Sunday 22 September 2013

Russet up some grub!

Russet Apple "Doctors are allergic to me"
Ever wonder why they keep the doctors away?
Holy Pants it's September already!!!

Well that aside, all is well and my favourite apple (the russet) is back in season, if you haven't ever tried one I highly recommend it! All the more reason to celebrate with a new doodle, or newdle if you will (i prefer newdle, sounds like noodles).

Anyway, enough of my foolish jibber-jabber, I command you all to carry on enjoying your weekends! I'll be back with a newdle very soon! 'Tis a promise!
Bushels of fun!
Nick

Wednesday 21 August 2013

Movie Snacks

Cat, hunting a spider, hunting a mosquito, biting a person, eating popcorn. The food chain isn't always linear!
Movie Snacks
Good day to you all!

ALAS!!!! Those long summer evenings are coming to end, but with it disappears the swarms of insects hell-bent on eating us!!!

I decided to mark the occasion by doodling up this little sketch.
Proving to everyone that the food chain is necessarily as linear as we so often fool ourselves into believing!

I'm not very good at drawing people, I need more practice... meh... in time!!!

See you again soon! ^_^

Thursday 1 August 2013

Happy Yorkshire Day

Happy Yorkshire Day, whippet, flat cap, ales/ bitters, yorkshire pudding tray
CLICK IT!!! It'll expand!!!

Well, ah'll go to t’foot of ahr stairs!!!

Happy Yorkshire day to all of you!

If you've been wondering where on earth I've been for the past few weeks, well it's all been a bit 'ectic really!

I've been completing work on MY PORTFOLIO SITE yep! It's finally online! And also applying for work, I'll keep my fingers crossed, and all of you...posted!!!

Today's doodle is a symbol of all things Yorkshire! I hope you've all got yer puddin' tins oiled an' heated up!!! I will be eating a broccoli pasta, which is distinctly un-Yorkshire... never mind!

Until next time...
Tek care all of you

Thursday 11 July 2013

Feeling creative? Yup!

Steel is written on the side of a steel girder illustration.
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Hola, bonjour, γεια σας, hei, kon'nichiwa, hola, ciao, hallo, and indeed HELLO!

I must admit I have neglected this poor old blog a bit in the past few weeks. For that, I am sorry!!!

I have been busy working on a few sites, including my own (can't wait to share it with the world), and have been entertaining some friends from Finland by showing them around Yorkshire! Crazy fun beer infused times!!!

I'll be doodling again soon! Just got so much to do!!!
In the meantime, please take a gander at this little graphic which I put together for my portfolio this morning!

Hope you are all having a grand ol' time in the sunshine! And don't forget to slather on that SPF 50!

Friday 14 June 2013

INVADERS!

A space invader character, revamped with shiny textures and a colourful spacey background
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AARGH!

An INVADER! Possibly from space?

With a rather exciting E3 coming to a close, and some amazing announcements having been made, I decided to draw something based on one of my favourite activities...YES!!! Playing video games!!!

Well I've been meaning to draw one of these for a while now, was just trying to think of a way of doing it and making it interesting, and watching videos of next gen gorgeousness this week inspired me to revamp this classic anti hero character!

Using adobe Illustrator, firstly I created a flat vector image by drawing out large solid coloured squares (over-sized pixels), and created the classic Space Invader shape. Then using the 3D bevel tools I turned the flat object into a 3D Vector shape.

I transferred this over to Photoshop where I applied all sorts of texture magic and lighting effects. And here you have it!

I love video games, I grew up with them and they continue to be an inventive and artistic influence on my life.

Right! Have a great weekend everyone!
Peace Love And Pixels
Your friendly neighbourhood DoodleNick!

Monday 3 June 2013

Trees Bear Fruit

A large tree bearing fruit, of quit literally, bears. A Black bear, a grizzly bear, and a polar bear.
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WELCOME TO JUNE
Albeit 3 days into the month!!!

