Dead Men Tell No Tales

Our old friend Tom Dean may very well be making presence known in the form of some awesome A2 prints and maybe even an animated sequel to his first adventure. Watch this space. In the meantime, get a taster of Tom’s epic return, below.

Milk & Sugar topic six

Topic six: ‘Purge’

Inspired by a recent bout of sickness, I created this monstrosity. The piece is about how a person can become inhuman through a pursuit of beauty.
The creature is male, but is androgynous in the sense that he swathes himself in music and burlesque feathers. The clock in his face represents ageing. The pauldrons, one armoured, one feathered are indicative of a transformation. Half the body in darkness, lurching toward to the light. Clawing at future that is always two steps ahead.

Art And Things Magazine speaks to Traumatron. And vice versa.

Hello, worms.

Those lovely chaps over at Art And Things Magazine recently had a word with your humble lord and master. The article can be viewed by clicking right here.

You should also take the time to peek at the other awesome artists featured on the site!

As is that wasn’t enough, ‘Traumatron: He came from the Internet‘ is now available on Issuu.com as some kind of flashy flippy booky ready internetty thing. Yes indeed. You’ve seen the images before – but not the text, I’ll wager. Go and see.

VIEW THE BOOK ON ISSUU.COM

Blanka Poster

Well, here he is, finished and ready to take on all comers! Please vote for my design:

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/entry/?id=5673

I’d always seen Blanka as a much more fierce character than how is portrayed in Street Fighter IV, so I’ve depicted him as getting a little closer to his roots in the jungle, which he protects with his life from men who would seek to destroy it for their own capitalistic gain. Or something. Ha ha. Anyway, I hope you like it and help me win the competition, it’d really mean alot.

Don’t Panic’s Street Fighter 4 Poster Competition

Hello! I’m busy bashing out a submission for a competition. Here’s wha tI’ve scribbled up so far. I’ve always played Street Fighter as Blanka. His move set is easy to learn and perform, plus he hits like a train. Heh.

Join the revolution!

Sigh. I’m already up to my eyeballs with Facebook and I love it dearly, but now I have to be a twitterer too, to keep up with all you young things are your vile goings on. You can find me and follow me (through corridors, refectories…) right over here.

Sweet Enough

Myself and Kate Kamikaze recently started a little project over on Facebook called Milk & Sugar. Every 2 week s we randomly pick a title and produce an image each, based on that title. Then you look at it.
It’s as straightforward as making a cup ‘o tea.

…unless you drink really fucking crazy tea.

Why don’t pop over and take a look at what people are making, and maybe join in yourself?

Here’s my first submission. The first topic was ‘Milk & Sugar’ to mark the opening of the project.

Um, that’s me. Drinking distinctly un-sweet tea. I HATE sugar in my tea.
The image is treated and tinted to give a tea-stained impression, and I have a great fondness for using paper textures in my work right now. I like to make images with a certain sense of humour and anyone that knows me, knows there is an irony in the image. I’m generally a grumpy young man, and when offered tea, will always decline sugar, explaining darkly that “I’m sweet enough…”

Process:
Pen & tablet drawing in Photoshop using a photograph as reference.
The font is called ‘nasty’. The brushes are custom and from christ knows where. Work time was something in the region of three hours in two sessions. Most of that was pissing about with the colours.

Naboo

Hello. My little lad Naboo has been out gallavanting for much longer than usual of late, and often returns home smelling of smoke, perfume, and tangerines. I can only assume he is out charming a wealthy heiress.

…or is just hanging around outside the pub.

Pan’s Labyrinth Print: WIP

Hey there folks, I’m working on a limited edition art print for submission to the very lovely Boxbird Gallery here in sunny Brighton for their forthcoming cinemascope exhibition. Anyone can give it a crack – so get yer crayons out! I’ve got a few ideas for submissions, but I’m currently scribbling away at a drawing of the Faun from Pan’s Labyrinth, specifically the scene where he loses his temper with the princess.

An Accident?! We made a mistake! You can never return!

Punk Rock Karaoke

A fairly quick and silly job for the local Punk Rock Karaoke night, an ongoing event organised by a friend of mine. More of these designs to come, I think!