Cartoon Beardy

Watched two shows that made a great contrast today. Starfleet Academy and Wonder Man

Wonder Man was a charming, funny, a great character study that did something interesting in a fairly stale universe.

Starfleet Academy wasn’t

It didn’t entertain or offend it just sat there like TV magnolia paint

Here's a process video of a recent Holiday Vampire illustration I did. I'm generally pretty terrible at documenting my own work in progress, so I'm glad I actually spent the time to record this one. #grickledoodle #vampire #holiday #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Spud the ginger cat is laying on a table with a purple table cloth. He is posed in a very odd way. Laying on his back belly exposed and legs spread. He is curving up to look at the camera and looks like someone slobbed out on a couch

Yup after handing him back to his owners he has a collar informing everyone that he is “a cat that likes to explore and is not lost or a stray” and that “I have a home so you do not need to feed me”

He seems happy enough to lounge (quite literally) around here even when not being fed.

a cartoon of spongebob holding a pencil and writing on a piece of paper ALT: a cartoon of spongebob holding a pencil and writing on a piece of paper

While my wife is sleeping I thought “I’ll get a sketch done”

Two hours later and I’m still staring blankly at the iPad screen.

I’ve not done any art (not even so much as a doodle) in nearly a month I don’t think I’ve had “artists block” quite so bad in a long time

Yup the whole thing has a level of desperation to it that makes it feel like an episode of The Thick of It. With clueless ministers getting shunted out into the spotlight to push something they have zero clue about.

“Use AI and see if it can be integrated into your workflow”

Simple question. Why?

A dark room, lit by a single shaft of light from above. A man laying flat on a stone floor, next to him is a sorceress on her knees, dagger up in the air, an instant before she plummets the blade into his chest. The man stares at the viewer with a content expression. Next to the man's hand is a tipped over goblet.

Willing Subject

<Translation> We spent a shit load on Data Centres and took money from every tech bro company known to man and nobody is using this shit. And we know it’s shit because our “extensive” training only takes 30 mins.</Translation>

If it’s so easy for admin Liz perhaps it can do your fucking job

YouTube video by Shout! Studios GODZILLA Movie Marathon | FULL MOVIES @TokuSHOUTsu

Shout Factory is doing a livestream marathon of Godzilla movies right now, should you need it.

All Monsters Attack (1969)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) (not Godzilla but very awesome)

ice pans in a cove in a winter sunset. In the mid-ground, a hill rises with some dark fir trees. In the background, distant hills on the other side of the cove, and a just-visible lighthouse on a point.

I'm not sure it's possible to really accurately photograph an icy sea, because you are missing the sound of the ocean breathing beneath it and the crack and tinkle of moving pans. You can't experience the smell of sweet-salt-cold. But here is a picture anyway.

LK: So we can use AI to do admin and organising to free up time.

Me: Sounds like we can do without you then. You can just hand over your tasks to AI.

LK: No! Wait! Not like that!

Morning all. Just chilling (quite literally) in the morning sun with a convalescing wife and a cup of coffee and I’ve been visited by the Ghost of Christmas Idiots… Looks like Spud / Ernie has returned

#cat

Yourself but as a cartoon character

Acrylic sketch on paper

Painted study

Acrylic on paper

Nice 👍 you’re a better person than I!

I love the look of abandoned urban landscapes but urban exploration of places like old factories, hospitals etc freak me out.

I was VFX sup on a BBC shoot in Battersea power station while it was being gutted and it was the most surreal and creepy experience

Lovely atmosphere and feel to this.

A rough painting of some worn out stairs in what seems to be an abandoned building. Paint is chipped on all surfaces, including the walls. What looks to be scraps of paper are also littering the ground.

Rough environment art warmup! Based off a photo I loved of an abandoned place. The grimy hues and splotchy shapes were what got to me
#art #study #environment

When someone tries telling me I must not be a real Star Trek fan

Hehe I’m not sure anyone will be listening by that point but might well do

Yeah its mad... Blackdog started 9th Sept 2009, just me and Darren sitting around a single mic, hanging from a straightened coat hanger hung over the ceiling light in the living room...

17 years later and it remains relevant to my regular Tuesday nights...

I wouldn’t dare pull that trigger. I’m dealing with engineers. Asinine detail and adhering to rules no matter how petty is their thing

Oh Farscape and Simpsons on BBC2 was after I had moved to Sky One. Simpsons, TNG, DS9 and Babylon 5 on Channel 4

Never saw Voyager on regular TV. I got the first 2 seasons on VHS as they came out at HMV then Sky for season 3 and dropped off once the defanged Borg showed up.

It was original Trek on BBC2 years before TNG came out.

I used to watch TOS on Saturday mornings and after that switch to ITV (Thames TV as it was called) to watch Thunderbirds and Space 1999

I love TNG though. I watched that from the start and collected it on VHS when the Beeb fell behind on S3

share a television show that raised you

Getting given a “colour theory” lecture over teams by someone who thinks that by talking about colour temperature of his fish tank lightbulbs makes him some kind of expert, while talking utter bollocks cribbed from GPT and others nod sagely along is doing nothing for my already fragile mental state.

A devil with hooves, a devil with horns and a single eye, and a small devil in a bobble hat

catching up with my devils... #365devils

A bluish-gray dragonoid creature made of ash. Embers burn within its body and its open mouth. It sits upon a pile of reptilian remains, ash and bones

A small bluish-gray dragonoid creature made of ash. Embers burn within its body and its open mouth. It sits upon a pile of reptilian remains, ash and bones

Happy #AppreciateADragon day
And I clearly don't appreciate them enough because I only have this one hahahaha 😭🪓--

#art #creatureconcept #creaturedesign

Love tonal mood pieces they really have depth. This is lovely ☺️

A rough black and white sketch depicting a large cave mouth. One person stands and stares into it. Another is further out and looks back at it with anxiety. Atop the mouth hangs another person who peers into the entrance.

Quick timed drawing warmup based on randomly generated word

Today's word: "in"

Didn't have too many great ideas for this word, but I tried. Some adventurers looking to see if a cave is worth a raid or not

#art #study

My #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Not a bad week dominated by horror it seems and a reality check that Top Gun sequel was really only a cinema experience and not all that on a standard TV set up.

#movies #film