And regardless of the fact that solstice isn't until the 21st I am officially declaring British Summer time!!!
(Basically because we've had a few days of sun and I don't expect it to last).

Today sees the launch of a little series of doodles, based around the theme of "Phrases I misunderstood when I was a kid".

Yeah, we've all had a few, quite often an adult says something which they think is perfectly normal, and your amazing little brain conjured up entirely the wrong images to put to the words. So I decided to share some of the better (sillier) ones with you!

On that note, I have to go to college now and be a mature student (learn more technical and advanced ways of making my daft creations come to life).

Peace love and pixels to you all folks!
(and *bear with me on that big announcement still to come)
*Pun intended

Friday 24 May 2013

I remember that night...

A hand made looking collage of a girl and a boy looking at two cardboard stars and a smiling paper moon with button eyes
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Hello and welcome!

For the last few weeks I've been collecting textures from all manner of various sources, my scanner and camera are now exhausted from all the work they have been doing! So I decided to let them rest their transistors, and create something with my new images using Photoshop!

Might even try to get this one converted into a greetings card! Why not let me know what you think? There is a comment section below, and I'd love to have your feedback, failing that you can email me your thoughts instead!

I'm off to buy some carrots now! And probably take more photos of interesting (debatable) things!

See you all again next week!

Peace, love, and paperclips!
Doodlenick

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Petaloid Android

A big friendly looking robot with an LCD smiley face.
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Hello and welcome to you all!

         Today I bring you a doodle of something which I had been meaning to do for a while! Who doesn't love a big robot after all???

Introducing the new P3R-C1 Handyman, Fully Automated Domestic Assistant Bot! So often in modern culture robots are portrayed as mindless destroyers, I am aiming to change that (Though there is also a home defense model available, not mentioned on this particular flyer).

He started life as a biro sketch on a piece of brown paper at about 11:30pm one night last week, oh and just in case any of you were wondering...
Petaloid [ˈpɛtəˌlɔɪd]
                        adj resembling a petal, esp in shape.
^owing to the shape of the outer shell casing which was entirely inspired by the orchid sat on my windowsill!

Right! I've got loads to do! But I'll see you again tomorrow! Fun stuff on the horizon (And I promise I won't keep you hanging on that big news I was going on about the other day on this page.

In the mean-time,
Be nice to robots!
Ta Ta for now!

Thursday 16 May 2013

I said shatter "RESISTANT"!

Poor little broken dead plastic ruler, he shouldn't have pushed his luck!
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Aww dear...

Remember your first few days back at school? New books, new bag, new outlook, and most importantly...
BEAUTIFUL SHINY NEW STATIONERY

Remember lending your gorgeous brand new plastic ruler to your friend and wincing as they bent it into an unnatural curve, the tension building inside you, as he/she reassures you that "It's OK! It's SHATTER RESISTANT!"
Then...SNAP!!!!


Guess you'll be spending the rest of that term using a sellotaped ruler and creating straight lines with a notch in them... bah!

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Time for cake!

A girl in rain clothes walks her dog along the street, "It's definitely time for home and cake".
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Howdy doodly do!
And a marvelous day it is too!
Well It's been a busy few weeks, but I'm very glad to say that I will at least be posting up a few doodles in the forthcoming days!

This one was inspired entirely by the wise words of my girlfriend after a long walk underneath the Yorkshire weather "I'm ready for cake".


There is something to be said about spending a day outdoors in the cold and knowing that there is a spongy cake and a cup of tea waiting to be consumed at home!

Oh and also, something pretty huge is happening behind the scenes here (but I can't talk about it any more than that!), don't worry I'll keep you posted!

Thursday 2 May 2013

My name is URL

WWW saying hi to his old friend PC. A DoodleNick picture
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HELLO!

So today I bring to you a wee doodle which I drew on a piece of paper about a week ago, finally digitised and reworked into something that loks presentable!

