SOTSP: Rainbow Explosions Upon The Stars!

I know the band like a colourful look, so I added some burst of colour to what I came up with yesterday. :)

SOTSP: Stars Exploding In The Sky!

"...and I want her to be funny you see!?"

Hi everybody, how are you? Things have been a bit hectic lately, being back at the musuem is quite time consuming. So lately, I've decided upon a few things, I want to master life drawing, I want to sell a few canvas pieces and I want to do some sort of collaboration. At the moment, everything with Stars of the Search Party is going well, so that's grand. There will be more updates concerning them soon, I have ideas that are just incomplete and will be worked on more and more as the usual process goes. So, seeing as I've not got much constructive to say, I will leave you with this video - forwarded to me by a friend. Being of Turkish descent, Husam is my new rolemodel.

SOTSP: Developments...

So, the band originally asked for a t-shirt where a torch shone and displayed their name. After much sketching in my sketchbook and thinking about what I could do with this idea, I've decided to produce something a little different from that, whilst sticking to the original request. I've stuck to the lineart style I used for the previous t-shirt design. Hope the band like it (thus far)...

I guess the general theme is...

...big birds and fucking them. Not sure what's been going through my sketchbook lately, but I just end up doing utter crap whilst working at the musuem. Thought I'd post these two pages because they're just the pinicle of bordom captured at the moment of bordom and sleep deprivation. I know what I'm trying to so, no matter.

SOTSP: LOOK! NO HANDS!

Ah the clever variety of this post. Another to come in black... more and more ideas are being worked on, hopefully the band will like.

SOTSP: T-Shirt Design Ideas...

I've completed a first draft of a first idea for a t-shirt design, there are several others being worked on, but I produced this one the quickest out of the lot for some reason. More experimenting to be done with this design if the band like it of course!

This video is wicked.

SOTSP: Complete first typeface!

The Tree People ...in progress.

More Stars of The Search Party...

Hard at work!

New Client: Stars of The Search Party!

Hullo everybody, it's been a good week or so since I've updated, but it's been a hectic week at that! First of all, shame Switzerland (2-1). Second of all, I have some new guys I am working with and producing 'artwork' and other stuff for. They're Stars of The Search Party, a six piece from Guildford in Surrey and you can hear their music at the following link.

Stars of The Search Party MySpace

I've begun experimenting with type/typefaces and a custom feel for the band, I'm not even 1% there yet, but this is an evenings play with one of the styles I came up with. There are loads more to come, of course. This is just an early, early attempt, it will all come down to the bands taste most likely and hopefully something nice will be produced on both my end and theirs to create a nice piece of collaborative fun.

"Comin' 'ere takin' all our jobs!"

So, as I've previously posted, I will be customising my old iPod mini. In commemoration of the 'ol heap of junk, I did a quick little doodle. From now on I will be sporting an iPod nano all the way from 5th avenue, NYC.

In business!

Late Night Doodles

owlfury!

bigOCTOPUS Summer Project: iOctopus - Day One

Right, so, I've recently acquired a brand new iPod nano [8gb] as a gift. It's one of those lovely video - music blaring things - quite nice really. However, my current iPod, which is quite an elderly first generation 4gb iPod mini. It was about time the thing stepped down as my number one mp3 player really. It's near enough dead, the battery doesn't even last a single bus journey and let me tell you bus journey's in London are horrible.

So, the project? Well, my plan is to blow dry the shell open, slide everything out in hope that nothing damages. [Not that it matters if it does with the pathetic excuse of a battery, although that can be replaced.] So back to the plan, I will then spray paint the shell white, give it a nice glossy 'Shock White' coat and then I will follow this up by customising with some nice acrylic pens. I will then gloss over the casing and slot and glue back on. Hopefully it will look nice and I will keep track of the project via this blog.

I think it could go well and the bloody thing, if I can afford to replace the battery will increase in intrinsic value at least. Below are the two iPod's in comparison, I don't know, they're both nice.