Spindleshanks

low-fi comics

2011-08-23T07:41:00.000-07:00

Click on it to make it bigger, you know the rules.

Gimp wouldn't work, so I made a comic with pens! and paper! Here it is fresh from the scanner all muddy and crooked and unreadable OH GOD i hate my scanner and gimp is balls.

Doodle comics

2011-08-16T06:04:00.000-07:00

instead of doing real work

new watercolour pencils

2011-08-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

the government gave me study money! luckily, what i study partially coincides with what i like to spend money on - expensive art supplies. here's some pages from my sketchbook from the last few weeks.

Fierce lady pictures

2011-04-11T22:43:00.000-07:00

Shower Comics

2011-04-04T00:16:00.000-07:00

True story.

Deadbeat logo

2011-03-18T07:27:00.001-07:00

A combination of vector illustration & raster textures.

Sketchbook maths

2011-03-18T06:55:00.000-07:00

Hey Ladybeards! Today's post serves to amuse and instruct.

Flippin 'el

2011-03-08T05:37:00.000-08:00

Last post in October?! Helloooo! HELLO! Anybody out there?

... No? Well, seeing as I am in the best of company then I shall treat this blog to a bit of a diversion from regular protocol. Here is a bunch of the best things on the internet, and as this is the internet there will be absolutely no context or citing of sources, just inane commentary:

I want to get a tattoo of this tattoo

1906 lolcat

Just Salvador Dali and a rhino

Barreleye fish

Now for the badass ladies part of the program -

...Haters to the left

Actually the next few need to be sourced because they're gacked from an amazing blog, ofanotherfashion, which documents women of colour through the history of fashion.

Some anti-suffragette propaganda.

Text reads:

Mr. Clubman, (Home late, as usual): "W-why, Mary, w-what does this mean?"

Mrs. Clubman: "Oh, I'm just getting my muscle up a bit, that's all. You come home late again, and you'll see what it means."

Protect your children's eyes because coming up is some hardcore 19th Century Pornography

and from the future, the incredible Aimee Mullins

But that's enough nancy pantsy girly stuff

...There you have it, the best things on the internet. Except for maybe this.

Showerbear

2010-10-21T20:06:00.000-07:00

Everybody loves a shower bear.

Lady Comics

2010-08-23T04:51:00.000-07:00

How-To Comics

2010-07-31T23:14:00.000-07:00

Click for readable, printable sized version.

Stuff That Happened Comics

2010-07-23T19:57:00.000-07:00

A lot of stuff happened while I was working in Canowindra (a wee town hours from anywhere with its disproportionate share of completely awesome people) but I can only fit so much stuff into a single page. Also I might be starting to think in comic panels.

Click the image to open the full-size comic.

Dead Poet Comics

2010-07-23T00:50:00.001-07:00

"When the evening is spread out against the sky / like a patient etherised upon a table"

and as an added bloggy bonus, here's a video i made earlier today which demonstrates just how bored i have to be before i consider drawing a comic:

Port comics

2010-07-20T00:05:00.001-07:00

comics by me, the giant octo, and some delicious grapey port!

click for the whole damn comic

Exam Therapy Comics

2010-06-10T04:27:00.000-07:00

(aka desperate procrastination). Guest starring Elisa as the studious blonde ingenue.

Click for full-size comic.

Junk Post

2010-06-07T23:44:00.000-07:00

Questions You Can't Really Google Comics

2010-06-02T00:40:00.000-07:00

Great scott! A new comic? Brb, running outside to see if the sky has fallen.

Click the image for the version you can actually read.

Also it looks like all the pictures in old posts are broken, but I think that's just 'cause imgur is doing server maintenance. If you come back in a few hours they should all be back up.

Giant Octopus guest post!

2010-05-09T23:23:00.000-07:00

Many moons ago, during a Skype conversation that echoed from the depths of a lounge room pillow fort, I asked (read: begged) my ridiculously talented cephalopod amigo Elisa to contribute some artwork to this blog. She has obliged with a portrait of herself and yours truly that's chock full of in-jokey awesomeness -- ladies and gentlemen, set your faces to "stun".