I wasn't entirely sure what to call it, it was a close call between "Internet Chat" and the title you see above, which will no doubt ring bells for those of you whom are fans of the TV series with a similar name! Just a coincidence but a good one! :)

It's a wonderful sunny day, so I'm going to spend the rest of it destroying grass with a flymo (naturally).

Have a great evening folks! Grab a cornetto while it's still sunny outside!

Friday 19 April 2013

Simple maths!

What happens to young slices that don't use protection!
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Today I ate the last two slices of bread we had left in the freezer, such a shame!

As tribute to them, today's doodle is combination of both food and relationship education (you can't say I never spoil you).

I'm going away this weekend to enjoy the further reaches of my county and spend some down time with my amazing girly and some good friends! Happy times, board games, good food and hopefully decent weather!

And if you happen to be having a bit of an off day, losing a bit of hope, I'll leave you with this quote:

"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, 
they can sure make something out of you." Muhammad Ali

Have fun out there peeps!

Wednesday 17 April 2013

The Moon and the Stars

A bright crescent moon glows amid a bed of twinkling stars.

It's daytime still!
So here' a picture of the sky in the middle of the night! Of course!

Well actually I was planning on posting this one up yesterday evening, but the laws of sod had their little way and I ended up sat on the sofa unconscious with a migraine. Blech!

I was inspired to do this after a rather lovely experience I had two nights ago. I could see a glare through the gap in my front room curtains, so i went to see what it was and to my surprise it was a glorious crescent moon, not the headlights of a taxi which was dazzling the left field of my vision from the sofa!

What a lovely surprise!
And also what a fantastic little experiment with lighting and gradient usage!

Anyway, lots to do! So...see you later!

Monday 15 April 2013

Rawr...

A cute little brown fuzzy monster saying "Rawr..."

Now...
I know that not much of the recent content I've posted up on here can really be classed as "doodles", so I aimed to rectify that today by drawing a wee monster using only some basic brushing techniques, and minimal production/effects.

He only took me a couple of minutes and you know what, I love this little guy! I think I'm going to call him Rawr... (the dots are part of the name, don't miss them out or you'll offend him!)

I've got a lot of work on at the moment, which is brilliant! but it does mean that the doodle flow has been somewhat slower. Perhaps I should keep on doing things like this? Hmmm....

In other Doodlenews, it appears that I may be starting on animation at college tonight!!! I'm buzzing at the thought of the insane things I might be able to dream up with that particular skill under my belt (what an odd phrase).

Anyway! New week, new fun!
Peace love n' Pixels to you all!

Friday 5 April 2013

Mr Bean! (No not that one!)

Mr Bean (Not the Rowan Atkinson one), a very classy coffee bean indeed!

This morning I decided to write a poem, it went like this:

Forever shall I be in awe,

When dark recedes from new-days shore,
What titillates olfaction pure?
'Tis from the morning ground.



Such heaven in the lavish sound,
As downpour freshens earthen mound,
Each drop upon its great rebound...
Makes King of mornings aptly crowned!

 I asked my friends and family on Facebook to see if they could guess what I was on about.
My mum answered correctly, and so for no apparent reason, I decided to go and draw a classy coffee bean as a gesture of my appreciation for those who took the time to read my work!

Once again, thank you all very much! You make me feel rather wonderful!

I've had a lot of work to do recently which is why I haven't been doodling much, but I hope to rectify this as I will soon be starting to write a book (which is a children's book and therefore mainly made up of pictures).

For now, i bid thee farewell, and I hope that you all have the BEST of weekends!

Caffeine infused wishes,
Your pal Nick!

Thursday 28 March 2013

Happy Eastarrrrr

Pirate Easter bunny

I felt like hand drawing something today.
With tomorrow being Good Friday, I decided to Piratise  (new word) the Easter Bunny. Makes sense right? Well perhaps it doesn't, but at least it makes for an interesting variation from the norm!

I am positively  **EXPLODING** with excitement at the thought of returning to college after the Easter bank holiday cluster. Why you ask? FLASH!!! Nope, not Gordon, and not getting naked, but the animation software! I've been wanting to learn how to use it since forever, and that is just what I will be doing as from April!

