Hardball IV

Looks like it's a standoff.

I like that gif comics are a thing,

and this is just me trying out that thing.

Also, it was about time I made another gif wasn't it.

You know what they say, gifs are good. 

Now that's alliteration, despite what Steve Wilhite thinks.

Hardball III

Sport and wisdom guys, sport and wisdom.

Did this one page comic a while back. I've been holding on to it for pretty much no reason.

So yeah, that's that. It was mega fun to do, and a good excuse to draw Dahlia again.

BIG MAC

Yeah ok! I saw the smallest woman lugging the biggest iMac I'd
ever seen around East London. I'm assuming this is what she went on to do next.

I mean, she couldn't possibly have been going to do anything else.

Trippin'

So the other day I put together the dumbest comic:

Ha, masterpiece amirite?!

Well this all happened because I walked past a guy wearing a hat with the phrase 'Bitches be Trippin' on it. This automatically popped into my brain. I didn't know what it actually meant, and had to google it later that evening.

I can feel my street credibility delving just that little bit lower.

We Can Be Heroes, Right?

Two super-powered beings,
just before they go do their super-powered things:

I celebration of their new Comics Unmasked exhibition, the British Library teamed up with Arts Thread to host a comics competition. This is my entry, taking on the theme 'We Can Be Heroes'

Cos those two, they're the good guys... right? I'm not sure either.

Pour Cyclist

You are looking at a rather dramatic (and gif'd up) scene from a story of romance, 

self discovery and vehicular coming of age.

It's over guys. Last month saw the end of my cycling comic strip!

In case you missed it, you can read the whole thing on Cycle Camden's Facebook page. 

So if you're still wondering what happened to this poor chap, and if things gets better for him, 

what are you still doing here? GO READ IT!

Comics Zone Cycle Slugger

Upon my return I mentioned that I've been working on a comic strip.
The comic's for London's Camden Council, promoting cycling.
Here's the crux of it:

This is Sam

Sam loves Lucy, a beautiful (inside and out, guys) cycling fanatic,
and he thinks one way of getting closer to the key to her heart is to take up cycling himself.

If only getting on someone's radar was that easy, amirite folks?... folks?

Let cycling based hilarity, questionable dreams & comic misfortune ensue.

With, you know, a dash of romance of course.

No telling if it's the tragic kind or not yet.

There are just over 20 episodes up right now, with much much more to come.

A new episode every Sunday!

Check them out on Cycle Camden's Facebook page here.

Give 'em a little like too to keep up to date.

Degree Show

What could this post possibly be about?

Yeah that's right, the CSM Graphic Design Degree Show is well underway!
The chapter's closing people.

Come along and see some of the best of illustration, design, moving image and advertising!

For more info check out the website:

http://2012.csmgraphicdesign.com/

Also, don't hesitate to say hi!

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On a ever so slightly related note, hells yeah I have a full on website!

And yeah that is a completely new project you can see up there...
For that and a few more unseen projects, have a look!

davidtolugraham.com

The First Rut

Hello everyone. It's 2012, and I need some help,
a little bit of alternate perspective if you will.

I've been working on a narrative project for a while now, the characters are developed,
the scripts are written, the storyboards are all done, but I seem to be having problems starting.
I can't decide how to render it.
Whenever it comes to making decisions with this project my mind keeps malfunctioning
and bringing me to a halt. This isn't great, as time is hastily running out

So yeah, could you help me, what route should I take?:


Digital...


...or Traditional

I suggest you click on each image for a closer look.

Please let me know which image you prefer, by commenting below,
Facebook commenting me (if you know me duh), tweeting me or whatever!

Save me internets!

Rather annoyingly, whilst messing about with both these images, I found merging them together to add a some texture to the flatness of the digital image is the perfect compromise. But in order to do that, I'd have to both digitally and traditionally render each image.

Screw that.

The Rise of Angle Grinder Man

Finally, Here.

You're about to read my outcome for the first illustration project of the year.
The project was called Hidden Histories.
It had to be about something real. So I went with Angle Grinder Man.

This is the story of how it all began:

Yeaabedadai!
Done.

What do you think.
It's a little sad to think, that of all the time I've been at CSM, this is the 1st comic I have ever finished. To think one day I want to call myself a graphic novelist!
I've definitely got to do more, and soon - good thing I have a plan to force myself to,
which I'll reveal another day.

You know, where there's a rise, there tends to be a fall.
So if I were you I'd be asking, "Where's the fall of AGM?"

Good question.

I wrote a script to it, but only had to time to do one of the proposed 2 comics for the final piece.
Which was more than enough of an outcome.

But I'd love to put the script into images, as I personally prefer it to the rise. What you've read is basically a summary of how AGM came to be. The fall deals with AGM in a much more personal light, reflecting on his last ever real blog post, and his disappearance after that.

I intend to do it at some point, but then again, I intend to do a lot of things.