A comic about Bruno Mars

This is an idea that myself and my good friend Brad discussed in the pub a couple of weeks ago. If you don't know who Bruno Mars is, He's a singer who likes to wear Trilby hats and is currently in the charts with a song called 'Grenade'. I think he was actually number one in the charts with the song this comic is based on.

Not that I'm suggesting Bruno Mars wouldn't work unpaid or do charity work, I'm sure he's a lovely chap. I've seen a few of his hats in charity shops so he's defiantly a generous guy.

My friend Adam was given one of these charity shop hats as a present for his birthday.

There were lots of other ideas for rhyming lines in this comic, some were pretty rude and I didn't feel it was necessary to lower the tone of my blog too much. Although there is one more line that I thought deserved it's own illustration.

'I'd hit Adam with a Spade for ya'

It would be like a battle of the Trilby's! My friend Adam vs Bruno Mars, Captain Kirk Battle style.

If your wondering why he's on crutches, it's a football injury, nothing serious and he's not always that way.

I decided that all drawings with Bruno Mars in have to have the extra outline around them like in his videos, I hope someone knows what I'm on about here!

I'd like to emphasize that I am in no way suggesting that Bruno Mars goes round hitting cripples with a spade. As I said before I'm sure he's a lovely chap, and a very talented guy. I'd go as far to say that I'd let him have a bite of my Gingerbread man.

Want a Robot for valentines day?

I'm sure there is someone in the world that will be spending Valentines day with a actual real life Robot.... Ewwww

...But I'm talking about valentines day cards!

I designed some Valentines day cards...with  a Robot on, because I like Robots! Who doesn't right?

Here they are!

I did the yellow design first then decided that I didn't like it anymore so did a second design which I like better. Robots obviously talk using keyboard symbols, they do have computers for brains after all.

The back of the cards will look like this

I am selling these and you can buy one now complete with an envelope. You can buy them for £1 each, 25p extra if you want me to post it to you. Go on, send someone a Robot for valentines day!

I'm also available for Valentines Commissions, I've been doing a few Canvas' recently and can still fit a few more in. If you have a nice photo of you and someone special I can draw it for you.

Did anyone notice I didn't do Tuesday Trail this week, I did! Tuesday Trail will return next week.

Also, I've done some cool stuff with my shop and added new things, take a look by clicking HERE

Balloon Characters

This weekend was my birthday party, great times were had by all and I'd like to thank everyone that took part at some point in the weekend, I had a really good time.

The party on Friday night was great, A lot more people than I expected ended up arriving to my average sized flat, but everything went smoothly and was lots of fun. I did warn my neighbours I would be having a party so hopefully the excessive noise was excused.

I began drawing caricatures of the guests on balloons, there was quite a demand for these and before i knew it I'd used a full packet of said balloons. Unfortunately I only had a small number of balloons and there were about 30 people at the party. Maybe I could plan this better next time there's a party, it could be my special party trick!

I did some cool stuff with the photos to make them look nice!

The downside of this was I ended up with marker pen allover my carpet which we managed to scrub out using a combination of white wine, hairspray, wet wipes and a tea towel. It did the job!

I learnt today that it's Gabriel Batistuta's birthday, that means my birthday is sandwiched perfectly between Phil Collins and Gabriel Batistuta, two seriously great chaps.

Lots of other great things happened over the last few days in celebrations of my birthday, rather than go into detail here is a list of memorable moments.

- Keyboard and Guitar times
- Crutch jokes at Adams expense
- The arrival of my old friend Roy (He's gonna be a dad, weeeey)
- Roy's home brew wife beater
- Pro Evo times with over the top cheering
- The unexpected arrival of Bonse (He brought cake!)
- My Justin Bieber T-shirt (A gift from Brad and Lisa which I wore into town)
- The man woman thing at camel (Dan Madden fancied his chances)
- Sick in my kitchen sink?
- Smacking the crap out of some golf balls
- Going out for a posh curry and having happy Birthday sang to me by the whole restaurant
- Elastic band guitar (Present from Matt and Jen)
- Tekken tournaments all morning and night till stupid hours (Epic Tekken playing)
- Wang the Blade Runner
- Trip to Manchester, Font bar and gig at the Appllo
- Vibrations from the Bass watching A Day to Remember
- Trip to Ikea and more presents!

- Probably lots more things I can't remember right now (Feel free to add to the list!)

Thanks everyone