Anyway, I'm off to have some holiday now! See you all again very soon! Being the social superstar that I am, I will be taking my laptop with me!

TTFN!

Thursday 21 March 2013

Familiar Face

Batman, The Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader
Police medic: (to dazed criminal) "What was the last thing you remember seeing?"

I drew Batman!

Not really much more to say, I've always been a fan of the Bat, definitely my fave of all the comic book heroes! He's appeared so many times, in so many different styles! And I enjoyed pretty much everything I've ever read or seen with the famous Dark Knight (yes that also includes the Adam West series!!!)

Obviously I have to tell you that I do not have the rights to the character, this is purely a piece of fan art and I'm not going to try and make any money off it etc etc!

In any case, hope you like it! It was a very quick sketch and an interesting experiment with lighting and shading techniques.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Rear Window

An illustrated perception of the view from my home in West Yorkshire. Overlooking green hills and houses on top of steep hills.

Well it took me a little longer than I would have liked, but here it is, as I promised. A more colourful and some might say atmospherically lighter doodle (than the previous few).

It is a slightly modified version of the view from my office (dining room table if I'm being totally honest). You can't quite capture the depth of the real view by drawing it with 2d vectors and flat colours, but I didn't want to create a photographic reproduction. After all if that were the case I'd have taken a photo!

I was going to add more detail but felt that I didn't want to saturate the picture with too many features. For me this was an exercise in depth, layering and scale. There is very little going on in the way of perspective, I'll save that for another day!

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Giant Worm!!!

Dark Worm giant bug monster hairy toothy grr

Well folks it is going to be another eventful few weeks!
I've got tonnes to do and no time to get it done, (but that doesn't mean it can't be fun).

After posting up the Butterflies at Sunset image a few days back I felt the need to experiment a little bit more with silhouette styling, and brushing techniques. I came up with something a lot darker, but not without its charm! (Weird bug-like hairy charm).

Next time I'll probably create something with a little bit more colour, but for now, please enjoy the dark worm in all his toothy glory!

Friday 1 March 2013

Butterfly Sunset

Butterflies, sunset, grassy, twilight, evening, summer, sillhouette

Good day to you all!

Today's artwork was entirely inspired by the beautiful weather which has been warming up the UK (albeit by one or two degrees C) for the past few days.

I love summer evenings, the grassy scent in the air, the occasional waft of a BBQ cooking bangers, the late nights, and the warmth. I can tell you all that attempting to spend an evening outside after a sunny winter Yorkshire day, definitely does not reflect these feelings, but it did make me yearn for them!

So it took me a while to put this image together, it is one my most complex Photoshop creations to date using no less than 36 layers, but I feel it was truly worth the effort! Experimentation with blur effects and various brush techniques have paid off, and I really love looking at this picture. Makes me feel very relaxed indeed!

I hope that you all have superb weekends! I've got a lot of web designing to crack on with, so it's going to be a busy (but productive) one I feel!

Tuesday 26 February 2013

They are watching...

Mysterious, They are watching character doodle

You know that feeling when you are out walking and you feel as though you are being watched?
The chances are that your senses aren't lying, the good news is that it was probably just these guys watching, and they mean no harm!

If you try to look at them directly they move away, and I bet you were wondering what those little black dots are that appear in your vision from time to time.

What do they do?
Nobody knows.

Why are they here?
They might not be!

Do they have a name?
Not yet, perhaps you can help me think of one!

I was inspired to create this after playing a rather beautiful and challenging little game called Night Sky on my 3DS earlier today! Give it a go, you won't be disappointed!

Friday 22 February 2013

Funny Bunny!


Good evening one and all!

I drew a bunny rabbit! This idea popped into my head as I was about to fall asleep a couple of nights ago, the second it happened I had to grab a pencil and sketch it out before my sieve like memory let it slip away into that weird oblivion where great pre sleep ideas seem to go. I might try to make a series of animal based characters in this style, I love how this little chap looks, he makes me smile!

