To keep myself doing something that can be considered ‘art’, I recently signed up to posterspy.com and uploaded a couple of newly made movie posters. One of them, for the film Lean on Pete, I made especially for a contest on the site! I hope to keep this up as […]
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Another year passes and I once again note that my blog would appear to show I did absolutely nothing for a whole year. I’m definitely consistent! Except, I did do ‘something’, I ripped these awesome TMNT pixels out of the Konami 1988 Arcade game! And then, after […]
I’ve started writing a little for The Retroist again lately and the thrust of my posts has been about the Neo Geo arcade and home console hybrid that I’ve sadly never owned. The reason for this path is that I really want to put together a book, and I really […]
Good news everyone! I’ve sold a clock!! With that excitement out of the way, I thought I’d write a quick post to explain the why, where and whatnots of clock selling on the internet. I’ll start with the ‘where’ – Society6. A couple of months ago I joined S6 as […]
Random fact. In 2012 I submitted a number of my film poster designs to the amazing Tumblr blog that is F*** Yeah Movie Posters. You can see all 12 submissions here – between them they’ve gained around 2500 likes and retweets on that platform which I was really pleased with. […]
It’s that time of year again when I start to feel a little Christmassy and try to channel that feeling into some art. Since I used Assembly last year I thought I should do the same again, see if my limited skills have improved. Father Christmas and the composition here […]
I’ve started using the Assembly app on my iPad again! A recent update handed users more control over the shapes you can create. and my initial testing of its new features left me itching to do something creative. The result: Turtles! These four heroes have been my creative life for […]
I’ve been trying to draw a little recently using an Apple Pencil on my iPad Pro and it is proving to be a lot harder than I expected. Whilst I appreciate that the Pencil is very clever, it doesn’t compensate for my complete inability to draw smooth lines (or the […]
Back in 2012 I had this wonderful idea to build a website that attempted to determine the gist of a tweet from any Twitter timeline and marry it with something visual from Flickr. This idea became fleekr.co.uk and it was going to be my pet project to keep improving it […]
I’m determined to make 2016 a year in which I create more artwork and so here is my first proper new creation of the year! Neo from The Matrix. I’ll be honest, it ISN’T what I had in my mind when I started, I simply don’t (yet) have the skills […]
Thanks to the creator of Miniwallist – a minimalist phone wallpaper website – one of my images is featured as a background for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices! You can reach the image directly here: http://miniwallist.com/superman-sign-mobile-wallpaper/ As you can see below, the site carries a nice variety of images, […]
I found a depressing statistic when I last logged into my DeviantArt account – I’ve only uploaded one image all year, and that was back in February. That number has been declining steadily over the past few years as work and family life interfere with any creative ambitions I might […]
I’ve spent a little time having an FTP spring clean and I’ve found some forgotten projects, including a test of the excellent supersized jQuery plugin from Build Internet. Supersized is a fullscreen background slideshow plugin that I wanted to see used for a desktop wallpaper website. I thought it would […]
Adobe launched an iPad app called Slate early in 2015, and with it a promise that anyone could create a visually rich web based ‘story’ with very little effort. The app lets you pick a theme, add some text, photos, basic effects and other web-friendly features, and lets you publish […]
I’m now the proud owner of an iPad Pro and with that, I have a renewed interest in trying to develop my art skills. As a big fan of the Assembly app, and since it is the start of a festive month, I thought I should create something with a […]
I downloaded an iPad app called Assembly a few nights ago, a fun little graphic design tool that I thought I could have some fun with. I was right! Though it is a little limited, creating a simple image was surprisingly quick and easy and the results were pleasing for […]
Way back in 2010 I was having a play with a Flash-based gallery called ImageViewer. It was very easy to configure, you just needed to create an XML file with images, captions, links, etc. and you had yourself a little web-based presentation that would run responsively on a wide range […]
During 2014 I hit upon the idea of finding cover versions of every song from an album. The specific album wasn’t settled upon until I heard a cover of R.E.M.’s Cuyahoga by The Decemberists. The original could be found on R.E.M.’s 1986 album “Lifes Rich Pageant” and it happens to […]
Although most of my “writing” is over at The Retroist website, earlier this year I signed up with Medium and posted my first article. Entitled “The Writing of a Review, and What Happens Next”, this was my attempt to show the cool things than can happen when you write something […]
I found myself looking for ways to visualise my love for Sega Megadrive classic Sonic The Hedgehog earlier this year. I’m constantly finding websites and other publications that feel the need to distill a video game into one or two screenshots and a summary description, and I feel like more […]