GOODBYE/HELLO/TUMBLR

Finally set up my tumblr, only two years later.

Not sure if I'll keep updating here because I feel like blogger has been a bit sparse the last couple of years (somebody prove me wrong!). I've probably jumped onto the tumblr train too late
but like, you know, whatever.

To check it out follow this link: davidtolugraham.tumblr.com

I guess that wave is a hello and goodbye.

Thanks for the 7 years.

Hey Jane Lane

'Every cloud has a smoky gray lining' - Jane Lane

Well you can't have one without the other now can you?

I'm currently back on Season 4 if you wanted to know.

DAILY DARIA

'I don't have low self esteem, I have low esteem for everyone else' - Daria Morgendorffer

First Sketch Daily of the year, and probably the last, 

seeing as from now you'll find me at home binging on Daria.

Damn it's a good show!

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA

Don't know why, but I hadn't posted this here yet...

It's an old Sketch Daily, but you know, a goodie.

Don't get it?

Well this should clue you in:

Still don't get it?

......fair enough

CHRIMBO CARD-IO

Still looking for that perfect last minute Christmas card?
Well I've got just the thing for you...

It's Badass Santa & Rebellious Rudolph!

I've got a couple of Christmas cards available to buy on the new greetings card website; Thortful. So if you’d like a card with the fine pair above on them, check 'em out right here.

...and with that I'm out! Merry Christmas Y'all!
I'll see you in the New Year.

P.S. I'm not sorry for the puns you've witnessed today.

Modern Stars

Another trio for you folks!

What are they looking at?

Ever thought it might just be you?

DAILY 'MON

So I drew Charmander the other day for Sketch Dailies...

Then you know, nostalgia kicked in, and I had to draw the other original starter Pokemon;

Squirtle and Bubasaur.

The old Charmander was my original starter from 1999.

I always maintain, it was a tough yet right choice.

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.

Moomin 70

To celebrate 70 years of Tove Jansson's Moomin this year, I sketched a Moomin character every day for a week and posted them on instagram. Here they are, all together!

Now, why don't you have your own Moomin week?

DAILY POWER/RANGER

I keep forgetting to post these here when I post them elsewhere.
But you know the drill, a recent Sketch Daily.
It's Zach the Black Ranger.

You feel that? That's your childhood flooding back to you.
Remember, it's morphin time.

So Mr. Ben...

“So Mr. Benn, which costume would you like to try today?”

Mr. Benn you ask? The guy in the suit and bowler hat! Oh ok, I’ll explain…

He was the title character of a British TV show in the early 70’s, but man that show had some staying power, they still showed it when I was a kid. Who know’s it’s probably still airing today!

It was about a normal guy who went on extraordinary adventures. He would always go to the same fancy dress shop, where a fez sporting shopkeeper would invite him to try on a costume. 

He’d then head through a magical door in the changing room, and find himself in a new world dictated by his costume!

I heard a rumour that a movie based on the show is back in the works, but I can’t for the life of me remember where I heard/read that rumour. In retrospect the optimistic part of me probably made it up. But hey if it’s not true, come on, we all know that that film is going to pop up some time soon.

I can see the trailer in my head, there’d be at least two explosions (because films), and would close with a back shot of Mr. Benn, standing in front of a wall of costumes. As he turns round the music stops, and the shopkeeper slowly says the first line of this post.

Filler-O-Fish

Alright! Apologies for my lack of posts the last month, been kinda busy, you know how it is!
So to make up for it, I give you this, an illustrated embodiment of me goofing around for a day.
Proper posts soon yeah!

DAILY HIT-GIRL

Another Sketch Daily edit from the other day.

This time it's Hit-Girl - the walking talking definition of kick-ass - slicing & dicing!

TGA: Other Maps

Recently I was commissioned to illustrate the song "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
for the summer issue of The Girls Are magazine. I had a couple of ideas for it,
and this is the one that didn't make the cut, but that's ok, 'cos I made that call.

You can see the one that made it in issue #3, out now!

C'mon, I had to plug that.

Nike Daily

A slight edit of a Sketch Daily from last month.

It's Nike! Handing out victories.

Hell No Kitty

You must have heard the news? This groundbreaking news!
So, apparently Hello Kitty is not a cat.
There's definitely been something lost in translation here.
Cos yeah, she's totally a cat. Like Mickey Mouse is a mouse and so on.

Spot the Dog

A little tribute to Eric Hill who passed away recently.

For those who didn't know, he created this guy, Spot the Dog.

As a child I spent a lot of time reading and watching shows about this puppy.

Frank: I Love You All

That would probably be his response if he knew my thoughts on the film.

If you don't know about Frank, learn about Frank.

The music that the technically fictional band 'Soronprfbs' (that's right) 

creates throughout the film is quite great. Here's hoping the film's soundtrack is released as the Soronprfbs album.

If you saw the film, you may have struggled to get this song out of your head afterwards. 

I certainly did, for a good reason.

What he said.

Batting Batting 123

Another no paper required drawing. 

Again, how did I do?

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.