Anyway another week is done and I am feeling ready to spend an evening in front of the TV, watching stuff on it, not just sitting next to an electrical appliance, that would be odd...

Whatever it is you are doing this weekend go ahead and have a great time like the happy bunnies you are!

Monday 18 February 2013

GRAAAINS!!!


New week! New day! NEW DOODLE!

To celebrate last weeks return of THE WALKING DEAD, and the fact that I watched it whilst eating a bowl of cereal, I decided to draw the above 640 thousand pixels of utter nonsense!

Well, actually, if you think about it, in the even of a zombie apocalypse, one of the brightest things to do would be to ween the hoards of undead off their almost 100% diet of brains, and get them to understand the importance of getting a daily intake of wholegrain! If that doesn't work, I guess grab something you can use as a weapon (spoon not recommended).

Creating this doodle was great fun, I have learned tonnes more about textures, the use of gradients, and shadows, and also believe it or not that was my first ever attempt at drawing a human (ish) hand! Woohoo!

Right, I need to make a cuppa, I've been meaning to do it for ages!
I strongly suggest you watch Black Mirror on Channel 4 tonight (if you live in the UK). If you live elsewhere: -First of all  HEY THANKS FOR VISITING MY BLOG!
-Secondly, I'm sure there is somewhere online you can watch it!

Ok...tea...seriously!!!
Until next time! Look after your brains, and lock up your brekkie cereals!

Thursday 14 February 2013

Special Valentine's Day Edition!!!


Well a big Howdy doody,
To you from your's troodly!

It happens to be the 14th February today, which means that it is St VALENTINE'S DAY...
Yes, a day so important that it deserves to be written in text of a slightly higher point size, stylised with bold and colourised in red!

I hope that you all are able to spend today with your someone special, who (or what) ever they may be, I'm not here to judge! If you don't have anyone to receive a card from, consider the above image my present to you! You lucky lonely people you!

Don't eat too much chocolate, or over indulge in gourmet restaurant food. You need to be able to perform "upstairs" later this evening!  And believe me, having a stomach ache totally ruins your concentration when playing rude words scrabble in bed!!!

You thought I was going to say something rude there... be honest! You filthy people!!! Have a good evening everyone! What ever you choose to indulge in...


Wednesday 13 February 2013

Pixelpuss


Now I know what you're thinking...

"This looks quite simple compared to your other work Nick! WTF? ROFL? OMG etc etc"

And actually you would be incorrect in this assumption! Because the above doodle is actually significantly more simple than my usual and recent kinds of experimentation! However it is great, and I LOVE pixel art, since I am a child of the 80's and therefore spent a lot of my youth looking at images made up in a similar fashion.

I actually made this for my wonderful girlfriend (who likes cats just a little bit), so kisses to you if you are reading this me darlin'! And for anyone else I wish you well, but I'm not going to kiss you all, I don't want germs unless I know where they've come from (see activia and other such silly products for examples).

Anyway I've waffled on for long enough. Just enough time more to say WATCH THIS.

See you later! With something AMAZING WHICH I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS NOW!!!!! Capitals make everything louder...it's true! G'nite!

Saturday 9 February 2013

WANTED!!!


What crimes did they commit?

Actually none, I just really fancied some chili peppers!

Happy Saturday to you all! I hope you have all gone out and done your panic buying in preparation for the incoming blizzards about to hit our fair isles! That means that the shops will be quieter for me tomorrow!!!

I won't gabble on any more! I want to go and relax!!!

Hope you all have an amazing Sunday! See you again soon!

Friday 8 February 2013

My website! AT LAST...sort of

It's here! IT'S HERE!!!
It's...not quite done yet, but at least I've managed to get the beginnings of my new portfolio site uploaded.

http://www.nick-steel.co.uk/

At the moment all it does is look very pretty and guide you right back to this blog. So functionality is a bit lacking at the moment, but the heart and soul is there at least!

