My final show for the year is going to be at Juggler’s Art Space, opening on Dec 12. It should be a good show, with a wide range of artists who’ve exhibited at Juggler’s throughout 2008.
Heres a sneak peak of what I’ve got for it so far (a few still need to be finished off). I’ll post up more detailed images on squidtank.com once they’re all complete.
Oops, forgot to post this one up, I drew it a few weeks ago when I caught up with a mate in at Ric’s. Just a few quick drawings with copics and pitt pens.
I’ve never really come across a pen that I love to draw with, but I came close with some Faber-Castell PITT pens. My friend Boris put me onto them a couple of years ago and I’ve used them ever since. They’re great when they’re new, but after a few (say 5-10 detailed) drawings, they lose their edge. The fine (S) ones lose their abilty to create a nice line without being held at 90 degrees to the pages (something that really annoys me), and the thickest ones (B) start to soften and become more brush like (which I think they ‘may’ be designed to do). Thankfully you can remove the nib of the thicker ones and rotate it 90 degrees to double their lifetime.
If any other artists out there have discovered any amazing pens (especially if they’re available in Australia), I’d love to hear about them.
Quite often I sit to draw and get stuck for ideas, its pretty frustrating. Heres a couple of little dudes that popped into my head this arvo (nothing special though).
As most people who know me well, I’m a sucker for advertising and McDonald’s latest “add avocado and bacon” reeled me in. I’d never had a quarter pounder before (more a big mac, single/double/triple cheeseburger fan) but figured it could be worth trying with bacon and avocado. I just brought one home and opened it up expecting to see a nice thick layer of avocado like the ad …..
Strangely enough this wasnt the case, and this is what I actually ended up with …
Although I appeared have been stooged on the avocado, it was still pretty tasty, though I think its still kicking around in my guts at the moment, might be an interesting afternoon ….
Well, what a dissapointing way to start the day. I got up to take the garbage down and thought I might squeeze in an hour of GTAIV before work since I was out of bed so early. I was getting all settled as I turned on my xbox only to be greeted by the red ring of death. While not impressed, I wasn’t shocked. I’ve heard that many stories that I knew it was only a matter of time (though I was secretly hoping I had the only flawless box in existence). I suppose I’d been somewhat lucky (compared to others) as I’ve had it for just over two years (2 years, two weeks and a day) without any major problems, apart from occassional noises from the dvd drive followed by game freezes (nothing a restart doesn’t fix, though I loose any unsaved progress). I’m hoping my memeory of an extended 5 year warranty on 360 hardware failures is correct, guess I’ll find out when I ring EB this morning, wish me luck.
*EDIT* Turns out the extended warranty I bought through EB (in store swap for faulty consoles) expired 15 days ago, so it has to get sent to Microsoft (3 year warranty through them). I’ll give them a buzz now and organise it. Good thing is I’ll have more time to draw now *fingers crossed*.
*EDIT 2* Oh man, its been 11 hours and I’m already missing the option to fly down the streets of liberty city at 200km/hr in a stolen Turismo or Inferno. On the upside, I’ve churned out 3 pages of A4 I probably wouldn’t have otherwise. Keep it locked!
I’ve just mailed off my contribution to 696’s charity exhibition “Get Trucked”. They got 100 artists to customize 100 trucker caps for the show, money raised goes to the Cancer Council, so if you’re in Melbourne pop along and support a great cause.
