JOYOUS colour

above: i) joyous linework ii) light pink draft iii) seafoam draft

from the joyous blog:

''Also we have just ordered 50 American Apparel T-shirts with our design splashed all over them. we have ordered 5 different colours and they are.. Sea Foam, Light Pink, Grass Green, Cremé and Heather Grey, printing 10 of each

T-shirts will be individually numbered and will be only £10.00. They will be available from gigs and online via Paypal on our myspace or Big Cartel, which i shall be setting up soon.
If you look on the American "Apparel website" for standard basic t-shirts they start at £13.00.

http://www.store.americanapparel.co.uk/2001.html?cid=198

Sea Foam, Light Pink, Grass Green, Cremé and Heather Grey. The five colours of the Tee's again.
Cheers me dears. Slaw x''

sweet, my first t-shirt run! here's hoping everything goes smoothly...

joyous / falmouth

above: designs for local wolves/birmingham outfit JOYOUS, who make far happier noise then i could ever even think of. go listen. a few more tweaks to these designs to still be done but overall i'm pretty happy with them.

i'd upload some work that's going on right now but for some reason none of the files are playing nice with the blogger uploader, so whatever. everything is trundling along nicely to say the least, though we'll see how that fares come tutor time tomorrow.

to make up for that, how about some photos of lovely falmouth in pseudo summer mode. it's made me excited.









food for the gods: washed out ''life of leisure'' ep, blakfish ''champions'', peter gabriel ''scratch my back'', ? ''oversteps'', four tet ''there is love in you'', subtle ''for hero: for fool'', throats ''throats'', set your goals ''this will be the death of us'', propagandhi ''today's empires, tomorrow's ashes'', true blood season 2 (just finished), the wire season 2, oz season 1, good food, good company

wheels in motion

above: possible character design for research project and test background prints for said project. as of today these ideas are unchecked by tutors, tomorrow i present my idea and thoughts then go from there. the character is a mock up showing the style i am working my project around. the project itself is entitled the figure within illustration and we have three separate briefs to choose from. mine is based around the seven deadly sins, more specifically anger, and it's counter, patience. hard to see what my idea is just yet, so more on that to come in later days.

settling back nicely to falmouth, gone through the week receiving briefs and grades from class so the ball is now rolling with work to do and bars to raise. had a great week back so far, going to be spending the next few searching for a house and getting these projects up to speed. pictures of the week soon to follow if i get some film developed...

keeping me afloat: friends, falmouth, ham sandwiches, alcohol, radiators and hot towels, hood ''cold house'' and ''outside closer'', themselves ''the no music'', alexisonfire ''watch out!'' and ''crisis'', the draft ''in a million pieces'', the wire season 2, true blood season 2 and the wait for summer...

JOYOUS MK. II

maybe, who knows.

right now: the american dollar ''atlas'', cobalt ''gin'', gnaw their tongues ''spasming and howling, bowels loosening and bladder emptying, vomiting helplessly...'', wraiths, fall of efrafa, surfer blood ''astrocoast'' and some other stuff.

JOYOUS.

tests.

in the next war we shall bury the dead in cellophane

it seems that the aptly dubbed ''hangin' wednesday'', or chillin' in the middle, or even manning with the midweek, is the best time to do nothing but wake up early with a headache and worsen it somewhat with silly-good music.

GLOOM.

petitioning the empty sky

i'm trying to update my header but it's taking an age, it'll probably pop up at some point though but until then, who knows. i'll of changed it more than a few times anyway as i'm never happy with this kinda stuff.

work in progress:

and some london sketchbook;





alot of my book has descended in made up nonsense and aimless doodling for the most part, though i did get some observational work done, though looking back through it alot of it i'm not too happy with, so it's a small selection. must try harder at this kind of thing as it's going to play a pretty important part of our second term, and our paris trip in year two, or so i hear. whatever, i'll do it on the night.

holidays going well. christmas was pleasant, more so going into it at 20 and not really knowing what to expect. i'm hesitant to say that the charm is no longer there, as it is, but it felt quite odd this year. all in all though it was a great day with some great folk and still continues to be to this day, hopefully right through till new year as well. good company, good food and some great gifts including true blood season one, flight of the conchords, star wars original trilogy (!), ghostbusters tee, some old architects ''yellow paper'' straight from the past new york, new pens, beer, chocolate and assorted novelty stocking items, borderlands for the 360 which is v. fun and tons of other great stuff. class.

probably my favourite gift is just something i got last night, the NOTHING NICE TO SAY volume one collection. i cannot recommend these comics and illustrator mitch clem enough, so go check him out over at at http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/ (warning: may be difficult to follow unless a fan of punk and hardcore, though all in all it's very tongue in cheek and i shouldn't worry too much about that. just look at it as an exploration of the awesome and absurd of punk rock, which i think is what the back of the book says and i'm just copying that. whatever go read already.) i am going to enjoy reading back through all the old just like i do pretty much every few months on his site. too fucking funny.

looking forward to getting back into the fal. that is all.

cept for this: converge ''axe to fall'', ''petitioning the empty sky'', ''when forever comes crashing'', bon iver ''for emma, forever ago'', vcheka, celeste, i forget the name of the album, it's something french as they're a good crusty black metal band from france, northless, giant squid and the christmas haul.