In the coming weeks, months etc you can expect to see some MAJOR updates to that page, and very soon I'll add some webby portfolio pieces!!!

Other than being captain lurgy all week, it's been a fairly good-un! Off to see an exhibition of work by the marvellous Quentin Blake in the beautiful town of Halifax: (click here if you are interested).

Anyway! Enough for now! Will get a new doodle up on here tomorrow! Here's a hint, 'it's a bit chilly"!

Keep clicking that website! I appreciate all your support and love!
Have a great weekend, and don't get snowed in y'all!!!

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Claws on a blackboard


How are y'all doin today?

I'm feeling pretty awful thanks to the hoards of winter lurg zombies caughing in my general direction whilst travelling on a train last Saturday. Thanks go out to the kind, kind folks of West Yorkshire, some of whom do not feel the need to put a hand over their mouth whilst coughing... -_-

Although, the lack of sleep which results from crazy illness hallucinations, has inspired me to do some more experimentation. This time with various brush effects in both Illustrator and Photoshop. And the above cutie is the result of said crazy inspiration! For all of you out there who grew up having to decipher text, diagrams, and graphs written in chalk on a blackboard, this is for you! And if you were fortunate enough to be born into a generation of white boards, and digital screens, yeah you can be a part of this too, just ask your parents/ grandparents/ ungle Google.

Right, I need to go and inhale some vicks for a while. So until next time! Keep your board rubber handy! And don't get caught typing 5318008 into your scientific calculators!

Sunday 3 February 2013

Creepy minty texture fun!


Even minty fresh things can be creepy!
And hey, if you are having trouble with an annoying flat/house mate, why not print this off and stick it somewhere they will see it. Film the reaction for all round hilarity!

This sure was fun to create! And hey if "modern artists" can get away with flinging paint at a canvas, or painting parallel lines, or pickling animals, then why not eh?

I hope that you've all had a fabulous weekend! We ate some rather marvelous food at Red's True Barbecue in Leeds (if you live near, or even if you don't, I highly recommend it!), and endured the relentless Yorkshire weather once more!

See you all next week for more doodle fun!

Friday 1 February 2013

I've been in cyberland


So yes! I've been away for a little while, not doing things for the blog. And you know what?

 I'm gutted about that since it's something that I enjoy so much!

On the other hand, it's because I've been busy doing some real work and building a website! So really the time has been well spent!!!

I've been learning tonnes about CSS, and Javascript, and PHP, and Wordpress AAAAAAND a whole cacophony of other coding madness! All in the name of future career development, so fingers crossed all of this typing and info cramming will pay off!!!

I feel however that time is ripe to get back on with the doodling. I feel I have fallen out of practice and gotten rather lazy on the doodly portion of my life! It's also time to have a break from the computer for a while! So on that note, off to have a restful weekend of going for walks, playing video games and...doing more artwork...on the...computer... so never mind that computer break I was mentioning (I'll divert my eyes to the world outside the window each hour to remind me that I am in fact a human being and not a computer program).

I've kept you reading for far too long! Just be joyful and dance around because I've actively given myself the task of doing more doodles from now on! Got some brilliant ones to come, looking forward to it!

Peace love and pixels!

Thursday 17 January 2013

Toothbrush


Hey guess what? It's snowing again!

That is not the reason why I decided to draw a cartoon dinosaur holding a toothbrush, in fact I have no idea what inspired me to do this but the conundrum facing this character did me me smile, so that's enough!

Going away to wrap up warm and watch some junk on TV whilst the snow falls over Yorkshire!
Have a good evening everyone! Drive safe tomorrow!!!

Tuesday 15 January 2013

A City Graphic


Howdy ho!

Hope you've all had a good day!

Today's doodle came as a result of some experimentation with shapes and usage of the blend tool in Adobe Illustrator! I enjoyed making it, and I hope you enjoy viewing it!