Megashark and Giant Octopus sharing their mutual love of
cheap booze and comical facial hair.

Ten points to anyone who can name the bird making a nest in my hair. Thanks for the awesome, Elisa! :D

Wasted Afternoon Comics

2010-04-29T08:12:00.000-07:00

Nothing can take its place in my mind / this beauty of girls. It could totally be a Maximo Park lyric. Yeah, I think Sappho and Paul Smith are kindred spirits.

Click for large version.

Feel free to grab the file and colour it in if you've got your own afternoon to waste!

Wooluff

2010-03-27T19:24:00.001-07:00

More people I see at uni.

2010-03-16T22:38:00.000-07:00

In which we discover how badly I need to learn how to colour.

Old Work

2010-03-16T11:36:00.000-07:00

An old assignment from last semester. The brief was to create a CD sleeve with 3 Pantone spot colours. As you can see I took that quite literally.

Click for full-size.

People I see at uni

2010-03-11T22:15:00.000-08:00

This may cross just slightly into creepy territory, but I can't help myself.
I love ogling (maybe 'ogling' is the best word to defend myself against accusations of creepiness...) people at uni; they've all carved out a little stylish niche of their own amidst the thousands of students and lecturers that drift around campus. And they're all kind of brutally nonchalant about it, like the last thing they want is for people to notice how much time they've taken trying to get people to notice them.

So I couldn't help but draw this guy!

Hermit's January EP

2010-03-09T19:27:00.001-08:00

It's finally arrived!

One of my musically talented friends commissioned me to design some album art over the summer, the result of which is the epic folk masterpiece Hermit's January EP. Check the music out at James Kemp@myspace or vote for him at unearthed! Here's the final artwork:

(Click for larger images)

Artwork proofs:

The process of designing a suite of art, for a client, to be printed was an immensely valuable experience - more so than a year's worth of uni assignments. I collided head-first with the learning curve (to say the least) but I'm pretty proud of the result.

And the music sounds great! Go buy it!

March art dump

2010-03-09T16:27:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple of things I made to practise using my graphics tablet.

Click for full-size images!

These two were the unfortunate victims of my intial doodling. It's obvious I was terrified to put any colour down. (Value? Tone? Hiss! Get it away!)

Study of a classical sculpture I found in wikimedia commons. Getting used to blending shadow and highlights with the stylus.

A different style again, with no blending and flat colours. I was going to say, "This proves I have little grasp of the human body", but that'd just be setting myself up for a 'that's what she said'. Pre-empted, foes!

Technicolour Comics

2009-09-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

Apparently the last post was nearly three weeks ago? (Lies! Slander and hearsay!) But to make up for such neglect, this post has a little somethin' somethin' extra. It may look like colour, but really it's just an illusion produced by the perception of different wavelengths of energy.

Click for full comic!

No matter what you might hear, naming a small child "Aubrey" is not an act of cruelty.

Stuff That Happened Comics

2009-09-03T17:34:00.000-07:00

What happened? Mexican Tuesday happened. A night of themed frivolity with a couple of friends and housemates, organised entirely around the promise from our Mexican neighbour to bring some authentic enchiladas. He showed up with a bottle of tequila instead.

Click to see the whole thingajig.

"Tuesday?" I head you say, already. "It's Friday! What an unacceptable delay!"

Stuff That Happened Comics

2009-08-30T00:48:00.000-07:00

Adventures at the pub!Click'en.

You really should have seen that moustache.

Patrick Wolf Comics

2009-08-26T00:14:00.000-07:00

If you are unfamiliar with Patrick Wolf's ridiculously divine dress sense, cast your peepers over this leather jacketcape with an autumn leaf motif. Or how about a roasting pan fashioned into a jacobean ruff, worn as a hat.

Click for comics! Featuring the peachy face of Owen Pallet(t)!

I tried to exaggerate, I really did.

Kickin' it off

2009-08-25T23:56:00.000-07:00

In which we learn not to read Bound Together with a pen in one's hand.

Ho ho ho! Click to embiggen!