Pic-A-Nic

I have to show you this:

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Look at his little smile. =3=

More serious posts to come. ;D

Oh The Perks...

....Of working in a comic book shop.

I think I died along the way to Leeds...really...

Books leant to me by the guys at work: (...I really do think I died somewhere. Don't resuscitate me.)

- Defoe 1666
- Scott Pilgrims Precious Little Life (just finished it...pretty amusing)
- Planetary
- Mesmo Delivery
- All Star Superman Volume 1 (Why yes....DC...it looks very lonely in my room)
- Batman: The dark knight returns (look SM's got a friend...)
- "Hey, wait..."
- Scalped
- The league of extraordinary gentleman, century 1910
- Trip Wire

Spent like an hour sleeving up the new releases...I'm pretty sure there were at least a 100 Buffy issues (pff, I took a wee bit longer than I should have and read a few of the new releases. Who wouldn't?)

Then I helped Oliver with the pre-order stuff that needed to be taken to the post office, which is now my job. =3

And the last hour was spent pottering around the shop reading everything on sight.

Over all. YES!

It's made me realise that I don't know as much about comics as I first thought I did. Eleven or so years doesn't seem so much when you nail it down to what I primarily read e.g X-men, DW ect. I've never really given other book's a chance. So now I'll get too.

And I read Deadpool before my boyfriend. *smug*

Ive also just been told by my friend Karl that if I don't read strangers in paradise he'll never fogive me...so that's another one added to the list.

Thankyou to Luke for the heads up that they where advertising for help. =3 I owe him!

Terrible Yellow Eyes

For all those "Where the wild things are" fans out there. (and I know your there.)

Found this cool little blog showcasing a collection of works inspired by the beloved classic, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Here are some of my favourite piece from the site:

Akk, there's too many too chose from but seriously, check 'em out.

Oh Facebook

So I was flicking past on the old FB when Craig posted a link to Ollie. Being an inquisitive type, I clicked on the link which took me to this rather amusing little article: Where Photography meets illustration.

(Look....no face brought you a present...)

They are awesome! I love the way that some of them don't even look like illustrations, but part of the photograph it's self.

The Artists name is Dmitry Maksimov, a Russian Graphic Designer. I also stumbled upon his Live Journal full of more ace little wonders.

A one up on the Beef Jerky Business Cards I think....Biscuit train tickets! (My high school Russian is limited...)

Not sure whether this is classed as design for print, or not. Oh well...I wouldn't mind the train so much if they where giving out free biscuits.

Summer Project: AWAY!

I now think it's time to really buckle down and work on my Summer Project. (Not that I haven't been doing so but sorting out the house and work kind of came top priority for a few weeks.)

I've decided not to move blog's but just to stick to this one. It'll be good to show my progress and means I won't have to fiddle around with unnecessary changes with other websites that I have linked too.

After finding last years summer project I was over all appalled at myself and so this year I am going to try and up my quilty and quantity of work. So far there isn't so much of a subject...other than the going on's and the random stuff that's happened over the last few weeks. It's probbaly going to be in journal form using illustration but I'll decide more about that on Monday.

I'll be sort of putting everything else on pause for a few weeks to make a good dent on work I need to do and what I want to achieve.

But I'm looking forward to it and to year two. Bring it on!

Greetings! Hope everyone out there is a having a decent summer despite the erratic change in weather. Before I do a summer project post, I wanted to share this Graphic Designer with you all.

Florian Nicolle

He's a 22 year old Designer and illustration from France and at first I was only aware of his Illustration stuff:

I think what's drawn me towards his stuff is what draws me towards Skottie Young. The sketchy, un controlled way they both ink their pieces. But I'd check out his design stuff too. ^^

We Were Once Many

David Charles Haller (Legion), Professor X's very estranged and bizare son. (With his wild and crazy purple hair I wanted as a kid)

In lue of his upcoming magical coming back to life in New Mutants #1 that I got my hands on yesterday. #2 comes out today but I won't be able to get that till next week. Not that it's David speaking but...let's see what the writers do this time.

His left eye is green while the right eye is blue. (But I flipped the image after painting it -.-)

Legion quest 2 came out in '95, 3 years before I started collecting comics. But once I got my grubby 9 year old hands on it, he steadily became one of my favourite X-men. =3 Ahhh Nostalgia.

Legion (c) Marvel Comics

Edit: Why does my header keep going missing?