It makes a nice background for your laptop monitor (I'm using it at the moment, give it a go and let me know what you think!).

That's it for now! Gotta rush!!!
(play in the snow before it's all gone)

Sunday 13 January 2013

Bird on a wire


It's snowing again! It snowed...it's... stopped...aww c'mon!!!

Well, blimey! One of the things that got me excited about moving up 'ere t' Yorkshire, was the premise that the county generally receives a lot of snow compared to the lower lands of the UK... so where is it? I don't know if weather systems are able to access the internet, or read, but if they can...I'm disappointed...

Here's hoping for more tonight so we can wake up, build a snowman (and a snow-dog)  and generally act like excited 8(+20) year olds!

Today's doodle comes courtesy of the lonely bird that was sat on top of a telephone wire in our street when we came back from shopping today. It looked very similar to this scene, apart from with a few more colours and much smaller snow flakes. I felt sorry for the feathery fellar, he was singing loudly in the cold snowfall, and no other bird was around to answer, so I felt like immortalising this rare beautiful and slightly solemn moment in the shape of a doodle. I hope he finds his friends soon!

Enjoy your evenings! Eat well, watch a cheesy movie, and most importantly snuggle up warm. Oh and if you are now developing a sense of karmic duty, put some food out for the birdies, they always appreciate it!

Friday 11 January 2013

Hypnochick!


2nd Friday of the year? Yeah!!!

Well keeping in theme with yesterday's monochrome Ninja Owl doodle, today's arty experiment uses nothing more than black & white and lots of line drawy, vector fiddly techniques. The initial idea came from THIS AMAZING TUTORIAL. If you use Adobe Illustrator please check it out it, you won't be disappointed!

Now let's get a few things said, I don't know who the person is, it was based on features of my own face, and some from the back of my imagination, so it isn't meant to look like anyone particular! I've aptly dubbed this image Hypnochick, due in no small part to that dizzying background!!!

Well that's it for now! Have a great weekend everyone! I believe the UK is about to be battered by a cold weather front, so I'm battening down the hatches and enjoying a hot cuppa tea to prepare!

Much love, peace out, yadda yadda!

Thursday 10 January 2013

Stealth n' Feathers


Well hello and a happy Thurs(to you)day!

I don't know why, but a lot of people out there don't seem to appreciate owls for the stealthy night time ninjas which they are! So I thought I'd put that right and create a graphic to represent the awesomeness of this creature in it's natural form. Don't try telling me that owls don't use katanas or ninja stars, I won't believe you!

Well I hope that the week is coming to a good close for everyone! I was thinking about submitting some of my doodles to be printed on T-shirts! Let me know what you think and which ones you would particularly like to see on a piece of clothing!

I am off to make a carrot and coriander soup for din dins, so until tomorrow, ciao and chow down!

Wednesday 9 January 2013

2013 is here! Sorry I'm late!


HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO MY BLOG! YEAH!!!

Marvelous to be back on blogger, drawing silly things and generally talking rubbish to you, my superb audience! I've missed you, I've missed this, and now I'm back!!!

For those of you who do not know, I was spending Christmas and New year on the sunny little island Cyprus! And what a wonderful time I had! Also I ate roughly half of the country's food supplies over the festive season, so looks like I'll be hitting the Kinect exercise routines extra hard for the next few weeks!

If you are anything like me, you'll be feeling a little low as we wave goodbye to Christmas, and welcome another year filled with it's overly generous share of blah, meh, and 'eh?' moments. So I thought I'd visually represent the end of the season in a way that only my imagination can do. Au revoir, auf wiedersehen, yassou, or just plain old goodbye to Chrimbo. Pack up your baubles and pop your trees back in the dusty attic (unless you were posh enough to have a real tree, in which case keep sniffing it's piney goodness until it starts to go mouldy).

 If it wasn't clear, I wish you all a happy and lucky 2013! High hopes for the future and all that! Looking forward to making people smile with daily sillyness once more!!!