Archive for the ‘Illustrations’ Category

Monkey illustration

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

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Well its been a while since I did an update, anyway I read probably the most scary thing I have ever read in the sunday paper this week. It was a new book about climate change, if the temperature goes up 6 degrees in the next 100 year basically the only thing that survives is fungus.

This is the problem, after a 1 degree rise the polar ice caps reach the point of no return. They reflect 90% of the radiation back into space. Without them a chain of events happens, the dark oceans soak up 85 percent of all radiation and the oceans start to heat up in an expontial manner which leads to the permafrost layers in the northern hemisphere melting. This means more Co2 into the atmosphere which speeds up warming, a rise of 3 degrees means that the soil starts releasing C02 back into the atmosphere. At this stage the amazon has died and the result is basically the earth turns into a huge volcano thing.

Well I have come up with a brilliant plan. We all know we need to reduce the amount of C02 we produce, so I suggest we all hold our breath for 30 seconds a day. If we all did this it would actually save 4% of the output of total C02 produced globally.

What a brilliant plan !

Giant Baby Illustration

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

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I have no idea where this one came from, its another illustration drawn on paper thenĀ coloured in photoshop with a lovely Wacom tablet.

This one also contains a few Escher referencesĀ as I was looking through a book on Escher artwork. This was while watching Scunthorpe against Bristol City on sky sports and started to realise that quite a few of the drawings I have been doing strangely feature quite a lot of the same creatures that he has used. Also the boxes I’ve been drawing come up quite a lot in his work, Its funny when you accidentally stumble on to things that you hadn’t intentionally been influenced by.

If anyone knows where that baby can find his cartoon duck I would be greatful as he’s screaming the place down.

Why Dinosaurs Became Extinct

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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Some people think it was a meteor which caused climate change. This is in fact rubbish, all the dinosaurs were in fact eaten by a carniverous ground hog.

You can see from this photo he is eyeing up a pinkosaurus which he fancies as a tasty starter.

This dinosaur illustration I drew last night while watching Oxford United against Dagenham and Redbridge. It was a truely dull game of soccer football. Which was kind of ironic as this week I had a really weird dream about trying to take a picture of a creature outside my local pub. The creature looked kind of dangerous but I wasn’t scared and then I work up and found my nose had exploded all over the bed and I had a bleeding nose from both nostrils.

Is that kind of odd or what ?