Owlle: Amelia's Magazine

An illustration I recently did of the musician Owlle for Amelia's Magazine.

What's her music like I hear you cry? Well, this.

Twitch Played Pokémon

On March 1st 2014, Red beat the Elite 4, with a few helping hands:

This is my little tribute to the original Twitch Plays Pokémon Red event.

For those who may have missed this, 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' is a massive online social experiment hosted by the game streaming site Twitch in which tens of thousands of people attempt to play the same game of Pokémon at the same time. This is done in real time by any member of the website inputting commands into the chat section of the stream. 

This obviously results in pure chaos.

The whole process has been oddly mesmerising, and at times hilarious. Red would run around in circles; taking hours to walk through a corridor, many pokémon have been accidentally thrown away, and don't even get me started on the Helix fossil.

I originally posted this tribute on twitter on the day the twitch viewers beat the original endgame.

Since then they've graduated to Pokémon Crystal, and are a good 11 days into it now.

You can check out their progress right here.

I've never wanted to play Pokémon so much as an adult than I do right now.

#100

Ok so..... Thanks for sticking around!

Finally got here, Post 100. Only took 4 and a half years!

I know this isn't a big deal to a lot of people, but getting here is a rather nice thing for me.

As a personal celebration I made this little gif. 

Thought it would be interesting to see what one of my older characters from the start looks 

like loosely animated by the same hand today.

It has been a wonderfully self-indulgent process I must admit.

Man, flowers in the wind take a long time to animate.

I've got much more work to show you, here and elsewhere! I got a tumblr you see.
Might migrate there, or might keep both blogs, we'll see what happens I suppose!
I'll update both for the time being!
But yeah, keep your eye out for that.

I'd like to say more, but I feel like I've gone on for too long already.
Hopefully the future work shall speak for itself too.

Once again, thanks to anyone who has stopped by and had a little gander over the last few years.
As a thank you, here's snippet of the best thing I heard last year, enjoy:

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.

Ellie Goulding X Monsieur Adi

Yes this is Ellie Goulding, and that is not Monsieur Adi:

One day in 2010 I stumbled across this music video for Monsieur Adi's Remix of 

Ellie Goulding's Starry Eyed:

That drawing makes a little more sense now doesn't it.

This video has had a tendency to creep in and out of my head at will for the last few years.

I'm not sure what it is.  Maybe it's the good balance of creepy and whimsical. Maybe it's that the Starman could become any of our doppelgängers by the tiniest stretch of immagination. 

Or maybe it's a well edited simple video with a premise.

It could just be me though. I guess I just really like this video.

Unfortunately it feels a little underrated.

The film was made by a short film collective called Hand Krafted Films, which seems to have gone a bit quiet (on the internet anyways) this year, if anyone knows what they're up to now let me know.

Also, for fun, some more Ellie Goulding and Monsieur Adi, 

with some added Daft Punk for good measure:

Lucy Rose: Watch Over/Middle of the Bed

This is Lucy Rose:

After one of her London gigs near the end of last year, 

I told her I to her face was going to draw her.

I mean, I explained I was an illustrator first, but it just occurred to me how odd that still would have come across.

Then I went home and did the illustration. Then held onto it for half a year, because I don't know.

Her debut album 'Like I Used To' was one of the best things I'd heard all of last year.

If you were to get hold of it you wouldn't regret it.

Don't trust me? Just listen.

No Words Kid

Well, this has been sat on my computer for a while, I'm talking over a year here.

One day I was waiting to get my visa at the Nigerian High Commission.

As I was sitting alone observing everyone, I saw two families, 

one with a girl and her brother, the other with a boy.

The girl was just sitting about super cool, cooler than Willow Smith in her Hair whippin' days, watching her little brother who had just proudly discovered the joys of walking.

The boy from the other family... every few minutes he'd walk up to the girl, she'd smile, he'd freeze, not say a word then walk away. Every single time.

It was a little painful to watch, at the same time extremely endearing.

I remember thinking, 'just say something dude!'

Then I thought about how mentally I've been in that kid's shoes multiple times in recent years.

So yeah, I drew the situation, not sure where I was going with that story. 

I guess slice of life and all that.

Lone Graduate

Hey kids!

I graduated almost a year ago, and boy have I been busy.

I've been lucky enough to do some stuff with WPP, 

Foyles and I'm currently working on a comic strip, which I'll get into later.

Man, the origin of this image is a little lame to be honest. I though of it a little after graduation day. After the ceremony I managed to lose almost all of my friends.

Its silly, but one of the things I was looking forward to was taking the super duper clichéd 'throw your hats in the air' picture with all the friends I'd spent the last 3-4 years with. But i couldn't find them, because I misplaced my phone, and they took one without me.

You know, not the end of the world.

I though about ways of managing to recreate a moment I narrowly missed, 

and ended up drawing this.

So I in a way I did get the photo I wanted,

with all the characters I've created,

who have helped me get to where I am today!

See I told you it was a little sad.

Once you're done laughing have a listen to this!